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‘Save our A&E’ – Defend the NHS

Lisa Jones, a health service activist, reports on the campaign in Caerphilly, Wales, a story others will identify with

Mid Staffs hospital scandal: Big business culture kills

The government will smear the reputation of the NHS to boost its privatisation agenda. But its own policies – and Labour’s – caused the breakdown of care

GCSE U-turn shows all Gove’s ‘reforms’ can be stopped

Teachers, parents and students will be happy about the Con-Dem education minister Michael Gove’s climbdown over the English Baccalaureate Certificate (EBC), writes Jim Thomson.

Smash the blacklist – not the unions!

The recent scandal around blacklisting in the construction industry once again highlights the ruthless steps employers are willing to take in order to undermine hard-won terms and conditions at work and attack union organisation.

Victory over ‘workfare’ sanctions

Horsemeat scandal: good for profit, bad for health

The scandal of 29% horsemeat found in Tesco value burgers four weeks ago has paled into insignificance compared to the revelation in the last week that Findus’ beef lasagne is 100% equine

“Fully funded” social care plan – still needed

Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt would like to have us believe that he’s a hero of the elderly. He has announced plans that will supposedly tackle the scandal of people having to sell their houses

Them & Us

15 February 2003: A million on the streets to stop the war

10th anniversary: It was the day that shook the world. From cold, grey, sub-zero London to sunny Sydney, a vast tide of humanity marched in every continent in the most momentous display of mass solidarity ever seen

Campaigning against cuts

Rotherham NHS – ‘scams’ and cuts: “Hospital goes into intensive care” claimed the Rotherham Advertiser. Before Christmas Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust announced it has to make £50 million cuts.

TUSC: ‘No cuts’ candidate in Eastleigh

Nottingham: Campaigning for comedy without misogyny

Jokes about rape are not the only issue, or even the most important issue, facing women in Britain today. However, it is one part of the sexism we face in our everyday lives

Support the fight for a socialist alternative

Socialist Party 2013 national youth and student meeting

Unison region calls for general strike

Calls for a general strike came thick and fast at Saturday’s AGM of the Unison south east region

Care workers fight cuts in pay and conditions

Workplace In Brief

Hospital workers fighting massive pay cuts have forced Mid Yorks hospital Trust to extend the deadline for agreeing to new contracts by three weeks so that negotiations can proceed

Greece: Martial law ends ferry workers’ strike

On 5 February the Greek government deployed military-style conscription against striking maritime workers to force an end to their industrial action…

Low pay + high prices = debt misery

I volunteer for an advice agency and deal with some people’s debt problems. Clients from all walks of life come in because they’re worried and need the free help and advice we can offer, writes Carole Wood.

Film review: ‘No’ – an exercise in rewriting Chile’s history

Spielberg’s Lincoln by Tony Mulhearn