ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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‘Our NHS is being trashed’
DR BOB GILL, producer of The Great NHS Heist, speaks to Daniel Powell about the selling-off of our health service and the consequences for the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Bob Gill, producer of the shocking new documentary The Great NHS Heist, reveals how successive governments have hollowed-out our health service and gifted it to privateers
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
IF you felt aghast at the sight of politicians clapping for the NHS during the peak of the pandemic, you were not unjustified. The government has been discreetly and incrementally washing its hands of responsibility for providing public services since the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
Selling off Britain’s assets was a priority, yet of the NHS: “There’s no way that as an institution so respected and beloved by the population, they could go for a one-off privatisation as they did with other utilities,” says Dr. Bob Gill, producer of The Great NHS Heist film.
A 1977 document from the Conservative Research Group reveals a strategy of “denationalisation by stealth” which would soon come to the most sacrosanct service of all: health.
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