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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Remembering Mike Pentelow
Mike Pentelow
[Mark Thomas]
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
MIKE PENTELOW, communist, journalist and author, has died peacefully at his home on Wednesday April 1 2020 aged 73.
Mike started his journalism on the Thurrock Gazette before moving to the Morning Star sports desk, becoming the Star’s industrial correspondent in the 1970s.
In the 1980s he went to work for the Transport and General Workers Union (now Unite).
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