Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Could Covid-19 bring an end to the privatisation of our NHS?
The hated Health and Social Care Act has effectively been suspended, and there’s huge recognition that support staff should be brought back in-house. So can the ‘competitive health market’ now be ditched once and for all? asks JOHN LISTER
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
BORIS JOHNSON’S five-minute broadcast on leaving hospital, in which he enthused about the NHS as the “beating heart of the nation” and named two overseas nurses who he believed had saved his life, might have been a pivotal moment.
It might yet prove to be the moment where the right-wing Cabinet of a Tory government was persuaded to pull back from the process of running down the NHS.
Indeed the entire coronavirus pandemic and resultant crisis facing every major country in the world has been a wake-up call for ministers, who have been forced to put their previous financial model and restructuring of the NHS on the back burner — or conceivably discard previous ambitions altogether.
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Behind Starmer’s headline-grabbing abolition of NHS England lies a ruthless drive to centralise control so that cuts of £6.6 billion can be made — even if it means reducing cancer services and clinical staff, writes JOHN LISTER
Relatively recently the health service was at its peak — to reverse the incredible damage done by the Tories since 2010 we need billions going straight into state provision, writes JOHN LISTER
Labour’s 24-page manifesto for the health service carefully avoids explaining how any of it will be paid for and provided. This is more than worrying, writes JOHN LISTER
Higher funds are critical to prevent the growth of privatisation by allowing the NHS to expand capacity and reduce the vast 6-million-plus waiting list, writes JOHN LISTER
