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Mutually Assured Destruction: The Future of the NHS
Creative Commons In August 2014, as the first experiment of a totally privatised NHS hospital was grinding to a disastrous end, the Coalition quietly initiated the first phase of their…
Dust. Settled. Go Scotland: a 7 item to-do list
For two years up to September the country was in fever pitch with friends, colleagues, families and strangers debating and cajoling each other on every issue we have. It was…
New poll: mass support for public ownership
Privatisation is unpopular, a failure, and being rejected across the Western world. That's the finding of a major report from the new campaign group 'We Own It', which calls for…
How Do We Stop The Student Loan Book Sell-Off?
The Gown student newspaper, November 1995. NUS call for a bank boycott over student loan privatisation plans. Not content with attacking current and future students, the Coalition government now…
Rail Renationalisation: Edinburgh meeting with Christian Wolmar
While I was first becoming interested in a serious way in politics there were lots of interesting things happening. I was very interested in the peace process in the north…
Caroline Lucas’ bill to renationalise the railways published today
Green MP Caroline Lucas will table a private member's bill later today, in a bid to reverse the disastrous privatisation of the railways and bring the network back into public…
Academics and the defence of their universities
Luke Martell An inspiring Convention for Higher Education in Brighton has made an important step forward, discussing what the public university should be, and investigating the implications of its marketisation.…
Watch the Greens’ thrillingly unapologetic, socialist broadcast
The Green Party of England and Wales has just released this quietly barnstorming broadcast for the local elections on 2 May: It's the clearest and most explicit proclamation of the…
Sussex Uni ‘Pop-Up Union’ to fight outsourcing
Workers at the University of Sussex have formed a new union in a bid to halt the outsourcing of 235 campus jobs. The initiative comes from rank-and-file members of the…
East Coast rail re-privatisation is a foolish mistake
by George Woods Yesterday, the Government announced it is accelerating the re-privatisation of the East Coast railway, which they say will now take place in December 2014. The story of…