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Camden Council has agreed to launch a public inquiry into the privatisation of the Camden Road GP practice after a public outcry at its closure.

Aberdeen City Council’s privatisation plans have been beaten in a victory for the Unison union branch there.

Delegates rejected the idea that Ofsted was an impartial inspection system aimed at improving teaching. Many saw it as a tool to force through privatisation.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT teachers’ union, last week warned that the whole education system could be privatised by 2015.

Tory chancellor George Osborne smugly announced a budget for more cuts, more privatisation and more attacks on the poor today, Wednesday.

Firefighters in Blackburn, Lancashire, had to travel 50 yards to put out a blaze last week—in their new fire station.

Students across Britain are gearing up for a week of action against government plans for the marketisation and privatisation of education.

The Tories are privatising schools in the name of improving education. But their rhetoric has fallen apart.

Some 50 people marched to Haringey Civic Centre in north London on Tuesday of last week to oppose council budget cuts.

David Cameron and Andrew Lansley are desperate to avoid the suggestion that they are privatising the NHS.

The government is in serious trouble over its plans for the National Health Service. Gill George explains exactly how the bill is intended to destroy the NHS as we know it

Anger at the NHS privatisation bill could be fatal for David Cameron’s government—according to Tory cabinet ministers.