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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William Cuffay — black labour movement pioneer
PETER FROST looks back two centuries to tell the story of an almost forgotten black leader of the British labour movement
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 week just as the racist Boris Johnson became Britain’s latest unelected Tory prime minister, black and BAME Labour and trade union activists met in London to discuss stop some Brexit’s campaigner’s racist attack on the free movement of labour.
The racist incitement of anti-immigrant attitudes and the role this plays as a catalyst for expansion of the far-right agenda into mainstream politics was a major focus of discussions at the meeting.
As more and more details of the disgusting Windrush scandal become known, they demonstrate the Tory Party’s and Britain’s contribution to dangerous growing white nationalism all across Europe.
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