HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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The NHS is a crucial part of a civilised society
Bernadette Hyland talks to veteran communist and healthcare campaigner FRANCES HOOK
Frances Hook
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
FRANCES HOOK, veteran communist and campaigner, will be 80 this year but she is still out campaigning: last week, for instance, she was out leafleting about the proposed GP contracts which will break the link between patients and family doctors.
She was born Frances Clarke into a political family — her mother was Annie was daughter of Scottish Communist Party founder, Malcolm McFarlane.
Clarke, alongside her four siblings, was brought up in a family that had at its heart a democratic ethos.
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