Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!
Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...
Unions Fight ‘Political Vandalism!’
Westminster MPs heard calls for the government to ‘Stop, Listen and Think Again’, as trade unionists and community groups lobbied Parliament asking them...
£9,000 fees for Cambridge!
The University and College Union yesterday slammed the government after it emerged that Cambridge University plans to charge students £9,000 a year fees. UCU general...
Unite Retreats From Cabin Crew Strike
Unite yesterday cancelled plans for another strike at British Airways, and announced there will be a fresh industrial action ballot. In a statement, Unite general...
£850 million to pay for NHS sackings
The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...
US sends warships to Egypt
The US is sending warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country...
BIN PAY CUT PLANS says GMB leader Kenny
Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to demands from the Institute of Directors (IoD) to end national collective bargaining in the NHS and Education sectors,...
GPs opposing Tory Health Bill
A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...
Egypt – Another Million-Strong Protest
Anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo yesterday have called for another ‘million strong protest’ in Tahrir Square today. This call was made as the Egyptian government and...
1.5 MILLION IN TAHRIR SQUARE – Mubarak’s bags being packed
Millions of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and massed in the cities of Alexandria, Port Suez and Luxor yesterday, which they had dubbed...
Bma Will Discuss Strike Action!
The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...
129 Million Americans Face Losing Health Coverage
Without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood...
‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm
EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
THUGS ATTACK TAHRIR DEMO – hundreds injured while Mubarak’s army looks on
TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...
MUBARAK GO NOW! – –Millions of Egyptians pour onto the streets
MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...
‘NHS Not For Sale’
‘NHS not for sale,’ angry health workers chanted outside parliament yesterday, as the Health and Social Care Bill got its second reading. ‘This bill is...
Egypt Masses Defiant
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptian workers and youth yesterday remained in control of the centre of Cairo, during a sixth day of protests...
Students And Unions March Against Fees
TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...
TUC meets to discuss action!
‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...
EGYPT ERUPTS – Mubarak calls in army
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the army to take charge of security along with the riot police after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians...
Decision Taken To Close Chase Farm Hospital
NHS London has given the go-ahead for plans to close Chase Farm Hospital A&E and the consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, despite massive opposition...
Union Leaders Warn King
BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...
BMA Council votes to call special conference
The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...
REFORMS WILL HIT POOR – says BMA’s Dr Buckman
THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...
School buildings axe challenged
A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...
‘MURDOCH IS UNFINISHED BUSINESS’ – Simon Dubbins tells printers strike rally
OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...
Blair jeered at Inquiry
Tony Blair yesterday claimed at the Chilcot Inquiry that he ‘regrets deeply and profoundly the loss of life’ in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. His...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm
St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
25 Years Since The Printers’ Strike
Sunday January 23rd 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Docklands strike illegal!
THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...
Private Sharks Circling The NHS!
LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday. The union is calling on the government to...
Inflation Surge!
inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...
Banning Procedures On NHS – A ‘gamble With Patient Health’
Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...
‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm
Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...
RISKY AND DISASTROUS! – warn health union leaders
The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...
NHS White Paper Means Hospital Closures
Hospitals could face closure to make space for private providers, warns a new report from the NHS managers’ organisation. Ahead of the publication on Wednesday...
TANKER DRIVERS STRIKE BALLOT! – announced by Unite
The Unite union reported yesterday that its tanker driver members are to ballot for strike action. A Unite statement said: ‘The greed of an industry...
Manchester jobs bombshell!
Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to Manchester City Council’s announcement of 2,000 job cuts. The Labour-run council said it needed to reduce its workforce by...
FIREFIGHTERS PREPARED TO STRIKE – if Authority carries out mass sakings threat
FIREFIGHTERS are prepared to strike to defeat the Tory-controlled London Fire Authority if it carries out its threat to sack all 5,500 London firefighters...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE
Sunday 23rd January 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps
THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...
Doctors demand vote on White Paper
THE BMA council is set to hold a crunch vote on holding an emergency representative meeting to decide its stance on the government’s privatising...
‘WE WILL NOT CHANGE COURSE’ – Cameron challenges trade unions
Prime Minister Cameron yesterday refused to rule out increases in fuel duty, and said the VAT increase to 20 per cent is here to...
RICKWOOD INQUEST TO OPEN –youngest child ever to die in penal custody
THE inquest into the death of 14-year-old Adam Rickwood in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre on 8th August 2004 will open on Monday 10 January...
Paying Mortgage By Credit Card!
More than two million people have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent, an increase of almost 50 per cent in a...