Monthly Archives: January 2016

SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...

THREE G4S employees were arrested yesterday and are being held on suspicion of child neglect following an investigation into abuse at a young offenders...

IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...

IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...

MASS picket lines packed with enthusiastic doctors and supporters were the rule in every part of the country yesterday on the first day of...

YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...

GREECE’S Seamen’s Pension Fund union held a general assembly to decide on further action on the second day of a two-day strike over pensions. Pension...

TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...

A MEDECINS Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF)-supported hospital has been hit in northern Yemen causing at least four deaths, injuring 10 people and leading...

THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...

TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...

‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...

THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...

EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...

IRISH nurses and midwives are taking strike action from next week, with two-hour rolling stoppages commencing on Thursday, 14th January. Members of the Irish Nurses...

THE privatised assessment tests which find sick and disabled people ‘fit for work’ are ‘failing claimants and taxpayers’ and must be ‘brought back in-house’,...

‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...

IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...

DEPUTY head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniya has urged Arab and Muslim leaders in the region, in letters sent to them, to support...

‘PIG-headed’ EDF Energy bosses have sparked a week-long meter workers’ strike. A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations will take...

LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...

‘GENERAL practice across England is under unprecedented pressure,’ was the BMA’s response yesterday to the news that hundreds of surgeries across the country applied...

PEOPLE trapped in property fires, floods and road traffic collisions will have to wait far longer for firefighters to rescue them if cuts are...

‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...

THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...

THREE increases in the minimum wage in New York took place on the last day of 2015, with workers in the fast food industry,...

BRITAIN’S housing bubble is a threat to the global stability of capitalism – this is the assessment of Crispin Odey, the country’s leading hedge...

JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...

BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...

THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

‘WHAT is the NHS? To those who run it, a vast endeavour employing 1.4m people, consuming one pound in every six of public spending....

THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...

THE Royal Commission report into Trade Unions should be relegated to the dustbin of 2015, along with Abbott and Co,’ said Australian Construction, Forestry,...

THE General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) IT system, designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs, is late,...

AN increasing number of pupils in Scotland are going to school hungry and a number are displaying signs of stress and lethargy, according to...