Jacobin: “Saving the NHS”

I had an article in Jacobin today on the ongoing Junior Doctors strike in England, and its larger political meaning.

Dissent: The Twilight of the British Public Health System?

Less than two years after the fall of Nazi Germany, a bankrupt Britain—reeling from the most destructive war in history and living under conditions of stark austerity—elected to create an extraordinary system of universal health care, the National Health Service (NHS) …

My article on the ongoing assault in the Spring 2014 issue of Dissent is available here.