UK becomes world's second largest outsourcing market

Stuart Weir responds to news that the UK is now second only to America as an outsourcing market. The UK's "new enclosure movement" is fast transforming the British state into one marked by foodbanks and 'toll booths'.

Workfare and the state of exception

The retrospective legalisation of workfare has deprived rightful claimants of £130 million. Alongside the lives wrecked in its wake, the ‘emergency’ legislation has exposed a chasm at the heart of Britain's parliamentary democracy.

Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS in England

This extract is from the forthcoming publication on the future of the national health service for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class)

Romanian and Bulgarian migration to Britain: facts behind the fear

Is Britain on the verge of another mass-migration, as with the Poles? Behind the rhetoric on Romanians and Bulgarians set to flood the country, sucking up jobs and benefits, the actual expected impact of the lifted restrictions has gone unspoken.

Off the menu: Guantánamo Bay hunger strike

The majority of the remaining 166 prisoners at Guantanamo have been on hunger strike since early February, mostly held without charge or trial, yet there has been a continued media silence on the issue. This flagrant abuse of justice must be challenged.

NHS competition regulations - a response to the government's attacks

David Lock QC provided legal advice to 38 Degrees on the infamous section 75 regulations now going through parliament which enforce compulsory competition for nearly all NHS services. In response government ministers attempted to rubbish his analysis of the legalities. Here is his candid reply.

The path to hell…. an investigative journalist’s view of Leveson

The Leveson inquiry and demands for tighter regulation have already led to a chilling effect in the British media. The law of unintended consequences may lead to well-meaning measures undermining "serious" investigative journalism and democracy.

The NHS must be exempted from the US/EU Free Trade Agreement

Trade talks quietly taking place between the US and the EU could see England's NHS tied into a privatised model semi-permanently. Yet this deeply concerning backdrop to the Coalition's deplorable NHS privatisation has received scant media attention. People must act.

Outsourcing battle at Sussex Uni: censorship, dictat and the mutation of managerialism

Yesterday, thousands of students from around the UK joined the University of Sussex protesters against outsourcing. Maia Pal, a supporter from the beginning, gives the facts on a fight at the heart of the movement against higher education privatisation.

‘Not in Our Name’: Why MPs remain powerless to stop Britain going to war

The massive 2003 public campaign against Blair’s attempt to take the UK into war against Iraq demanded a war powers rule in Parliament to ensure that no government could ever again commit the country to war without Parliament’s approval. A decade later, the fight goes on for the ruling.

Independence vote day is set, now let’s recognise we are One Scotland

Leading thinker on Scotland and our long-time contributor, Gerry Hassan, sheds a tear as the Big Day is set. What we need now, he says, is a non-partisan debate on the potential of a self-governing Scotland.

The tensions between Muslim identity and Western citizenship

Across the West the arrival of significant numbers of migrants has caused a number of acute and ongoing challenges, notably in terms of social cohesion. These should not be overstated, but nor should they be ignored.

GPs conflicts of interest remain entirely unresolved

More than 36% of GPs in commissioning groups have interests in private healthcare. Conflicts of interest were a central criticism of the Coalition's disastrous health Act and they appear to have done nothing so far to address the issue.

Will workfare be well paid?

Aaron Peters explains why workfare is here to stay. But what are the limits to its generosity?

Leveson is not an Establishment stich up

Leading left-of-centre columnists are wrong to denounce the Leveson proposals as being designed to protect the priviliged. There is a real need to regulate the corporate press and the way it abuses of its power.

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