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What Next? Post-It Series #3 By S. Artesian
This “mess,” this eruption of history, also contains class struggle. So the workers of Northern England, of Wales, of that portion of the “United Kingdom” asset-stripped, beat down, abandoned, zombified by banks and property speculators didn’t miss the opportunity to tell the too-clever-by half Cameron to “sod off” with his prospects for a “greater Britain… Continue reading
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What Next? Post-It Series #2 By S. Artesian
Logical question, not that anything at all has been accomplished, but still…..the votes are in and Britain, temporarily, has voted to exit the European Union. Temporarily…not temporarily the exit stuff; but temporarily the “Britain” part, because Scotland and Northern Ireland voted remain. So it’s England and Wales, or soon will be. Cameron and Osborne and… Continue reading
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Putin Conspiracies, Obama Nonintervention Blamed for Brexit By Adam Johnson
The referendum results in favor of Britain leaving the European Union seemed to have caught most Western media off guard. Betting markets and the pundit class had heavily favored a vote to keep the UK in the EU, but at around midnight on the US East Coast, it became increasingly clear Britain would be supporting… Continue reading
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Video: Can the EU be Reformed from Within?
Prof. Neil Davidson presents the left argument for why Britain should leave the EU Continue reading
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Brexit, Neoliberalism and the Eurozone: What Is at Stake in the British Referendum By Takis Fotopoulos
The reason the elites are fighting so hard against Brexit is because they know that a victory for Brexit could set in motion a domino effect that could demolish the EU. Continue reading
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Drug Companies are Still Ripping Off the NHS
The scale of the scandal’s only just come to light. An investigation by the Times found that the NHS is paying £85 for a basic skin-care treatment that used to cost just 70p. Price hikes like this one are costing our NHS the equivalent of 7,000 new doctors a year. Continue reading
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50,000 deaths a year: An “toxic air pollution crisis”: Sign the Petition
A public health emergency: that’s what MPs are calling Britain’s air pollution crisis. Thousands of lives are cut short every year from toxic air polluted with chemicals like nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide. There’s even evidence that it’s permanently damaging our childern’s lungs. Continue reading
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Another Tamriel is Possible: Brexit Proposals vs Solutions by Elliot Murphy
The mainstream Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe campaigns effectively reduce to a battle internal to the Tory party, and not much else can be gleaned from them with respect to the shortcomings and benefits of the EU, and so a broader perspective is needed at a time when recent Guardian/ICM polls are suggesting… Continue reading
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Lobbyists trying, for the second time to have ban on bee killing pesticides lifted!
BREAKING: last night powerful lobbyists put in yet another application to bring back bee-killing pesticides to our fields. [1] And government advisers will be approving or blocking the application this Tuesday. Continue reading
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NHS medicines costs ripoff: Email your MP!
Greedy companies are exploiting a loophole that lets them buy the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price and rip-off our NHS. They’re pocketing millions every year that should be going on patient care. Our people-powered petition hit front page news at the weekend and health minister, Jeremy Hunt, has already been forced to… Continue reading
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We delayed the bee killers but the gangsters never give up!
The powerful lobbyists who want the ban on bee-killing pesticides lifted aren’t giving up. Together, we made sure their first application this year was rejected by the government (hooray!). But they’ve said they’re “committed” to getting a yes from the government. And any new application they make will be kept behind closed doors. Continue reading
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EXPOSED: A small number of rogue drugs companies are fleecing the NHS out of millions of pounds a year
They’re exploiting a loophole that allows them to buy up the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price, and hold our NHS to ransom. It means our cash-strapped health service is forced to spend millions on overpriced drugs rather than spending it on nurses to care for our families or cancer services to help… Continue reading
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Video: A Moving Image: A Film About Gentrification
3 June 2016 — amovingimagefilm.com A Multimedia Feature Film about Gentrification in Brixton, South London and beyond. World Premiere at The LA Film Festival 2016 (World Fiction competition) 5th June 2pm j.mp/ami-la-tickets Written/Directed by Shola Amoo and Produced by Rienkje Attoh. Starring Tanya Fear See also: Gentrification and complicity in South London: an interview with… Continue reading
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Little Ado About Something By S. Artesian
The big worry, apparently, for some socialists in the United Kingdom is that a majority of people in Great Britain might actually vote to leave this confederation of capitalists; this union of exploiters; this common market designed to flatten every particular impediment to the accumulation of capital. Continue reading
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NHS: Your opt-out finally honoured
On Wednesday, the HSCIC announced that they had received permission from the Secretary of State to finally honour his promise to you. You can opt out of data leaving the HSCIC for purposes beyond your direct care, and that is what happens. When he created the opt out that you took up, NHS England, who… Continue reading
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Best Reasons Ever For Brexit! By S. Artesian
19 April 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The Financial Times April 18, 2016 Fears over British EU referendum hold back hiring and investment -Uncertainty chills business -Top London Property hit -European groups delay plans Continue reading
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How African Slavery Civilized Britain By Garikai Chengu
Britain owes its very existence as a first world nation to the African slave trade. Great Britain’s economic way of life was formed by slavery: about it revolved, and on it depended, most of Britain’s other industries. Continue reading
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Don’t Spy on Us!
9 March 2016 — Liberty Despite criticism across the board from campaigners, lawyers, tech experts and three parliamentary committees, the Government continues to rush the massively flawed Investigatory Powers Bill through Parliament. If passed, the Bill would mean that the UK has the most extreme surveillance laws of any democracy in the world, putting us on… Continue reading
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Save the NHS: Mail your MP today
Next Friday our MPs are debating a new law that could achieve everything 38 Degrees members want for our NHS: enshrining it as free for everyone, protecting it from profit-driven companies and stopping cynical government cuts. This new law is about the values we hold close to us: an NHS that’s got people at its… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 