Privatisation Follow

Patients at the Laurels Healthy Living Centre in Tottenham, north London, were incensed last week when the local primary care trust (PCT) board meeting refused to hear our case against the proposed privatisation of our GP surgery.

Health workers are being treated like dirt by Gordon Brown’s government. We face pay cuts, privatisation and job losses.

Figures hidden away in the government’s pre-budget report last week show that the price we are paying for privatisation is spiralling out of control.

Health service privatisation can be beaten is the message that campaigners in north London want to send out after beating an attempt to build a polyclinic in Camden, which could have been privately-run.

This week lecturers at Goldsmiths College massively rejected management proposals to privatise the recruitment of teaching

Supporters of Karen Reissmann – the sacked nurse who spoke out about the dangers of cuts and privatisation in mental health services in Manchester – launched a legal defence fund this week.

The crisis of international capitalism will have a myriad of unforeseen consequences, one of which will be its impact on the privatisation of public services.

Thousands of bus workers across London have been part of a defiant fight against the privatised bus companies.

Business secretary Baron Peter Mandelson this week threw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement by announcing that, in his view, Royal Mail should be "part privatised".

There is a problem facing the left. Across Britain there are millions of people who have marched against war, global poverty and privatisation. These people reject the central tenets of New Labour’s pro-market, pro-US agenda and would never vote for David Cameron.

The government’s commitment to privatisation is putting schools, hospitals and the care of the vulnerable and elderly at risk.

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