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Thousands blockaded in slums as west African government can’t cope with epidemic, writes Dave Sewell

As strike ballots begin in the health service activists are already organising to win a big yes vote—and are finding a mood to fight, reports Dave Sewell

Thousands of NHS patients will soon be treated by staff with just two years of intensive training rather than by a fully qualified doctor.

Workers at Care UK in Doncaster have voted unanimously for a three-week strike in their ongoing campaign to defend pay and conditions.

Doctors and patients handed in a petition to Downing Street on Wednesday of last week to protest at threats to 22 surgeries across east London. 

More than 30 striking care workers from Care UK in Doncaster visited the protest camp outside Stafford Hospital on Wednesday of last week. 

A packed meeting of Save The Irreplaceable Torrington Community Hospital last Saturday voted to reject a six-month evaluation report.

The row over drugs pricing this week may have wiped six months off the lives of 1,500 women. 

The Unison union has announced the next strike in the battle for public sector pay - in the middle of the Tory party conference

Staff in the health service are set to join the pay fight after three health unions announced workers are set to be balloted to strike.

Bin workers set for walkout, protest for locked out staff, therapists hail win over harassment, join the vigil for Mark Duggan, activists discuss Egypt repression, Kent music festival stands up to racists

Letters about an anti-fascist Tour de France champion, the struggle of the South Yorkshire Freedom Riders, cuts to radical theatre, drug company profits and shorts.