A socialist programme for the NHS

• Bring the NHS into public ownership. Rebuild it as a publicly funded service, free at the point of use, with immediate cash to end the underfunding crisis.
• Bring all trusts and foundation hospitals into a democratically run NHS. Representatives of NHS workers, trade unions and health service users should make decisions about how the NHS is run and what its priorities are.
• A living wage and good working conditions for all NHS workers.
• Abolish the internal market. Abandon the Private Finance Initiative. All new hospitals to be built with public funding, not for private profit.
• Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry under democratic working-class control and management.
• A socialist programme to eliminate poverty - the biggest killer and cause of ill-health.

Striking to defend public services

Trade unions must give a lead

Iraq: build for 24 February protest

'No to the US base'

Labour's super-rich friend

Behind the bonus bonanza

Save our school buses

Support the paper that fights for a socialist future

Big Brother viewers reject racist bullying

New Labour hypocrites wade into Big Brother row

Endemol defends racist abuse

Strike ballots show willingness to fight

British Airways in more battles with workforce

London Underground workers ballot for strike over pay

NHS still needs national demo

New Labour leads the big-business assault

A socialist programme for the NHS

When will the bubbles burst?

Join the national day of protest on 22 February

Building for the 22 February Day of Action

Sri Lanka: anti-war organiser attacked

Workers brave regime's bullets

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