26 November 2020

PPE contracts: It pays to have friends in high places

Huge sums of money were thrown at dubious businesses

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4 November 2020

Testing is failing - it's a privatised mess

Covid-19 infections are spreading fast because England's 'test and trace' reached only 60% of the contacts of confirmed Covid cases in recent weeks

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7 October 2020

Massive testing 'glitch' caused by privatised fragmentation

15,841 positive Covid-19 results were mislaid

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7 October 2020

Contact tracer speaks out: privatised system 'in chaos'

On Saturday 3 October, at 2pm, I got a text from NHS Professionals: "CALL TO ACTION we have an urgent requirement to fill additional shifts this weekend. Please log on to book into shifts."

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31 July 2019

The Socialist inbox

Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Victimised TUSC agent writes; climate travel chaos; education pensions attack; water privatisation scandal; 'Labour peers'?

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15 May 2019

Privatisers sue NHS - kick out the fat cats and fully nationalise our health service!

A private company is taking the NHS to court, because its contract to run Nottingham University Hospital's outpatient-treatment centre was not renewed.

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28 November 2018

"Horrendous" - Bristol's privatised buses

Bristol Socialist Party member Frankie Langeland called a protest after late and cancelled buses repeatedly made her seven-month-old baby miss bedtimes and even forced her to breastfeed by the side of the road.

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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.

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17 July 2018

Victory for postal workers against management victimisation

Swansea postal workers won the reinstatement of Martin Henwood after threatening to strike

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30 May 2018

Socialist nationalisation: what it is and why we need it

The surge in support for Corbyn's radical programme at last year's general election and the collapse of Carillion has led to a widespread discussion around public ownership and nationalisation.

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30 May 2018

England facing water shortage due to underinvestment

Nationalise water and utilities!: Serious leaks, rising domestic use, and massive consumption by an unsustainable energy sector, mean much of England could see water shortages in the coming decades, says the Environment Agency.

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15 November 2017

4,800 young people hurt after officers 'restrain' them

End assaults on inmates: Thousands of young people have been harmed while being 'restrained' by officers in secure facilities

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25 October 2017

Profiteering NHS counter-fraud firm in alleged case of... fraud

Fight for a publicly owned NHS: PwC, a privatisation and consultancy firm paid to run NHS counter-fraud services, has escaped prosecution for alleged fraud

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19 April 2017

900 carers quit a day - nationalise social care now

Over 900 carers quit every day last year in England

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5 April 2017

NHS SOS round-up

Short reports on some of the attacks on the NHS.

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8 March 2017

Greater Manchester: patients are people not guinea pigs!

Manchester Keep Our NHS Public has responded to a report in the Financial Times that "local [NHS] leaders are offering leading drugmakers, including GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Novartis, access to Greater Manchester's sophisticated electronic patient record to test the real-world outcomes of their drugs".

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15 February 2017

Prison deaths scandal

The latest government statistics show yet another record high in prison deaths and violence

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8 February 2017

AWE pension strikers vow to fight on

Thousands of workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) were stripped of their defined benefit pension scheme on 1 February by AWE bosses Lockheed Martin, Jacobs and Serco.

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23 November 2016

Lessons of the 'N30' 2011 pension strike

The fifth anniversary of the public sector pension strike allows an opportunity to reflect on the most significant and defining trade union struggle of the recent period.

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16 November 2016

Privatisation and the 'race to the bottom'

Feature about privatisation including: Casualisation in education, health service workers - a history of struggle and fighting trade unions - key to defending conditions.

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