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Tension mounts in the Persian Gulf

by our Arab affairs correspondent

TENSION IS MOUNTING in the Persian Gulf following imperialist threats of action against the Iranians, whom they blame for a deadly drone attack on an Israeli-managed oil tanker in the Arabian Sea off the shores of Oman last week.

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Local Government and NHS Heroes

by New Worker correspondent

IN ENGLAND and Wales local government employees are getting a paltry 1.75 per cent pay rise, far short of their initial demand for 10 per cent and a very small increase on the 1.5 initially offered by the Management. Very low paid workers will be getting a less than generous 2.75.

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British forces out of Ukraine!

by New Worker correspondent

NCP leader Andy Brooks joined other anti-fascist campaigners in London protesting against the British government’s policies towards Ukraine.

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Editorial

Health is not a commodity!

SECRET PLANS to withdraw hospital care from the over-70s in the case of a catastrophic pandemic have come out this week. According to revelations in the mainstream media elderly people would be denied treatment to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed during a health crisis. Instead they would be placed on an “end of life pathway” reminiscent of the euphemisms used by the death doctors of the Third Reich to justify the “mercy killing” of those the Nazis deemed unfit to live.

The strategy, drawn up in 2017 and 2018, reportedly stipulated that in a “severe” flu pandemic, the health secretary could authorise medics to prioritise some patients over others with people in nursing homes offered “end of life pathways” instead of medical assistance. Under the plan, the triaging process would be based on patients’ “probability of survival” rather than clinical need.

The Government says the proposals related to “hypothetical scenarios” and claim they were never adopted as official policy. But Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams claims that Britain had come “perilously close” to an approach of this sort at the height of the pandemic last year.

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