Andy Burnham’s leadership will be judged on whether he charts a genuinely different course, argues BECK ROBERTSON
NHS privatisation — why we must unite to oppose it
Now is the time to unite outsourced workers’ demands to become NHS employees, on NHS pay and conditions, with the fight to stop the privatisation of our health service altogether, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
NHS workers get official praise and commemorative portraits - but the government is continuing to destroy the foundations of our public health service
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
Critics of UBI underestimate both its political significance and its economic potential, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
As Ontario burns, campaigners are demanding action – not more pipelines, says DAVE McKEE
Innovation in biotechnology is changing how we conceive of meat, say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
THE pillaging of NHS funds and the demoralisation of hospital workers by the private sector is commonplace throughout the NHS.
Increasingly the private sector is becoming more embedded in our NHS as services are separated off and tendered out to the lowest bidder.
The special relationship with the NHS facilities contract manager who is as hostile to the presence of active unions, as the private company is the entrance ticket to the NHS goldmine.
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