The head of the NHS Simon Stevens launched a five-year plan to save the health service last week. But we outline how the proposals offer few solutions for the catastrophic crisis in health care
More and more people are demanding a better world, and it’s the working class who have the power to fundamentally change the system, writes Sadie Robinson
After a series of strikes and up to 100,000 marching in London, trade unionists talk to Socialist Worker about the way ahead in the battle against the Tories
Kurdish oppression has been made and perpetuated by imperialism, and liberation will not be brought by its arms or compromises with it, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans
The Ebola outbreak in west Africa has cost thousands of lives. Ken Olende looks at how inequality and the legacy of colonialism lie behind the crisis. Marcia, an aid worker in Sierra Leone, writes exclusively from the front line
The movement in Hong Kong has the potential to light the tinder box in China. Sally Kincaid looks at its relationship to mainland China and what this crisis could mean for its rulers
Black workers didn’t just build the health service—they have also played a crucial role in the struggles that have defended it from the very beginning
Troops from Europe’s empires who fought in the First World War were quickly erased from official histories. They are remembered by John Siblon
As Britain and the US lead yet another assault on Iraq, Socialist Worker takes apart some of the warmongers’ key arguments for intervention
In a desperate bid to head off a Scottish Yes vote, David Cameron evoked a mythical British Empire that had given democracy to the poor and freedom to the slaves. Here Ken Olende looks back at what life was really like when Britannia ruled the waves
The Scottish independence referendum saw thousands of people getting involved in radical new groups to argue for a Yes vote.
Historian Marcus Rediker spoke to Ken Olende about the struggles that took place aboard the ships of early capitalism
