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NHS highlights

  • Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

    ‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

    21 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The life and crimes of John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott

    One more example of a working-class man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

    4 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • Health / Infected blood: another chapter in the book of Tory-Labour betrayals

    As in the case of the Post Office, mistakes that could have been rectified were continued for years and then covered up.

    20 Jun 2024 , Proletarian
  • Health / Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers

    The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.

    25 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Health / Vape wars: Children in the sights of tobacco giants

    It seems unlikely that the British government has any real intention of stopping the corporate dope-pedlars in their tracks.

    27 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • Health / NHS: Murder by a thousand cuts

    Excess avoidable deaths are rising alongside waiting lists for operations and GP consultations – and it is no coincidence.

    4 Jan 2024 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’

    Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.

    8 Nov 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Disputes / Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS!

    The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.

    2 Oct 2023 ,
  • Health / Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

    An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’

    21 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • Health / Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise

    How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?

    22 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Health / An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation

    The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.

    18 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

    Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

    17 Jul 2023 ,
  • British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

    Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

    16 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

    Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

    6 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

    It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

    22 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

    The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

    29 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

    In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.

    29 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

    It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

    18 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Health / Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking

    Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.

    1 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare

    First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.

    11 Jul 2022 , Consortium News
  • Health / Law on mandatory vaccination for NHS staff to be repealed

    In a last-minute U-turn, the beleaguered prime minister has realised that this is one battle he can do without.

    1 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

    In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.

    2 Jan 2022 ,
  • Health / The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover

    A meaningful defence of Britain’s health service is urgently needed. What would it look like?

    13 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Health / Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights

    National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

    2 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

    Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

    11 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / Film: The Great NHS Heist

    Dr Bob Gill’s contribution to the fight to save our NHS is incalculable. This film is essential viewing for every British worker.

    19 Jun 2021 ,
  • Health / NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation

    Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.

    17 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’

    Instead of rebuilding our decimated public capacity, private providers are being subsidised to the tune of billions to take the place of the NHS.

    1 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / More ‘reforms’ of the NHS, so many nails in the coffin

    We have a hard fight on our hands if we wish to save our health service from the corporate looters and privateers.

    6 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Economy / Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle

    There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.

    31 Oct 2020 ,
  • Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost

    Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.

    20 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / The anti-China coronavirus panic

    What is really behind the media hysteria over Covid-19? And what can the virus tell us about the state of our NHS?

    8 Mar 2020 , Lalkar
  • Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain

    Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.

    13 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Health / Brexit, profiteers and the NHS

    Why are Donald Trump and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being held up as threats to the future of the health service?

    11 Jul 2019 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

    Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

    14 May 2019 ,
  • Health / How to squeeze the NHS and get a gong

    Private drugs companies seize on a ‘loophole’ in NHS rules to vastly overprice medicines.

    25 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • Health / Smartphones v doctors: NHS destruction moves up a gear

    A ‘new era of personalised care’ where mobile apps replace overworked GPs.

    20 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • Health / NHS cost-cutting managers’ plan will axe a raft of routine operations

    Calling these procedures ‘unnecessary’ won’t stop people needing them, however; it will merely ration them according to the ability to pay.

    8 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / Save our NHS

    Only by clearly understanding our rulers’ determination to dismantle the NHS and by coordinating our efforts to save it can we hope to succeed.

    16 Jul 2018 ,
  • Health / NHS: government forced to recognise reality

    The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.

    16 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • Health / Saving the NHS: the method and success rate of the petition ‘activist’

    All sound and fury signifying nothing much.

    10 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / GP incentives – a dangerous tool of NHS privatisation

    “I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.”

    4 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / Time to prise the leeches off the NHS

    Why is it that increased funding doesn't result in better services in today's health service?

    6 Mar 2018 , Lalkar
  • Health / The ongoing decimation of the NHS

    Nurses leaving en masse and operations rationed.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • USA / Obamacare: going, going …

    Assessing the impact of ‘Trumpcare’.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Health / Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS

    The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS

    The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

    Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

    One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Public health: a matter of private profit

    The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Junior doctors’ fight to save our NHS betrayed

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

    Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

    The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian

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NHS video

  • Health / Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation

    Just like the various imperialist wars, the NHS has become a funnel for vast sums of public money to be passed into private hands via profits and dividends.

    8 Oct 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Health / Dr Ranjeet Brar: Act now to stop the selling of your NHS data

    How is it that the government has got so far down the road of selling our health information and workers have heard nothing about it at all?

    9 Jun 2021,
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill and Dr Ranjeet Brar: The NHS is being dismantled before our eyes

    Workers are sleepwalking towards a nightmare of American-style health inequalities and bankrupting treatments bills.

    28 Apr 2021, Socialist Telly
  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on Moats: NHS marketisation and the covid death toll

    ‘It’s like setting up a market inside your family. Your children could sell you affection and you could sell them a roof over their heads.’

    5 Feb 2021, Proletarian TV
  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on Press TV: 100,000 covid deaths

  • Health / Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS is 72 but drugs companies are still rinsing the system

  • Health / Coronavirus: a real threat

  • Health / Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’

  • Health / Coronavirus: What do the experts say?

  • Health / Health service privatisation: who runs the NHS?

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

  • Britain TV / Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party exposed over Brexit U-turn

  • Health / Dr Bob Gill: The NHS conspiracy

  • Britain TV / Sell-Off: The Abolition of Your NHS

  • Britain TV / Communist doctor addresses NHS campaign meeting

NHS theory

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

    An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

    27 Oct 2023,

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