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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
13 March 2019
Weak Tories must go. General election now!
Yet again, another outsourcing company faces collapse. The latest one is Interserve.
12 December 2018
Shares in Interserve - one of the UK's largest private providers of public services - have collapsed after it announced it has £500 million worth of debts.
24 October 2018
Tories ensured Carillion meltdown went unchecked
The story of the catastrophic collapse of Carillion took an even more shocking turn recently
10 October 2018
The murky world of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms
The murky world of accounting is not easy to follow but it certainly reveals a lot about big business
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.
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.
13 June 2018
City vultures make millions from Carillion chaos
Workers left unemployed and NHS projects on hold: Accountancy and legal firms will make a killing, raking in £70 million in fees, while workers face the scrapheap
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.
28 March 2018
British Museum: Carillion workers demand to be brought back in-house
I had the pleasure of supporting PCS members working for Carillion outside the British Museum at their protest on 20 March calling for the cleaning and facilities management contract to be brought back in-house, writes Chris Baugh, PCS assistant general secretary.
14 March 2018
Zero new homes 'affordable' in Blairite Manchester
A damning, yet unsurprising, February housing report reveals that zero affordable housing has been built in Manchester city centre in two years.
7 February 2018
Capita in crisis: bring all outsourcers back in-house
Shares in outsourcing giant Capita have collapsed following the company's profit warning to shareholders. This follows shortly after its competitor Carillion sank into liquidation, and underlines further the fragile state of British capitalism.
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.
24 January 2018
Carillion crisis exposes PFI chaos
Letters to the editors: short comments on the Carillion crisis
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
19 January 2018
Carillion and the construction industry
The following letter by Socialist Party member and construction worker Jimmy Tyson was published in the Liverpool Echo earlier this week
17 January 2018
Ferrybridge: Workers down tools over unpaid wages
Construction workers on the Ferrybridge multi-fuel project in West Yorkshire stopped work on 12 January because workers' reported that wages had not been paid into their bank accounts
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
4 July 2017
'Jubilant' hospital workers strike against poverty pay in east London
On 4-5 July domestics, porters and security staff at Barts Health Trust began a strike
8 April 2017
Victory! Health workers walk out against attack from boss
'We'll defend our rights' - was the message from 160 domestics
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