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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Trade unionists stand in solidarity with Palestine
PETER LEARY looks ahead to next weekend’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign conference, to discuss how to put pressure on governments and institutions to stop arming Israel and turn strategy into action
[Jess Hurd/Palestine Solidarity Campaign]
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
LAST month, TUC Congress, representing 5.5 million workers in Britain, unanimously endorsed the demand for an end to all arms trade with Israel.
Backed by impassioned speeches from Congress delegates, the resolution recognised that Israel’s current genocide follows decades of violations of Palestinian human rights and the imposition of a system of apartheid against all Palestinians, whether they live under illegal military occupation, as Palestinian citizens of Israel, or in exile. The same motion also called for sanctions on Israel and a ramping up of boycott and divestment campaigns.
This important vote comes at an urgent moment, a year into Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. At least 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, over two million people have already been displaced — many of them multiple times — and infrastructure including schools, mosques, hospitals and universities have been destroyed. The entire population has been left facing famine.
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