CLAUDIA WEBBE speaks out against the lethal mechanics of Britain’s culture-war press
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Privatisation: The July Health Offensive
The Tory-led coalition is doing its best to sell off or run down the NHS in the months it has left, warns JOHN LISTER
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
Trade unions and community groups are mobilising to push back against Trump’s racist raids after new revelations of spying on legal protesters. MARK GRUENBERG reports from the US state of Minnesota
The best wildfire service may begin with the community, argues KOMAL RAJ ARYAL
The evolution of the Scottish nationalist leadership into cheerleaders for Nato has led the party to betray its pledges on Palestine and social spending, writes COLL McCAIL
While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
July is not yet over — but it is already jam-packed with symptoms of the escalating crisis and chaos unleashed by the coalition’s unprecedented spending freeze and top-down reorganisation to replace planned health services with a healthcare “market.”
June ended with revelations that the soaring numbers still crowding into A&E departments are driven by the fact that one in four could not get an appointment with their GPs.
July began with new figures on the scale of the cuts still being driven through in social care, even as local commissioning groups hatch more plans to downsize hospitals and deliver more care “closer to home.”
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