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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Scotland needs a movement to fight for peace in 2023
We need a class conscious and mass movement against war in all our communities, says Young Communist League general secretary JOHNNIE HUNTER
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
THE world is becoming a more and more dangerous place for working people.
A tragic war continues to rage in Ukraine, an unjustified Russian invasion provoked by Nato, the United States and Britain.
The same Western powers are preparing a new cold war against China, pivoting vast military resources to south-east Asia and conducting an economic, diplomatic and propaganda war.
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