Monthly Archives: July 2018
EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had presided over a ‘cloak and dagger’ plot to undermine Brexit. Baker stated that for months an ‘establishment elite’ had secretly been pursuing a plan for a...
PARLIAMENT OF ITS OWN FREE WILL handed over the decision as to whether the UK should remain in or leave the EU to the electorate, that is to the working class and the middle class of the United Kingdom. The response was a massive shock to the ruling class when...
ON WEDNESDAY, July 11, lawyers representing eight long-term detainees at Guantánamo Bay argued in federal court that the US government cannot continue to detain the prisoners there forever, immune to judicial review. The mass habeas corpus motion, filed on the men’s behalf by Reprieve, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, on arrival to the UK on Thursday, did an interview with the Sun newspaper in which he said that he thought Tory ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson ‘would be a great prime minister’. Last Monday, Johnson resigned as foreign secretary in protest at the sell-out Chequers...
ISRAELI drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon. Palestinian security sources said that Israeli drones launched a rocket at a group of Palestinians near the Sufa crossing in northeastern Rafah. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said that...
THE TWO-DAY NATO summit ended yesterday with US president Donald Trump walking out and announcing that he had forced the European nations to submit to the will of US imperialism. Trump descended on the European leaders demanding they stump up vast sums over and above the fortune already committed...
‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a damning report into government outsourcing. The House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee found there are fundamental flaws in the way the government awards...
THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between the two countries to the point of explosion. The US has listed $200bn (£150bn) worth of additional products it intends to place tariffs on, just days...
ON TUESDAY, 10 July, miners from Donetsk, Lugansk, Volyn, and Lviv regions held a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Since 6th July miners from the ‘Carbonit’ and ‘Toshkivska’ state enterprise (Pervomaiskvugillya) pits have been on strike and protesting against non-payment of wages. According to the chairman of the...
THE RESIGNATION of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary was only delayed until he was faced with dying from shame if he held back any longer. In his resignation letter to May he complained: ‘We have postponed crucial decisions – including the preparations for no deal. . . We appear to...
NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the morning at the thought of another shift, according to a General Medical Council (GMC) survey. The report warns that exhausted junior doctors could increase the...
LOCKED-OUT United Steelworkers (USW) union members are blasting National Grid for stopping payment to their health care plans, but the company says it won’t give out benefits while the workers refuse to give up the ability to strike. National Grid locked out more than 1,000 members of USW Locals 12003...
TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had emerged from a 12-hour long cabinet meeting on Friday crowing that the entire cabinet was behind her and her latest surrender plan to keep...
BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans for a Non-Brexit. A Downing Street spokesman said: ‘This afternoon, the prime minister accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson as foreign secretary. His replacement will...
WRITING in the Independent Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union posed the question: ‘Firefighters are angry about Grenfell Tower too – so why are we being attacked?’ Wrack said: ‘I served as a frontline firefighter in the London Fire Brigade for more than two decades before being...
ON THURSDAY 23rd June, 2016, the EU referendum took place and the people of the United Kingdom took a revolutionary decision to leave the European Union. This was after Parliament voted that they should make the decision which would be binding on Parliament. The decision of the masses created...
TORY MP Andrew Bridgen has called PM May’s pledges about the EU, made at Chequers ‘a pretence and charade intended to dupe the electorate’. Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Bridgen said the ‘time has come for a new (Tory) leader’ which he believes should be Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg. Former...
THE NUJ is fighting compulsory redundancies following a merger of journalist roles at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) and Huddersfield Daily Examiner, as part of newspaper publisher Reach’s ‘Live model’ strategy of separating its print and digital operations. The Huddersfield newsroom faces cuts of seven posts and at the MEN...
RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, and the latest incident involving Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess. Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, said: ‘From the very beginning, the Russian side proposed...
IN ITS 5-4 decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Supreme Court ended the practice of requiring public sector workers who benefit from union representation to pay their fair share of union fees. A joint statement from the country’s four largest public sector...
THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and their determination after they had beaten the fascists to seize the opportunity to bring in a better world and go forward to socialism. The bourgeois...
RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter and the latest incident involving Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters yesterday. ‘Two drug addicts were poisoned with serious...
Korean workers are rising up in militant struggles, with unions at the motoring giant Hyundai voting overwhelmingly to strike for a 5.3% pay increase. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) organised a national workers’ rally for the abolition of irregular jobs on Saturday 30th June. Police spying on trade...
IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election in order to deliver a Labour government, which would be more capable of, and committed to, securing the best possible future for working people. In fact,...
WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told MPs on Monday that the National Audit Office felt the benefit was progressing too slowly and should be rolled out faster. The head of the spending...
MORE THAN 500 Australian trade unionists marked the first anniversary of strike action by 230 workers employed by energy giant Exxon Mobil’s maintenance contractor – Esso Australia Pty Ltd (Esso) – outside the Longford gas plant in Victoria last Thursday. Three unions represent the sacked workers at the plant...
ANOTHER boat carrying refugees has sunk attempting the journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, 63 asylum seekers are missing. A Libyan coastguard boat returned to Tripoli on Monday with another 235 migrants – including 54 infants and 29 women – rescued in two other operations in the...
NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However, until the student nurses and midwives bursary is restored, students are being driven away from the profession because of the prospect of becoming over £50,000...
UNRWA Staff Union and UNRWA Head Union in Gaza warned the agency’s administration against taking unprecedented extreme measures and withdrawing from sent notices suspending work contracts to about 400 employees, in the besieged Gaza Strip. A statement released by the two unions revealed a meeting with the director of the...
EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the Home Office as a profit-making scheme for the government. Lawyers and charities working for the rights of these workers and their families are accusing government ministers...
PLANS were pushed forward yesterday to drive patients out of hospital, see their GP via the internet rather than face-to-face and even have robots replace nurses to treat patients for dementia! NHS Digital, head of NHS England Simon Stevens and Tory Health Secretary Hunt announced a digital ‘revolution’, which doctors...
WHITTINGTON NHS Trust has had to abandon plans to put the company responsible for installing the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower in charge of estates management at the Whittington Hospital in Archway, north London. After furious anger from the local community and intense pressure from local campaign groups the trust...
‘WE CHANGE things in the NHS and make them better. But shortages of staff means patient care suffers. A&Es are closing, Hunt doesn’t care, he daren’t show his face here today.’ Young Royal College of Nursing (RCN) member and nurse at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London, Temi...
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were announcing more savage NHS cuts. They announced that they will cut 17 routine procedures that have been in operation for years which they now deem to...