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
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Strike battle: already time to think of the next round
We won’t stop the latest Tory attack from becoming law at this point, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP, but Monday’s protest can be part of building momentum to reverse all anti-union legislation entirely
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
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
THE Tories are becoming bolder in their attacks on the rights of trade union members, the right to strike and the general right to protest. It is vital for the future of this country and for ordinary people that these attacks are halted and reversed.
This Monday May 22 the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill comes back to the House of Commons. The TUC has called a protest outside Parliament for that evening. It deserves to be strongly supported.
The economic backdrop remains bleak. Even if double-digit inflation does fall back, prices will still be rising rapidly. The bulk of the population faces increasing misery for a long time to come. This is not an act of god or a product of unforeseeable events.
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