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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Racism as a capitalist strategy to divide workers
Anti-racism is indivisible from class struggle: sometimes we need to find ways to bring black and white workers together but also it can mean black self-organisation, writes ROGER McKENZIE
STRENGTH IN UNITY: White and African-American workers together with placards: ‘The Dress Shipping Clerks' Won't Cross the Picket Line. We Stand United with the Dressmakers Union!,’ 1958
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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
RACISM must be understood as an instrument of exploitation in the workplace and beyond.
Far from being an abstract phenomenon of ideas and influences, racism is a dynamic which is deeply rooted in the structures of exploitation, power and privilege.
Consequently, the radical tradition of resistance to racism by black workers through the strategy of self-organisation is also far from being random or accidental.
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