The NEU kept children and teachers safe during the pandemic, yet we are disgracefully slandered by the politicians who have truly failed our children by not funding a proper education recovery programme — here’s what is needed, explains KEVIN COURTNEY
Health privatisation is wrecking Ukraine's ability to fight Covid-19
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko talks to Ukrainian Communist Party leader PETRO SYMONENKO about the destruction of the country’s healthcare system through ‘the guillotine of medical reform’ and what this means for the people amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko
The appalling bigotry and bias of London’s police force has been obvious for years – and the police leadership does not appear inclined to do anything about it, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
As Holyrood elections approach, BRIAN LEISHMAN MP argues that Labour’s time has come — to open a new chapter which puts an end to the years of managed decline
ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support
UKRAINIAN doctors have slammed “war” conditions in its hospitals as they struggle to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
Britain’s NHS is struggling due to years of cuts — resulting in chronic staffing shortages — and the impact of Andrew Lansley’s privatising 2012 Health and Social Care Act on healthcare supplies. But in Ukraine, crippling healthcare “reform” is taking place even as the pandemic rages.
The marketising reforms are resulting in mass hospital closures, as the government passes responsibility for paying utility bills to individual hospitals rather than covering them.
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