Features
Goretti Horgan explains how decades of underfunding and creeping privatisation has undermined the once treasured NHS. During the COVID crisis, People before Profit and others initiated a campaign for an All-Ireland NHS. The reasoning was simple: Covid-19 plunged the health and social care systems, north and south of
Ecosocialism
Who fears a Left Government? Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin explores the media meltdown that heralded the arrival of People Before Profit’s new pamphlet. In 1996 BBC journalist Andrew Marr interviewed Noam Chomsky about his theory of the media, Manufacturing Consent. Among other things, Chomsky spoke about the role of the
Covid-19
Writing on behalf of the All-Ireland NHS campaign, Chris Carroll analyses the limits of the current plan for fixing healthcare: Sláintecare. He argues the lessons of history show that instead of its technical approach we need a broad movement to win a 32-county universal healthcare system. “Medicine is
Covid-19
Despite the heroic efforts of overworked and underpaid frontline workers, the pandemic has exposed the sorry state of health services north and south. Conor Reddy argues that the case for an All-Ireland National Health Service has never been stronger. As Covid-19 case numbers rise and hospitals once again
Features
The horrific treatment of elderly residents at the Dunmurry Manor care home has shocked many. But as Eamonn McCann argues, this revelation is not an isolated incident but the latest example of a scandalous system of institutionalised abuse. Among key things to keep in mind about the “horrific catalogue of