Monthly Archives: May 2016

BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee Chair Dr Johann Malawana admitted on Saturday that despite gigantic efforts to find ‘common ground,’ no agreement could be reached...

‘PAY all at least he London Living Wage! No sackings! No cuts to hours! Affordable cinema tickets for working class families! Save our community...

AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...

TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday responded to a written statement by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove,...

TEACHERS’ unions united together this week in condemning the Tory SATs tests ‘debacle’, vividly reporting the harm they are doing to children and insisting...

AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...

THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...

ISRAELI forces detained early on Tuesday 10 more Palestinians, including four minors, from a number of West Bank districts, said Palestine Prisoners’ Society. Forces detained...

THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...

UK military personel carrying out drone strikes ‘could be vulnerable to a charge of murder,’ Labour MP Harriet Harman said yesterday. Harman chairs the cross-party...

ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...

OVER 30,000 workers, unemployed, youth and students, lawyers, small shop keepers and poor farmers filled up the large square in front of the Vouli...

ISRAELI forces on Sunday morning opened fire on Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza Strip, local officials said yesterday. Local residents added that Israeli forces...

JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...

A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...

FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...

‘THIS is a huge government climb-down and is a testament to the campaigning of teachers and parents,’ Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the...

WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...

IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

UNIVERSAL Credit is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for many low-paid working families, shop workers union Usdaw warned. Last Tuesday, the full roll-out of Universal Credit...

IN an overwhelming victory for Labour, Sadiq Khan has become the new mayor of London yesterday. Londoners were glad to see the back of Boris...

THE Junior Doctors Committee of the BMA is meeting this Saturday to respond to Tory Health minister, Hunt, who has been forced to agree...

THE TORY government has been forced to make a fundamental retreat: their plans to force all of England’s schools to become academies have been...

HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...

THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...

MORE than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their...

PULITZER Prize-winning novelist, prominent Jewish-American author Michael Chabon says the Israeli oppression of Palestinians is worse than the apartheid system in South Africa. Chabon accompanied...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...

THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...

GOOGLE has been given the confidential records including full names and patient histories of an estimated 1.6 million NHS patients in a data-sharing agreement. Under...

CRUCIAL parts of an inquiry into undercover police spies who spent years embedded in political movements are to be heard in secret in order...

BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...

THE Egyptian government should legalise independent trade unions, Human Rights Watch said last Sunday, May 1st, International Workers’ Day. What has emerged is that police...

MAY DAY in France erupted into state-organised violence when riot police attacked workers and youth in what was a blatant attempt to crack down...

WORKERS and youth on the 10,000-strong May Day march in London on Sunday expressed their determination to defend the NHS and the Welfare State. Many...

‘JEREMY Hunt. How dare you!’ wrote Julie Lovell, a woman whose 33-year-old daughter Karen, died after the end of the two-day junior doctor strike....

A MASS ‘kids strike’ takes place today as the hated SATs exams are boycotted by more than 30,000 parents and their children. Parents...

THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...

OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat slammed Israel’s official rejection of the upcoming French initiative as a ‘reaffirmation of the Israeli government’s decision to continue...