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11 September 2019
Frimley hospital staff fight back-door privatisation
There was a noisy and enthusiastic demonstration outside Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey on 22 August against outsourcing NHS staff to a 'wholly owned subsidiary'. Good to see NHS staff in uniform joining the protest.
28 August 2019
Probation hostel rest room win
Our employers tried to take away the staff rest room and make it into another bedroom for the residents. This would have generated more income and made us more attractive for privatisation.
28 August 2019
Strike action wins privatisation reprieve at Bradford hospitals
After three weeks of strike action by estates and facilities workers in Bradford hospitals organised in health union Unison - and with an all-out strike looming - management has blinked first.
14 August 2019
Bradford: All-out action to defeat backdoor NHS privatisation
The escalation of the strike at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Trust to all-out strike action at the end of August marks a significant intensification by Unison union members in estates and facilities at the trust.
31 July 2019
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'?
31 July 2019
Labour promises to end council privatisation: councils must do that now!
Labour needs to send a clear message to the working class, because that is not what we see in our workplaces and communities
17 July 2019
Campaigners force U-turn over NHS privatisation
Working-class people in Halton are celebrating after NHS bosses were forced to abandon plans to hand the local urgent care contract to a private company. This followed a rapid and determined response by campaigners including local Socialist Party members.
17 July 2019
Bradford NHS workers strike against privatisation
Seven unbroken days of strike action by estates and facilities staff at Bradford hospitals have blown the lid off the simmering pot of workers' struggle in the NHS.
12 July 2019
Land privatisation, the largest neoliberal grab in Britain since Margaret Thatcher came to office in 1979, has scarcely been debated
26 June 2019
Midlands mental health workers walk out against privatisation
"If this goes through, things will never be the same again. It's the beginning of the end," said one Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust picket
26 June 2019
Charging scandal in Warrington and Halton NHS Trust
The trust recently announced that 71 elective treatments would no longer be available free to patients
19 June 2019
Newton Abbot says no to Tory privatisation of the NHS!
With the local and European elections over, the streets of Newton Abbot, Devon, were clear of political parties campaigning just for people's votes, writes Richard Worth, Torbay and South Devon Socialist Party.
19 June 2019
Welsh government must block NHS privatisation or face workers' action
Two Welsh health boards have announced plans to privatise their hospital pharmacies, writes Beth Webster, nurse.
12 June 2019
Michael Gove's Tory leadership campaign was tripping to catch up after he admitted taking cocaine on several occasions while working as a journalist
5 June 2019
7,000 GP vacancies are expected in the UK by 2024. Chronic underfunding is causing doctors to resign, without prospects of replacing them.
30 May 2019
Fighting to stop school meals privatisation
Barnsley Unison is campaigning to stop 220 jobs being moved into the private sector
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.
1 May 2019
France Telecom: Privatisation in the dock
As chief executive officer of the recently privatised France Telecom (now Orange), Didier Lombard was a 'master of the universe'. And on a salary of €500,000 to boot.
1 May 2019
300 NHS nurse suicides in seven years - fully fund our health service now!
The NHS crisis has reached horrifying new levels. Over 300 NHS nurses have died by suicide in seven years. In 2014, one nurse a week took their own lives.
10 April 2019
Budget deficits, cancer service privatisation, vacant posts, 100,000 outsourced - and campaign victories!
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