Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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Privatisation: The July Health Offensive
The Tory-led coalition is doing its best to sell off or run down the NHS in the months it has left, warns JOHN LISTER
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
July is not yet over — but it is already jam-packed with symptoms of the escalating crisis and chaos unleashed by the coalition’s unprecedented spending freeze and top-down reorganisation to replace planned health services with a healthcare “market.”
June ended with revelations that the soaring numbers still crowding into A&E departments are driven by the fact that one in four could not get an appointment with their GPs.
July began with new figures on the scale of the cuts still being driven through in social care, even as local commissioning groups hatch more plans to downsize hospitals and deliver more care “closer to home.”
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