Assisted suicide should not be illegal – but the living and dying both deserve a better world ~ Ryan Essex ~ The UK Parliament is tomorrow set to debate and vote on new legalisation on assisted dying, which would “allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protections, to request and be provided
Tag: Health
Labour’s anti-trans health betrayal
Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ From the genocide in Gaza to refusing to apologise for the enslavement of millions of Africans, from the two-child cap to banning all trans healthcare for under 18s – Keir Starmer’s government is showing us that
A perfidious bastard’s guide to making misery
This document is designed as a guide only. Please feel free to be as much of a perfidious bastard as you want. What are they going to do about it? Case Sample: Disabled People The activities outlined in this document should form the core activities of any prolonged assault. But get creative with them. It’s
A too-common problem of class and migration
Here’s a story of someone whose life doesn’t matter. A 72-year-old, undocumented migrant. Paperless. Trained in his own country as a joiner — a celebrated one, according to his family. Over time, a majority of his siblings move to Britain along with his mum, frail and dying. Tragedy strikes — his beautiful wife dies young.
Book review: Sick Of It All
Sick Of It All analyses Britain’s health and social care services and looks at the potential for radical change and non-capitalistic healthcare models.
Give ‘Em Enough Rope
A (Late) Valentine to Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson by Joe Reynolds. Right Honourable Gentlemen,Roses are white, violence is who?Give ’em enough ropeAnd they’ll do it for you I write to live but I am going to die. I have no address, I have no health insurance. I was diagnosed with a brain disease last
Russia: After weeks of no hot water, Klin residents block highway – and win within hours
Around 150 residents of Klin, around 56 miles north-west of Moscow, blocked the federal Leningrad highway on Monday afternoon because they are tired of going dirty and living with no hot water, which had been out of service for nearly three weeks. Initially townspeople blocked the road running from Moscow to St Petersburg for about
Democracy and the NHS
The mythology regarding the 1945-51 Labour governments dies hard on the left, particularly in the era of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour which often sees itself taking up the mantle of an older, less compromised, form of state socialism. The foundation of the welfare state and the National Health Service is a special touchstone, with both it
Notes From America: November
Louis Further rounds up news from the USA for the months of October and November. Racism Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old high school student from the Bronx when he was accused of stealing a Rucksack by a mistaken witness driving around in the back of a New York Police Department police patrol car. Although
Notes from the US: Economics, Violence and Environment
Louis Further rounds up the news from the USA you may have missed. Environment A review published in mid-June by the Associated Press found that the Obama administration does not inspect four out of every ten new high-risk oil and gas wells. It seems that The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been so overwhelmed by