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We need a gloves-off battle for material gains for workers
The fight against cuts and privatisation must be at the centre of a real-world agenda that speaks to working-class people's day-to-day needs, writes HELEN O’CONNOR

DECADES of rampant profiteering and the advance of marketisation of the public sector has led to a lack of accountability and scrutiny which is causing working-class people to suffer and die.

We are left with less of the fruits of our labour as the quality of work deteriorates and pay and conditions fail to keep pace with inflation. The NHS and the public services we need are barely fit for purpose due to decades of cuts and privatisation and they are staffed by workers who are horribly mistreated as the executives and politicians cash in.

Privatisation, wherever it is happening in the public sector, is an unrestrained racket that the ruling class are allowing to proliferate even though it is breaking the services we need and leading to the exploitation of workers.

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