BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
‘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 choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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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