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...
Co-ordinated strike action – unanimous vote at the TUC Congress
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...
‘Deliver General Strike’ urges PCS leader Godrich
TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...
POA urges TUC–‘Consider General Strike’
THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...
Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!
THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...
Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...
3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!
THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...
South African miners defiant
A GROUP of 106 South African mineworkers, arrested following the police shooting at UK-based Lonmin’s Marikana mine, were released yesterday by the ...
Free School ‘Theft’ Continues – Atl
ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) president Hank Roberts last night alleged that there is a widespread theft of tax-payers’ money by schools...
Parents going hungry! – to help feed their children
THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...
‘We Wont Let Students Be Deported’
MORE than 200 students, lecturers and other workers demonstrated angrily outside the Home Office yesterday afternoon, denouncing the plans to deport up to 3,000...
Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine
THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...
£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...
Gambians March On Downing Street
OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...
Lansley sacked – Hunt in charge of NHS
ARCHITECT of the hated Health and Social Care Act, Andrew Lansley was sacked as Health Secretary and replaced by Murdoch acolyte and former Arts...
‘FREE SCHOOLS A DISGRACE’ – says NUT’s Blower
DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...
SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped
SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...
Food Prices Leap By 10%
AVERAGE global food prices leapt by ten per cent in the month of July, raising fears of soaring prices for the planet’s poorest, the...
Homeless squatters are ‘criminals’
SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...
£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils
THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...
Don’t Deport Students
THE NUS, UCU and Unison yesterday condemned the Home Office attack on London Metropolitan University and its international students, and demanded that not a...
Platinum miners – murder charges
PLATINUM miners arrested at South Africa’s Marikana mine were yesterday charged with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police. The police shootings sparked...
St Helier to close A&E and Maternity units
HEALTH bosses have recommended that St Helier Hospital lose its A&E and maternity departments. At a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the programme board of the...
Out With Slave Labour!
UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...
Disabled People Remember The Dead At Atos Hq
DISABLED people, benefit claimants and supporters held a vigil and remembrance event yesterday for those who have died because of the actions of Paralympic...
‘Hit squads’ being sent into seven NHS Trusts!
‘HIT SQUADS’ are being sent by the government into hospitals to identify and implement savage cuts, ‘savings’ and closures so that spiralling PFI debts...
‘This Summer’s Exams Should Be Regraded’ – Nut
FOLLOWING the GCSE results fiasco, the National Union of Teachers is demanding the regrading of all results. Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT,...
Platinum Miners Strike Spreads
MINERS at Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) in South Africa came out on strike yesterday, alongside the striking Marikana miners, in a sign that the strike...
‘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...
Unions Reject Pay-Cut Cartel
HEALTH unions, Unison, the BMA, and RCN have refused to recognise a South West regional NHS cartel set up to cut pay and conditions. The...
Youth Pay Price For Occupation
ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...
North London will suffer if Chase Farm closes
IT IS being made even clearer that North Londoners will suffer if the projected closure of Chase Farm A&E goes ahead. The number of people...
‘LAST CHANCE FOR GREECE!’ – Eurogroup President Juncker threatens Greeks
‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...
More platinum miners join strike action!
MORE South African platinum miners came out on strike yesterday at the Royal Bafokeng Platinum mine outside Rustenburg, in the North West. They gathered...
July deficit alarms City!
THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...
Striking SA miners defy sack threat
STRIKING platinum miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa defied the company’s sack threats yesterday and refused to return to work. The 3,000 striking...
EU crisis meetings over Greece
GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...
SA miners continue with strike action! –ANC & Zuma are condemned
SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...
Bradley Manning must be released says Assange
THE head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, yesterday afternoon thanked supporters for ‘turning out in the middle of the night’ when ‘police were storming up...
RENTS OUT OF CONTROL! –families cutting food to pay the rent
HOUSING charity Shelter yesterday described the rental market as ‘out of control’ as letting group LSL revealed the average rent paid by private tenants...
UK Threatens To Storm Ecuador Embassy!
ECUADOR yesterday granted political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and called on the UK to ‘guarantee safe passage to Mr Assange to complete...
MASSIVE PART-TIME WORKING – as young workers wages cut by 10%
THERE are nearly one-and-a-half million workers and youth in the UK who want full-time work but are working part-time because they cannot find full-time...
No fare rises – re-nationalise!
RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital
HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...
Jobcentre Strike Solid
JOBCENTRE staff who deal with calls from people entitled to benefits and crisis loans went on strike yesterday over oppressive working conditions and unrealistic...