Monthly Archives: June 2019
BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership, he said of the EU crisis, ‘The longer it goes on the worse the risk.’ Sounding like a revamped version of ex-PM May, Johnson told his...
AS A PARTING shot and final ‘kick in the teeth’ to the Windrush Generation, Theresa May has awarded a knighthood to the Home Office official who was the architect of her ‘Hostile Environment’ policy against workers who emigrated to Britain from Commonwealth countries. It was May who, as Home Secretary...
AFTER weeks of near silence, Boris Johnson finally emerged yesterday to launch his campaign for the leadership of the Tory party and replace May as Prime Minister. From the outset of his speech, Johnson made it quite clear that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’. Instead, he held...
ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in Brighton voting to for a resolution which demands that the ‘companies behind corporate murder are brought to justice’. The 144 workplace deaths, the Hazards Campaign insists,...
SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report launched yesterday entitled ‘We Need To Talk: Access to Speech and Language Therapy,’ calling for urgent action to stop the services from going under. The report...
VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders marched alongside McDonald’s workers at a rally last Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He joined McDonald’s workers in the same way he worked alongside Disney and Amazon employees in their fight for fair wages and union representation. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate addressed the workers outside a...
THE CRISIS-ridden Tory leadership has launched its campaign to elect a new leader to replace the shattered May, who betrayed Brexit and then piloted the Tory Party into the European elections disaster! Only three of the 10 candidates for the Tory leadership have declared that, if elected leader, they will...
THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned after another fire engulfed six floors of a tower block in Barking, east London on Sunday. Once again, flammable cladding fuelled the rapid spread of the...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analyses, not least from US officials themselves. Jared Kushner, senior advisor to Trump, has now undertaken to impose his definitions regarding the difference between the Palestinian leadership, with reference to...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) – the NHS body that awards the contracts on behalf of Nottinghamshire CCGs, finally pulled the rug from under Circle...
TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice Secretary said that he was ‘fortunate’ that he hadn’t been imprisoned, but still boasted that he is the best candidate for the post of unelected...
UNIVERSITIES will find themselves prompting ‘a wave of industrial action across UK campuses’ later this year – unless they rule out benefit cuts or contribution increases set to be imposed on members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). That was the warning sent last week by Paul Bridge, representing the...
THE SUDANESE military regime has once again shown its contempt for any real peace talks in the country, and its confidence that since it has the support of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the key allies of the western imperialist powers in the region, it can do anything it wants,...
THE US Senator Richard Black has said that the ‘crisis’ in Syria ‘will be over quickly once (the) US withdraws its troops from Syrian territory.’ And in an interview published by the Russian Novosti News Agency, Black added that: ‘If we leave, I think the crisis will end very quickly...
TORY leadership candidate Dominic Raab has threatened to prorogue Parliament, shutting it down at the end of October to ensure that the UK leaves the European Union and to stop Remainers in Parliament attempting to scupper the process. At the end of every parliamentary session, which usually lasts around a...
‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff Beck said after the announcement yesterday that the Ford’s engine plant in Bridgend is set to close in autumn 2020, with the loss of 1,700...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated his hopes that the US-proposed peace plan, dubbed Deal of the Century, will go to hell. ‘I hope that the next Eid al-Fitr would come while the Palestinian people liberate their country from the Israeli occupation, establish their independent state, with East Jerusalem as its...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job in September next year as part of a massive international drive to cut costs in the face of a motor industry that is in complete...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a letter sent on the same day that the US President Donald Trump told a press conference that the NHS would be ‘on the table’ in...
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged Sudan to address the people’s demand in the country and immediate transition of power to civilians. The ministry’s spokesman Abbas Mousavi expressed concerns over the escalation of conflicts in Sudan and warned on the country’s turning into a battle field of foreign powers. ‘It is...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s pick have the necessary qualities to bow down before US capitalism and turn the UK from a vassal state of the EU into nothing more...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group of teachers are denouncing the arrest of their fellow teacher by the Honduran authorities in connection to Friday’s burning of the United States embassy which...
SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The announcement was made after special forces and police units launched a murderous attack on a workers’ occupation in the capital, Khartoum, during which they killed...
THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea’, demands a 245-page legal submission. The document calls for the EU to face charges of allegedly ‘intending to sacrifice the lives of...
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and health workers tell a vivid tale. It reports: ‘For two and a half years Samantha Moss and her partner Clayton Bradshaw slept under the cold, stone...
The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a...
GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek banks, bankrupted by debts, are to sack over 10,000 staff. Piraeus Bank’s scheme is to split the bank into two, setting up a ‘bad debts’ bank...
UNIONS representing delivery riders met at ITF (International Transport Federation) House in London to plan how to take on exploitative ‘gig economy’ employers, the ITF revealed on May 30th. Companies such as Deliveroo, Foodora and Uber Eats have expanded rapidly over the last few years as to meet the increased...
DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as a completely spent force, which it is, and the UK as just another unruly sphere of US influence that has got to be cajoled, threatened...
ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show, prompting the BMA to ring the alarm bell over the crisis facing general practice. Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP committee chair, said: ‘These figures do show...
THE FOUR oldest trade unions affiliated to SAFTU gathered at Ngwelezana Community Hall last week to reflect on what South Africa’s workers have gained since the ‘dawn of democracy’ (marked by the ANC’s first coming to power). KZN SAFTU Secretary, Moses Mosutsoe, said they were concerned about the slow progress...
‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar report on post-18 education in England, commissioned by May, recommends increasing student loan repayments and lowering the amount that graduates earn before they start paying...