2 April 2016
Rail union RMT members hoisted the German flag over Newcastle Central station on 1 April, the day that German state railway operator Deutsche Bahn took over Northern rail services.
13 February 2016
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 17th Congress, London, November 2015. There can be no advance without Marxism, because Marx showed that only the eventual victory of the exploited class, the working class, represents a real future. Capitalism means only destruction and war. Here in Britain, we need our own unique vision of a working class future in order to fight and win in the present.
2 February 2016
The decision that Transport for London will take over all overland rail services into London is a recognition that privatisation has been a miserable and costly failure.
2 July 2015
NHS England decided at the end of June to transfer almost a thousand workers involved in the “back office” functions of GP services to private company Capita in September.
Barts Health, the largest NHS Trust in Britain, has now released its deficit projection for 2016, with massive cuts almost identical to the cost of servicing its PFI debt.
A series of protests across the north of England are highlighting the way British rail passengers are subsidising rail services in other European countries.
30 March 2015
Three unions are combining to challenge the way NHS England is trying to hand a contract worth over £1 billion for primary care support services over to the private sector.
30 March 2015
Labour-controlled Middlesbrough is set to follow in the footsteps of Tory-controlled councils in outsourcing nearly all of its public services.
7 March 2015
Conservative-run Northamptonshire County Council is planning to outsource all its services in one go, reducing its workforce from 4,000 to a rump of 150 staff who will simply commission services.
22 February 2015
THE NHS in England is now advertising across the private sector in the European Union to sell off the “back office” or administrative functions of GP practices.
Occupied countries learn the hard lesson that when you lose something it can be difficult, and often impossible, to get it back later.
Novelist and journalist James Meek outlines how foreign companies have taken over much of our infrastructure
More than two-thirds of Britain’s rail network is now run by foreign state-owned companies – given to them not just by Westminster, but the false nationalists in Holyrood as well…
An international feast of property speculators visited London for the first time in October – networking, partying, and carving up Britain’s assets.
Thatcher did not start the roll back of postwar nationalisation. Capitalism’s unease at state control of the British economy surfaced as early as 1953…
15 October 2014
Adverts for private care displayed at maternity units are outraging midwives. On the picket line at an east London hospital, one midwife explained why.
Britain not for sale
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL.
Foreign corporations and states are taking over our services and industry – a state-sponsored looting of our national assets. Come and discuss. Details»
The devastation of the rail network that began in the 1960s was a conscious decision to move away from a state-owned industry to private profit – led by a transport minister whose family ran a road-building company…
When they talk of a health market they mean health chaos. That, and a nice little earner for someone. We should begin by understanding what is being proposed.
