Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
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Working in the NHS under a Tory government – the reality
Our health service is precious to us all and must be defended from the privatisation agenda, writes Dr ADRIAN HEALD
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
EVERYONE who lives in Britain relies on the National Health Service, created as it was in 1948, in the aftermath of the worst conflict that that the world has seen.
Many people at the time did not believe that it would be possible to create a national healthcare system that was free at the point of delivery, was available to everyone in society (the equity principle) and guaranteed the same quality of care wherever anyone lived in Britain (the parity principle).
The NHS is one of the greatest achievements of any human society at any point in history. So great that it has been copied by a lot of other nations.
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Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency
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
