TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
‘Our NHS is being trashed’
DR BOB GILL, producer of The Great NHS Heist, speaks to Daniel Powell about the selling-off of our health service and the consequences for the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Bob Gill, producer of the shocking new documentary The Great NHS Heist, reveals how successive governments have hollowed-out our health service and gifted it to privateers
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
IF you felt aghast at the sight of politicians clapping for the NHS during the peak of the pandemic, you were not unjustified. The government has been discreetly and incrementally washing its hands of responsibility for providing public services since the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
Selling off Britain’s assets was a priority, yet of the NHS: “There’s no way that as an institution so respected and beloved by the population, they could go for a one-off privatisation as they did with other utilities,” says Dr. Bob Gill, producer of The Great NHS Heist film.
A 1977 document from the Conservative Research Group reveals a strategy of “denationalisation by stealth” which would soon come to the most sacrosanct service of all: health.
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