Tackling climate change is not just an urgent environmental necessity but provides an opportunity for economic restructuring in the interests of the Welsh people
NHS privatisation: the writing is on the wall
NHS England says private companies like Cygnet are its ‘partners,’ but US private health corporation Universal Health Services’ latest annual report describes the NHS as a ‘competitor,’ writes SOLOMON HUGHES
PIE IN THE SKY? Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care last August during a visit to Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, to announce the government’s NHS spending pledge of 1.8 billion
A spate of bomb recoveries across Dhaka raise questions whether extremism is making a comeback, says SIAM SAROWER JAMIL
Poverty, refugee displacement, child labour and militia violence are exacerbating the challenge of health workers to limit this deadly contagious disease. CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA and MARK BANCHEREAU report
CLAUDIA WEBBE speaks out against the lethal mechanics of Britain’s culture-war press
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
BORIS JOHNSON’S Conservatives were worried fears about the NHS — about cuts, privatisation and US companies grabbing bits of the health service — could eat into their votes during the election.
So they took the obvious route — lying.
Conservative Central Office said that arguments about privatisation were “just scaremongering from Labour. There has been no increase in NHS privatisation and there won’t be under a Conservative government.”
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