New book on the crisis in the NHS, jointly produced by Angry Workers of the World
and the Anarchist Communist Group: ---- Essays exploring how workers in the NHSare fighting to improve patient care and working conditions, whilst also havingan eye on creating a future of vastly improved health and healthcare for all in apost-capitalist world. ---- The NHS is often called a ‘national treasure', andits workers are sometimes lauded as angels and heroes. In the last two years ofthe Covid-19 pandemic we have more than ever seen the reality of how it works -and also sometimes how it doesn't. ---- How have we ended up in this situation?What are the factors that have led to healthcare being organised and run the wayit is? What struggles are happening in the NHS currently, and how might wemagnify their impact and win gains now?Understanding all this is fundamental to enabling us as workers and patients tofight for better work conditions and better patient care under capitalism now,while also having an eye on ultimately creating a future of vastly improvedhealth and healthcare for all in a post-capitalist world.Essays include:Lost in service: How the NHS works for us & how we work for the NHSThe identity crisis of hospitals: Know the past to understand the presentA cup of tea and some militancy please?Thoughts of an NHS housekeeperStruggles in scrubs: A history of industrial action in the NHSFuck the clapping, let's get angry! Struggles in and beyond the white factoryA hotbed of pestilence: Cholera, covid, and the class struggleReports from the care sector Work and survival & Resistance in a crisisSuperstition, sickness, or service? Mental healthcare under (and after) capitalismWe only got that through struggle! Work, politics, and the future of the NHSYou've made your own bed, now die in it: Towards an emancipatory medicineCare not capital: Improving the lives and deaths of older peoplePandemic struggles and future healthcare in Greece: A view from belowBook details:Editorial Crew: Angry Workers, ACGhttps://surreyanarchistcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/2022/09/sick-of-it-all-work-inquiry-struggle-in.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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