Junior doctors need solidarity
Junior doctors struck again for three days before Christmas (20-23 December) and six days after (3-9 January). Since March they have had 34 days of strikes in their campaign for “pay restoration” (reversal of large real-terms pay cuts since 2008). Their action, far more determined than other public-sector strikes, and escalating in December, has moved the government. Yet what is being offered to the junior doctors remains poor, yet another real-terms pay cut for many. In London British Medical Association (BMA) members organised city-wide pickets or demonstrations at different hospitals on...