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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.

Take the wealth off the super-rich

The top 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in Britain are sitting on a record £771.3 billion, up £47.8 billion in a year. This astonishing fact is in this year's Sunday Times Rich List.

Unions must back a general election and oppose bosses' EU

Unite and the CWU played a key role in defeating advocates of a 'people's vote' on the Labour NEC

Them & Us

It's one world for the bosses, and another for the rest of us. Fat cat pay; rail deregulation.

Northern Ireland: Socialist wins council seat

"I want to help rebuild the labour movement as a real alternative to the dead end of Green and Orange politics"

Water bosses plan to undermine nationalisation: no compensation for fat cats!

It is urgent that water and all utilities are fully nationalised, under democratic workers' control and management

Young and old, unite and fight!

A new House of Lords report is clearly an attack on pensioner benefits and an attempt to drive a wedge between older and younger people

Local elections: Tory meltdown but Labour loses ground

Editorial of the Socialist: Corbyn must lead fight against council cuts and promote bold socialist policies

Climate change: We need socialist change

Young people and workers need to build for mass action against Trump - and capitalism - this summer

Wirral Tories raise spectre of Militant

"Don't let them do to Wirral what Derek Hatton and Militant did to Liverpool last time" was the warning of the Wirral Conservative Group's outrageous and desperate front page advertising wrap, printed for the Wirral Globe on 20 March.

Local elections 2019: Time to stand up and fight the cuts!

Across England, 91% of schools are facing funding cuts. Education is being damaged by Tory austerity. Labour councils could prevent these cuts in their areas by allowing schools to run legal licensed deficits. Instead, Labour councils continue to enforce Tory cuts.

Build student unions and walkouts to fight climate change and Trump!

Trump plans to once again visit Britain - on 3-5 June.

Fracking mess

The government's fracking tsar, ex-Labour MP Natascha Engel, has quit six months into the job.

Universal Credit disaster behind foodbank rise

Universal Credit is being blamed for the record rise in the use of foodbanks as families required them to provide 14 million meals in the last 12 months.

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.

May Day greetings to workers worldwide

Capitalism means no stability for anyone and a life of toil and deprivation for the overwhelming majority. But around the world the existing order is being challenged.

How to save the planet? End capitalism; Socialist change

Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1039: Capitalism is a blind, unplanned system where the only driving force is the need to maximise profits. The change that is needed is socialist.

Socialist red lines needed for Brexit talks

Now '29 March' is to be "no later than 31 October", although a further extension at that point has not been ruled out. Absolutely nothing has been resolved.

Northern Ireland: killing of Lyra McKee

Trade union movement must act: A mass, trade union-led campaign must oppose both the repression and the dire social conditions which drive young people into armed groups

Labour looks to Bank of England to stall house prices

£400 billion worth of land - about 10% of the land mass - has been privatised since 1979, making it the biggest single privatisation, according to economist Brett Christophers.