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
Listen to health workers: they have the solutions to the NHS crisis
Speak to any striking nurse and they will tell you ‘reform’ is not needed — indeed, it is the supposed modernisation of the NHS that has been slowly wrecking the system for private profit, explains HELEN O’CONNOR
Staff Nurse Courtney Watson joins members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast
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
ANY ideas of further reform of the NHS will strike fear into the heart of clinicians and patients who have lived through damaging changes. Decades of so-called “modernisation, integration and reform” have wreaked havoc on the ability of the NHS and social care to deliver for patients, the public or the front-line staff.
The NHS has been utterly transformed from the most efficient healthcare system in the world to a system that is struggling to meet demand. It is simply staggering that any politician would suggest that the cuts and privatisation that have destroyed the NHS are some sort of progressive solution to its problems.
Promises around the integration of health and social care have been made and trialled before and led to services and staffing being moved, merged, and reduced.
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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
