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A dispute which has been running in a desultory stop-go fashion for years has come to a head in one large hospital trust with the issuing of a consultation plan…
April 19, 2013 / No Comment / Read More
By Carla Turner Approaching a year since the Health and Social Care bill passed through Parliament, Carla Turner looks at the damage already done, what’s still to come and…
March 12, 2013 / No Comment / Read More
Admin and clerical workers at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust recently staged five days of strike action against attempts to cut wages and jobs. With action expected to escalate, Mike Black sent in…
February 12, 2013 / Comments Off / Read More
Joy Macready reports on the growing backlash against a women’s right to choose In September, a woman was jailed for terminating her pregnancy in its final stage. Sarah Catt took…
October 13, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
By Paul Silson In another slap in the face for disabled people, Atos Origin has secured a £400 million contract to run the controversial “Work Capability Assessments” – despite being at…
August 8, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
The fight to save the NHS starts with the pensions strike on 10 May, argues NHS worker Dara O’Connell A HUNDRED thousand health workers in Unite will take strike…
May 12, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
As we approach the second anniversary of the Coalition government coming to office, Workers Power conference looked back at the movement against austerity – not from the viewpoint of passively…
April 9, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Workers Power conference debated and passed another resolution specifically on the fight to stop the destruction of the NHS, recognising the political importance of this struggle.…
April 4, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
The British working class is facing the fight of its life. The NHS is facing destruction. Mark Booth writes…
April 4, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
MARK FISHER in Capitalist Realism accuses the left and the unions today of limiting themselves to opposing Tory “change” rather than themselves posing a positive alternative. In the case of…
March 16, 2012 / No Comment / Read More