The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) group of the Anarchist Federation has published the second issue of What's Wrong with Angry.

Articles in Issue no. 2 include: No Safe Haven (LGBTQ asylum seekers), Queer? (definition), Race, Nationalism and Homophobia, Queers against the cuts,

Download PDF: http://www.afed.org.uk/pdfs/afed LGBTQ bulletin Whats wrong with Angry 2.pdf

Issue no.1 is here: Pride special - WHAT'S WRONG WITH ANGRY? [PDF] - Stonewall not Stonewall^TM, Manchester Pride con, Equality & freedom, Gay marriage, Pathetic BPP, Systematic prejudice, Family Values.

anarchist health worker

I work in one of the support services within the Nottingham NHS Citihealth organisation. We provide community health services to the Nottingham area. We have heard the current government promise to ring fence frontline health spending, however the reality on the ground is somewhat different.

Due to an ever increasing number of service users the very modest budget increases in the upcoming years do not allow us to maintain the current level of service provision. Frontline services have been cut despite political promises to the contrary. Recruitment including agency staff is frozen and retiring health are staff are not being replaced. Departments who can’t meet the required budget cuts through natural wastage are being forced to cut staff. Specialist commissioning staff are being replaced by a GPs buying up services. This has been tried before with disastrous results and was quickly abandoned. GPs are up in arms over having to provide a service they have no experience in and no time to administer. It’s almost certain that commissioning will be subcontracted en masse to eagerly waiting private consultancy firms. Also quality control and auditing of services are in the process of being replaced by, what at this stage, appears to be a code of voluntary self policing.

Read more: Everything we've won: they want it back (March 2011)

ANARCHIST STUDENT  issue 1, SEPTEMBER 2010 is out. First Bulletin of the Anarchist Federation Student Network. Featuring articles on cuts in HE, lessons from the Sussex Against Cuts campaign, postgraduate study, setting up your own anarchist cinema project and a complete guide to the student Left. If you are an anarchist currently in full-time education and would like to find out more about the AF please get in touch - studentafed.org.uk

Download PDF read text online.

Read more: Anarchist Student issue 1 September 2010

'Why bother voting?' - a 4 page anti-manifesto for the 2010 General Election is available for download from AF website, plus poster and sticker designs, and links to other relevant anarchist anti-election material and events:

Read more: 'Why bother voting?' Anti-manifesto for 2010 election

Article written in context of health reforms in the USA, of relevance to the debate about private vs. public healthcare (August 2009).

Private versus 'Socialised' healthcare: http://www.afed.org.uk/blog/international/114-private-versus-socialised-healthcare.html