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Required reading for the Labour party
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
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
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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RICHARD CLARKE recommends a hugely valuable text for those seeking theoretical analysis and practical action to defend public services
STEVE ANDREW welcomes a political interrogation of the contradiction between ecological awareness and a dietary crisis in today’s food consumption
New tariffs on Chinese electric cars protect European capitalists at European consumers’ and workers’ expense, writes BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK, showing a continuation of neocolonial trade practices