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Health privatisation failed, why does it keep coming back?
HELEN O'CONNOR reviews the very recent disasters from attempts to use private companies and private finance instead of a publicly funded NHS — now this discredited approach is back to 'drive down waiting lists'
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says he'd use the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists – but the strategy is a proven failure
DIANE ABBOTT says the socialist island has played an outsized role in the fight against racism worldwide — we must stand by it as Trump tries to choke it to death
GAWAIN LITTLE looks at the causes of the far-right resurgence and explains how the General Federation of Trade Unions is helping to combat it
As delegates from the north-east, Yorkshire & Humber meet this weekend in Durham, TUC regional secretary DAVE PIKE speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges ahead
Prison Officers’ Association general secretary and TUC president STEVE GILLAN looks at what’s missing from the Employment Rights Act, and why we need further legislation
Militarism and war cannot be separated from ‘bread and butter issues,’ argues MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS — opposing them is central to trade unionism
THERE can be no doubt that the pandemic is putting unprecedented strain on the NHS — but decades of cuts and privatisation have also contributed to the current chaos.
Far from ensuring that the NHS retains experienced staff or allocating adequate funding to provide care, this government is still demanding that NHS trusts stick to rigorous financial targets and false performance indicators in order to avoid having further funding removed.
As NHS trusts struggle to balance the books, public money is being funnelled to the private sector to solve a crisis that is deliberately being created by this government and further exacerbated by the pandemic.
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