The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
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Almost four decades of failed neoliberal ‘reform’ in the NHS have shown the strength of Bevan’s original model
As we celebrate the 70th birthday of our NHS, we should commit ourselves to fighting for the founding principle of the health service – free at the point of use, says JOHN LISTER
Aneurin Bevan: the inspiration
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
EVERYDAY life in the US: a baby falls and hits his head. The family take him to the emergency room. The staff say he is fine, allow him a nap, feed him some formula milk and send him home: bill $18,000.
An angry insured person tweets giant insurance corporation Cigna to ask why they had declined authorisation for an operation requested by her neurosurgeon.
Investigative journalists reveal colossal payments by pharmaceutical companies to influence prescribing habits of doctors, with $9.15 billion paid to 905,000 doctors and 1,216 teaching hospitals over three years.
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In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA