#capitalismfails — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalismfails, aggregated by home.social.
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Blackpool – Kicking the Poorest People into the Gutter
Improving the lives of people "entrenched in poverty" would be praiseworthy if this project did that but gentrification removes poverty from an area by forceable displacement of the current poverty stricken residents. The council fails to clarify how the lives of the evicted are being improved. Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people. 400 homes in Blackpool will […]https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/blackpool-kicking-the-poorest-people-into-the-gutter/
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The #UK has seen an “explosion” in insecure, low-paid #work in the past 14 years, according to a new report.
The #TUC said its study had found that the number of people in insecure work had reached a record high of 4.1 million
Analysis of official statistics shows number of people in precarious #employment – such as #ZeroHours contracts, low-paid self-employment & casual or seasonal work – increased ~1 million between 2011 & 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/14/uk-explosion-in-insecure-work-tuc-report
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NHS’s 75th birthday is make or break moment for privatisation
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said up to 500 people may have died every week late last year because they could not access the urgent care they needed
The state of the NHS was predicted & predictable
The situation is worsening because politicians are failing to take necessary action to safeguard lives
#NHS #Healthcare #CapitalismFails #privatisation #ToryCorruption #SaveOurNHS #ToryCronyism