Local GP surgeries are chronically underfunded, with the crisis forcing many doctors to resign because of work pressure.
The political consensus to merge social care and the health service would be a disaster, unless the cuts are stopped and more funding is provided, writes Raymie Kiernan
The Unite union put the fight for the NHS centre stage at its policy conference in Liverpool last week.
Well over 250 people gathered outside Sheffield Magistrates Court on Monday of this week.
Up to 78 biomedical scientists were still locked out at Northampton general hospital as Socialist Worker went to press.
Care UK workers in Doncaster were set to begin a two-week strike ballot over a new pay claim on Wednesday of this week. They could strike from 25 July.
Workers have raised severe safety concerns as Tube bosses waste millions of pounds of public money in an effort to beat a strike.
Around 800 people attended the Festival of the Common Weal in Glasgow on Sunday of last week.
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Workers at Lambeth College were meeting to decide the next moves in their indefinite strike as Socialist Worker went to press.
Israeli airstrikes killed nine people in Gaza on Monday of this week—and the bombardment is continuing. Fawzi al-Massri, a Gaza resident, spoke to Socialist Worker.
More than 1,000 workers struck at Argos distribution centres around Britain on Thursday of last week.
