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.
Dorset County Hospital workers protest creation of subsidiary company threatening terms and conditions
NHS FightBack campaign teams distributed a statement, “No to Labour’s NHS privatisation! Oppose mass staff transfer to private subsidiaries!”, calling on workers to join an online Zoom meeting (May 19 at 7 p.m.) to discuss a socialist strategy to resist the attacks on the NHS.
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UK’s Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers hosts David Brotherton for talk on the “United States of Deportation”
Brotherton has appeared in over 200 immigration removal hearings as an expert witness, nearly all CAT [Convention Against Torture] cases, he explained, “So they hate my guts”.
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Police send file on British independent journalist Richard Medhurst to Crown Prosecution Service
Almost nine months since his August 15, 2024 arrest, Medhurst posted on X on May 12, “The police in England have sent my file to the Crown Prosecution Service, to decide whether to charge me with terrorism for my reporting on Gaza & Lebanon.”
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Restored 1972 concert film Pink Floyd at Pompeii—MCMLXXII: A record of artistic transition in a tumultuous world
The updated version of the 1972 concert film was released on April 24 at select cinemas and IMAX theaters internationally. It has been remastered with surround audio and restored digitally from the original 35mm film.
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