Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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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
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
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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