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NHS
NHS workers must take action now to save our NHS
Outsourced Barts health workers in strike ballot for a pay rise
Health and care staff shortages worsened by Tory vaccine sacking threat
The Today programme, on BBC Radio 4, has been examining the state of the NHS, and looking at its history. The pressure on NHS and social care is unsustainable and untenable.
News
London MPs’ second home swindle while workers and students struggle
Tory sleaze scandal continues, an ex-workers’ MP responds
University bosses’ pay piles up while workers are forced to strike
COP26
Youth fight for well-paid green jobs and socialist change
Sunak’s climate finance agenda typifies capitalism’s COP26 failure
China
China: Bureaucracy grapples with new crises
International
Ten years on – where has Podemos’s radicalism gone?
Belarus refugees – caught between a rock and a hard place
Workplace news
S Wales Stagecoach bus drivers win £10.50 an hour
After 17 days of strike action Stagecoach members of Unite at Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots have voted to accept a deal that wins a £1 an hour rise to £10.50, backdated to April
DVLA ballot turnout falls short of threshold
PCS members at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have voted by 79% to continue their campaign of industrial action over Covid safety, but unfortunately the turnout was 39.6%, short of the 50% threshold required under the anti-union laws
Striking Scunthorpe steel scaffs up the ante
Leeds cab drivers protest against taxi rank move
Fresh strikes on East Midlands Railway
An appeal to trade union members to stand as anti-cuts candidates
Clarks workers fight ‘fire-and-rehire’ pay cut
St Mungo’s report fails to address bullying and victimisation of workers
Campaigns
Resisting evictions in east London
Leeds solidarity protest says stop Sudan coup
Why I joined the Socialist Party
Why am I coming to Socialism 2021?
One Birmingham family – two adults with three children – one with ADHD who needs their own bedroom, are trying to survive in one-bedroom flat
Readers’ opinion