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‘If you want to help us, vote to leave the EU,’ say Greek trade unionists
FAWZI IBRAHIM from Trade Unionists Against the EU, reports back from an international fact-finding delegation to Greece
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
THE abiding memory of the four days the international fact-finding delegation spent in Greece is the anger, frustration and exhaustion etched on the faces of everyone we talked to as they outlined the effects of five years of austerity measures.
Neither could we escape the defiance and determination of everyone to do something about it.
Flanked by another doctor and three nurses, the chief consultant of Naflio hospital, a small hospital in the north-east of Peloponnesus, described the situation in Greece as tragic.
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