With the rise of Reform and the flag-raising phenomenon, it’s hard not to recall my family’s struggles with racism, from Teddy Boys attacking my pregnant mother to me being told to ‘go back to the jungle’ at only five years old, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
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Assisted dying: we must fight for care, not killing
JOHN McINALLY argues trade unions and socialists must demand properly funded healthcare instead of a change that, combined with neoliberal capitalism, will see working-class people pushed towards suicide
MAJOR CONCERNS: Campaigners protest in Westminster ahead of a Commons debate on assisted dying, April 2024
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Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back with significant success, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON
Ben Chacko pays tribute to the author of our much-missed Frosty’s Ramblings column, a champion of the countryside and working-class culture
Introducing a new course open to all, JAY COOK and CHIK COLLINS argue the best way to fight hard-right rhetoric is to explain how everything we have achieved in Britain, from the welfare state to free healthcare, was the product of solidarity, not separation
To deepen the wound of closing Grangemouth, the wind power boom off our shores is going to corporations from France, Japan, China, Ireland — jobs and money going everywhere, it seems, except Scotland, writes KENNY MACASKILL
AS PREDICTED, the debate around the Assisted Dying Bill is framed by liberal politicians, the media and celebrities as one of “human rights” and “choice and autonomy.”
Where such legislation has been enacted, irrefutable evidence shows the original criteria that restricted “choice” to the terminally ill was quickly extended to those with non-terminal conditions, the disabled and mentally ill, those who consider themselves a “burden,” and those the neoliberal elite consider a burden on society — the poor and homeless.
Such concerns are airily dismissed by slick politicians who dishonestly claim the debate is about providing a “choice” between palliative care and assisted dying that all should be entitled to. Such lies. These people are perfectly aware the provision of palliative care, like all medical care, is in crisis due to lack of funding, research and development.
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JOHN McINALLY warns that Labour’s hasty push for legislation ignores the international evidence of expanding eligibility criteria, potentially normalising the ‘social murder’ of working-class people under the guise of compassion
Labour must fight to ensure any new laws do not become tools for social cleansing of the poor and disabled, argues JOHN McINALLY, as some begin considering NHS savings that could come at the cost of working-class lives
JOHN McINALLY calls for militant trade unionism and overt socialist politics to counter the new government’s pro-capitalist agenda and a looming authoritarian turn that threatens to muzzle working-class resistance
