This is a repost of an old article I wrote in 2012, about the lack of action by the unions and professional organisations to defend the NHS. Given how little action they have organised in the two years following this articles publication, its time those of us committed to defending the NHS take the lead and organise a national movement to save it.
Why, in the face of massive opposition, is more not being done to stop the government’s privatisation of the NHS?
Aneurin Bevan famously said that “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it” With the Health and Social Care Bill lurching ever closer to being passed, the big question in activists minds is; where is the national campaign to stop it? The jewel in the crown of the welfare state is about to be stolen from us, about to be handed over to greedy entrepreneurs and private finance. Britain could soon be a place where profit is made out of sickness.
