Junior Doctors Defend NHS From Tories

The junior doctors and their union the BMA are in the front line of attacks on the NHS. After two one-day strikes in January and February, the latest stage of their campaign of industrial action was a 48-hour strike on 9-10 March. It will continue with two further 48-hour stoppages in April (see “Junior doctors’ strike: organise to kill off Hunt’s contract“).

• Health unions and TUC must coordinate action and call a national demo

Striking workers in Leicester (March 9) – photo by Steve Score

What my mother would have said to David Cameron

By Heather Rawling

So David Cameron’s mother is apparently more concerned with Jeremy Corbyn’s attire, and whether he wants “God” to “save our gracious queen”, than whether he defends ordinary people against austerity.

My mother was a lifelong socialist and supporter of Militant, forerunner of the Socialist Party. Sadly she died in 1986. But I think I know what she would’ve said.

She would’ve told David Cameron that the working class is not fooled by politicians in Saville Row suits. She would have angrily berated him for attacking the welfare state that she and her mother before her had fought so hard to win. She would’ve told him that one worker was worth 100 of his ilk.

She was confident that the future belongs to workers and socialism and not to Tory politicians, defenders of the capitalist system which came into existence dripping with blood and will leave the stage of history having wreaked havoc on the world and its environment.