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Stopping the corporate takeover of the NHS
Via the Health and Care Bill, the Tories want to break up and sell off chunks of the the health service — but we can still stop them, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THIS week the Tories voted to end the NHS as we know it, in one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in my lifetime.
There can and should be further efforts to block the legislation in the parliamentary process. But we cannot rely on that being successful and should prepare for a campaign to oppose the self-off in every way we can.
The Health and Care Bill is in reality nothing of the kind. It is a corporate takeover Bill, which dismantles the national structures of the NHS in order to allow private companies, mainly US and British private healthcare companies to cherry-pick the services they want for profits. Inevitably this will mean worse service, high charges and/or health insurance costs for many and even bankruptcy for some.
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