The health hurricane: a year of destruction in the NHS
Alex Nunns looks at the gale of privatisation, sell-offs and cuts in services blowing through the health service
Workfare: a policy on the brink Warren Clark explains how the success of the campaign against workfare has put the policy’s future in doubt
Labour and the cuts: beyond the 'dented shield' The scale of coalition cuts means the very future of local public services is in jeopardy. Michael Calderbank asks whether Labour councillors can do more than offer verbal protest and practical acquiescence
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Starting a workers' co-op Why suffer the tyranny of a boss when you can set up your own democratic workplace? Seeds for Change Lancaster provides some pointers
Degenerates remembered Ian Hunter looks at an exhibition and project remembering persecuted artist Kurt Schwitters
February 15, 2003: The day the world said no to war
Phyllis Bennis argues that while the day of mass protest did not stop the war, it did change history
Egypt: The revolution is alive
Just before the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Emma Hughes spoke to Ola Shahba, an activist who has spent 15 years organising in Egypt
Tenant troubles
The past year has seen the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement emerging. Christine Haigh reports
Co-operating with cuts in Lambeth
Isabelle Koksal reports on how Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’ is riding roughshod over co-operative principles in its drive for sell-offs and cuts in local services
Elective surgery: a new party for the NHS
Alex Nunns interviews Clive Peedell, co-leader of the new National Health Action Party, which will fight the next election on the issue of the government’s destruction of the NHS
Facing reality - after the crisis in the SWP
John Palmer looks at some of the roots of the party's problems, and asks where the left can go from here
Councils and the cuts in Wales - event report
Darren Williams, secretary of Welsh Labour Grassroots, reports from a day school in Cardiff on councils and the cuts
Solidarity with Max Watson and Jawad Botmeh
Two members of London Metropolitan University Unison, including the branch chair, have been suspended. Union activists launched a campaign to defend them
Tunisia's poet and politician: who was Chokri Belaid?
The assassination of opposition figure Chokri Belaid has sparked a new surge in the Tunisian movement. Mohamed-Salah Omri explains who he was and why he mattered
Video: Peter Tatchell speaks on economic democracy
We expect political democracy, argues Peter Tatchell, so why not economic democracy too?
Council housing shouldn't just be for the poor
Martin Wicks, Secretary of Swindon Tenants Campaign Group, tells us why we must defend 'secure tenancies' for council tenants and resist means-tested council housing
Phyllis Bennis argues that while the day of mass protest did not stop the war, it did change history
Egypt: The revolution is alive
Just before the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Emma Hughes spoke to Ola Shahba, an activist who has spent 15 years organising in Egypt
Tenant troubles
The past year has seen the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement emerging. Christine Haigh reports
Co-operating with cuts in Lambeth
Isabelle Koksal reports on how Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’ is riding roughshod over co-operative principles in its drive for sell-offs and cuts in local services
Elective surgery: a new party for the NHS
Alex Nunns interviews Clive Peedell, co-leader of the new National Health Action Party, which will fight the next election on the issue of the government’s destruction of the NHS
Facing reality - after the crisis in the SWP
John Palmer looks at some of the roots of the party's problems, and asks where the left can go from here
Councils and the cuts in Wales - event report
Darren Williams, secretary of Welsh Labour Grassroots, reports from a day school in Cardiff on councils and the cuts
Solidarity with Max Watson and Jawad Botmeh
Two members of London Metropolitan University Unison, including the branch chair, have been suspended. Union activists launched a campaign to defend them
Tunisia's poet and politician: who was Chokri Belaid?
The assassination of opposition figure Chokri Belaid has sparked a new surge in the Tunisian movement. Mohamed-Salah Omri explains who he was and why he mattered
Video: Peter Tatchell speaks on economic democracy
We expect political democracy, argues Peter Tatchell, so why not economic democracy too?
Council housing shouldn't just be for the poor
Martin Wicks, Secretary of Swindon Tenants Campaign Group, tells us why we must defend 'secure tenancies' for council tenants and resist means-tested council housing
red pepper writers
Mythbuster: Tall tales about welfare reform Ben Baumberg, Kate Bell and Declan Gaffney tackle some of the most common welfare myths
Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe On the 25th anniversary of Sankara's assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe
Workfare comes to the classroom While academies have drawn the headlines, the government’s new ‘studio schools’ are making children work for corporate sponsors. Alex Diaz reports
Mythbuster: Immigration - the real story Isabelle Koksal counters the right wing myths with some facts and figures
Essay: Political organisation in transition Hilary Wainwright opens the new year ambitiously! She discusses how to transform the state and why radical politicians find it so difficult to maintain their radical momentum once in parliament or the council chamber. How could this change?
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