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How the lobby for legalising assisted dying is being fuelled, who it threatens and why socialists should oppose it

21st December 2023 shoreditchadmin2 0

The priority of socialists should be on tackling inequalities by progressive measures, defending the availability of good health care, not supporting the normalisation of termination of life as a response to ill health.

The latest push to legalise assisted dying and the danger it represents

11th April 2023 shoreditchadmin2 0

Disabled people need support to live, not die: why the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide should be opposed.

A revived social Darwinism is a deadly threat to human life

15th June 2020 shoreditchadmin2 0

When government daily announcements about coronavirus deaths stressed the proportions who had ‘underlying health conditions’ this was a ‘dog-whistle’ to disability prejudice: to a language of division and an ethics of some lives mattering less than others.