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Jenna Norman is a London-based writer and campaigner.
Water companies have loaded themselves with debt while pumping sewage into waterways, hiking bills and paying out billions to shareholders – a scam against the public that will only end by taking our water back from the profiteers.
Labour may win the next election by convincing the establishment that the economy is safe in their hands. But they won’t solve any of the crises the country is facing by imitating Tory spending plans – they might even make things worse.
Keir Starmer says he wants young people to find their voice and speak with confidence – that’s exactly what we did, holding him accountable for yet another U-turn on the climate crisis.
The government is presiding over a managed decline of the railway. The closure of 1000 ticket offices is the latest move to make rail travel less safe and accessible while shareholders line their pockets.
The NHS wasn’t handed down by elites, it was won through struggle – one which pitted Aneurin Bevan and the labour movement against the interests of the healthcare profiteers.
On this day in 1948, the National Health Service was born. To mark the occasion, its founder, Aneurin Bevan, spoke to Tribune about the socialist ambitions of public healthcare.
The French establishment has dismissed the riots as a purely criminal affair, refusing to accept its true cause: widespread anger at murderous policing, racial inequality, social deprivation, and a state in total crisis.
An NHS crisis caused by cuts and privatisation can’t be solved by allowing yet more profiteering. The only solution is to return public healthcare to its socialist roots.
Many believe that technology will lead us to a future of better health. But it could also dismantle our public health systems.
If the NHS is to survive, we must set out an agenda that not only defends it but aims to expand its mandate to new arenas.
As a Starmer government becomes increasingly likely, the Labour Party’s plans for the NHS leave much to be desired.
The contracting-out of key NHS functions to private profiteers has eroded public healthcare — we need a movement to end it for good.
With real pay falling by a third since 2009 and conditions continuing to deteriorate, consultants have escalated strike action. An anonymous senior doctor writes for Tribune about the reality of working in a healthcare system on the brink of collapse.
The last year has seen historic walkouts across the NHS. Workers are fighting not just for terms and conditions but for the future of public healthcare.
Michael Marmot – one of Britain’s leading healthcare voices – speaks to Tribune about how austerity and the epidemic of social inequality threaten the future of the NHS.
The NHS has always had wealthy enemies, but now they have a clear plan to bring it down: starve public healthcare of funding and let private provision grow in its place.
75 years after its creation, the NHS is drifting from its original ideals – a result of both Tory and Labour policies that allowed private interests to carve up healthcare for profit.
Writer and poet Michael Rosen – one of Britain’s most beloved public figures – sits down with Tribune to talk about the Jewish socialist roots of his politics – and why we should adore the NHS.
In the 1980s, two young graduates set out to write a show about how Thatcherism had left Aneurin Bevan’s NHS dream ‘in tatters’. The creators of Casualty sat down with Tribune to discuss the politics that shaped its message.