Tag: healthcare
May stumbles on
Theresa May has narrowly scraped through a vote of no confidence brought by her own MPs. Now pressure from below is needed to bring her government down.
“No human is illegal”: NHS staff speak out on Windrush
The Windrush scandal was the inevitable result of the "hostile environment"- we need to push back and support the rights of all migrants
50 years on from 1967 Abortion Act
Throughout the fifty years that the Act has been on the statute book pro-choice activists have had to repel repeated attempts to curtail its provisions.
Living with depression under capitalism
Kate Bradley looks at her experience of depression, the interplay of austerity and mental health problems, and the ambivalent role of state services
Barts cleaners strike against SERCO for a fair pay rise
Rachel Eborall, a Mental Health worker at Mile End Hospital, and ex SERCO employee, writes in solidarity with the striking cleaning workers at Barts...
The politics of mental health
Hazel Croft argues that, while reducing stigma is a good start, we also need a more radical approach to mental health
What do we need to do to defend the NHS?
Pete Gillard assesses the limitations of Labour's manifesto promises on health and argues that enthusiasm for the NHS can be used to build unions among health workers.
After the May 4 elections: time to shift the terrain
The May 4 local election results contain a lesson for activists in the run-up to the June General Election.
Fighting for the NHS, a moment for Corbynism
Rob Owen reflects on the largest demonstration for the NHS in recent memory.
Latest articles
Review: Chasing the harvest
Jack Pickering reviews a powerful collection of stories of migrant workers in California's agricultural sector.
Hong Kong: mass protests in the rain
In his latest dispatch from Hong Kong, Colin Sparks reflects on the significance of yesterday’s illegal mass demonstration.
The Importance of Colin Barker
Mike Haynes offers a tribute to revolutionary socialist thinker and organiser Colin Barker
‘Dear Sisters of the Earth’: Peterloo bicentenary
Women were a particular target of the violence at Peterloo on 16 August 1819. We publish an extract from an address by the Manchester Female Reform Society delivered shortly before the massacre.
Review: Stolen Moments
Mark Winter welcomes a new exhibition celebrating Namibia's unsung musical heroes, and remembers the time when the artist Jackson Kaujewa came to stay with his family.
Review: Urban Warfare
Kate Bradley reviews Urban Warfare by Raquel Rolnik, an important investigation into how capitalism has shaped housing for its own ends
Tensions rise in Hong Kong
Colin Sparks reports on the latest developments in Hong Kong, where the movement on the streets is showing impressive resilience as direct pressure from Beijing builds.
200 years after Peterloo, do we face a new wave of repression?
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, Ian Allinson argues that the right are pressing Boris Johnson to introduce a new wave of repression.
Harland and Wolff: occupying for nationalisation, jobs and the climate
Workers at Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard are fighting to save their jobs and demanding nationalisation as the employer goes into administration.
Mass mobilisation shakes Hong Kong
Colin Sparks reports from Hong Kong, where strikes and protests are shaking the government.
Highlights
Popular uprising and the fight for independence in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico's mass movement and general strike have brought a corrupt US-backed neoliberal administration to its knees
revolutionary reflections | Theatre of the Oppressed as a political method
Sophie Coudray introduces the work of the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal and the potential of its method for revolutionary praxis.
revolutionary reflections | Value, force, many states and other problems: part 3
In the third and final part of his essay on violence and capitalist social relations, Colin Barker insists that capitalist states cannot be theorised without recognising their multiplicity.
Between Sartre and Cliff: Ian Birchall, a heterodox Marxist’s trajectory
Selim Nadi conducts a wide-ranging interview with long-standing revolutionary socialist Ian Birchall.
Review: What’s Wrong With Rights?
Radha D'Souza's investigation into the international liberal rights regime is a welcome intervention that should make us question the framework of 'rights'.