Gadaffi Was Butchered!
EVIDENCE collected by Human Rights Watch indicts Misrata-based militias for the execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and murder of Muammar...
Tories Attack The Disabled
HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...
110,000 Using Food Banks!
THE NUMBER of people seeking emergency food aid in the UK has doubled in the past six months, the largest organiser of food...
End Franchise Farce!
RAIL unions demanded the immediate renationalisation of the railways yesterday after the Stock Exchange announced that the Virgin Trains privateer is to be asked...
No private ambulances!
THE local community, backed by Unison, has launched a campaign to stop the privatisation of the patient transport service (PTS) within Greater Manchester. At a...
ENERGY PRICE HIKE – to punish the poor
BRITISH Gas yesterday announced six per cent increases to the gas and electricity prices it charges customers, adding £80 a year to the average...
Syria condemns Turkish piracy!
SYRIAN transport minister Mahmoud Saeed yesterday accused Turkey of ‘air piracy’ over its forcing down of a Syria-bound passenger aircraft travelling from Russia. Turkish jet...
Mass NHS closures in North
UNIONS are furious at the plans to make savage cuts in the NHS in Northern Ireland. The plan, called ‘Transforming Your Care’, is based on...
Huge food price rises!
ALREADY soaring food prices are set to rocket as winter approaches, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) warned yesterday, saying wheat yields in England are...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel!
OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...
US will fall off fiscal cliff
THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...
Osborne War On Benefits
‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...
Greek TUC to defy march ban
THE GSEE (Greek TUC) has declared that it intends to defy today’s ban on demonstrations and marches which was announced by Athens Area Chief...
£16bn more welfare cuts! – before the next election
PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...
‘NHS is in distress’
‘OUR NHS is in distress’, Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Chair Dr Clare Gerada has warned. Addressing nearly 2,000 GPs and health professionals at the...
Mau Mau Torture Victims Victory
THERE was jubilation among a group of fifty former Mau Mau freedom fighters in Nairobi yesterday as news broke that a torture victims compensation...
Hunt signals more NHS cuts
THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...
RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow
‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...
Greek Finance Ministry occupied
WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...
MILIBAND ADOPTS ‘ONE NATION’ TORY POLICY! – and pledges full support for the private...
LABOUR leader Miliband adopted the traditional Tory slogan of ‘One Nation’ at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. ‘In this most difficult economic time...
Smash The Pay Freeze!
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...
Pathology Privatisation Fiasco
The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...
Miliband Hits Out At Unions
LABOUR Party leader Miliband hit out at the trade unions yesterday, accusing Unite leadder Len McCluskey of being ‘wrong’ to oppose a public sector...
48-hour rolling strikes in Greece
THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...
Welfare Fraud At The Top! – No System To Root Out Contractors’ Fraud
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday warned of the dangers of widespread fraud in the £1bn ‘Welfare to Work’ programme. Margaret Hodge...
RISE UP! – shout Greek workers!
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...
Ford’s Redundancies!
UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...
GREECE–Government days are numbered
ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....
Defend National Pay Rates
GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...
CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers
A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
24,000 schools are under Tory state control
THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...
‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the NHS
BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
RML calls for Greek workers and small farmers government
THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...
Conference to defend the NHS
THIS Sunday, 23 September, NE London Council of Action have called a Conference to discuss national action to defend the NHS. It is being...
DEFEND OUR HOSPITALS!– London BMA votes to support Enfield conference
Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...
NHS has £4bn surplus! – while hospitals are going bust
THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...
Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike
‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...
Coalition plans to slash benefits!
IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...
WHITEWASH! – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow
JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...
South African Strike Wave Spreads
THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...
GREECE PLEADS FOR TIME TO REPAY LOANS – ‘EU exit would be a catastrophe!’
THE EU-IMF-ECB-imposed Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, on Saturday called for more time to carry out savage austerity cuts, warning that a Greek exit...
Bosses ‘can hire and fire at will!’ – says Unison leader Prentis
TRADE unions yesterday reacted angrily to the latest attack on employment rights announced by Business Secretary Vince Cable. The TUC warned: ‘Government plans to reduce...
33% Fewer Hospital Beds!
‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...
‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress
TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...
Balls Is Booed, Congress Votes For General Strike Resolution
LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...