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Home » Archives by category » Newspaper » 2011 » Issue 354: May 2011
Strike against the coalition’s cuts
There have been two events in the last few months which have shown that we have the power to beat the government. The first was when the students occupied the…
Lansley wants to destroy the NHS – stop him now!
Andrew Lansley’s NHS and Social Care Bill is a fraud. It’s no exaggeration to say that it will destroy the NHS as we know it – letting privatisation rip the…
Andrew Lansley: Thatcher’s man who’s out to kill the NHS
Born in Essex, and son of a pathologist, Lansley’s first taste of politics came at the university of Exeter where he won a close battle to become president of the…
Who wants NHS privatisation?
GIANT MEDICAL and outsourcing companies are salivating at the prospect of getting lucrative contracts for NHS healthcare. That’s why private health bosses donated £750,000 to David Cameron’s 2010 election campaign.…
May 1926: when workers stopped the country
AT A TIME when we are facing a major offensive on workers’ gains and the union movement, the 85th anniversary of the 1926 general strike is a good opportunity to…
How can we unite the anti-cuts movement?
With a number of trade unions lining up to strike together against the coalition government’s attacks, there is a burning need to unite all existing anti-cuts campaigns into an all-Britain…
The problem of autonomism
Luke Cooper discusses the growing phenomenon of autonomism in the anti-cuts and student movement …
UK Uncut: direct action spreads against the cuts
The UK UNCUT occupation of luxury goods department store Fortnum and Mason during the March for the Alternative mass demonstration was part of series of stunts and protests the direct…
Fact and fiction: politics behind the deficit debate
Are the cuts about ideology or necessity? Many on the left have argued they have more to do with Tory politics than raw economic necessity, a case put forcefully by…
All out for 30 June!
THE FIGHT against the cuts is taking a big step forward on 30 June, with a string of unions now pledging to shut the country down in a mass public sector strike,…
