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A time to live, a time to die?
ANSELM ELDERGILL details the problems associated with the Assisted Dying Bill which has its second reading on Friday
LETHAL OBJECTION: Campaigners protest outside Parliament in Westminster against assisted dying, earlier this year
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
After battling hills, rain and injury in a three-day cycle ride ending at the CWU conference, MATT KERR reflects on why class unity remains the answer to injustice
Through marches, music, schools and political debate, campaigners in Tower Hamlets are using the 90th anniversary of Cable Street to inspire resistance to modern racism. GLYN ROBBINS explains
A lifelong communist and community organiser, Pinder helped shape anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in Britain while dedicating himself to youth work and collective struggle, writes David Horsley
TO EVERY thing there is a season. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to kill, and a time to heal. So says the Old Testament.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has its second reading in Parliament on Friday. It aims to give many adults with less than six months to live the right to end their life with medical assistance at a time of their choosing.
The proposed framework is relatively simple but controversial, and in some respects flawed.
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Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency
Campaigners vow to keep up fight against Assisted Dying Bill as it clears House of Commons