Privatisation
The history of foreign aid is steeped in imperialism
17 February 2018Right wingers are using revelations about Oxfam in Haiti for their own ends.
Health workers in north west England resist outsourcing threat to hospitals
13 February 2018Former Labour MP Neil Turner has brushed aside low-paid hospital workers’ concerns over outsourcing.
Tories’ train crash - rail privateers fail, but are handed more lines
06 February 2018Rail privatisation was once more exposed as a scam this week. Billionaire Richard Branson quit the East Coast rail franchise—and left us to pick up the bill.
Workers must not pay the price of Carillion collapse
30 January 2018Thousands of workers for failed outsourcing and construction firm Carillion are anxiously waiting to discover what is happening to their jobs.
The great PFI swindle
20 January 2018It’s a long way from the partly built 40-mile £750 million Aberdeen bypass, work on which has been routinely delayed, to the £4 billion luxury development in Doha, Qatar.
Carillion crash is the product of a failing system
16 January 2018Politicians and bosses rushed to denounce failed firm Carillion as the latest in a long list of companies described as the “unacceptable face of capitalism”.
Carillion’s collapse puts thousands of workers’ jobs and pensions at risk
16 January 2018Carillion was Britain’s second-largest construction company, employing 43,000 people globally.
As Carillion fat cats demand more state cash - stop outsourcing to save jobs
14 January 2018Bosses at Carillion have got their hands out. They have already taken billions of public money on the outsourcing and privatising gravy train.
Mother of Becky Romero leads protest over her death - and backs 3 Feb NHS demo
13 January 2018The mother of Becky Romero, a 15 year old who died because of metal health cuts, has slammed underfunding of services as “utterly shameful”. And she called on people to join the demonstration for the NHS on 3 February in London.
Well-supported strike at The Cumberland School in Newham says no to academies
09 January 2018The first strike at The Cumberland School in Newham, east London, against academisation saw over 50 NEU education union members picketing on Tuesday.
Two deaths after long ambulance waits - Tory cuts are to blame
07 January 2018At least two people have died this month because of Tory cuts to the NHS.
As campaigners call a national protest for the NHS on 3 February - let’s make it big
05 January 2018Health campaigners are planning a national demonstration against the Tories’ assault on the NHS. Called by Health Campaigns Together and the People’s Assembly for Saturday 3 February, it could bring tens of thousands onto the streets of London.
Equalities report shows the institutional racism facing workers in the NHS
02 January 2018The latest equalities figures show that black workers in the NHS aren’t reaching the highest pay rates—and are more likely to be disciplined, explains Tomáš Tengely-Evans
PFI firms in the NHS set for £190 million windfall due to Tory corporation tax cuts
28 December 2017Corporations profiting from Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes have creamed millions from the NHS and Tory tax cuts are handing them even more.
New fears over PFI profits show how bosses see the prospect of a Labour government
15 November 2017A row over Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) shows how bosses are preparing for the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn walking into Downing Street.
Take academies back into public hands
14 November 2017The scandal over Wakefield City Academies Trust has exposed the realities of privatisation. Many people want the schools abandoned by the trust to be run by the council.
Fiasco of ‘AirBnB’ NHS plan reveals a deep crisis in social care
31 October 2017Tory health minister Philip Dunne waded in behind a dangerous plan to deal with the shortage of hospital beds on Monday.
Healthcare ‘AirBnB’ is no substitute for hospital beds
24 October 2017Patients recovering from surgery in Essex could be removed from hospital and put up in ordinary people’s spare bedrooms.
Stop the pensions robbery—keep up pressure in the post
23 October 2017Workers are defiant despite Royal Mail bosses’ legal challenges to strikes, reports Nick Clark
Theresa May’s lukewarm plan for energy prices won’t pay the heating bill
13 October 2017Some 2.3 million people are facing another winter where they don’t have enough money to heat their homes.
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