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Americonned director urges Britain to protect NHS from corporate interests
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THE film director of Americonned, which examines the impact of income inequality on workers’ families, has urged Britain to protect the NHS from corporate interests.

Amid strikes by United Auto Workers and health workers in the US, Sean Claffey told the Morning Star: “We see all of these people waking up to the fact that this trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and it has been a lie of the last 50 years.

“We are seeing this massive labour uprising here which when we started the film wasn’t happening, and it’s really hitting a crescendo.

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