By Maureen Wade – Chair, Birmingham UNISON Retired Members Section It is not without irony that just as the government announced its new 10 year
Category: Science & Environment
Unite emergency motion on NHS 10-year plan
Letter from Andy Ford, Unite health rep. The article on the NHS 10-Year Plan, reminded me of the emergency motion passed UNANIMOUSLY at the July
By Maureen Wade, chair, Birmingham UNISON retired members section The government has launched its 10-year plan for the NHS, which includes a heavy reliance on
Left Horizons has argued, in agreement with polls showing the popularity of the idea, for the renationalisation of all of those public utilities privatised by
By Andy Ford, Unite NHS rep The news that the NHS resident doctors (formerly junior doctors) are to strike has predictably sent the Tory press,
By Ray Goodspeed Last Tuesday evening saw extraordinary scenes in Parliament as Starmer, Reeves and Kendall were forced to remove huge chunks of their proposed
The Reality of Birth Rates
By Joe Langabeer In the past few years, we have seen a flurry of news articles and political commentators discussing declining birth rates across the
Thames Water: ruined by private profit.
By Mike Kennard Everybody knows that the private sector is much more efficient than the creaky old bureaucratic nationalised industries don’t they? The Thatcherite promise
By John Pickard What do the numbers 2.4 trillion and 1.5 have in common? The answer is that although both are important in specific instances,
Report by Andy Ford, Chair Unite NW Health Committee The Socialist Health Association (SHA) meeting on June 3, in the venerable Mechanics Hall in Manchester,
