Left Foot Forward
NHS staff are fighting back against outsourcing to ‘arms length’ companies
Up to 1,650 local hospital staff across two different NHS trusts face transfer to subsidiary companies, where unions worry their employment rights could be eroded away.
Privatising while Rome burns: Why we need a moratorium on outsourcing
As the MoD launch plans to flog off their fire service, unions are warning another Carillion-style collapse could be round the corner.
History shows that Labour has always been a party of compromise
Tom Pashby reviews an upcoming book on the Labour party and asks: 'Is Labour finally becoming a socialist party - albeit one with centrists in it?'
The Carillion scandal shows it’s time to end the stitch-up of ‘commercial sensitivity’
To spot disasters before they occur, we need to reform our laws on corporate confidentiality.
No one is kicking off about this NHS privatisation – but they should be
Billions of pounds of NHS land and property is being sold off. Have we learnt nothing from the disasters of the past?
Leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union will not promote fairer trade
Advocates of 'Lexit' are wrong on almost every one of their arguments.