‘Damage To The NHS Is Profound And Intense’ Says The Bma...
ONE year on from the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, the BMA has launched a new campaign, warning that ‘the damage...
THE McKINSEY REPORT DOES OUTLINE GOVERNMENT POLICY
THE McKinsey and Co report proposes cutting £20bn off the NHS budget and reducing the staff by 10% or 137,000 jobs. The government commissioned...
PRIVATEERS THREATEN NHS SURVIVAL – warns UNISON
‘PRIVATE companies are raking in millions of pounds, leaving a black hole in NHS finances,’ UNISON – Britain’s largest health workers’ union – has...
Israeli airstrikes set out to destroy Yemen’s Sana’a Airport
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an urgent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport, which happened on May 28,...
‘Julian’s treatment … is a sordid treachery from top to bottom’...
OVER 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held a lively rally and a march on Saturday to the gates outside Belmarsh high...
‘Our freedom seems possible because you reached yours’ – MARWAN BARGHOUTHI...
‘DURING the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. ‘Even more since my...
NHS staff from overseas paying extortionate visa fees
PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...
‘The American president has no authority to dictate what other countries...
IRANIAN Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has sharply rebuked US President Donald Trump for boasting about bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying the American president...
British Troops Must Quit Iraq
BRITISH troops are no longer necessary for the security of Iraq and should go home, Prime Minister Maliki has declared. In his view the British...
‘International actors must stop Israel’s Gaza genocide’ – demands Amnesty International...
AMNESTY International Secretary General Agnes Callamard has called on all international actors, foremost among them the European Union, to take serious steps to stop...
Bring to trial the killers of Aminul Islam –demand the Bangladesh...
Four years after the tortured, lifeless body of Bangladesh garment worker – organiser Aminul Islam – was discovered in a ditch, his killers have...
Hamas Insist US-Israel Are Behind Gaza Fighting
SAMI Abu-Zuhri, a Hamas leader in Gaza on Wednesday made a statement about the fighting that is taking place in Gaza between Hamas...
French Workers & Youth Fighting Hollande’s Anti-Union Legislation
FIERCE battles broke out between French workers and police as over 170,000 workers, students and youth took to the streets in 110 cities across...
GREEK GOVERNMENT GIVES 50bn EUROS TO THE BANKS
The present unelected Greek coalition government, of social-democrats and conservatives headed by banker Lucas Papademos has decided to fund with some 50bn euros the...
Israeli military attacks the Gaza Strip!
JERUSALEM – Early on Friday, the Israeli military’s press service confirmed that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched a rocket strike on the Gaza Strip...
US activity in Ukraine ‘dangerously close to direct NATO-Russian confrontation’
A WASHINGTON-based think tank has warned that the NATO military alliance and the United States are ‘creeping closer to the catastrophic scenario’ in Ukraine,...
Colombian electors are hungry for a big change in their crisis-hit...
BY YONATAN MOSQUERA NEXT Sunday 19th of June the final round of presidential elections will take place in Colombia. After having defeated the establishment candidates...
‘I want to meet bush face to face’ says Cindy Sheehan
‘I want to meet with Bush face-to-face’, says Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq. She vows to camp outside the...
10,000 Marchers Force Police To Lift Ban
TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...
Massive Toxic Contamination In The Area Surrounding Grenfell Tower!
EXTENSIVE research by the University of Central Lancashire into toxic contamination surrounding the Grenfell Tower after the tragic fire there has now been published...
BACCALAUREATE THREATENS ‘CULTURAL APARTHEID’ –says theatre director Richard Eyre
High profile figures from the arts have joined with the National Union of Teachers in condemning the Coalition’s planned secondary school Key Stage 4...
STOP WORKING WITH ISRAELI TORTURERS! – Palestinians urge EU academics to...
‘STOP working with Israeli torturers,’ Palestinians urge European Union (EU) academics. Palestinian academics are urging their European counterparts to end their cooperation with a European...
Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Bedouin Homes – As Khalida Jarrar Faces 12...
ISRAELI bulldozers demolished homes in the Bedouin village of al-Araqib village in the Negev for the 83rd time on Monday, in addition to a...
Writers, doctors and former political prisoners demand immediate release of pro-Palestine...
Authors Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and China Mieville, philosopher Judith Butler, and activist Angela Davis, have joined global scholars in a declaration of solidarity...
‘Plots and conspiracies are being hatched by the Israeli and US...
THE MEETING of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian Factions held last Friday in Ramallah and Beirut via video conference confirmed that our people,...
‘WE WILL DEFEAT THE ENEMIES’ – Gadaffi call to arms
TRIPOLI – Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi on Thursday evening appealed to people in Tripoli to capture and kill the ‘rats, street by street, house...
South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
‘WE ARE GOING TO OCCUPY ON NOVEMBER 14th COME AND JOIN...
A THOUSAND local residents, health and other workers, trade unionists and youth participated in a very powerful North East London Council of Action march...
US forms ‘Iran Action Group’ on 65th anniversary of CIA-led coup...
THE US State Department has formed an ‘Iran Action Group’ to coordinate and run an aggressive US policy toward the Islamic Republic on the...
Ukraine plotting to strike the Crimea using HIMARS rockets and Storm...
Sergey Shoigu, the Russian Defence Minister, said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s armed forces command is plotting to deliver strikes on Russian territory, including Crimea,...
WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA IT’S OUR RIGHT! – Chagos...
‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ – Chagos Islanders shouted outside Downing Street on Saturday. They put up the banner of...
‘US and British governments embroiled in enforced disappearances’ – charges Reprieve
Mustafa Setmariam Naser was ‘disappeared’ while in US custody in 2005. Legal charity Reprieve on Monday demanded that the British government reveal details of the...
100 Refugee Doctors Sign Up For Battle Against Covid-19
OVER 100 refugee doctors are signed up to become vital medical support staff – as unregistered UK doctors in Britain, many of them from...
SAFTU condemns 30,000 public sector ‘jobs slaughter’
SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) is incensed at the report in the Mail & Guardian that there is a plan lay off...
London Mayor Accused Of Gambling With Tube Safety
TUBE unions have reacted angrily to the announcement that all London Underground ticket offices will be shut by 2015 with the loss of nearly...
Camden threats to rough sleepers ‘may breach human rights laws’ ...
Liberty, the human rights organisation, has written to Transport for London (TfL) and Camden Council warning that recent threats issued to rough sleepers may...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – part Six The theory of...
‘THERE can be no analogy of historical development,’ wrote Trotsky in his book 1905, ‘between, on the one hand, England, the pioneer of capitalism...
THE UK IS A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY WITH THIRD-WORLD EDUCATION – UCU...
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables, the University and College Union stressed today. In the past twelve years it...
SEIU and Teamsters quit AFL-CIO
American trade unions, SEIU and the Teamsters have disaffiliated from the national AFL-CIO confederation, and four major unions – the Teamsters, Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE...
Hotel workers unionising and striking across the USA – 2,000 on...
Hundreds more UNITE HERE hotel workers have walked off the job, as another wave of strikes hits the US hotel industry last Thursday. Nearly 2,000...
‘If America Should Go Communist’ by Leon Trotsky (Part two)
LEON TROTSKY wrote ‘If America Should Go Communist’ on August 17, 1934, over a year after President Roosevelt brought in his ‘New Deal’, ...
Greek Riot Police Attack Ship Repair Workers
GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...
Gaza siege ‘creates an atmosphere of escalation and explosion’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime must be held fully accountable for any consequences of tightening the years-long all-out siege on...
Ealing Conference: Full support for Junior Doctors
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers and youth attended the West London Council of Action/All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday, which was called to save Ealing Hospital...
BUILDING SAFETY FUND SCANDAL – not one social housing block remediation...
NOT ONE of the social housing blocks granted building safety funding have had their remediation work completed yet, the latest figures from the Ministry...