Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES
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Killing the NHS: Labour’s great betrayal
The Labour Party, once the proud architect of our health service, has become its undertaker, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Wes Streeting gives a speech at the Fabian Society
PAUL ATKIN argues that we must avoid being tied to the millstone of US energy policy — a death sentence paid for by big oil — and embrace co-operation with the world’s green leader for a renewable, sustainable future
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
The modern railway network turns 200 this month and is currently one of the greenest forms of transport. But unless focus shifts from profits to people, Britain won’t benefit from it, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
ZHANG HE highlights pressure coming from the global South for a more multilateral approach to global governance and a more equitable world order
THE Labour Party, as it exists now under Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting, is not the party to save the NHS — and this is not a new phenomenon.
In fact, Starmer and Streeting appear to be barely interested in going through the motions of even pretending to want to save it in any meaningful form. Last September, Streeting, who has even raised “self-care” by patients as a measure to be considered for the NHS, went as far as saying he was prepared to let the NHS “die” if it failed to adapt to his “reforms,” which amount to further privatisation, the closure of hospitals and cutting costs, while also mandating prescriptive and even coercive use of drugs on the general population to keep them out of hospital, and pushing the perversely incentivised “integrated care” model even harder than previous Tory governments, under the economically illiterate threat that the NHS will “go bankrupt” if the “reforms” are not imposed.
This plan was crystallised even further in the report Streeting commissioned by Lord Darzi, an ardent advocate of Tory NHS “reform” who oversaw much of Tony Blair’s marketisation of the NHS, to write last autumn on the future of the NHS.
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