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3 October 2018
York NHS workers strike against privatisation
Pickets made their voices heard on the first day of strike action against York Hospital transferring ancillary staff into a 'wholly owned subsidiary'
19 September 2018
York health workers say no to privatisation
Unite union members at York NHS Trust voted by a massive majority to strike against privatisation
12 September 2018
Reading council plans privatisation - set a no-cuts budget instead!
Reading Borough Council plans to privatise many of its key services. Bins, parks, road maintenance, housing benefit payments and council tax support are all at risk.
12 September 2018
School students in solitary: for full funding, not exclusion!
'Isolation booths' - solitary confinement in all but name - are an increasingly common feature of 'zero-tolerance' school behaviour policies.
29 August 2018
Capitalism is a chaotic, irrational system - we need socialist change
On all fronts - from the environment and infrastructure, to jobs and services, to health and wellbeing - this system is failing us. It's no wonder that people are looking for an alternative.
29 August 2018
Battle growing against Loch Lomond area big business sell-off
A major battle has broken out over the £30 million privatisation of land in Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, which has given rise to fresh resistance against the for-profit model of big business.
29 August 2018
NHS services are showing the strain of cuts, privatisation and insufficient funding.
22 August 2018
Prison crisis: a catastrophe of cuts and privatisation
Birmingham Prison has become the latest in a long line of catastrophic failures of privatisation
22 August 2018
End Runcorn school PFI rip off
Schools, colleges and universities are struggling under the weight of cutbacks forced on them by Tory austerity. In Halton, Cheshire, a wave of cuts, poor management and an ill thought out private finance initiative scheme have created crisis in the local education system.
22 August 2018
Keep Middlesbrough hospital staff in the NHS
Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough is a 365-bed mental health site built using a private finance initiative eight years ago at a cost of £75 million. By the end of the contract Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Health Trust will have paid out £328 million plus maintenance costs.
22 August 2018
Blairites go on saving Tories - boot them all out!
The Tory party's painful breakdown continues, as hardcore neoliberal Remainers like Anna Soubry pull in one direction, and right-wing populists like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg pull in the other.
14 August 2018
Victory: NHS workers say no to privatisation
Unison members in estates and facilities at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust were due to strike
8 August 2018
Take on probation privatisation with union action
The experiment of using private companies' for probation services has resulted in a worse service for staff and for prisoners
25 July 2018
The case for socialist nationalisation
The Alternative Models of Ownership report, launched in June 2017, was commissioned by shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
25 July 2018
New health secretary, same privatisation agenda
Anyone breathing a sigh of relief at seeing the back of Jeremy Hunt as health secretary should take a closer look at his replacement Matt Hancock.
18 July 2018
'Vote Leave' fined: For a workers' Brexit
The electoral commission has fined the right-wing, pro-big business 'Vote Leave' campaign £61,000 for breaking the law.
17 July 2018
Victory for postal workers against management victimisation
Swansea postal workers won the reinstatement of Martin Henwood after threatening to strike
11 July 2018
On 5 July, nearly 100 local residents and trade unionists came out to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS but also to protest outside the half-built Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick.
11 July 2018
Big victory for Wigan NHS strike against privatisation
In an outstanding example of how privatisation in the NHS is not inevitable, striking workers in Wigan have forced their NHS trust to drop all plans for outsourcing cleaning, catering and domestic services.
4 July 2018
Thousands march against NHS cuts and privatisation
NHS campaigners and workers marched in defence of our health service on 30 June
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