What strategy for the NHS pay strike?

With both UNISON and UNITE balloting for strike action and action short of a strike in the NHS, there is an urgent need for discussion among health activists of how we ensure the strikes are successful and strengthen our fight for to save the NHS, and don't result in disillusionment and disorganisation of our members.

While a ballot for action is welcome in the NHS, and long overdue, there are serious problems with the action the leaderships of UNISON and UNITE are proposing.

How can we save the NHS?

This pamphlet is a contribution to the debate over how we organise and campaign to save the NHS. It has been produced by the International Socialist Network and is available to download and distribute.

Banner at the Block the bridge action

What will it take to save the NHS? Almost all avenues have been tried in one way or another. This pamphlet attempts to advance a strategy for uniting the different forces involved in NHS campaigns into a movement which can mobilize the great mass of NHS staff and our patients, the public, in the mass social movement that is needed to halt the programme of cuts and privatisation dismantling the NHS. It does not focus on the attacks, by successive Tory and Labour governments, but rather the response of unions, professional bodies and grassroots activists.