Privatisation Follow

Some 2,000 health workers, students and campaigners marched through central London yesterday (Tuesday) to save the NHS. The demonstration, called by Keep Our NHS Public and the Heath Workers Network was in response to government plans to tear apart the public health service and open the floodgates of privatisation.

Messengers at the Home Office HQ in central London are battling privatisation.

The government’s budget last week was an assault on the poor. It was a budget for more cuts, more privatisation and more attacks.

Postal workers took to the streets of Brighton to protest against privatisation last Saturday.

Workers at the Glasgow Asylum Support Project are continuing their battle against privatisation that will affect the lives of hundreds of asylum seekers.

Some 140 regulatory services workers at Barnet council have begun their industrial action against privatisation.

Key regulatory services workers at Barnet council are to take industrial action from this Wednesday in a bid to stop its "easyCouncil" privatisation plan.

About 1,000 CWU union members and their supporters marched through Beeston in Nottingham on Saturday of last week (see right).

Some 150 Barnet council workers have voted to strike against the Tory council’s privatisation plans, dubbed "easyCouncil".

Some 1,000 people marched in Finchley, north London, against Barnet council’s cuts and privatisation.

Over 450 postal workers and their supporters took to the streets of Birmingham last Saturday.

Government plans to sell Britain's forests have run up against massive opposition from the public.