Practitioner Union News Today

A short history of the three sets of industrial action which were undertaken by consultants and junior doctors respectively in the UK in 1975. Though both were very different in content, both were largely successful.

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Innovative doctor who improved GP services in Birmingham and beyond

A RECENT edition of the Morning Star (Thursday January 7) carried a letter from Tony Conway reminding readers about West Indian communists like Claudia Jones who founded the Notting Hill Carnival and Jamaican RAF pilot Billy Strachan who earned an equally important position as a leader of the anti-imperialist struggle all across the Caribbean and went on to assist and advise Caribbean leaders like Cheddi Jagan of Guyana. Over the last few years I have written Morning Star features on both Jones...