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The deepening crisis in the public healthcare system is a major issue facing the working class in the New Zealand election being held tomorrow. Hospitals are chronically understaffed, emergency departments overcrowded, and tens of thousands of patients face lengthy delays for specialist appointments and treatment.
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Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee retweeted
Young people who want to stop world war and fascism need to get involved in the @SEP_Australia's state election campaign!
They are fighting for significant wage increases, better benefits and working conditions and stronger protections for international medical graduates who are vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant attacks.
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As the campaign for the Victorian state election gets underway, the various capitalist parties—Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, One Nation and the Greens—barely refer to the chronic conditions of healthcare for working people.
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Below is the latest diary entry by a resident doctor at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust in England. The diary, written for NHS FightBack, exposes conditions in frontline healthcare and has been followed by thousands of NHS workers on Facebook and X.
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Recently released figures expose the crisis gripping public hospitals; seriously ill patients spending prolonged periods in overcrowded emergency departments, ambulances delayed in transferring patients and exhausted healthcare workers struggling to provide essential care.
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“I will not be voting Labor as I have since I was 18 and since I started voting 40 years ago. There’s not enough help for the people.” – Afrah, aged care worker
ALT “They’re not focused on us. They focus on war”—Victorian workers and youth speak on election
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee retweeted
The SEP has won a warm response to the announcement that the party is contesting the November 28 Victorian election. The SEP is the only party providing a socialist perspective against war, austerity and authoritarianism in the election
#auspol #vicvotes2026 #socialism #antiwar
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee retweeted
High schoolers Menar & Gabi spoke to @SEP_Australia campaigners about its anti-war program in the Victorian election. They said "the rich send the poor" & "there is money for healthcare and education, they just don't want people to be living in good conditions"
#auspol #vicvotes
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“I don’t support any of the wars that are happening”—Syed and his friend Ardia, both high school students, spoke to members of @SEP_Australia, the only party fighting for an anti-war program in the Victorian election
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Today I spoke with health workers at Northern Hospital in Epping, an outer working-class suburb of Melbourne. We discussed the crisis in healthcare, the union-Labor sellout of striking doctors, and the need for an independent movement of workers.
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Register now for the @SEP_Australia's Victorian election campaign launch! forms.gle/9oQPHC9zUhjJxWAt6
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Vote for the Socialist Equality Group, the socialist alternative to war and austerity! Attend our public meeting on Sunday in Lower Hutt! wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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Public meeting to launch our Victorian election campaign, advancing a socialist perspective against war, austerity, authoritarianism + the far right
Register
forms.gle/9oQPHC9zUhjJxWAt6
⏰Sunday, Nov 1, 2:30pm
📍Kirrip Community Centre, 135 De Rossi Blvd, Wollert
or join on Zoom
Workers denounced the imposition of a salary increase without their mandate as an attempt to suppress the movement, chanting “Olivos, get this: the rank and file is not for sale.”
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Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee retweeted
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is standing candidates in the November 28 Victorian election to provide workers and young people with a socialist and internationalist way forward against war, austerity, authoritarianism and the far right.
The withdrawal of free vaccination is the latest stage in an anti-scientific assault on public health measures and infrastructure, carried out by successive governments in the interests of big business.
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New research has exposed the deadly consequences of chronic understaffing in New Zealand’s public hospitals, finding that 182 deaths per year are linked to inadequate nurse numbers on surgical wards.
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We are publishing the second of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
#auspol #auspol2026 #socialism
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Every one of these preventable deaths represents not merely a statistic, but a devastating human loss. They cannot be understood in isolation from the systematic dismantling of the National Health Service (NHS).
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