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
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What can we learn from the NHS strike ballot results?
Launching and winning future health ballots will require a drive to engage members and to explain to them what is at stake — and the struggle is only just beginning in earnest, says HELEN O’CONNOR
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
But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Lucy Powell may not exactly be the left’s choice, but her bid for the deputy leadership is certainly not the Labour right’s choice — and if she wins, that could mean the ascendancy of Andy Burnham and the end of Keir Starmer, writes VINCE MILLS
AS THE NHS trade unions analyse our ballot results, it’s important to draw lessons for the future because attacks on the health service are not going away. Staff will continue to be affected by the ruthless drive to defund the NHS, carve it up and farm it out the highest bidder.
The NHS is still a long way from being the poorest persons’ dumping ground that uninsured people get in the United States, but be in no doubt that the Tories will use this pandemic to drive their cuts and privatisation agenda and attacks on pay, terms and conditions will be ramped up further.
There is still much to defend and protect before we end up completely losing the free healthcare that previous generations fought hard for.
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