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NHS Staff Shortage Now Permanent: Reverse Health Cuts!

NHS Staff Shortage Now Permanent: Reverse Health Cuts!

Our NHS is in crisis. Unless there is a major change, there’s no end in sight for the serious shortage of GPs. A new report by The Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation think tanks finds that we need at least 3,000 more GPs by 2024 just to keep up with population growth. But […]

Posted in: NHS
Linking LGBT+ Rights to the Fight for Socialism

Linking LGBT+ Rights to the Fight for Socialism

The growing Socialist Party LGBT+ group held its first national meeting of the year on 6 January. Around 20 of members met in London to discuss how we can fight for LGBT+ rights and build a mass movement against oppression. The meeting started with a general discussion on perspectives in the era of capitalist crisis. […]

Posted in: LGBTQ, Organising
3aaa Collapses – 4,500 Apprentices Left Guessing Their Futures

3aaa Collapses – 4,500 Apprentices Left Guessing Their Futures

For the last two years I’ve been working as an apprentice through the training provider Aspire Achieve Advance or 3aaa. This all changed when the Education and Skills Funding Agency terminated all of its contracts with the company resulting in its collapse. There is now a police investigation into fraud at 3aaa and 4,500 apprentices […]