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United NHS movement can rock Cameron’s government
An alliance of activists, health workers and trade unions is saying ‘No more’ to the Tory government’s increasingly deranged attempts to undermine our NHS, as JOHN LISTER examines
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
THE historic and welcome launch on September 26 of Health Campaigns Together comes at a time of a pressing need for united and massive resistance to Tory attacks. It is an alliance of health unions and campaigners fighting to defend and restore the NHS.
The ready response of thousands of junior doctors and medical students to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to cut their wages has given a focus for the anger of another one million NHS staff who have seen the value of their pay slashed by years of Tory freezes and below-inflation increases.
But the underlying problem behind this and the growing crisis in the hospitals and front-line services has been the unprecedented five-year freeze in health spending, resulting in the meanest-ever levels of increase in the NHS budget, leaving two-thirds of hospital trusts facing deficits averaging £22 million this year. The NHS as a whole is facing a deficit of £2 billion.
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