Current Struggles

A hot winter? – A series of local strikes in the NHS

In December 2024 there were a few local disputes going on within the NHS

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Interviews

Clinical research – Report from a friend

As health workers, we have to start understanding how our industry works in order to be able to take it over and run it in the interest of everyone

International

Film – General strike of health workers in Italy, November 2024

On the 20th of November 2024, 85% of public hospital workers went on strike

Meetings

National meeting – Health workers in struggle

Invitation to a discussion and organising weekend

History

Blast from the Past – ‘Overseas Nurses’ in the 1970s

We re-publish below an article that was featured in Race Today, a political magazine written by black radicals and revolutionaries between 1973 and 1988

Meetings

Report from the Vital Signs meeting, 12th of November 2024

A group of colleagues who work at the two main hospitals in Bristol met at our regular meeting

Debate

The mysterious world of NHS bands – or how we re-grade health care assistants to a Band 8

NHS Bands – not only paying us peanuts, but also different amounts of peanuts

International

Current and past hospital movements in Germany – Conversation with a friend and fellow worker

We visited a comrade who has been working and organising as a nurse since the late 1980s

Worker and Patient

Datix? Greatix? Forget–about-ix?

We need a culture of speaking up, but for that we need a collective self-confidence