Alex Nunns looks at the gale of privatisation, sell-offs and cuts in services blowing through the health service
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
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
A class act Nicholas Beuret looks at E P Thompson's classic The Making of the English Working Class
February 15, 2003: The day the world said no to warPhyllis Bennis argues that while the day of mass protest did not stop the war, it did change history
Egypt: The revolution is aliveJust 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 troublesThe past year has seen the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement emerging. Christine Haigh reports
Co-operating with cuts in LambethIsabelle 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 NHSAlex 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 SWPJohn 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 reportDarren Williams, secretary of Welsh Labour Grassroots, reports from a day school in Cardiff on councils and the cuts
Solidarity with Max Watson and Jawad BotmehTwo 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 democracyWe expect political democracy, argues Peter Tatchell, so why not economic democracy too?
Council housing shouldn't just be for the poorMartin Wicks, Secretary of Swindon Tenants Campaign Group, tells us why we must defend 'secure tenancies' for council tenants and resist means-tested council housing