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Published in: TransformationFive successful campaigners share their secretsGreat campaigns have lots of things in common, but they’re not the things we’re often taught.
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Published in: ourNHSAn open letter to all NHS staff - March with us this summerA group of NHS campaigners are marching from the North East to London over the next few weeks. Will you join them?
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Published in: ourNHS999 March for the NHS sets off tomorrow for 3 weeks
NHS campaigners are marching in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow hunger marchers, joining up NHS campaigners across...
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Published in: ourNHSPatients occupy threatened mental health clinic, some signs of victory?A seven-week occupation of a Cambridge NHS mental health clinic in Britain threatened with closure is having more...
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Published in: ourNHSPeople’s Inquiry – a grassroots vision for our NHS?
As the NHS groans under cuts and chaotic reorganisation, government bodies are calling for yet more 'radical change'...
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Published in: ourNHSThe people vs. Jeremy Hunt
Behind Jeremy Hunt's spin about 'the right care in the right place' lie continued attempts to close cherished local...
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Published in: HomeAltogether for the NHSYesterday, 50,000 citizens marched through Manchester - home to this year's Tory Party Conference - against the...
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Published in: ourNHSWill Hunt stop at nothing to cut Lewisham Hospital?
Hunt lodged an eleventh hour appeal against the Lewisham Hospital verdict last night. He is determined not just to...
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Published in: ourNHSDecision day for Hunt
Hunt has to decide by tomorrow whether to appeal his defeat over the Lewisham Hospital closure - but if he succeeds...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe Own It - a new campaign against the UK's disastrous privatisationsThe results have been terrible. Soaring prices, corruption, fraud, enormous expense to the public purse. But...
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Published in: Shine A LightConstitutional Assault: attack on judicial reviewWill new restrictions on Judicial Review prevent campaigners from following in the footsteps of Lewisham and...
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Published in: ourNHSA golden moment for Lewisham NHS campaigners in Britain
Today Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plans to cut services and close departments at Lewisham Hospital were defeated...
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Published in: ourNHSHas Jeremy Hunt acted outside the law? - Part 2
Day two and three of the court challenge to the decision to close swathes of Lewisham Hospital.
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Published in: ourNHSLewisham hospital being sacrificed to the bankers
In Lewisham, the government is sacrificing a thriving local hospital in order to protect the interests of bankers,...
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Published in: ourNHSLewisham hospital downgrade - an 'insult to democracy'
On Saturday 55 people testified to the Lewisham People's Commission of Enquiry into the decision to downgrade or...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat England can learn from the US - health privatisation and AIDS activismHealth must be provided socially yet the NHS needs some fundamental reshaping. Campaigners should look at the AIDS...
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Published in: ourNHSKeep the faith - a review of the UK's People's Assembly
On Saturday 4000 activists gathered in London to discuss austerity and privatisation, and how to respond. Caroline...
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Published in: ourNHSThe lie of austerity - Francesca Martinez at the People's Assembly
Speaking at the People's Assembly on Saturday, comedian and disability activist Francesca Martinez delivers a...
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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...
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Published in: ourNHSA battle of biblical proportions: can Lewisham beat Jeremy Hunt?
In a battle which is being seen as a test case for A&E and hospital cuts and downgrades nationwide, Lewisham...
