Food, Fuel And Fares Prices Hike!
The anger of workers is set to explode at the cost of food, fuel and fares, now soaring to unaffordable levels. Commuters...
Home births risk lives!
MORE WOMEN and babies will die during childbirth if they are told to give birth at home or in ‘midwife-led birth-ing units’ as opposed...
Social cleansing condemned – LONDON CLEARED OF 50,000 FAMILIES
CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...
Sharma refuses to sign petition to reopen Ealing paediatrics and maternity
EALING Southall Labour MP Varindra Sharma refused to sign the West London Council of Action petition to reopen maternity and paediatrics at Ealing Hospital...
East London families march against disability cuts
AROUND 100 angry family members demonstrated against the threatened closure of their Bangladeshi Parent Adviser (BPA) service yesterday, marching from Chrisp Street Market in...
NHS A&E Crisis
HEALTH unions responded angrily to figures released yesterday showing the worst NHS waiting times in decades. This unprecedented crisis, the unions said, is a result of...
France & UK halt child transfers
THE HOME Office announced yesterday that the transfer of refugee children from Calais to Britain has been halted while the destruction of the camp...
LABOUR READY FOR EU SELL-OUT – as Watson prepares for EU elections
TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...
IT’S PAYBACK TIME! – as Home Secretary Smith urges harass youth
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...
Greek cleaners celebrate a year of struggle
THE 595 women cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry, sacked en masse on 17 September 2013 on the direct orders of the EC-IMF-ECB overlords,...
BMA leader to condemn unreal government demands!
ADDRESSING the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) this morning, Dr Mark Porter will reaffirm the BMA’s position on seven-day hospital services – that patients...
Ruthless Troika has Syriza in its grip
THE Greek Industry, Environment and Industry Minister Panos Skourletis stated on Tuesday that a general election could be called this autumn once the new...
General strike sparked by demolitions in Palestine!
A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...
LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson
LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...
BOYCOTT COMMISSIONING! – BMA GPs hit out at Coalition
A SURVEY of GPs has shown that over half support the BMA organising a boycott of commissioning, with a sizeable minority supporting strike action...
Google handed 1.6m NHS patients records!
GOOGLE has been given the confidential records including full names and patient histories of an estimated 1.6 million NHS patients in a data-sharing agreement. Under...
OCCUPY LEWISHAM HOSPITAL! – Administrator threatens closure
Unions and local campaigners responded with fury yesterday after the Coalition’s ‘special administrator’ Matthew Kershaw called for the winding up of the South London...
Corbyn Wins High Court Challenge!
IN A VICTORY for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a high court challenge which attempted to overturn his right to stand in the Labour...
Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!
PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...
‘Unions will take to the streets’ – to defend N Ireland NHS
MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...
Cameron beats the Nationalist drum
PM Cameron yesterday beat the nationalist drum for all he was worth in an attempt to win back the right wing vote that is...
COVER-UP – Grieving families condemn Network Rail
PARENTS of two young girls killed on an Essex level crossing in 2005 accused Network Rail of a cover-up yesterday, after the rail privateer...
‘Don’t put children ‘at the mercy of the market’
THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...
CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’
THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...
29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...
TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...
‘PLAYING WITH CHILDREN’S LIVES’ – 700 school fires in England annually
THE LONDON Fire Brigade has accused the Tory government of ‘playing with children’s lives,’ by barring the installation of sprinklers in schools. There are about...
‘Joint cooperation with Israel’ revealed at Trump-Putin summit
US PRESIDENT Trump and Russian President Putin held a historic meeting in Finland yesterday in which they talked about joint cooperation with...
STPs DRIVING NHS PRIVATISATION
AN OUTSOURCING contractor, whose work for GPs was described by a minister as ‘entirely unacceptable’, and the UK arm of a private US healthcare...
‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!
THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...
THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes
FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...
Ashrawi Condemns The ‘Shameful Abstentions’
PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi condemned Tuesday night’s UN Security Council abstentions on a motion to end the Israeli occupation of...
Syria Writes To US Congressmen
THE Speaker of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Jihad Al-Lahham, has written an open letter to John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of...
RMT Demanding No Slave Labour On Brexit Ferries
AS the RMT protested at the Department for Transport yesterday, the Shipping Minister Nusrat Ghani has refused to agree that UK employment legislation such...
Women denied treatment
MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...
800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!
The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...
Teachers slam Tories free school expansion
‘WE DO not want Free Schools, we want all Free Schools to be taken back under local authority,’ Tom Davies past president of Ealing...
£5.5bn spent on agency nurses!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has accused the coalition government of ‘truly incompetent planning’ over NHS spending on agency nurses and staff. It...
Junior Doctors must not fight alone – TUC call a general strike!
ALL day yesterday the junior doctors were under heavy attack with Tories demanding that their strike be made illegal and suggestions being made that...
48hr junior doctors strike begins today
JUNIOR doctors will walk out on their fourth strike at 8am this morning and form picket lines outside every hospital in the country, as...
Greek Government Is On The Way Out
THE Greek coalition government has once again failed in a parliamentary vote to elect its candidate Stavros Dimas as the new President of the...
‘We will not stand by and watch them destroy our fabulous service!’ – says...
THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...
‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite
‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
North Sea Oil Jobs Axe!
UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...