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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Scouting for boys: imperialists vs the YCL
PETER FROST digs out his old Boy Scout uniform — including his leather woggle — and looks back to the history of red-baiting in what was once Britain’s biggest male youth movement
Scouts founder Baden Powell
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
WE HADN’T long won the second world war, with our Soviet allies suffering 27 million dead, when in 1946 Winston Churchill made his “Iron Curtain” speech to launch the Cold War.
On both sides of the Atlantic red-baiting became an industry, and communists were persecuted everywhere from Hollywood to the Boy Scouts of Britain.
Paul Garland was a Queen’s Scout from Bristol. He was also a member of the Young Communist League (YCL). He could see no reason not to be a loyal member of both youth organisations.
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