5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1693+ words) Peter Thiel, the ­billionaire founder of US spy tech firm Palantir has his sights set on the NHS—and that should terrify us all. Thiel is up to his neck in providing surveillance equipment for the genocidal Israeli military and…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (632+ words) Documentary misrepresents why diagnoses of ADHD are on the rise among children ­The Great ADHD Myth? recently screened by Channel 4 was a ­wilfully sensationalist exercise in disability denial. Its presenter, author and NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton, told viewers that ADHD…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (352+ words) Sheen reveals a familiar pattern of behaviour from capitalists (Pic: WikiMedia Commons) The Welsh activist and actor Michael Sheen has been digging and what he has found in the abandoned quarries and waste tips of Wales reveals the consequences of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (465+ words) Andy Burnham’s government is planning to tell us to stock up on tinned food and bottled water to prepare for extreme weather or cyber-attacks. The Cabinet Office wants to boost “national resilience” in the wake of both threats from Russia…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1564+ words) Hundreds of residents at nine blocks of flats in the Devons Road estate in east London have been left without regular ­running water since late last year. In one of the blocks, Shillingford House, Rahana told Socialist Worker that it…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (608+ words) A new report on the government’s “Prevent” scheme has exposed its claims to be combatting terrorism. Prevent was created by the Labour government in 2003, at the height of its “War on Terror”. Its remit was significantly broadened under the Tories....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (390+ words) There was a racist witch-hunt against Professor Jason Arday. It was a public lynching. If a black academic makes a mistake, the scrutiny is far more profound than if it were a white staff member, whatever their status. White male…...