Public Services

Public Services

• As the UK economy stalls, it's not Brexit we should blame

  

  Slowing productivity and neoliberal attacks on the public sector are prime causes for industrial slump and a debt crunch - not Brexit uncertainty, writes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• Bristol bus protest: sick of waiting, commuters demand public control

  

  Demands for council control, fare reductions and more radical solutions are gathering support in the face of First Bus' chaotic service, reports Nathan Street

• Lies, damned lies, and Tory press releases

  

  Richard Allday sheds some light on the Tories' new 'pay rise' for public sector workers

• Carillion: two kinds of bailout, two class interests

  

  This can go one of two ways. Let's make sure it goes the way of the workers

• Nurses find 'magic money tree' and deliver it to Department of Health

  

  As the government flip-flops and flounders over the pay cap, nurses get their own back

• Statement from Durham teaching assistants in response to new deal offered

  

  The activist committee has serious concerns about the proposal

• Southern Rail crisis: re-nationalisation is the only answer

  

  Elaine Graham-Leigh takes a look at the crisis of Southern, caused by years of privatisation, and resulting in misery for staff and passengers 

• How should the left respond to attacks on the BBC?

  

  We need to defend the BBC as one of the core institutions of our democracy and our culture and not fall into the Freemarketeers' trap by defending it solely on their terms argues Chris Jury

• Emotional scenes as fire stations fall to Boris Johnson's axe

  ‘We rescue people not banks’ say firefighters at Europe’s oldest fire station as 10 stations across London close today leaving 4 million Londoners in danger

• Marxism and the crisis - a strategy for the left

  

  John Rees looks at the left's analysis of the crisis and outlines a strategy for resisting our rulers attempts to make us pay for it