Monthly Archives: January 2013

THE ITUC has condemned the Greek government’s use of wartime emergency powers to break a week-long strike by metro transit workers in the capital...

THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...

WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...

Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

BRITAIN is to send 350 troops to Mali to be deployed as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’, Defence Secretary Hammond told an anxious House of Commons...

GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...

DAMASCUS, A blood donation campaign titled ‘A Drop of Blood from Damascus to Aleppo’ was organized in Damascus in appreciation of the sacrifices...

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...

‘AS I HAVE said from the beginning, the best way for this strike to end is with Local 1181, Mayor Bloomberg and the city’s...

five-hundred clerical and administration workers at three hospitals in West Yorkshire came out on strike on Sunday. They are striking for five-days against threats of...

MORE than 25,000 angry workers, trade unionists, youth and local residents marched through Lewisham in south-east London on Saturday, determined to stop the closure...

THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...

ONTARIO trade unionists and their families rallied in Toronto on Saturday to demand good jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the recall of the...

TEACHERS’ unions on Thursday slammed the latest publication of school league tables as part of a continuing attack on schools and teachers. Chris Keates, general...

THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

THE London Fire Brigades Union banner will be on today’s mass march to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital. Yesterday it was outside Ealing...

AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...

THE UK Foreign Office yesterday urged British nationals to leave Benghazi at once in response to ‘a specific and imminent threat’ to Westerners from...

A STARK reminder of what the real face of privatisation means for the public services has been provided this week with the revelation that...

MPs and trade union leaders addressed a press conference at parliament on Wednesday organised by the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign. They demanded the release of documents...

AN attempt to stop a strike by lecturers in public universities continuing in Kenya failed on Monday, after a university employers organisation failed...

BANK of England Governor King is going into retirement a worried man – that his successor, the Canadian banker Carney in alliance with a...

DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...

FILM-MAKER Ken Loach yesterday called on the trade unions to take strike action to force the release of government documents concerning the 1972-73 trial...

‘OCCUPYING fire stations to stop their closure is a tactic that should be considered,’ David Williams West Yorkshire Brigade Secretary told News Line at...

OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...

ANY ‘Mayoral Directive’ issued by London mayor Johnson to force through savage cuts and closures in the London fire service will be fought ‘vigorously’,...

‘THESE fire stations belong to the people of London and it’s the people of London who say that these buildings are ours and we...

TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...

THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...

CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...

A WAVE of protests against poor living and working conditions swept through the nation’s governorates last Monday. Residents of the villages around Kafr al-Sheikh blocked...

‘WE will be telling the management and the Mayor of London tomorrow that the cuts are totally unacceptable,’ London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) South...

THE government of Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has advanced a ‘record’ number of settlements during its nearly four years in office, a...

THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...

THE British Medical Association yesterday warned against mass A&E closures implicit in a review of emergency services being carried out Professor Sir Bruce Keogh,...

UNITE has condemned the government’s plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal. In a ministerial statement the government has announced plans to introduce...

THE South African government must nationalise mines that Anglo American Platinum Ltd (Amplats) is laying idle, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)...

WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...

2013 OPENS with Michael Farrar, the NHS confederation chairman, appealing for fewer hospitals and beds, and more care for elderly people in their own...

ON Monday, President Obama addressed the prospect of the USA going bust saying: ‘So to even entertain the idea of this happening – of...

GARMENT workers on Monday (January 14) marched in Dhaka city demanding assurances for a safe workplace and trade union rights in ...

Two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tall building under construction in Vauxhall,...

Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation remained at 2.7% in December, according to figures released yesterday, despite electricity, gas and food prices soaring, and wages...

BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...