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Transport from London to Manchester NHS Lobby at Labour Party Conference

On Sunday 21 September, we will be lobbying Labour Party conference for a clear commitment on saving the National Health Service. See Facebook event and the blog for the Lobby We'll be taking at least one minibus from London. The price will be £18 waged, £9 unwaged. Times to be confirmed asap but we'll be leaving early Sunday morning and coming back Sunday night. If you'd like to come contact Liam McNulty on liammcnulty24@hotmail.com

Push Labour to save the NHS

Seventy per cent of the £13 billion NHS contracts negotiated last year were given to private providers. This is an unprecedented sell off, of the staff, resources and bricks and mortar that make up our National Health Service. The scale, and pace of the change is staggering. From “111 helpline” to maternity services, diabetes management to stoma care and even sexual assault services and palliative care, little is safe from market forces. And with real-terms cuts to the overall budget and efficiency savings of over £20 billion to be made, the NHS is being cut to the bone. With increasing...

Save Milton Keynes and Bedford Hospitals!

In Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire, a healthcare review led by the Clinical Commissioning Groups in the region is set to conclude that either Milton Keynes Hospital or Bedford Hospital will be downgraded. The capacity of one hospital's accident and emergency will be severely reduced, as well as losing other vital maternity and paediatric services which rely on having the A&E on standby. This will mean a harrowing 20 mile journey to the next hospital for patients, and will put lives at risk. The healthcare review is aiming towards an 'integrated' model of healthcare, in practice, this would mean...

War and Virgin Birth

During the Gulf war it was hard to avoid the impression that Britain was a country in the grip of a mass psychosis. From the grey dull Thatcher-made Prime Minister, with his robotic voice and the grey metallic glint round the eyes, by way of no-guts Neil Kinnock translating John Major's pronouncements into a better class of sub-Churchilian rhetoric, all the way down into the sewers of the tabloid press, official society was caught up in a fierce fantasy about fighting a glorious war for freedom and liberty against great odds. The TV pictures of Iraqi cities being flattened might have been...

When "I Choose Life" Meant Death

FOR a portrayal in miniature of the repulsive, tragic lunacy in which capitalist society ensnares humankind, you would be hard put to it to outdo the Mandy Allwood saga. Wonder-working science transforms an infertile woman into a marvel of fecundity. For reasons of her own she ignores medical advice and, by accident or design, becomes pregnant not with one but with eight embryos. She cannot possibly deliver all of her embryos alive. So her doctors tell her. For any of them to survive, six will have to be aborted. She doesn't listen to the medics. She listens instead to some inner voice of...

When "I Choose Life" Meant Death

FOR a portrayal in miniature of the repulsive, tragic lunacy in which capitalist society ensnares humankind, you would be hard put to it to outdo the Mandy Allwood saga. Wonder-working science transforms an infertile woman into a marvel of fecundity. For reasons of her own, by accident or design, she ignores medical advice and becomes pregnant. not with one, but with eight embryos. She cannot possibly deliver any of her embryos alive. So her doctors tell her. For any of them to survive, six will have to be aborted. She doesn't listen to the medics. She listens instead to some inner voice of...

When "I Choose Life" Meant Death

FOR a portrayal in miniature of the repulsive, tragic lunacy in which capitalist society ensnares humankind, you would be hard put to it to outdo the Mandy Allwood saga. Wonder-working science transforms an infertile woman into a marvel of fecundity. For reasons of her own, by accident or design, she ignores medical advice and becomes pregnant. not with one, but with eight embryos. She cannot possibly deliver any of her embryos alive. So her doctors tell her. For any of them to survive, six will have to be aborted. She doesn't listen to the medics. She listens instead to some inner voice of...

Save Stafford Hospital camp

Around 40 people have set up camp outside Stafford Hospital in protest at plans to downgrade the services there. Accident and emergency, paediatrics and maternity ward are all set to be scrapped. If the changes go ahead, locals would be forced to travel all the way to Stoke or Wolverhampton in the event of a medical emergency. The protest was organised after it was discovered that two applications for a judicial review of the decision to downgrade the hospital had been rejected. The Support Stafford Hospital campaign plans on appealing against the decision, but have camped outside the hospital...

Unison to discuss pay fight

After just a single day’s strike over pay by workers local government, education, and the civil service, the press and the Tories are on the offensive against unions, highlighting the low turnouts in ballots, and pushing for new anti-union legislation. We are right to highlight the hypocrisy of these calls coming from a government elected by a minority of voters with low turnouts in many constituencies, but in our own movement, we cannot be complacent. We have to honestly assess how we are organising for action and how best it can win. Turnouts and getting strong “yes” votes for industrial...

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