IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
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
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
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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