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Greg Dropkin reviews the government’s latest approach to reforming the NHS: The Ten Year Health Plan pays lip service to the social determinants of health but then mainly turns away in favour of changing lifestyles Read more »

Following Zarah Sultana MP’s resignation from the Labour Party and her appeal to people to join her and Jeremy Corbyn in founding a new left party, Left Unity Co-National Secretary, Felicity Dowling, made the following statement of support Read more »

Andrew Burgin writes: Last Thursday, the suspended Labour MP, Zarah Sultana, took a historic political step. She resigned from Labour, the party that she joined as a young teenager; in doing so, she declared her intention to work with others to found a new working-class party — a new party of the left. Many Labour […] Read more »

As NATO leaders prepare to meet for a Summit in The Hague on the 24th and 25th June, the movement in the Netherlands, backed by the peace movement internationally, is organising a series of events over the weekend of 21st and 22nd of June. Read more »

A statement from CND, following Israel’s attack on Iran: CND condemns Israel’s illegal attack on Iran, which is a violation of international law. Read more »

A statement from the Jewish Socialists’ Group:  The government’s latest attack on migrants, is a disgraceful manoeuvre designed to attract voters who they stereotype as ignorant, racist ultra-nationalists. Read more »

Walter Baier writes: This year marks a crucial moment in the struggle over historical memory. We commemorate the liberation of the concentration camps, the capitulation of the German Wehrmacht, and the end of Nazi barbarism on May 8/9, 1945. But what lessons have truly been learned? Fifty-five million people perished in the Second World War. […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling writes: We rightly remember the heroism and sacrifices of all the peoples, all the men and women who fought fascism, from the Civil War in Spain to the dark days when fascism appeared to have won across much of Europe. That generation has nearly all passed. Those with living memory of that war […] Read more »

As the bin workers’ strike continues in Birmingham, please send what support you can: Read more »

Yorgos Mitralias writes: When, at the beginning of the century, the great American writer Philip Roth rewrote the history of his country with his extraordinary novel The Plot against America, by having the legendary pro-Nazi aviator Charles Lindbergh elected President of the United States instead of Franklin Roosevelt, Read more »