UN report compares Tory welfare policies to creation of workhouses -
A leading United Nations poverty expert has compared Conservative welfare policies to the creation of 19th-century workhouses and warned that unless austerity is ended, the UK’s poorest people face lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
we shouldn’t forget that the lib dems were the architects of this too
Medical Investigation: How Did 494 Children In One Pakistani City Get HIV? -
Day 35 – January 1996 – Issue 8: The Dianii hunters have definitely bitten off more in trying to make Godzilla a trophy. As this issue concludes the storyline, the Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens attempt to use the Dianii ship and ALL-TERRAINTULA to take on Godzilla and take over Earth. But a Dianii female warrior, still on board the ship, spoils their plans. Story by Arthur Adams. Cover art: Kevin Maguire.
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Peter Cushing in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
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On this day, 22 May 1968, footballers in Paris occupied the headquarters of the French Football Association and issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football “profiteers”, and for football without profits and declaring “United, we will make football once again what it ought never to have ceased to be - the sport of joy, the sport of the world of tomorrow which all the workers have started building”.
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On this day, 21 May 1945, the US government took over the bituminous coal mines to try to break a six-week miners’ strike. The miners held out, forcing the government to grant workers’ demands which had been unacceptable to the operators. To quell militancy the government had to stay in control of the mines for many months. More on this tumultuous period in US history here: https://libcom.org/history/world-war-ii-post-war-strike-wave https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1129262327258916/?type=3
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