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New documentary charts the struggle to defend the welfare state
GLYN ROBBINS is impressed by a film about the campaigns to protect the social benefits won over decades
RESILIENCE AND EXPERIENCE: Merseyside Pensioners Association campaigning in support of striking McDonalds staff and encouraging all young workers to ‘join a union’
[Phil Maxwell Photos]
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
PENSIONERS UNITED opens with Tony Benn describing the NHS as “pure socialism.” This marks the fundamental theme of Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell’s 90-minute documentary.
Using extensive footage and interviews with grassroots campaigners, the film argues that we’re in a critical fight to defend the post-war welfare state.
The fact that most of the people making that argument are old enough to have seen dramatic changes in our society only adds weight.
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