Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
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Boris Johnson’s government is a government for the 1%
This week offered even more evidence of the nature of the Prime Minister’s minority Conservative government, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
I WROTE in my last Morning Star column how Boris Johnson’s government signals every day that will put the interests of the 1 per cent first — and this week has given us ample more proof of this.
As Jeremy Corbyn said, this is a government with “no mandate, no morals and no majority.”
We have seen again this week how Johnson and his divisive hard-right Cabinet are willing to gamble with people’s jobs and living standards, both in the debate around a no-deal Brexit and in Wednesday’s Spending Review, which shadow chancellor John McDonnell rightly termed a “grubby electioneering stunt.”
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