Democracy & State
Overcoming the enemies within
17 May 2012
The left must unite in order to change the relationship of forces both within and outside the Labour Party, argues Mike Macnair
No ration on health
16 Mar 1995
Last week two cases highlighted how money talks in today’s National Health Service. A man died after being airlifted two hundred miles to an intensive care bed because his own regional unit is being run down; and top judges have ruled that a 10-year old girl cannot have the treatment that could save her life
Creating homeless
09 Mar 1995
A real alternative in Dundee
09 Mar 1995
Labour perks
09 Mar 1995
Class fighters!
09 Mar 1995
On April 6 in Scotland SNP, Labour and Tory will be vying for working class votes in the ‘shadow’ council elections. But none of them are offering anything for workers in Scotland. There is an alternative - Vote Communist and join the fightback
PO workers fight closures
09 Mar 1995
Rank and file action across one union
09 Mar 1995
Pat McManus is a staff nurse at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London. He is branch secretary for the main health union, Unison. Here he talks to Peter Manson
Rail bosses' expanding pay packet bonanza
09 Mar 1995
Nurses’ unity under threat
09 Mar 1995
While nurses are being offered a pay rise that is in fact a pay cut those lucky lads at bust Barings Bank are to get a million pound bonus to peck up their spirits. Greedy British Gas boss Cedric Brown and his fellow directors have just slipped themselves a million free shares. They live in a world where the millions are just perks. The world is hard, but it’s fair. More than fair to a few: much less than fair to the rest
Workers’ unity in Europe
02 Mar 1995
An absence of leadership
02 Mar 1995
Maggie Crow, a Unison steward at Christie hospital in Manchester, talks about the prospects for a fightback among nurses
Stench of peace
02 Mar 1995
Benn gives Labour left excuse to stay
02 Mar 1995
Organise against the pay scandal!
02 Mar 1995
With whole sections of workers furious over low pay and threats to their jobs, anger is mounting against the bosses’ pay perks. Major is promising ‘action’ to curb them, but all is not as it seems