Monthly Archives: June 2014

AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...

PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...

LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to stop Hove Park School in Brighton & Hove being turned into an academy have called a march for July 5th. Hands Off...

Greek armed riot police viciously attacked with their shields a group of protesting sacked women cleaners at the entrance to the Finance Ministry building...

FAR too many young Canadian workers are either unemployed or underemployed and governments must come up with a strategy to solve the problem –...

WHAT stood out like a sore thumb when the emergency question was put to Home Secretary May in the House of Commons, on Monday...

STAFF at City College Brighton took one-day strike action yesterday against threatened job losses and cuts to courses and support staff. The UCU members voted...

NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) leaders yesterday opposed government plans for unannounced school inspections and taking state schools out of Birmingham City Council’s control...

AT LAST Friday’s annual meeting of T-Mobile US Inc. in Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle, shareholders voted on a proposal urging the T-Mobile board...

THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...

BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...

THE LABOUR opposition let both Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May off the hook by failing to call for their...

‘FREE, Free Palestine!’ shouted a crowd of over 400 workers and youth demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy on Saturday. The protest was part of the...

EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...

EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove is appearing before the House of Commons today to explain his role in the ‘Trojan Horse’ row for which he...

‘WHOSE GP surgeries? Our GP surgeries?’ rang out through the streets of east London as over 200 local residents, trade unionists, health...

SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...

AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...

HUGE masses of people took to the streets just after Speaker of the People''s Assembly, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, announced that Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad...

THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...

DOCTORS’ leaders, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady joined paramedics, nurses, midwives and physiotherapists in a protest outside the...

OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...

‘THE very best of America has come from imminent disturbance, and to limit people’s right to assemble and protest is both unacceptable and un-American,’...

TODAY, GPs and their supporters will be marching through Tower Hamlets to demand proper funding of GP surgeries, which are threatened with closure due...

A SQUAD of Greek armed riot police on Tuesday morning attacked the sacked women cleaners who were blockading the entrance into one of the...

THE ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) are demanding the reinstatement of 78 unfairly...

NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...

The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...

YESTERDAY students at Crown Woods School in Eltham were on strike against management’s decision to turn the school into an academy. Students gathered outside the...

LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

THE Cambodian government should quash the convictions of 25 human rights activists, factory workers, and others for lack of evidence, Human Rights Watch has...

A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...

GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...

RUSSIA is seeking peaceful co-existence and ‘compromise’ both with the EU and Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko, President Putin’s supreme economic adviser, Andrey Belusov...

THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...