Monthly Archives: February 2017

ISRAELI forces stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu on Sunday. Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray...

THIS week sees the return to Athens of the Troika’s ‘bail-out monitors’ to oversee yet another round of austerity cuts designed to crucify the...

‘LET’S be under no illusions this is a catastrophic breach of data protection,’ Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for health told Parliament...

THE NHS Bed crisis is a threat to patient safety, doctors have warned as the latest figures were released showing hospitals working at full...

LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...

AFTER Israeli authorities shut down a Palestinian elementary school in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir last Thursday over alleged ‘incitement’ in...

JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...

MANCHESTER City Council, local trade unions and community groups are coming together in Manchester today, Saturday 25 February, to highlight the devastating effects of...

STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew were outraged yesterday by the announcement of £1.47 billion profits for BA for the last financial year,...

‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...

‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...

‘LET me be clear, the decision to cancel the Dubs scheme after admitting only 350 lone refugee children shames Britain. It must not...

ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...

ISRAELI forces on Wednesday ordered all Palestinian residents of Khirbit Tana, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, to leave their homes to...

TENS of thousands took part in a National Day of Action organised by South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) against...

VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...

IN what must be the most blinding statement of the obvious, senior members of the Bank of England admitted yesterday that they did not...

THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...

NEWLY qualified GPs have been stopped from working for six months due to delays by the privateer Capita’s management of the National Performers List...

TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...

‘IT IS outrageous that London Underground have decided to discriminate against their Night Tube drivers,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday as...

THE LOCAL Government Association (LGA) yesterday warned that the increase in council tax bills by 5% will do absolutely nothing to halt the continued...

‘THE policy of France, that started from day one, to support the terrorists in Syria, is responsible directly for the killings in our country,’...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

FOLLOWING a controversial meeting held last Wednesday between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian and Israeli leaders reacted...

STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew at Heathrow Airport welcomed other trade unionists on their Hatton Cross picket line on Saturday, dubbing it...

TODAY is ‘Solidarity Saturday’ when striking British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew are being visited by trade unionists and supporters from different trade unions...

‘HEADS of the managers responsible must roll,’ the GMB union insisted yesterday after South East Coast Ambulance (SECAmb) Trust claimed that bullying allegations are...

TORY business secretary Greg Clark emerged from talks in France with General Motors and PSA, the owners of Peugeot, announcing that the talks had...

ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...

EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...

DOZENS of garment workers and labour leaders are facing unfair or apparently fabricated criminal cases in Bangladesh after wage strikes in December 2016, Human...

NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...

FRENCH vehicle maker the PSA Group says it is pushing ahead with a plan to invest in Iran’s auto industry despite an increased anti-Iran...

THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that guards and drivers on Southern Rail will strike for 24 hours next Wednesday, and Tube drivers will...

THE NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with 19 hospitals marked for closure, and care from cradle-to-grave put through a...

PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...

''I''M NO HERO,’ insisted 16-year-old Emmanuel Toula after he rescued a child from a burning car set alight during last Saturday night’s...

A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...

THE Israeli Ambassador to Ireland relayed a warning to the Israeli government on Tuesday that the Irish parliament would soon move to recognise the...

SOUTHERN are running the equivalent of a 1,000 trains a year with just a driver and no other member of staff on board, RMT...

‘THIS Conference must give a lead in the struggle to defend the NHS and stop it being destroyed by this Tory government... Trade union...

SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...

THE Tory government is set to introduce a new Espionage Act under which its judiciary will be able to jail journalists and ordinary members...

FIGURES provided by the IFS economic forecaster show that NHS spending is growing at the slowest rate since records began in 1955. NHS spending now...