ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
Why we must unite to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill 2021
Once again market methods are being posed as the solution to the growing NHS and social care crisis, says HELEN O’CONNOR
Health Secretary Sajid Javid during a visit to Westport Care Home in Stepney Green, east London and (below) a health workers’ protest at Downing Street over the measly 3% NHS pay increase
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
ANYONE who has worked on the front lines of the NHS delivering services to patients knows that workloads are increasing and pay is not keeping up with the cost of living.
Some will even have been around long enough to remember the false claims that private investment would improve services and being told that carving up NHS services would bring modern and innovative healthcare solutions closer to peoples homes while enabling NHS organisations and their staff to deliver “seamless services.”
What has developed is that the public are faced with a confusing array of services that are further away from the home than ever before and family homes are being traded in for the spiralling costs of privatised care placements.
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As more people on the left are now questioning the sex industry, HELEN O’CONNOR reports from a timely fringe at TUC Congress where women on the front line gave their perspective on why prostitution should never be considered ‘work’
With fascists and their supporters cynically and falsely posing as ‘defenders of women,’ the left must take violence against women seriously and gain a better understanding of women’s oppression, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
As some celebrate a pay rise, outsourced, privatised workers face continued exploitation — ending this injustice by bringing them in-house must become a top priority for the labour movement, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
HELEN O’CONNOR sees a worrying trend of women exiting the labour movement in their thousands, and warns that if this tide is not stemmed with proper and effective action, it will only be to the benefit of the capitalist class
