Dannielle Gillingham spoke to World Socialist Web Site reporters during the February 6-7 strike by hundreds of thousands of National Health Service nurses and ambulance workers—the largest strike in the NHS since its foundation 75 years ago.
Sick and disabled speak on Labour’s welfare cuts: “Enough to drive people to suicide”
Starmer’s moral crusade is a smokescreen to impose cuts designed to get up to 1.2 million disabled people off disability benefits and cause untold misery to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain.
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Adolescence: Gripping realism explores social pressures behind young male violence
The series asks how 13-year-old Jamie came to be capable of stabbing to death his schoolmate Katie, addressing themes of social breakdown, parenting, social media, bullying and the many malign influences on young men and boys.
Thomas Scripps•
No to Starmer’s war and austerity government—fight for socialism!
The Labour Party is ruling as a militarist cabal, the most right-wing and authoritarian government in post-war British history. It has placed itself unambiguously in a line of continuity with British imperialism’s most ruthless representatives, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
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UK: Birmingham refuse workers on indefinite strike against pay cuts
Unite is doing everything to disarm its members, with Birmingham City Council used as a test case to enforce a level of austerity—against its 1.1 million population—outstripping that imposed under successive Tory-led central governments.
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Laura Tiernan•
Simon Whelan•
Steve James•
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