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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
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FOI: Stop the G4S/Virgin Takeover of the NHS!
Yesterday, the government’s own advisors backed what 38 Degrees members have been asking for in our hundreds of thousands – that we have a right to know what private companies who run services like in our NHS are up to. But here’s the snag. The advice is buried on page 51 of a new report… Continue reading
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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: We need to kill it!
A couple of weeks ago we called for the Government to ‘pause, take stock and redraft’ their new surveillance plans following the mauling the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill received at the hands of campaigners, security experts, the tech industry and three cross-party parliamentary committees. We have now heard that the Government plans to publish the… Continue reading
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Fracked Up! Unless we stop them
The government’s plans on fracking have been exposed. It’s been leaked that they’re trying to change the law so dirty energy companies can drill for gas in our countryside – regardless of what local communities want. Continue reading
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British arms companies ramp up bomb sales to Saudi Arabia by 100 times despite air strikes on civilians By Newpower
British arms companies have cashed-in on Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen by ramping up arms sales to the country’s autocratic government by over a hundred times, new figures show. Continue reading
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Video: Junior doctors on the picket line
12 January 2016 — The People’s Assembly Against Austerity Today, for the first time in 40 years, junior doctors have been forced to take strike action over new contracts the Government want to impose which will leave doctors working longer hours for less money. Continue reading
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People’s Assembly: We must support the Junior Doctors’ Strike
11 January 2016 — The People’s Assembly Against Austerity The Junior Doctors will commence their first day of Industrial Action tomorrow. The BMA has stated “it is clear that the government is still not taking junior doctors’ concerns seriously… repeatedly dragged its feet throughout this process, initially rejecting our offer of talks and failing to… Continue reading
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38 Degrees: Yes or no?
2016 could be a beautiful, inspiring year. If we work together, we can truly help make the world a better place. But we know that campaigns like the NHS, bees, and TTIP are going to be tough ones to crack. We’ll be up against powerful forces – self-interested corporations, cynical politicians and shameless media barons.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 