The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Post-Brexit care worker shortage looms
Having good social care is a life and death situation for disabled people and they must not become collateral damage in pursuit of the removal of freedom of movement, writes LINDA BURNIP
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
IN OCTOBER 2020 the government promised the House of Lords that an independent report into the ending of free movement and the social care workforce would be completed within six months — by the end of May 2021.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is very concerned that as yet no plans have even been put in place for this to happen and the end of applications to the EU settlement scheme, which has been fraught with problems due to the pandemic, has now ended.
The social care sector includes a variety of employment options. The vast majority of social care workers work in care and nursing homes, or in domiciliary care where the workers go into disabled and older people’s own homes, for short periods of time to provide social care support.
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