LOUISE RAW talks to Sabby Dhalu, Kevin Courtney and Steve Wright about why we should all join next weekend’s march against the far right in London
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Could Covid-19 bring an end to the privatisation of our NHS?
The hated Health and Social Care Act has effectively been suspended, and there’s huge recognition that support staff should be brought back in-house. So can the ‘competitive health market’ now be ditched once and for all? asks JOHN LISTER
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
BORIS JOHNSON’S five-minute broadcast on leaving hospital, in which he enthused about the NHS as the “beating heart of the nation” and named two overseas nurses who he believed had saved his life, might have been a pivotal moment.
It might yet prove to be the moment where the right-wing Cabinet of a Tory government was persuaded to pull back from the process of running down the NHS.
Indeed the entire coronavirus pandemic and resultant crisis facing every major country in the world has been a wake-up call for ministers, who have been forced to put their previous financial model and restructuring of the NHS on the back burner — or conceivably discard previous ambitions altogether.
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