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Danger! NHS under threat
Wendy Savage reports on the railroading of the Health and Social Care Bill and the campaign to stop privatization

New pamphlets from Chartist

The politics of housing development in an age of austerity by Duncan Bowie examines housing policy over one hundred years and is a powerful critique of New Labour and current coalition government policy.

The Big Society - The Big Con and the Alternative by Andy Gregg and Mike Davis unmasks the paradoxes of Cameron's 'big society'.

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Emergency Exit?
As capitalism goes bust austerity is not the answer says Frank Lee in outlining an alternative economic programme

The Egyptian Revolution— reasons to be cheerful
The military junta wields power but the workers hold the key to change says Sasha Simic

Going up - rents, poverty, homelessness
Karen Buck on the impact of cuts to Housing Benefit

Women - seize the time
Tehmina Kazi argues equality must be at the forefront of the Arab revolution

Fairtrade - more than a shopping option
Glenn Power highlights good practice in arguing councils could do far more to promote Fairtrade

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