14 February 2018

We can win the fight for the NHS

The situation isn't all doom and gloom. Movements can be, and are being, built around the country to save hospitals

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8 February 2018

Teachers strike again as anti-academy pressure mounts

Teachers hit back at privatisation with another solid strike

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31 January 2018

NHS: use the 3 February protests as a launch pad for a mass movement

Thousands will be marching and protesting in London and across the UK in response to the crisis that has escalated in hospitals over the winter.

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31 January 2018

Failing academy chain strips school assets - end academisation!

In businesses when cuts are made, they sell off their facilities and equipment in the interest of maintaining profits. Now that's what's happening with our schools.

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30 January 2018

Labour civil war re-erupts over Haringey regeneration project

Every attempt by the Labour Party membership to exert democratic control over MPs and councillors is met with howls of outrage by the capitalist class.

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24 January 2018

Carillion crisis exposes PFI chaos

Letters to the editors: short comments on the Carillion crisis

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24 January 2018

Lecturers vote for strikes against pension cuts

88% of University and College Union (UCU) members in 68 universities have voted for national strikes on a 58% turnout.

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24 January 2018

Private profit out of our NHS

Many of us are terrified of coming down with one of the many viruses hitting Britain this winter. Or there is dread at the possibility of joining the people stuck in queues of ambulances

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24 January 2018

Turn Carillion crisis into movement against privatisation and capitalism

Outsourcing, PFI, privatisation, as in Carillion, is 'reverse socialism'. It is nothing other than a highly efficient wealth transfusion system. We need a movement to kick out these profiteers from public services

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24 January 2018

Ballots against Bromley privatisers

Controversial outsourcing Bromley council faces strike action by workers at two of its contractors that could hit libraries and care services.

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17 January 2018

Lobby pushes Liverpool council to oppose privatisation

Around 70 people lobbied Liverpool council to protest against 'accountable care organisation' privatisation proposals

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15 January 2018

Carillion crisis: demand action to save jobs and services

Tens of thousands of Carillion employees fear for their jobs and pensions after the company announced liquidation - it must be taken into public ownership

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10 January 2018

Bigot Toby Young quits - now scrap the new uni regulator driving privatisation

Bigoted Tory journalist Toby Young has resigned from the board of the government's new universities regulator, the Office for Students (OfS).

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10 January 2018

Closure of Nottingham unit shows dismantling of NHS

Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust is planning to shut down a unit for people suffering from serious alcohol and drug addiction issues.

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10 January 2018

Newham academy strikes spread to Cumberland school

"Why would we want more privatisation?!" This is how the National Education Union (NEU) rep at Cumberland school in Newham, East London, closed the picket line meeting to stop the school becoming an academy.

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13 December 2017

Save our NHS

Underfunded, understaffed, under attack:
It's the NHS workers and patients who bear the brunt of the inevitable winter pressures - combined with underfunding, understaffing, low pay and low morale.

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13 December 2017

Brexit deal no solution to Tory rifts

For a while Theresa May's divided government seemed unable even to obtain a deal on the 'first stage' of Brexit negotiations

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13 December 2017

South London health bosses' cover-up

The six south west London CCGs - statutory NHS bodies responsible for the planning and paying for healthcare services for their local area - recently held a joint meeting.

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6 December 2017

School staff strike against privatisation

Outside Avenue Primary School parents and the community stood with school staff striking against becoming an academy on 29 November

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5 December 2017

Labour council Blairites deselected

Representatives of Labour's right wing have been fulminating about Haringey deselections

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