Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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Negligence payouts: the cost of NHS cuts
There has been a 30 per cent increase in claims against our health service in the past decade, costing our health service £2.4bn in 2019 alone, writes STEVEN WALKER
CHARLEY ALLAN reports from Clacton on Farage’s fears his by-election stunt has backfired
JEREMY CORBYN says we should never forget the horrific reality of nuclear weapons, or cease our efforts to rid the planet of them entirely
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
Internationalism is deeply embedded in socialist theory and practice. Examination illuminates its complexity asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The Claudia Sheinbaum government is no pushover and is holding firm despite US abuses of the relationship, says DAVID RABY
As we approach the grim anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, SIMON BARROW sounds the alarm over the dangerous and murderous direction our government is heading
AS health unions, doctors and nurses prepare for strike action over pay offers, a largely ignored, recently released report by the NHS shows the staggering sums being paid out in compensation to those individuals, families and relatives affected by medical negligence due to staff shortages.
The annual report and accounts for NHS Resolution, an arm’s-length body set up to administer claims against GPs and hospital staff, reveals that at the end of the last financial year, the NHS had paid nearly £83 billion in liabilities in relation to historic claims received, or new claims likely to be received in future.
That figure is nearly half of the whole NHS and social care budget for 2021, or enough to build 150 new hospitals.
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