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22 January 2020
Capitalism fails NHS services in Liverpool: scrap PFI!
The outsourced hospital should have been open and treating patients with state-of-the-art equipment by now
8 January 2020
Children need intensive care? We don't care!
This is the practical attitude of this Tory government, which has overseen a project of vicious NHS cuts - to the point where hospitals in England are struggling to provide beds to young children in desperate need of intensive care.
27 November 2019
Northern Ireland: strike action by NHS workers
For the first time in the Royal College of Nursing's 103-year history, nurses have voted for strike action. They have been joined by Unison, and likely, the Nipsa and Unite unions which are now balloting for strike action.
20 November 2019
Broadband: privatisation has failed to deliver, time for a socialist plan
Labour's policy announcement to nationalise Openreach and BT broadband infrastructure, and provide free internet for all, has had an impact
20 November 2019
Frimley NHS Trust: Strikers remain determined to defeat privatisation
Hospital support staff struck on 18 and 19 November against transfer to a 'wholly owned subsidiary'
20 November 2019
Save the NHS: kick out the Tories
Tory lies exposed - Labour's record and programme - how to rebuild the NHS with socialist policies
13 November 2019
Frimley NHS Trust strikes: Health workers walkout against privatisation
Facilities staff at Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals in Berkshire, and at Frimley Park in Surrey (members of Unite, Unison and GMB trade unions) will strike on 18 and 19 November, in an escalation of their campaign to stay in the National Health Service (NHS).
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.
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