FORMER Labour health secretary Alan Milburn and his immediate family got a £2,141,000 payout from his corporate consultancy business this year, according to the latest accounts. That’s up on their payout last year of £1.338m. Milburn himself gets the lion’s share of the money — by my rough calculation he will have taken about £1.5m of the dividend. Milburn was the New Labour secretary of state for health from 1999-03 and he promoted NHS outsourcing, including buying NHS operation...| Morning Star
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TO BE ABLE to witness the grand military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the world anti-fascist war was an unforgettable experience.As President Xi Jinping pointed out, this was the first complete victory won by the Chinese people in their struggle against foreign aggression and also made a major contribution to the triumph of the people of the world against fascism.| Morning Star
IN 1931 the London publishers Jonathan Cape brought out a 218-page book Moscow has Plan. Strikingly illustrated in Futurist style by the Australian graphic artist William Kermode it contrasted the crisis conditions in the Depression-era economies of the capitalist West with the great progress being made in constructing the Soviet Union’s socialist economy.| Morning Star