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Facing legal challenge, Tories hint about scrapping some NHS reforms – but remain wedded to privatising ‘solutions’

by TOMMY GREENE 25 May 2018 for openDemocracy [UK] The effects of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act are now too disastrous to ignore. But Jeremy Hunt’s shift is of rhetoric, not of substance – .and his new “ACO”…

We have to unite because the enemy is always united

Daniel Cruz is a specialist in Communications, European activist, trade unionist, member of DiEM25 in the local group in Barcelona and Pressenza collaborator. He took part in the European Humanist Forum, recently held in Madrid, as a speaker at the…

Warning against ‘Return to rhetoric of Nuclear Annihilation,’ Koreans and Anti-War voices demand Trump resume Peace Talks

“You can’t imagine rooting for peace for so long and then see it being taken away.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer For Common Dreams Refusing to let a chance to achieve lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula slip away and warning…

Las políticas de Barcelona inspiran cambios en vivienda y feminismo alrededor del mundo

Ada Colau: “Somos muchas ciudades las que estamos tejiendo redes y alianzas a nivel internacional para defender los bienes comunes, pero necesitamos ser más” El acto Ciudades valientes, Barcelona referente, que se ha celebrado esta tarde en el Casinet de Hostafrancs, la vivienda…

The Brexit likely side effects they did not tell you about

In the post-truth/fake news era nobody gets surprised that a dirty tricks campaign for Brexit resulted in a number of threats now facing the UK´s new trade deals. Here are just some of them: Revealed: rightwing groups plot to ditch…

LANDSLIDE: ‘Quiet Revolution’ as Ireland ends abortion ban

by Common Dreams staff  Ireland, one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries, has voted by a landslide to liberalize the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. Votes are still being counted Saturday but both sides agree with exit polls showing a…

Africa: a history to rediscover 

Valentin Mufila, musician and artistic director of the multicultural social cooperative Ballafon in Varese, Italy, is also a passionate connoisseur of African history. This history has been erased by colonialism to justify atrocities and the systematic pillaging of the African people’s…

Homage to Silo: Thinking and works

In few minutes we will try to give an overview of Silo’s thought expressed through his books, lectures, interviews and talks that he has tirelessly given over the past 50 years. His production is extensive and deals in depth with…

Something new is trying to emerge

Pía Figueroa participated in the European Humanist Forum, recently held in Madrid, as a speaker in the “Independent journalism and social activism” working group. Pía is Co-director of Pressenza International Press Agency, dedicated to news about peace and nonviolence. She…

Jeremy Corbyn in Belfast: Irish peace

‘This week marks twenty years since the Good Friday Agreement referendum. “Yesterday, I spoke at Queen’s University, Belfast, about the need to revive the spirit of the Agreement and prevent the return to a hard border, to protect peace and…

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