WELCOME TO YOUR NEW LOOK PAPER! FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM INTERVIEW: PASTOR PAGE 12 NTUMBA ON CONGO WAR £1.5O Saturday/Sunday February 3-4 2018 | Owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est. 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk As the NHS nears its 70th birthday on July 5, marches and demonstrations are RALLYbeing held across 54 towns and cities WARNS today demanding action over the crisis ■ NEWS Carillion: Hundreds made redundant UNIONS warn that thousands more jobs are at risk as chaotic bankruptcy of outsourcing and construction giant claims NO 10 TO FIX its first mass haul of victims. Turn to page 6 Ken Livingstone: p13 ■ WORLD Remembering where NHS CRISIS fascism was broken RUSSIA commemorates 75 years since the Battle of Stalingrad turned back the ■ WORL THOUSANDS of health workers, had a minor operation and was Late last year, the pair had a nazis. RALLY GUIDE Turn to page 7 patients, union members and by Lamiat Sabin discharged two days later. row on Twitter during which activists will join marches “She has excellent insurance Mr Little accused Mr Hunt of ASSEMBLE nationwide today to demand an so was only presented with a “knowingly lying to the public.” 12pm Gower Street (North end to the NHS crisis. “We need to reverse the tide bill for $2,500 (£1,750). In response, Mr Hunt chal- Side) Nearest stations: The government will be of cuts and privatisation. We “My mother was rushed to lenged him to provide evidence ■ SPORT Euston, Euston Square, urged to provide more beds, need to end pay restraint for hospital in an ambulance, that he was deliberately trying Warren Street staff and funds to ease the prob- NHS staff and we need to build received expert emergency to mislead, which triggered Mr Six Nations preview: MARCH lems facing the service. a fully funded, publicly owned care, stayed in hospital for two Little’s offer of a public debate. Bloomsbury Street - The NHS in Crisis: Fix it Now and provided NHS and social weeks to recover, was treated Royal College of Nursing Will it be a washout? Shaftesbury Avenue event was organised by the Peo- care service. We need our NHS daily by consultants, physical president Cecilia Akrisie Anim ple’s Assembly Against Auster- more than we need the Tory A WAVE of injuries has cost - Charing Cross Road - therapists, occupational thera- will address the rally to say that ity and Health Campaigns government.” pists and nursing staff, was nurses are bearing the brunt of the teams dearly ahead Whitehall / Downing Street Together. Shadow health secretary Jon escorted home in a taxi and the huge pressures on the NHS. of rugby union’s biggest TIMINGS Activists are due to join the Ashworth, who will be attend- checked on three times a day She is expected to say: “Staff spectacle. DAVID NICHOLSON 12pm - 1pm: Assemble & lead march through central ing, said that the NHS is strug- for a further five weeks.” at every level are experiencing surveys the damage. speeches London from noon before hold- gling through its “worst winter Earlier this week, Mr Little burnout and many of our col- Turn to page 22 1pm: March leaves off ing an hour-long rally opposite on record” when we should be had escalated his attack on leagues are turning their back Downing Street, with linked celebrating its 70th year. hated Health Secretary Jeremy on jobs they love. 2pm: March reaches end protests also taking place in 54 He added: “We have a fight Hunt by challenging him to a “It’s no surprise that nursing point other towns and cities across on our hands for the future of showdown at today’s rally. staff feel overstretched and 2.15-3.30pm Speeches England. a universal public NHS.” He issued an open letter to undervalued. There are now 4pm: Disperse People’s Assembly organiser Actor Ralf Little recalled how Mr Hunt that offered a time for more than 40,000 nurse vacan- Ramona McCartney said: “The his mother suffered a stroke them to publicly discuss cies in England alone. There will be a short emergency demonstration is in and was saved by NHS staff resources, staff and funding in Turn to page 5 FRANCES O’GRADY march route for disabled demand of more beds, more staff while his mother-in-law paid the NHS. Star comment 12 A new deal is people or those who don’t and more funds for our NHS. thousands for a routine opera- needed for feel they can manage the “As we mark the NHS’s 70th tion in Florida. workers whole route. birthday, we have to build a move- He said: “My mother-in-law PAGE 10 P11 ment that fights to defend it. spent two nights in hospital, GAIL CARTMAIL has provided today’s edition free to everyone taking part in the NHS is in Crisis — Fix it Now demonstration Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online ■ GMC Doctors protest against colleague’s sacking DOCTORS will demonstrate outside the General Medical Council’s (GMC) offices today to protest against the striking off of one of their colleagues. Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was struck off last month after the GMC successfully appealed against her initial 12-month suspension to the High Court. She was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter and received a suspended jail sen- tence over the 2011 death of six-year-old Jack Adcock who suffered a cardiac arrest caused by sepsis. But many doctors have reacted angrily to the GMC measures, arguing that many of the issues raised by the case, such as dangerous levels of understaffing, have been ignored. A crowdfunding page has raised more than £275,000 so Dr Bawa-Garba can launch an appeal against the ruling. Protesters will gather outside the GMC offices in central Lon- don before joining a wider HISTORICAL MOMENT: march to demand an end to the (Clockwise from top) Great crisis in the NHS organised by granddaughter of Suff ragette the People’s Assembly and Emmeline Pankhurst Helen Health Campaigns Pankhurst visiting the Royal Together. Mint in South Wales, where she struck a commemorative 50p coin to mark 100 years since the passing through Parliament of donate the Representation of the People Act, a portrait of Ms Pankhurst and the new coin on ONLINE top of the Act morningstaronline .co.uk/page/ support-us NORFOLK AND ■ ECONOMY SUFFOLK NEW READERS & SUPPORTERS GROUP! Labour challenges Tories to Join us in Great Yarmouth for the inaugural meeting of the Norfolk and Suffolk Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group. Morning Star editor Ben Chacko will be publish their tax returns joining us discussing bias in the mainstream media and Socialist responses. 7.30pm Thursday February 8 by Lamiat Sabin being leader of the opposition He earned just £6 in interest Herois De Mar, 6-7 Broad Row, Great Yarmouth Parliamentary Reporter and two pensions, and paid a over the tax year, which suggests total of £48,079.80 in tax. that he has almost no savings. Norfolk NR30 1HT He received £6,464 in state His office said he has no JEREMY CORBYN and John pension and £2,405 from a Uni- stocks or shares, benefits from McDonnell heaped pressure son union pension, on which no trust funds and did not on their Tory counterparts to he paid £962 in tax. receive any income from prop- publish their tax returns by Mr Corbyn said: “Tax avoid- erty. The Workers’ Stately Home making their own public yes- ance and evasion deprive our Mr Corbyn’s returns also terday. public services of tens of bil- shows a total of £890 in gift aid sends greetings to all those The Labour leader paid lions of pounds every year and contributions linked to charity almost £50,000 to the Excheq- will only be tackled if we have donations over the year. attending the uer, according to figures the political will to do it. Prime Minister Theresa May released by the party. “We cannot expect the public published her tax returns while #FixOurNHS In the 2016-17 tax year, he to trust us as party leaders if standing for the Tory leadership received a total income of we are not prepared to be open OUT IN THE OPEN: Jeremy in 2016 but did not do so last demonstration £136,762, including one salary and honest about our own tax Corbyn’s tax return, which he has year despite Mr Corbyn releas- for being an MP, another for arrangements.” just published ing his. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 3 ■ ECONOMY ■ WOMEN’S RIGHTS New coin marks 100 THOUSANDS FEAR THE WORST AS years since vote won CARILLION CONFIRMS SACKINGS SUFFRAGETTE Emmeline Pankhurst’s great-grand- COLLAPSED OUTSOURCING GIANT: Union Unite says workers face chaos as fi rm announces redundancies daughter struck a com- memorative 50p coin by Sam Tobin person said laid-off workers repeatedly urged both the yesterday marking 100 would be entitled to make a receiver and PWC [a giant years since some women claim for statutory redundancy accountancy appointed as spe- won the right to vote. UNITE warned yesterday that payments and the Jobcentre cial managers of Carillion by Dr Helen Pankhurst was thousands of workers at col- Plus “rapid response service” the High Court] to follow a at the Royal Mint in lapsed outsourcing firm Caril- would provide support. proper procedure and consult Llantrisant, south Wales, to lion face “chaos and confusion” But a Unite spokesperson over redundancies. imprint the design of the after hundreds of redundancies said the latest announcements “Dismissing Carillion workers coin, paying tribute to the were confirmed.