A surgery taking place, September 12, 2023
THE film director of Americonned, which examines the impact of income inequality on workers’ families, has urged Britain to protect the NHS from corporate interests.
Amid strikes by United Auto Workers and health workers in the US, Sean Claffey told the Morning Star: “We see all of these people waking up to the fact that this trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and it has been a lie of the last 50 years.
“We are seeing this massive labour uprising here which when we started the film wasn’t happening, and it’s really hitting a crescendo.
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
