British politics No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers! We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.
British politics No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers! We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.
Argentina Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.
Argentina Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.
Health Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.
Health Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.
Lay-offs and closures Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain? The government seems uninterested in diverting any of our public funds to this genuinely useful purpose.
Lay-offs and closures Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain? The government seems uninterested in diverting any of our public funds to this genuinely useful purpose.
Georgia Why reimagine Soviet Georgia? Despite 30 years of efforts to bury and vilify its memory, the resilience of communism remains undefeated.
Georgia Why reimagine Soviet Georgia? Despite 30 years of efforts to bury and vilify its memory, the resilience of communism remains undefeated.
Economy Post Office scandal: Trouble on the Horizon The power of monopoly laid bare: evidence reveals a picture of tampering with witness statements, falsifying data and coercing would-be whistleblowers.
Economy Post Office scandal: Trouble on the Horizon The power of monopoly laid bare: evidence reveals a picture of tampering with witness statements, falsifying data and coercing would-be whistleblowers.
Health NHS: Murder by a thousand cuts Excess avoidable deaths are rising alongside waiting lists for operations and GP consultations – and it is no coincidence.
Health NHS: Murder by a thousand cuts Excess avoidable deaths are rising alongside waiting lists for operations and GP consultations – and it is no coincidence.
British politics Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’ Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.
British politics Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’ Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.
Pay and conditions Scottish Water workers vote to strike Bosses are trying to force the ‘modernisation’ of pay structures – ie, to enforce ever more draconian pay cuts on workers.
Pay and conditions Scottish Water workers vote to strike Bosses are trying to force the ‘modernisation’ of pay structures – ie, to enforce ever more draconian pay cuts on workers.
Disputes Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS! The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.
Disputes Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS! The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.
Health Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’? An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’
Health Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’? An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’
Economy Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires Vulture capitalists are not ‘bad apples’ – they are the inevitable product of a system in deep and permanent crisis and decline.
Economy Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires Vulture capitalists are not ‘bad apples’ – they are the inevitable product of a system in deep and permanent crisis and decline.
Lay-offs and closures ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.
Lay-offs and closures ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.
Health An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.
Health An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.
Economy Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close? Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.
Economy Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close? Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.
Education Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.
Education Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.
Pollution Demand renationalisation of the water system without compensation Growing public outrage has forced a mealy-mouthed apology from Water UK, but the profiteers deserve jail sentences, not a wrist-slapping.
Pollution Demand renationalisation of the water system without compensation Growing public outrage has forced a mealy-mouthed apology from Water UK, but the profiteers deserve jail sentences, not a wrist-slapping.
Education Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’ This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.
Education Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’ This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.
Social wage Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.
Social wage Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.
Housing Poor housing kills The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.
Housing Poor housing kills The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.
Capitalist crisis Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.
Capitalist crisis Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.
Capitalist crisis Happy new year? There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.
Capitalist crisis Happy new year? There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.
Health The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.
Health The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.
Pollution Britain’s dire water situation is no joke Privatisation has stolen over £60bn from essential services, leaving the country to wallow in its own filth.
Pollution Britain’s dire water situation is no joke Privatisation has stolen over £60bn from essential services, leaving the country to wallow in its own filth.
Argentina What is behind the attempted murder of vice-president Cristina Kirchner? US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.
Argentina What is behind the attempted murder of vice-president Cristina Kirchner? US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.
Disputes Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay! It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.
Disputes Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay! It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.
Social wage Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.
Social wage Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.
Health Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation Just like the various imperialist wars, the NHS has become a funnel for vast sums of public money to be passed into private hands via profits and dividends.
Health Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation Just like the various imperialist wars, the NHS has become a funnel for vast sums of public money to be passed into private hands via profits and dividends.
Health Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.
Health Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.
Ukraine Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.
Ukraine Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.
Disputes Support the postal workers! Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.
Disputes Support the postal workers! Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.
Ukraine How corrupt is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky? Who is this man who ‘preferred the ruin of his country to a timely compromise’?
Ukraine How corrupt is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky? Who is this man who ‘preferred the ruin of his country to a timely compromise’?
Health Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.
Health Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.
Disputes Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike! In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.
Disputes Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike! In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.
Social wage Nationalise the buses! Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.
Social wage Nationalise the buses! Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.
Economy BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.
Economy BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.
Health Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.
Health Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.
Environment Stop these sociopaths from poisoning our rivers! We are reaping the whirlwind after decades of criminal neglect of Britain’s privatised water and sewage systems.
Environment Stop these sociopaths from poisoning our rivers! We are reaping the whirlwind after decades of criminal neglect of Britain’s privatised water and sewage systems.
Economy Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.
Economy Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.
Health The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover A meaningful defence of Britain’s health service is urgently needed. What would it look like?
Health The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover A meaningful defence of Britain’s health service is urgently needed. What would it look like?
Health Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.
Health Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.
Industry A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.
Industry A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.
Economy Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.
Economy Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.
Social wage Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery How many more horrendous revelations do we have to endure before action is taken to end the abuse of vulnerable children by profiteers?
Social wage Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery How many more horrendous revelations do we have to endure before action is taken to end the abuse of vulnerable children by profiteers?
Health Film: The Great NHS Heist Dr Bob Gill’s contribution to the fight to save our NHS is incalculable. This film is essential viewing for every British worker.
Health Film: The Great NHS Heist Dr Bob Gill’s contribution to the fight to save our NHS is incalculable. This film is essential viewing for every British worker.
Health NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.
Health NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.
Health Dr Ranjeet Brar: Act now to stop the selling of your NHS data How is it that the government has got so far down the road of selling our health information and workers have heard nothing about it at all?
Health Dr Ranjeet Brar: Act now to stop the selling of your NHS data How is it that the government has got so far down the road of selling our health information and workers have heard nothing about it at all?
Economy Post Office pursued vindictive prosecutions against subpostmasters The appeal court victory of 29 of those wrongfully convicted has opened the floodgates for hundreds more claims.
Economy Post Office pursued vindictive prosecutions against subpostmasters The appeal court victory of 29 of those wrongfully convicted has opened the floodgates for hundreds more claims.
Health NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’ Instead of rebuilding our decimated public capacity, private providers are being subsidised to the tune of billions to take the place of the NHS.
Health NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’ Instead of rebuilding our decimated public capacity, private providers are being subsidised to the tune of billions to take the place of the NHS.
Health Dr Bob Gill and Dr Ranjeet Brar: The NHS is being dismantled before our eyes Workers are sleepwalking towards a nightmare of American-style health inequalities and bankrupting treatments bills.
Health Dr Bob Gill and Dr Ranjeet Brar: The NHS is being dismantled before our eyes Workers are sleepwalking towards a nightmare of American-style health inequalities and bankrupting treatments bills.
Capitalist crisis Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living If 2020 has taught us anything it is that the current economic and political system is blocking our ability to solve humanity’s urgent problems.
Capitalist crisis Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living If 2020 has taught us anything it is that the current economic and political system is blocking our ability to solve humanity’s urgent problems.
Health More ‘reforms’ of the NHS, so many nails in the coffin We have a hard fight on our hands if we wish to save our health service from the corporate looters and privateers.
Health More ‘reforms’ of the NHS, so many nails in the coffin We have a hard fight on our hands if we wish to save our health service from the corporate looters and privateers.
Social wage Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.
Social wage Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.
Health Comrade Ranjeet on Moats: NHS marketisation and the covid death toll ‘It’s like setting up a market inside your family. Your children could sell you affection and you could sell them a roof over their heads.’
Health Comrade Ranjeet on Moats: NHS marketisation and the covid death toll ‘It’s like setting up a market inside your family. Your children could sell you affection and you could sell them a roof over their heads.’
Economy Water privateers: ‘Doing what’s in the best interests of shareholders’ As Britain’s utilities are looted by shareholders, workers are forced to pay astronomical bills for deteriorating services.
Economy Water privateers: ‘Doing what’s in the best interests of shareholders’ As Britain’s utilities are looted by shareholders, workers are forced to pay astronomical bills for deteriorating services.
Education Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.
Education Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.
USA Why are women being unnecessarily sterilised at a US immigration centre? Disturbing facts have come to light in a for-profit immigration centre. What is the motivation behind these crimes against women prisoners?
USA Why are women being unnecessarily sterilised at a US immigration centre? Disturbing facts have come to light in a for-profit immigration centre. What is the motivation behind these crimes against women prisoners?
Economy Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.
Economy Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.
Social wage Southern Cross: vulture capitalists still getting fat on the care home racket The problems in our care homes are rooted in privatisation and began well before the pandemic arrived to bring them to national attention.
Social wage Southern Cross: vulture capitalists still getting fat on the care home racket The problems in our care homes are rooted in privatisation and began well before the pandemic arrived to bring them to national attention.
Economy Vultures circle over Royal Mail Britain’s privatised mail service is likely to be broken down into ever-smaller parts as investors peel of the most profitable parts one by one.
Economy Vultures circle over Royal Mail Britain’s privatised mail service is likely to be broken down into ever-smaller parts as investors peel of the most profitable parts one by one.
Health Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response The mismanagement of the pandemic in rich imperialist states continues to be highlighted through the chaos of lockdown easing.
Health Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response The mismanagement of the pandemic in rich imperialist states continues to be highlighted through the chaos of lockdown easing.
Economy Water CEOs fleece the public Residents’ bills are sky high, the nation’s water reserves are seeping away, but privateer bosses are still shamelessly rinsing the coffers.
Economy Water CEOs fleece the public Residents’ bills are sky high, the nation’s water reserves are seeping away, but privateer bosses are still shamelessly rinsing the coffers.
Health PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons.
Health PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons.
Health Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave What explains the difference in approach and outcomes between the US and Britain on the one hand and China on the other?
Health Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave What explains the difference in approach and outcomes between the US and Britain on the one hand and China on the other?
Health Coronavirus: NHS is 72 but drugs companies are still rinsing the system How the pandemic is exposing the priorities of our capitalist rulers.
Health Coronavirus: NHS is 72 but drugs companies are still rinsing the system How the pandemic is exposing the priorities of our capitalist rulers.
Disputes Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.
Disputes Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.
Health Coronavirus: a real threat Dr Ranjeet Brar talks to George Galloway about how the worldwide pandemic is highlighting and exacerbating inequality.
Health Coronavirus: a real threat Dr Ranjeet Brar talks to George Galloway about how the worldwide pandemic is highlighting and exacerbating inequality.
Health Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’ Dr Ranjeet Brar talks to George Galloway about the now worldwide pandemic.
Health Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’ Dr Ranjeet Brar talks to George Galloway about the now worldwide pandemic.
Health Coronavirus: What do the experts say? Dr Ranjeet Brar talks to George Galloway about what the virus is and how we should be responding. Are we over- or under-reacting?
Health Coronavirus: What do the experts say? Dr Ranjeet Brar talks to George Galloway about what the virus is and how we should be responding. Are we over- or under-reacting?
Health The anti-China coronavirus panic What is really behind the media hysteria over Covid-19? And what can the virus tell us about the state of our NHS?
Health The anti-China coronavirus panic What is really behind the media hysteria over Covid-19? And what can the virus tell us about the state of our NHS?
Health Health service privatisation: who runs the NHS? Who is the unelected executive who runs our most valued institution, and whose interests does he serve?
Health Health service privatisation: who runs the NHS? Who is the unelected executive who runs our most valued institution, and whose interests does he serve?
Pay and conditions Defend railway pensions! Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.
Pay and conditions Defend railway pensions! Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.
Social wage Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.
Social wage Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.
Disputes Support the South Western Railway strike Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!
Disputes Support the South Western Railway strike Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!
Social wage DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.
Social wage DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.
Education Our schools need more than money It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.
Education Our schools need more than money It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.
Education GSM collapse: another for-profit education provider hits the rocks A London-based private university has gone bust, leaving students and staff in the lurch.
Education GSM collapse: another for-profit education provider hits the rocks A London-based private university has gone bust, leaving students and staff in the lurch.
USA US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.
USA US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.
Education Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.
Education Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.
Health Brexit, profiteers and the NHS Why are Donald Trump and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being held up as threats to the future of the health service?
Health Brexit, profiteers and the NHS Why are Donald Trump and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being held up as threats to the future of the health service?
Pay and conditions Railway pensions under attack As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.
Pay and conditions Railway pensions under attack As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.
Education Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.
Education Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.
Disputes Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.
Disputes Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.
Social wage Fire Brigade Inc Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.
Social wage Fire Brigade Inc Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.
Lay-offs and closures Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.
Lay-offs and closures Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.
Health How to squeeze the NHS and get a gong Private drugs companies seize on a ‘loophole’ in NHS rules to vastly overprice medicines.
Health How to squeeze the NHS and get a gong Private drugs companies seize on a ‘loophole’ in NHS rules to vastly overprice medicines.
Health Smartphones v doctors: NHS destruction moves up a gear A ‘new era of personalised care’ where mobile apps replace overworked GPs.
Health Smartphones v doctors: NHS destruction moves up a gear A ‘new era of personalised care’ where mobile apps replace overworked GPs.
Social wage Privatisation undermines the probation service The government has reneged on its promise to step in if the privateers failed to deliver.
Social wage Privatisation undermines the probation service The government has reneged on its promise to step in if the privateers failed to deliver.
Disputes South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!
Disputes South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!
Health Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.
Health Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.
Lay-offs and closures Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.
Lay-offs and closures Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.
Industry Interserve: dead men walking? How can the outsourcing racket, which sucks the public purse dry while failing to deliver decent services, finally be put an end to?
Industry Interserve: dead men walking? How can the outsourcing racket, which sucks the public purse dry while failing to deliver decent services, finally be put an end to?
Social wage WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.
Social wage WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.
Housing Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.
Housing Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.
Social wage Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.
Social wage Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.
Pay and conditions University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.
Pay and conditions University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.
Housing Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.
Housing Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.
Industry Dental industry: another ‘self-employed’ scam Privatisation has led to massive concentration in dentistry, with employees rebranded as ‘associates’.
Industry Dental industry: another ‘self-employed’ scam Privatisation has led to massive concentration in dentistry, with employees rebranded as ‘associates’.
Housing Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.
Housing Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.
Education School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.
Education School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.
Pay and conditions University of London workers strike a blow against the outsourcing racket A simple demand for a basic rights is causing consternation in the camp of the class enemy.
Pay and conditions University of London workers strike a blow against the outsourcing racket A simple demand for a basic rights is causing consternation in the camp of the class enemy.
Disputes Support Birmingham’s homecare workers Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.
Disputes Support Birmingham’s homecare workers Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.
Divide and rule Prison report reveals truth about Britain’s dreadful concentration camps If one can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, British imperialism continues to plumb new depths of baseness and depravity.
Divide and rule Prison report reveals truth about Britain’s dreadful concentration camps If one can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, British imperialism continues to plumb new depths of baseness and depravity.
Health NHS cost-cutting managers’ plan will axe a raft of routine operations Calling these procedures ‘unnecessary’ won’t stop people needing them, however; it will merely ration them according to the ability to pay.
Health NHS cost-cutting managers’ plan will axe a raft of routine operations Calling these procedures ‘unnecessary’ won’t stop people needing them, however; it will merely ration them according to the ability to pay.
Health Dr Bob Gill: The NHS conspiracy Dr Gill, an immensely dedicated NHS GP and campaigner, explains the mechanisms by which the NHS is being stolen from under our noses.
Health Dr Bob Gill: The NHS conspiracy Dr Gill, an immensely dedicated NHS GP and campaigner, explains the mechanisms by which the NHS is being stolen from under our noses.
Health Save our NHS Only by clearly understanding our rulers’ determination to dismantle the NHS and by coordinating our efforts to save it can we hope to succeed.
Health Save our NHS Only by clearly understanding our rulers’ determination to dismantle the NHS and by coordinating our efforts to save it can we hope to succeed.
Health NHS: government forced to recognise reality The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.
Health NHS: government forced to recognise reality The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.
Disputes French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.
Disputes French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.
Britain TV Sell-Off: The Abolition of Your NHS A film by the doctors who are struggling to save Britain's public healthcare from annihilation by the ruling class.
Britain TV Sell-Off: The Abolition of Your NHS A film by the doctors who are struggling to save Britain's public healthcare from annihilation by the ruling class.
Health Saving the NHS: the method and success rate of the petition ‘activist’ All sound and fury signifying nothing much.
Health Saving the NHS: the method and success rate of the petition ‘activist’ All sound and fury signifying nothing much.
Industry Privatised rail industry totters The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.
Industry Privatised rail industry totters The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.
France France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’ French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.
France France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’ French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.
Britain TV The Grenfell massacre: burning and looting Who is to blame for this mass murder of workers in their homes?
Britain TV The Grenfell massacre: burning and looting Who is to blame for this mass murder of workers in their homes?
Health GP incentives – a dangerous tool of NHS privatisation “I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.”
Health GP incentives – a dangerous tool of NHS privatisation “I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.”
Leaflets Support the northern trains strike! Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.
Leaflets Support the northern trains strike! Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.
Disputes New deal offered to striking university staff is no deal at all The latest proposals are simply an attempt to take the fire out of the strikers and wear down their resistance. Workers' reply? No capitulation!
Disputes New deal offered to striking university staff is no deal at all The latest proposals are simply an attempt to take the fire out of the strikers and wear down their resistance. Workers' reply? No capitulation!
Pay and conditions Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.
Pay and conditions Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.
Health Time to prise the leeches off the NHS Why is it that increased funding doesn't result in better services in today's health service?
Health Time to prise the leeches off the NHS Why is it that increased funding doesn't result in better services in today's health service?
Capitalist crisis Capita poised to follow Carillion down the tubes Yet more proof of Marx’s observation that under capitalism profit is privatised and debt is nationalised.
Capitalist crisis Capita poised to follow Carillion down the tubes Yet more proof of Marx’s observation that under capitalism profit is privatised and debt is nationalised.
Lay-offs and closures The collapse of Carillion Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.
Lay-offs and closures The collapse of Carillion Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.
Trade unions Super Puma helicopter still flying despite multiple fatal crashes The government continues to prioritise private profit over public safety.
Trade unions Super Puma helicopter still flying despite multiple fatal crashes The government continues to prioritise private profit over public safety.
Trade unions Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’ Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.
Trade unions Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’ Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.
Education Stop academisation of our schools! End the plunder of educational resources by the enemies of the people.
Education Stop academisation of our schools! End the plunder of educational resources by the enemies of the people.
Health GPs resisting wholesale privatisation of NHS surgeries It’s not just hospitals that are under fire.
Health GPs resisting wholesale privatisation of NHS surgeries It’s not just hospitals that are under fire.
Health Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?
Health Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?
USSR What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.
USSR What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.
Disputes Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.
Disputes Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.
Disputes No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS! Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.
Disputes No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS! Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.
Health Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’ One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.
Health Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’ One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.
Britain TV Communist doctor addresses NHS campaign meeting Tory, Labour and LibDems have all played their part in planning, aiding and abetting the give-away of the NHS.
Britain TV Communist doctor addresses NHS campaign meeting Tory, Labour and LibDems have all played their part in planning, aiding and abetting the give-away of the NHS.
Health Public health: a matter of private profit The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.
Health Public health: a matter of private profit The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.
Social wage New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?
Social wage New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?
Health The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.
Health The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.
Disputes Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.
Disputes Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.
Divide and rule The human cost of prisons for profit A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.
Divide and rule The human cost of prisons for profit A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.
Turkey Turkish election ends Erdogan’s majority Now that the AKP has lost its total control over the government, Prime Minister Erdogan’s usefulness to both the Turkish and imperialist ruling classes is being brought into question.
Turkey Turkish election ends Erdogan’s majority Now that the AKP has lost its total control over the government, Prime Minister Erdogan’s usefulness to both the Turkish and imperialist ruling classes is being brought into question.
Trade unions Industry matters: Blacklisting rampant There is increasing evidence that the practice of blacklisting has never gone away – and has been quietly condoned by governments of all parties.
Trade unions Industry matters: Blacklisting rampant There is increasing evidence that the practice of blacklisting has never gone away – and has been quietly condoned by governments of all parties.
