Campaign news archive - March 2016

IRELAND - Centenary of the 1916 Rebellion

IRELAND - Centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising by Finn Geaney, Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Teachers Union of Ireland and Irish Labour Party [continue...]

Down with Benefit Cuts for the Disabled

Down with Benefit Cuts for the Disabled By Ian Malcolm-Walker The LRC condemns the latest cut in benefits for disabled people that the Tories have announced. [continue...]

BLACKLIST SUPPORT GROUP STATEMENT

BLACKLIST SUPPORT GROUP STATEMENT The Blacklist Support Group issued the following statement regrading the current High Court litigation (Thursday 10th March 2016): [continue...]

Bring back our NHS in England

Bring back our NHS in England
Letter to Guardian Friday 4th March NHS services and assets, including blood supplies, nurses, scanning and diagnostic services, ambulances, care homes, hospital beds and buildings – which the British public own – are being handed over to UK and foreign private companies. This is being done without a public mandate. Privatised services cost the NHS and taxpayer far more than when provided by our publicly owned and publicly run NHS. That is because public health systems don’t seek profits. They don’t need to pay dividends to shareholders. They don’t have the added costs of private sector loans. And they don’t have privatisation’s heavy and unnecessary marketising costs of contracts, billings and all the extra administration involved. [continue...]