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Rebuilding the NHS after the pandemic
Coming out of this crisis, the trade union movement will have choices to make about how we can fight for the future of our health service, says HELEN O’CONNOR
NHS stones
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
The money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
DECADES of real-terms funding cuts and outsourcing have combined to undermine and reduce NHS services and demoralise NHS staff.
The government’s strategy towards the NHS is no accident — it is part of a neoliberal project intended to destroy all the gains made by the working class up to and after the second world war.
For many years the idea that “private is better than public” has been used as a means to open the doors of the NHS to private businesses.
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