Monthly Archives: January 2011

The regime of Hosni Mubarak is finished, crushed by the millions of workers, middle class, poor and – most importantly – the youth who...

THE 250 migrant workers, on hunger strike since last Tuesday in Athens, have been forced to abandon the University of Athens Law School hall...

TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...

Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptian workers and youth yesterday remained in control of the centre of Cairo, during a sixth day of protests...

TEACHING unions on Thursday slammed the government’s Education Bill. The NASUWT said it was a Bill that ‘has all the hallmarks of being conceived by...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the army to take charge of security along with the riot police after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians...

THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...

‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...

NHS London has given the go-ahead for plans to close Chase Farm Hospital A&E and the consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, despite massive opposition...

THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...

NEARLY three hundred migrant workers, almost all of north African origin, have been on a mass hunger strike in Greece since Tuesday demanding: ‘the...

‘THIS response details the BMA’s position on the specific areas for reform contained in the consultation Liberating the NHS: Greater choice and control, building...

THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...

The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...

BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...

THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...

Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...

The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...

‘The historic printers’ strike set the scene for a struggle, not just against Murdoch but the whole capitalist state,’ All Trades Unions Alliance national...

A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...

ANGRY Palestinians demonstrated against French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday over a ‘war crimes’ quote attributed to her by...

AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...

ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...

St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)

Tony Blair yesterday claimed at the Chilcot Inquiry that he ‘regrets deeply and profoundly the loss of life’ in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. His...

THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...

NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts. In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...

THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

THE ARAB leaders meeting on Wednesday at an economic summit in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh expressed ‘fears’ that poverty, unemployment and recession, coupled...

Sunday January 23rd 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)

LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday.   The union is calling on the government to...

UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...

Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...

Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...

inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...

The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

The Palestinians have turned down a US request to avoid seeking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the...

The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...

Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of Amman and other cities on Friday to protest against soaring commodity prices, unemployment and poverty, calling...

NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...

Hospitals could face closure to make space for private providers, warns a new report from the NHS managers’ organisation. Ahead of the publication on Wednesday...