Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds | NHS | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/13/private-companies-nhs-services-profit-chpi-research

"The £1.6bn in profits made in 2023-24 and 2024-25 would have been enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses during that time, according to the Centre for Health and the Public Interest."

Then people wonder why the NHS struggles for money. But this was predictable, and no doubt the plan all along.

#UK #NHS #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Profiteering

Once again austerity politics are viewed as the best method to weather off the storm that the attack on Iran has initiated especially regarding the dwindling availability of core ressources.

Once again they preach market doctrine before saving people from having to experience poverty, famine and general misery. Never touch the fantasma of market logics even though people suffer immensely from inflation and scarcity of basic goods.

All this will play out in the next months especially as winter sets in - they don't want to accept that we live under war conditions and take necessary measures to secure the well-being of all people

Stating that the US and Israel brought us into this mess would risk that their allegiance to the aggressors would be exposed in its irrationality.

#war #fossilfuel #austerity #neoliberalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36sSE2SuA0Q

I'm still undecided whether neoliberalism as a concept is actually analytically useful or if it doesn't obscure more than it illuminates

@histodons #neoliberalism #history

#neoliberalism #alternatives

Just out, Francesco Laruffa and my "After Neoliberalism? Interregnum, Polycrisis and the Principle of Expansive Democratisation"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600826.2026.2647237

We start by clarifying the relationship between neoliberalism, globalisation and the state as well as between neoliberalism, “populism”, and far-right conservatism. We argue that, despite important political-economic changes, we are still in an “interregnum”...

12 Years old and more relevant by the day. If you want to understand how capitalism works in an objective way and told in a friendly, soft toned manner, then this is for you. 🙂

#capitalism #neoliberalism #economy #lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA8mBCl7Y2U

Our descendants will never forgve us for allowing this incremental democratic slide into fascism via neoliberalism

#democracy #neoliberalism #Fascism