Socialist Health Association
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Campaigning organisation defending the public provision of healthcare and speaking out on international issues. Https://sochealth.co.uk
aje.io/usafnl So Blair thought the British military were above international law. There were mass protests of millions which he tried to sideline. His actions kept Labour out of office for over a decade leading to brutal austerity.
Did Tony Blair influence trial of UK soldiers accused of killing Iraqi man?
Government files suggest former UK prime minister pressured officials to prevent soldiers being tried in civil courts.
aje.io
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
aje.io/usafnl So Blair thought the British military were above international law. There were mass protests of millions which he tried to sideline. His actions kept Labour out of office for over a decade leading to brutal austerity.
Since Trump demanded we all pay more taxes into the war machine those arms companies instead of developing new machines of war are paying shareholders billions. Capitalism can’t fix either healthcare or even warfare.
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Since Trump demanded we all pay more taxes into the war machine those arms companies instead of developing new machines of war are paying shareholders billions. Capitalism can’t fix either healthcare or even warfare.
Astonishingly high cost-of-living in the USA if people struggle to survive on $70,500 and $151,000 a year is needed for rent, food and child care. And of course there is healthcare too.
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Astonishingly high cost-of-living in the USA if people struggle to survive on $70,500 and $151,000 a year is needed for rent, food and child care. And of course there is healthcare too.
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Today, French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalized in 1975.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
France exonerates women convicted over abortions before legalisation
Between 1870 and 1975, more than 11,660 people were convicted for performing or seeking an abortion, according to official estimates.
www.lemonde.fr
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Today, French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalized in 1975.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
Great to see Andrea Egan win Gen Sec UNISON, the biggest public service union in UK (Andrea pictured with SHA activists protesting low pay). She has a tough task ahead organising and inspiring members to fight back after years of union passivity. We wish her the very best.
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Great to see Andrea Egan win Gen Sec UNISON, the biggest public service union in UK (Andrea pictured with SHA activists protesting low pay). She has a tough task ahead organising and inspiring members to fight back after years of union passivity. We wish her the very best.
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I just got a taxi from the train station to home.
The muslim taxi driver told me to have a Happy Christmas. The same way that when it’s Eid, I would say Eid Mubarak.
That’s Luton. That’s the real world.
Some folk would do well to get off X and visit it sometimes.
The muslim taxi driver told me to have a Happy Christmas. The same way that when it’s Eid, I would say Eid Mubarak.
That’s Luton. That’s the real world.
Some folk would do well to get off X and visit it sometimes.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I just got a taxi from the train station to home.
The muslim taxi driver told me to have a Happy Christmas. The same way that when it’s Eid, I would say Eid Mubarak.
That’s Luton. That’s the real world.
Some folk would do well to get off X and visit it sometimes.
The muslim taxi driver told me to have a Happy Christmas. The same way that when it’s Eid, I would say Eid Mubarak.
That’s Luton. That’s the real world.
Some folk would do well to get off X and visit it sometimes.
What depressingly divisive attack lines from the Parliamentary Labour Party. These questions are being briefed to backbenchers to ask ministers.
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What depressingly divisive attack lines from the Parliamentary Labour Party. These questions are being briefed to backbenchers to ask ministers.
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🚨BREAKING: #NHS patients are outside Wes Streeting's office after waiting 392 days for a meeting.
Meanwhile, Wes has found time to accept £220k+ from private healthcare linked donors.
So today they came to his office and only then did he FINALLY agree to meet with them.
Meanwhile, Wes has found time to accept £220k+ from private healthcare linked donors.
So today they came to his office and only then did he FINALLY agree to meet with them.
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🚨BREAKING: #NHS patients are outside Wes Streeting's office after waiting 392 days for a meeting.
Meanwhile, Wes has found time to accept £220k+ from private healthcare linked donors.
So today they came to his office and only then did he FINALLY agree to meet with them.
Meanwhile, Wes has found time to accept £220k+ from private healthcare linked donors.
So today they came to his office and only then did he FINALLY agree to meet with them.
Sadly the best defence against NHS outsourcing is Austerity2. Do check out sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/21/sav…
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sadly the best defence against NHS outsourcing is Austerity2. Do check out sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/21/sav…
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ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care
The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
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What a privilege it was to speak last night with young leaders from across the UK, all of whom care passionately about human rights and want to see lasting peace in Palestine.
Thank you to the Palestinian Ambassador, @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, and everyone who travelled for this special event.
Thank you to the Palestinian Ambassador, @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, and everyone who travelled for this special event.
December 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What a privilege it was to speak last night with young leaders from across the UK, all of whom care passionately about human rights and want to see lasting peace in Palestine.
Thank you to the Palestinian Ambassador, @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, and everyone who travelled for this special event.
Thank you to the Palestinian Ambassador, @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, and everyone who travelled for this special event.
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Photographs released by the Hanover Animal Protection and Shelter show a drunk raccoon passed out in the bathroom of a Virginia liquor store after ransacking the shop. The raccoon was safely returned to the wild after sobering up at the shelter.
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Photographs released by the Hanover Animal Protection and Shelter show a drunk raccoon passed out in the bathroom of a Virginia liquor store after ransacking the shop. The raccoon was safely returned to the wild after sobering up at the shelter.
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The Reform has dropped the act, openly Thatcherite. The Conservatives are copying them to save their skins. The best way to cut support for the authoritarian right is to stand with people against profiteers in water and energy, and give real security.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Reform has dropped the act, openly Thatcherite. The Conservatives are copying them to save their skins. The best way to cut support for the authoritarian right is to stand with people against profiteers in water and energy, and give real security.
Some of our SHA members marching today for Palestinians. The SHA in its 95 year history has an unparalleled record of internationalism. Our members stand in that tradition! #freepalastine
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Some of our SHA members marching today for Palestinians. The SHA in its 95 year history has an unparalleled record of internationalism. Our members stand in that tradition! #freepalastine
SHA view on the Budget proposals to reintroduce ruinous PFI in healthcare - Socialist Health Association sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/25/s...
SHA view on the Budget - Socialist Health Association
Introduction There are a number of aspects of the forthcoming budget to consider we focus here on the decisions directly related to health in the knowledge that dealing effectively with the social det...
sochealth.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
SHA view on the Budget proposals to reintroduce ruinous PFI in healthcare - Socialist Health Association sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/25/s...
Important article on big pharma www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Drug pricing and pharmaceutical innovation: a false promise
The UK is facing a pharma exodus. Major pharmaceutical companies have withdrawn about
£2 billion in proposed investment from the country, blaming insufficient government
investment. Central to the dis...
www.thelancet.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Important article on big pharma www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
There is a huge threat to public services everywhere check whats happening to your eye hospital @oxfordclarion.bsky.social sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/21/s...
Saving NHS Eye Hospitals - Socialist Health Association
Report Mark Ladbrooke, Secretary SHA As the Public Accounts Committee issues a damning report on the failure to deliver reductions on NHS waiting times (19 Nov 2025) we look at just one specific examp...
sochealth.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There is a huge threat to public services everywhere check whats happening to your eye hospital @oxfordclarion.bsky.social sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/21/s...
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Labour’s asylum proposals are a denial of fundamental health and human rights to the most vulnerable and a betrayal of health equity principles.
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Rethink Approach To Asylum - Socialist Health Association
The Wrong Prescription – Why Labour Must Rethink Its Approach To Asylum Rathi Guhadasan, 18 November 2025The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secret...
sochealth.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Labour’s asylum proposals are a denial of fundamental health and human rights to the most vulnerable and a betrayal of health equity principles.
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
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The Tories' catastrophic COVID incompetence cannot be repeated.
Care homes were turned into morgues while No 10 Downing Street partied the night away.
Lessons must be learned.
Care homes were turned into morgues while No 10 Downing Street partied the night away.
Lessons must be learned.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Tories' catastrophic COVID incompetence cannot be repeated.
Care homes were turned into morgues while No 10 Downing Street partied the night away.
Lessons must be learned.
Care homes were turned into morgues while No 10 Downing Street partied the night away.
Lessons must be learned.
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In the 2.5 years since the war in Sudan broke out, over 150,000 civilians are thought to have died.
Journalists show extraordinary bravery reporting from the front lines.
Our contributor @moniango.bsky.social
spoke to Basma Shams and Eyad Hisham from @ayinnetwork.bsky.social
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Journalists show extraordinary bravery reporting from the front lines.
Our contributor @moniango.bsky.social
spoke to Basma Shams and Eyad Hisham from @ayinnetwork.bsky.social
buff.ly/M4wXTpb
How this newsroom braves Sudan’s civil war to keep the world informed
When war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, Basma Shams witnessed independent journalism collapse under the weight of violence and repression. A brutal information war between the Sudanese Armed…
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In the 2.5 years since the war in Sudan broke out, over 150,000 civilians are thought to have died.
Journalists show extraordinary bravery reporting from the front lines.
Our contributor @moniango.bsky.social
spoke to Basma Shams and Eyad Hisham from @ayinnetwork.bsky.social
buff.ly/M4wXTpb
Journalists show extraordinary bravery reporting from the front lines.
Our contributor @moniango.bsky.social
spoke to Basma Shams and Eyad Hisham from @ayinnetwork.bsky.social
buff.ly/M4wXTpb
Great unity March today through Oxford in response to anti migrant organising by the right. Union and Labour turnout - a few hundred.
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Great unity March today through Oxford in response to anti migrant organising by the right. Union and Labour turnout - a few hundred.
So now we will have homeless asylum seekers. They will have fled oppression to freeze on our streets. This is the ‘moral mission’ of the government. Words fail us.
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So now we will have homeless asylum seekers. They will have fled oppression to freeze on our streets. This is the ‘moral mission’ of the government. Words fail us.
On my way to the parliamentary launch of a critique of the NHS 10 year plan organised by @RichardBurgon the SHA @SocialistHealth is delighted to support socialist MPs and of course fellow health campaigners 99-percent.org
Home - 99%
99-percent.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
On my way to the parliamentary launch of a critique of the NHS 10 year plan organised by @RichardBurgon the SHA @SocialistHealth is delighted to support socialist MPs and of course fellow health campaigners 99-percent.org
So the FT is advocating for a low wage economy with on work poverty?
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
So the FT is advocating for a low wage economy with on work poverty?
Back from the Chartist convention in Newport. Former SHA President, Julian Tudor Hart, pictured on the red banner, coined the ‘inverse care law’ which describes how the market in healthcare denies care to the poorest. Will Marmot Places be an answer.
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Back from the Chartist convention in Newport. Former SHA President, Julian Tudor Hart, pictured on the red banner, coined the ‘inverse care law’ which describes how the market in healthcare denies care to the poorest. Will Marmot Places be an answer.