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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
£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...
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...
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...