From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
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When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, May 1, 2023
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
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THE NHS was built on the principle of universal access to publicly provided healthcare according to need. Nye Bevan’s In Place of Fear describes the transformative introduction of the NHS: “A free health service is a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative applied to a segment of society where commercial principles are seen at their worst.”
Since Thatcher, administrations and corporate interests have colluded to reconfigure the NHS, working to commercial principles, despite the best endeavours of its workers. This 40-year corporate onslaught culminated in the sub-NHS provision we see today: “new models of care,” fake doctors, fake A&Es, understaffing, bed cuts, outsourcing and PFI. The devastating impact of this erosion of care is described in the 2025 RCN report, On the Front Line of Britain’s Corridor Care Crisis.
We have, systematically and relentlessly, moved from public provision and service to enabling corporate health. We have witnessed hollowing out, deskilling and then outsourcing throughout the public sector. Across education, energy, transport and mail, state institutions were systematically looted by capital interests.
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