Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Killing the NHS: Labour’s great betrayal
The Labour Party, once the proud architect of our health service, has become its undertaker, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Wes Streeting gives a speech at the Fabian Society
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
THE Labour Party, as it exists now under Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting, is not the party to save the NHS — and this is not a new phenomenon.
In fact, Starmer and Streeting appear to be barely interested in going through the motions of even pretending to want to save it in any meaningful form. Last September, Streeting, who has even raised “self-care” by patients as a measure to be considered for the NHS, went as far as saying he was prepared to let the NHS “die” if it failed to adapt to his “reforms,” which amount to further privatisation, the closure of hospitals and cutting costs, while also mandating prescriptive and even coercive use of drugs on the general population to keep them out of hospital, and pushing the perversely incentivised “integrated care” model even harder than previous Tory governments, under the economically illiterate threat that the NHS will “go bankrupt” if the “reforms” are not imposed.
This plan was crystallised even further in the report Streeting commissioned by Lord Darzi, an ardent advocate of Tory NHS “reform” who oversaw much of Tony Blair’s marketisation of the NHS, to write last autumn on the future of the NHS.
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