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NHS: for the people, not the privateers
As trade unionists lead today's marches across Britain to demand proper NHS pay rises, investment and reversal of privatisations, GARY SMITH outlines the seriousness of the Tory threat to this national asset
GMB general secretary Gary Smith
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
CUT government funding, “make sure that things don’t work,” wait for the people to get angry, blame the public sector and then hand the assets over to private capital.
Noam Chomsky’s analysis of the method used to privatise publicly owned wealth and services over the last 40 years holds true for the NHS.
It has already been salami-sliced into a multitude of local hospital trusts, with contracts and services outsourced to private providers. And yet the failures of the private sector to deliver adequate PPE and to test and trace during the Covid-19 pandemic can be contrasted with the selfless dedication shown by NHS staff working on the front lines and by the enormous success of the vaccination programme, which has enabled the gradual reducing of restrictions.
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