Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!
SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...
Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria
Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria Cameron lost the parliamentary vote to bomb Syria in 2013 and has so far refused to...
Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!
DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...
UK Industrial Production & The Euro Both Falling!
UK industrial output fell by 0.1% in January compared with a month earlier, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reported...
NO IMPOSED CONTRACT! – Hunt must resign
TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...
Eu: ‘Moment Of Truth’ Near!
THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...
Revolution In France
IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...
EU Withdrawal Bill proceeds Lords amendment rejected
THE GOVERNMENT saw off an attempt by Remainers to adopt the Lords amendment which would have allowed a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit...
Unions at No 10 appeal to May
‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...
JOIN US AT GLENEAGLES! –urges G 8 Alternatives
‘We are calling on thousands to pile on buses and trains and join us at Gleneagles today,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told...
UNLAWFUL KILLING! – to be considered by Tomlinson Jury
Jurors at the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson will consider whether the actions of a police officer amounted to unlawful killing, assistant...
1,000 face eviction during lockdown!
CITIZENS Advice (CA) has confirmed that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related to...
Over 250,000 workers and youth join the London Nakba march
OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...
‘Labour could go extinct!’ – Sharon Graham
‘LABOUR could go extinct,’ Unite union leader Sharon Graham told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday. She said: ‘The way people have seen it...
Sixteen and 17 year olds will be able to vote at the next general...
Democracy Minister Rushanara Ali said the ‘seismic’ change would ensure young people’s voices were heard. She confirmed the pledge would be part of a raft...
Staff at Blackstock Road campus on strike
STAFF at the Blackstock Road Finsbury Park campus of the Capital City College Group walked out yesterday for the third day of strike action,...
XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action
RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...
Nurses pay cut plan a ‘death knell’ for Truss!
TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...
INSURERS GRAB FOR WELFARE STATE – TUC ‘concerned’
The Trade Union Congress yesterday expressed ‘serious concerns’ at proposals for private insurance companies to take over the payment of benefits such as unemployment...
Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson
WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...
Newham ambulance staff fighting to win!
Ambulance staff demonstrated outside Newham Hospital in East London yesterday against the imposition of grossly inferior un-negotiated new contracts, and demanding that they be...
Patient DWP deemed ‘fit-for-work’ has died
STEPHEN Smith, an extremely ill 64-year-old man, who the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had declared ‘fit-for-work’ has sadly died. Smith was left...
BONANZA – big profits for private treatment centres
Private treatment centres are treating as few as a quarter of the National Health Service patients they have been paid to handle. In the worst...
BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07
Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
Gadaffi Will Never Quit Libya
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi issued a defiant audio message which was aired by the Syrian Arrai television channel yesterday. Colonel Gadaffi said: ‘Youth are ready...
Southern guards strike today
‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers
SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...
MACRON OUT! – demands 287,000 workers
MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel...
Abolish NHS prescription charges! say GPs
THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...
UK STOP STARVING THE PALESTINIANS – Recognise the Hamas government!
Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories. Thousands...
‘WE DON’T BACK NHS BILL!’ – 400 doctors warn House of Lords
THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...
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...
Stop Casualising Workers –Tesco Told
‘Tesco is putting more and more pressure on meat suppliers to cut their prices and this is leading to a shocking exploitation of workers...
Teachers mount SATs challenge
THOUSANDS of head teachers boycotted SATs tests yesterday on the grounds that the tests damage children’s education. Head teachers in the National Association of...
Public sector workers strike action
STRIKING teachers and other public sector workers marched through Camden and Tower Hamlets yesterday. The vibrant demonstration and rally of 500 Camden NUT members was...
25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!
TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...
Ys March For Jobs Reaches Birmingham
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education marched from Wolverhampton to Birmingham yesterday. And last night they were staying at the Irish...
10,000 Tube strikers fighting 600 job cuts
10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...
‘Fewer Nurses Providing More Care’– Rcn
‘WHOEVER forms the next government must grow the nursing workforce,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Chief Executive & General Secretary Dr Peter Carter warned...
Children with special needs: savage cuts to SEND funding!
PARENTS, councillors and education unions descended on the Department of Education yesterday to demand that children with special needs are not left high and...
Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!
THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
Coffey Tells Nurses 3% Is All You Are Getting!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) responded with fury to Tory Health Secretary Therese Coffey’s declaration on TV yesterday morning that, regardless of whether...
Gmb Fights Privatisation
Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...
Labour attacks BA strike
THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...