15 September 2021

Putting socialism on the map in Chichester

A new Socialist Party group has started in Chichester, which is, as anyone who knows the city would understand, a challenge to say the least

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15 September 2021

On the frontline, and still fighting for the NHS

I've been working in medical imaging for eight years now. Even before we were struck by a global pandemic, we were struggling to keep up with the number of patients needing imaging, and waiting lists

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15 September 2021

Take the wealth off the super-rich to fund: NHS and social care, pay and benefit rises

You couldn't make it up. As workers in health, local government and education are balloting on insulting pay offers from the government, Johnson and the Tories announce yet another pay cut: a 1.25% increase

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15 September 2021

Social care plans: A sticking plaster instead of surgery

Social care has been in crisis for decades. Successive governments have deliberately diverted resources from care provision into the pockets of big business through privatisation. Despite the hype, Boris

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8 September 2021

Whipps Cross hospital workers reject the 3%

80 plus Whipps Cross hospital workers, Unite members and Socialist Party members came out in protest against the humiliating 3% offered pay rise for all NHS workers on 25 August

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8 September 2021

NHS and social care - make the rich pay, not the workers

Social care is in crisis and needs fixing. There's no doubt about that. Over 40,000 died from Covid in care homes during the pandemic in an overwhelmingly privatised system that puts profit before safety.

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8 September 2021

Workers shouldn't pay for health and social care plans

As The Socialist goes to press, the Tories are in open warfare over Boris Johnson's plans on funding social care and the NHS in England.

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25 August 2021

NHS Pay - 3% is not enough

If you are an NHS worker, vote to reject the Tories' 3% offer. Other workers can help by mobilising in their trade union to join the fight for fair pay for all, and for a properly funded, publicly owned NHS.

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25 August 2021

UK hospitals in danger of collapse

The NHS is crumbling from decades of underinvestment. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, has its ceilings propped up with almost 200 steel props. Hinchingbrooke Hospital has set a weight

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11 August 2021

Defend the NHS. Fight the Tory pay insult. Prepare strike action!

NHS workers have been protesting for a 15% pay rise. The Tories' response? After the initial 1% slap in the face they've been forced under pressure to offer 3%. But NHS workers have lost around 20% in the last ten years. For the rest of the public sector the Tories are offering between 1.5% and nothing!

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11 August 2021

NHS: Kick out the privatisers, Fight for funding, Build for strike action

Profit vultures descend on the NHS backlog: A recent report of new deals between the NHS and private hospitals and private healthcare groups comes as no surprise

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28 July 2021

Unite to fight Tory pay insults

The Tories' 3% pay offer is a direct attack on the NHS. It shows the contempt the government has for the health service and its staff. 3% is simply not enough, and makes it clear that the government does

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22 July 2021

Public sector pay - Prepare for action!

Health workers have been told that they are only worth a 3% pay rise. Teachers have been told they are worth nothing in terms of a pay rise this year. Hundreds of thousands of civil servants face a pay freeze. A million and a half council workers have already been told they are only worth 1.5%.

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14 July 2021

Kick out the privatisers - Fight for a 15% Pay rise

The Tories are attempting to push their latest attacks through parliament

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14 July 2021

Readers' comments

'Freedom Day' for who exactly?: Send your news, views and criticism, in not more than 150 words, to [email protected] - or if you're not online, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT

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14 July 2021

Everyone can spot Socialist Party in Stoke

Our campaign stall concentrates on demanding a 15% pay increase for NHS workers, and an end to NHS privatisation. It includes two tables end to end, and a red wraparound with six large posters.

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14 July 2021

Scrap the privatising health and care bill

For a publicly funded, democratically run, NHS: The Tories are in the process of forcing their new health and care bill through parliament, despite opposition from NHS campaigners and trade unionists

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7 July 2021

Fight is on to save our NHS

Thousands of NHS workers, in dozens of towns and cities, protested on Saturday 3 July against the Tories' insulting 1% pay offer. Just days later, on 5 July, it was announced that workers in the NHS will be awarded the George Cross medal. Not something that will pay the bills for the thousands of nurses who are forced to visit food banks.

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7 July 2021

We need funds to fight Tory NHS attacks

A big thanks to all our members and supporters who made sure that we smashed through our fighting fund target and raised £29,959

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5 July 2021

Tories deliver second slap in the face to NHS workers

Protest at parliament to stop the Tories' Health and Care bill
On Saturday in towns and cities all over the country NHS workers were joined by their local communities at protests to defend the NHS and for a decent pay rise

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