Na'amodnik Max spoke to The Guardian last week about his experience marching in solidarity with Palestinians as part of the Jewish bloc.

Read here:
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Please everyone fill in the online questionnaire they have on the website and tell them how completely unnecessary and politically-motivated their “reform” is

Fit Note Reform: call for evidence - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/cal…

This part sears:

Of course, the wise and the learned
Who pen editorials in the papers,
And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names
White and black,
Who make surveys and write books
Will live on weaving words to smother the kids who die,

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Palestinian emergency crews say they’re uncovering several mass graves - this, inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis on top of several at Al Shifa hospital

Sky News footage reveals new details of exchange between police and antisemitism campaigner called 'openly Jewish' news.sky.com/story/sky-news…

How many more.

I am deeply saddened by the killing of another member of the network.

Palestine Red Crescent Society volunteer paramedic Mohammed Awad Allah Musa was killed on Saturday, 20 April, while providing medical assistance to those in need in the town of Al-Sawiya,

Subsidising the spread of COVID-19: The Eat-Out-to-Help-Out Scheme
This paper documents that a large-scale government subsidy...had a significant causal impact on new cases, accelerating the subsequent second COVID-19 wave. 
#SickNoteSunak #LongCovid academic.oup.com/ej/article/132…

They’re marching to build settlements in Lebanon.

Was asked to share this. NYC clergy, it’s your time!

Virginia Moffat and Chris Cole go on trial on the 25th of April for their action outside Downing St - join them, us, Kirsten Bayes of CAAT and Milan Rei of Peace News here at Giuseppe Conlon House the evening before for a public meeting. More info here: figtree101.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/res…

LSE, FT, any number of serious publications and their economic journalists have openly highlighted the absurdity of this debate and the absurdity of bending over backwards to maintain the illusion that 'We'll become Greece', as Osborne put it. It's self-serving balderdash.

In the light of yesterday's horror announcements, including that the rollout of #UniversalCredit to those on income-related ESA will now start much sooner, these concerns raised by disabled people about the rollout become even more important. Please read
disabilitynewsservice.com/dangerous-roll…

Sunak has created new wave of anxiety amongst many disabled people with his revival of the Conservative campaign against anyone receiving benefits. It’s the usual scapegoating in pre-election to stir up hate against disabled people. Join this important DPAC meeting.

Happy #socialistsunday I'm Siobhan

I've been a Nurse working in our NHS for around a decade and activist for the past 4.

As a socialist I believe healthcare is a human right and will fight to protect our NHS for the generations to come.

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Glasgow - please never change!

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Young people don’t owe us anything. We owe *them*. We put them here. We created this mess. We’re the ones responsible.

Responding to the Prime Minister’s comments on the two-child limit in The Sun, CPAG Chief Executive Alison Garnham said:
 
“With child poverty at a record high, the prime minister has now clearly decided that making kids poor is his political priority. 1/2

'Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.' - Isabel Allende
#LizTruss
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The gov has an open call for evidence on their proposed changes to fit notes.

This is open to disabled people, carers and medical professionals.

It's open til 8th July

gov.uk/government/cal…

Dr Jay Watts I wrote this in 2016. Two phrases came back to me: 'de-medicalising illnesses' and 'de-professionalising doctors'. politicsandinsights.org/2016/11/29/rog…