GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals
Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...
‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E
NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...
Osborne plans £20bn more cuts
SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...
Greek 2-day general strike!
WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...
Stop The Cuts, Stop The Bullying!
BBC journalists and technicians walked out across the UK at noon yesterday at the start of a 12-hour strike over cuts and a ‘bullying...
Assad Warns West
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...
‘We Will Help Liberate Syrian Golan’ – Hezbollah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, said yesterday that Israel had raided the Syrian capital’s suburbs because it had a number of targets; one of...
Electric bills soar 32% gas by 26%
ELECTRIC and gas bills have soared by as much as 32% for electricity and 26% in gas in the last few months, a new...
Tube Strike Suspended
THE 48-hour London Underground strike was suspended yesterday afternoon by both unions, the TSSA and RMT. The strike, due to start last night...
Families face debt crisis!
2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...
‘We will continue the fight’ – says FBU
THE government’s plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions was backed by MPs, 313...
New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations
THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...
Students fight injunction against Sussex occupation
OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...
Greek bosses stop wages!
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
Cabin Crew – 20 Days Of Strike Action
UNITE, Britain’s largest union, yesterday announced a new round of strikes over 20 days at British Airways. This follows the third overwhelming vote by Unite’s...
Food Prices To Double!
Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...
Students Angry Over Soaring Rents
STUDENTS are up in arms at the soaring cost of their accommodation on top of £9,000 a year tuition fees and government plans to...
34 NHS TRUSTS IN DEFICIT – while NHS made £2 billion surplus
IN A devastating report published yesterday on the NHS crisis, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs revealed that 34 NHS trusts are broke. The report...
PCS-Budget Day Strike!
UP to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK will be taking part in a one day strike...
‘US Troops Must Leave Iraq’ Say 170 Lawmakers
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...
REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS – New website launched
We are pleased to announce our new website: revolutionarybooks.co.uk where you can now buy Marxist classics on line, as well as other socialist literature.
‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions
‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
‘NO DEAL WITH EU’ –demand Greek workers & youth
THOUSANDS of workers and students took part in marches held in several Greek cities last Thursday evening against any agreement which will continue the...
NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...
Scandalous Free School Expansion
TEACHERS unions yesterday opposed the ‘scandalous’ proposal to pour millions of pounds into hundreds of new privately run free schools. They were responding to PM...
BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite
TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...
Portsmouth Uni to axe staff!
THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...
Tory War On Workers
CHANCELLOR Hammond used his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons yesterday to warn that the Tory war on the working class and poor...
‘LSE is occupied!’
LSE occupation statement ‘Why we are occupying We have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change...
Chase Farm Hospital Demonstration
Saturday 2nd February 2013
RMT action supported by Londoners
‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...
HALT WEST LONDON A&E CLOSURES! says RCN
THE Royal College of Nursing is concerned that a lack of focus on out-of-hospital care while A&Es are closing will result in an even...
‘We will not be intimidated’ –2,000 students march against police violence
A MASS of students over 2,000 strong rallied outside the University of London Students Union (ULU) on Wednesday, to protest the arrest of 41...
Refugee crisis doubles
THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...
Storm Disaster Anger Erupts!
STORM Angus, after ripping through the UK, has caused torrential downpours and flash floods that have destroyed homes, turned roads into rivers and left...
Tax Credit Revolt Threatens Tories!
‘TORY MPs could lose their seats at the next General Election if they support George Osborne’s tax credit cuts,’ said Seema Malhotra MP, Labour’s...
Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets
LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...
Yellow Vests travel to UK to support Assange
AN EIGHTY-strong coachload of Yellow Vest protesters came over from France to join the demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday morning demanding WikiLeaks founder...
270,000 Civil Servants Out
OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...
West Thames College – 8th day of strike action for 5% pay rise
PASSING lorries, cars and buses hooted in support along the busy London Road in Isleworth, west London, as University and College Union (UCU) members...
GREECE ERUPTS – against austerity cuts
Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...
Driving the sick back to work! – private company to displace GP practices
DOCTORS have slammed a new scheme to drive workers who are sick back to work. The extremely controversial proposal will see workers who are off...
‘WE WON’T BE BULLIED’ –say Glasgow City Council strikers
AS Primary schools and nurseries across Glasgow stayed closed on the second day of the massive 8,000-strong 48-hour equal pay strike yesterday, the SNP-run...
NO MORE QUANTITATIVE EASING – Bank of E allowing UK economy to sink
DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...
US workforce falls by 652,000
THE US was shocked and shaken yesterday after learning that the workforce shrank by 652,000 jobs in the month of June alone. Former US Labour...