HENRY FOWLER, co-founder of Strike Map, announces a new collaboration with UnionMaps, integrating two important sets of data that will facilitate the labour movement in its analysis, planning and action
We must call a halt to the creeping privatisation of our NHS
Plans by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust to set up a private company to employ NHS staff are symptomatic of a drive towards US-style healthcare, writes RICHARD BURGON
RICHARD BURGON MP reports that Cuba’s world-renowned medical programmes that support not only its citizens but countries worldwide are under strain from the US blockade, but the British labour movement can and must help
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
GEOFF BOTTOMS charts the history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway 200 years ago, which served as a blueprint for the modern network and opened up a new era of working-class travel
OUR NHS is Labour’s proudest achievement — a beacon of socialist principles put into practice. But its creeping privatisation continues apace.
Privatisation of our NHS is bad for patients, bad for staff and completely flies in the face of the founding principles of our NHS.
St James’s Teaching Hospital is in my Leeds East constituency. It’s a place that means a lot to me. I was born there and have, along with family and friends, benefited from it ever since. And it means a lot to the community in Leeds who are both patients and employees there.
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