Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has said she wants £3 billion worth of NHS work to be carried out in the private sector. But because the existing public health system is among the most efficient in the world, the government is having to force the health sector to open up.
Equal pay deal won at Aintree Workers at University Hospital Aintree in Merseyside are celebrating a pay deal that secures equal pay for all staff.
In my village, Sir Sayebaan, there are dead bodies lying in the street 48 hours after the earthquake hit. There is no one to pick them up.
While millions of public sector workers are facing deep attacks on their pensions, another group paid from the public purse are being offered further handouts.
Hundreds of pensioners from across Britain were to take part in a lobby of parliament on Wednesday this week to publicise the new Pensioners’ Charter.
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27 year old Brazilian shot dead by police at a London tube station in July, spoke out for justice on Monday of this week.
Prisoners on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay are being shackled to their beds 24 hours a day and force fed by the US army, according to Amnesty International and lawyers representing the detainees.
The European Union is currently debating a series of proposals that would mean widespread deregulation of public services, attacks on rights at work, and the destruction of the powers of local councils.
"The Iraq war, low unemployment and a greater reluctance of parents to approve of their children’s enlisting are the main factors behind the US army’s failure to meet its recruiting target. The shortfall comes despite the increase of recruiters from 9,000 to 12,000."Washington Post
The US and British occupation is driving Iraq towards disaster by spreading the poison of sectarianism and ethnic divisions.
The Stop the War Coalition is calling for delegates to the first International Peace Conference on 10 December 2005. The conference will bring together anti-war activists from across the globe, including the US, Britain and Iraq.
Former Labour health secretary Frank Dobson has warned what the government’s plans to further open up the NHS to the private sector will mean.
