GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an insightful and grounded analysis of the market as a political tool of neoliberalism
RED-LINE: Royal College of Nursing (RCN) pickets outside King's College Hospital, London, on January 18 2023
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy
Ian Greer and Charles Umney
Bloomsbury £12.99
POOR pay may be the immediate catalyst for the strikes gripping the NHS but it is clear that nurses and ambulance staff are in the vanguard of a broader struggle to save universal healthcare from creeping marketisation.
The introduction of market mechanisms over decades underpins the new militancy of organisations such as the Royal College of Nurses alongside other unions who are fighting not just to improve their conditions but also to ensure quality services and safety.
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