Brixtonite is a teacher in a London school. A member of the NUT she is active in the union and campaigns against the privatisation of education.
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Published in: ourNHS"Special measures" - a route to privatisation?As with schools, now with hospitals - but where will league tables and 'special measures' lead the NHS?
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Published in: ourNHSThe fruits of our Labour? Resisting health and education privatisation in the UK
Last week’s speech by UK Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg raised alarm bells amongst both education and health campaigners. On the eve of the People’s Assembly and Labour’s Policy Forum, two successful anti-privatisation activists ask, are attempts to ‘reclaim’ the UK Labour Party diverting people from more effective local resistance?