Home Lead Page 5

Lead

All lead news articles for the day

Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS

0
CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...

Barclay threatens striking nurses with deregistration!

0
‘HOW low can a government stoop?’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen asked yesterday in response to Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay’s...

‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s first socialist mayor

0
ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...

Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!

0
PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...

Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...

0
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...

Doctors To Take Action Over 1% Pay Offer

0
SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...

Thousands of teachers march on Downing Street! – ‘TUC will defend right to strike’...

0
THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

Johnson-Sunak Sought To Avoid Self-Isolation

0
PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...

RELEASE MIGUEL ROLDAN! –Spanish firefighter faces jail for rescuing refugees

1
UK FIREFIGHTERS protested outside the Italian embassy in London on Thursday in support of a Spanish firefighter facing prison for rescuing refugees....

Sajid Javid tells patients to ‘manage their own care!’

0
ON Thursday, Sajid Javid, the Tory Health Secretary, made a euphoric speech to the Health Service Journal Digital Transformation Summit. He praised the Covid pandemic...

Arrest of 2,000 Palestine Action supporters challenged in Court!

0
THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...

Truss Condemns Militant Trade Unions & Nationalisation!

0
PRIME MINISTER Truss declared war on ‘militant trade unions and nationalised industries’ in her speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday morning. Her...

Tories are driven back over schools opening!

0
THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...

Impose arms embargo & sanctions on Israel! – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

0
UNITED Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called on UN member states to impose an international arms embargo and sanctions on Israel yesterday afternoon. Speaking at...

Israeli terrorism widely condemned!

0
HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...

Johnson Faces Calls To Resign

0
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...

‘There was no chase!’ – before Met police shot and killed Chris Kaba

0
‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...

Ahli Hospital Massacre – Israel bears the direct responsibility!

0
‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...

GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today

0
A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...

RAGE OF WORKERS AND YOUTH THREAT TO GREEK GOVERNMENT – thousands defy police teargas...

0
THE RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...

GRENFELL – ‘PROSECUTE THE GUILTY!’ – Survivors still demanding justice

0
JUSTICE for Grenfell yesterday branded as ‘outrageous’ and ‘atrocious’ the demand by company officials called before the Grenfell Inquiry for immunity from prosecution. The Grenfell...

21 tear-gassed and killed in stampede at GHF Gaza aid site!

0
AT least 21 people have been killed, including 15 from a stampede and suffocation due to tear gas being fired at Palestinians seeking food,...

‘Heathrow sits on mountain of cash while sacking 4,000’ says Unite as strike ballot...

0
‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...

More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...

0
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

More child starvation and bombing deaths in Gaza!

0
Two children starved to death at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday, bringing the total number of those who have died from malnutrition...

200,000 March For Victory To Palestine

0
A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...

Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!

0
DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...

51 refugee deaths in UK detention centres

0
THERE has been a sharp increase in the deaths of refugees in detention centres in the UK in the last 18 months. More than...

NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...

0
UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...

Putin launches ‘Special Military Operation’ in Donbass

0
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine’s Donbass region early yesterday morning to ‘defend people there against government forces’, stressing...

Tories slash another £250m from social care!

0
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...

UK, US, French Role In Invasion Of Libya Exposed By Wikileaks!

0
‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...

NUS gives full support for university strikes!

0
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...

‘It is illegal to leave home and travel abroad for leisure purposes!’

0
‘WE MUST take additional steps to strengthen our borders,’ said Tory PM Johnson in Parliament yesterday, outlining the new Hotel Quarantine system. The system means...

Zahawi Denies Blackouts Ahead

0
TORY Minister for Equalities Nadhim Zahawi claimed yesterday morning that ‘blackouts are extremely unlikely this winter,’ when he did the rounds of the TV...

Greek State Of Siege Is Defied

0
THOUSANDS of youth and workers participated throughout Greece in the annual Athens Polytechnic Uprising marches and mobilisations last Tuesday, defying a state of siege...

Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators

0
A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...

Labour to launch war on disabled

0
THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

0
FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...

‘It is now Tory government policy to create recession!’ says Hunt advisor

0
INTEREST rates are expected to be hiked by 0.25% to 4.75% today, but with yesterday’s inflation rate remaining at 8.7% in the year to...

Tory-Lib Dem Underfunding Has Created ‘Extreme Risks’ To NHS

0
LABOUR IS pledging a relentless focus on the NHS in its first 100 days in government as new research reveals hundreds of ‘extreme’ risks...

Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures

0
FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...

Unions Strike Ballots To Achieve Inflation-Busting Pay Rises!

0
UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...

‘REFORM OR DIE’ – Starmer launches major attack on the NHS

0
THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...

Pupils miss out! Primary schools at bursting point

0
PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...