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EU rocked by workers’ anger

by our European Affairs correspondent

The European Union was rocked by a wave of working class anger that swept through the continent on Wednesday with general strikes in Spain and Portugal and walkouts in Greece and Italy - grounding flights, closing schools and shutting down transport.

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A Plebs and Pigs banquet

Street theatre came to the City of London when hundreds of protesters from a Europe-wide coalition against austerity demonstrated outside the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet on Monday.

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Editorial

Death by poverty

A NEW report from the Annals of Oncology shows that the rich-poor gap in cancer survival rates remains unchanged in spite of improved cancer survival rates generally. The crucial factor in survival chances is early diagnosis but in England 5,600 people every year miss out on having their cancer diagnosed at an early stage because of social inequality, according to the report.

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