The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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The Tories are reducing the NHS to nothing more than a logo
The new Health Bill will deliver the NHS to private providers and the health insurance lobby unless enough people wake up to the threat and take a stand, says Dr BOB GILL
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
ON the 73rd birthday of the National Health Service we are entering the final phase of its dismantlement — yet the vast majority of people, including NHS staff, have no real appreciation of how the nation’s beloved institution has been fundamentally repurposed.
With the country still in the grip of the pandemic, the government published its white paper in February 2021, to be followed by the imminent Health Bill, which is set to double down on turning the entire NHS into a cash cow for private corporations.
There is no sign that the privatisation policy goal, which had brought the pre-pandemic NHS to its knees, has been abandoned.
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