More of the state you’ve got (while mutual aid grows to tackle coronavirus)
15 March 2020Posted by W
As various governments leap into action, or not, over the reality of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s evident that the different approaches to containment and delay…
London Calling: London AF Talks on Soundcloud
30 June 2015Posted by AFed
Recordings from the London Anarchist Federation discussion group.
Ebola – capitalism’s war against humanity
14 October 2014Posted by AFed
The Ebola catastrophe that threatens to be the next deadly pandemic is entirely unleashed by capitalism and will be a holocaust against the poor. It…
Healthcare workers: where we stand-fighting on two fronts
26 January 2013Posted by AFed
Basic overview of the terrain that health workers defending their terms and conditions is being fought on; Fighting both their employers, as well as a…
Two Greek hospitals under Workers’ Control
2 March 2012Posted by AFed
“We occupy our public hospitals for deep and meaningful democratisation, which will make society competent to decide its own future again.” Confronted with a dire…
Nottingham City NHS and the cuts – a healthworker speaks out
10 November 2010Posted by AFed
Nottingham City NHS and the cuts – a healthworker speaks out
Source: Notts Black Arrow – Nottingham & Nottinghamshire AF group’s blog
The below is something a member of Nottingham AF wrote for the Notts SOS blog giving an outline of what is happening locally within his workplace, the local NHS community healthcare services.
A Nottingham NHS worker speaks frankly about his, his workmates’, and his family and friends’ situations under the continuing threat of cuts that will no doubt be familiar to many others, and urges everyone to get involved with Notts SOS.
I work in one of the support services within the Nottingham NHS Citihealth organisation. We provide community health services to the Nottingham area. We have heard the current government promise to ring fence frontline health spending, however the reality on the ground is somewhat different.
Guilty of being foreign
26 October 2009Posted by AFed
In a case that clearly exposes the vicious cruelty and insanity of borders and nationalism, a trainee radiologist has been jailed for 19 months for the “crime” of not being from England. Felista Peters, a 28-year-old resident of Bristol, was close to graduating when she was arrested after it was found that she had false documents and was actually from Kenya. If she’d been born in this country, she could now be working as a radiologist and helping to save lives, but because she committed the crime of being born elsewhere, she’s been imprisoned, so her skills are of no use to anyone. She will be deported on completion of her jail term. Even viewed from the narrowly selfish perspective of the “national interest”, whatever that is, it’s impossible to see how our society benefits more from locking this woman up and then flying her out of the country than it does from allowing her to practice medicine; from any vaguely humanist viewpoint, the punishment for this victimless offence is even more inexplicable.
Private versus ‘Socialised’ healthcare
28 August 2009Posted by AFed
Article written in context of health reforms in the USA, of relevance to the debate about private vs. public healthcare (August 2009). Private versus ‘Socialised’…
Private versus ‘Socialised’ healthcare
19 August 2009Posted by AFed
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