Gaza Youth Trials Picket
‘MY BROTHER is a political prisoner. He was due to go to university this year, but instead he’s been jailed for protesting outside the...
CIVIL SERVANTS TO STRIKE – 250,000 to come out for 48 hours
OVER quarter of a million civil and public servants will stage a 48-hour national strike on March 8-9. Up to 270,000 members of the PCS...
Chagossians Lobby Mauritian Embassy
OVER 60 Chagossians lobbied the Mauritian Embassy in London yesterday to ask what had happened to all of the compensation paid by the British...
BURNHAM RESIGN! – demand Mid-Staffs relatives
CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...
Keep Chase Farm NHS Open
THERE were 40 pickets outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning, including local residents and staff. Some had travelled from as far afield as Luton and...
£105 profit a customer – energy companies on the make
Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...
Challenge To Labour’s Torture Policies
TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...
Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres
ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...
COMPLICITY IN TORTURE! –Commission demands inquiry
BRITAIN’S Equalities and Human Rights Commission called last Saturday for an urgent independent probe into claims that the security services were complicit in...
Gaza Protest Youth Being Jailed
THE whole trade union movement must demand the immediate release of young protesters jailed over the Gaza demonstrations last year – and the dropping...
Shame On Brown Say Corus Workers
Hundreds of angry steelworkers and their families demonstrated outside the Corus steel plant in Redcar on Teesside yesterday, as the GMB and Community unions...
STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison
UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...
ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge
UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...
CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders
‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...
Defend Public Sector Jobs!
Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...
London FBU To Vote On Strike Action
Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members in London are to vote on industrial action ‘up to and including strikes’ by 24 June. The London FBU Regional...
‘Down With The Junta Of The Banks’
ATHENS – Greek workers delivered a powerful first blow to the government’s counter-revolutionary Stability Plan last Wednesday with a magnificent national all public...
LABOUR’S COLLUSION WITH TORTURE CONDEMNED –as Johnson, Miliband and MI5 chief launch witch-hunt!
Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...
ONE IN THREE A&Es TO CLOSE
One in three NHS accident and emergency departments could close across London, documents seen by the BBC have revealed. Eleven A&E units are under threat...
KIDNAP & TORTURE – British government knew say judges
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...
Gm Launches Crisis Plan
TEN THOUSAND Opel and Vauxhall sackings were announced by General Motors Europe Chief Executive David N (Nick) Reilly and Executive Director Reinald Hoben, yesterday. They...
SAVAGE SPENDING CUTS – ‘will have serious consequences’ says UCU leader
‘YOU cannot make savage funding cuts without serious consequences, despite Lord Mandelson’s insulting efforts to sell the cuts as an opportunity,’ said UCU general...
Case Launched For A Single Inquiry Into UK Soldiers Abuse Of Iraqis
Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) last Friday, 5 February, lodged papers to commence a judicial review on behalf of 66 Iraqis claiming torture and abuse...
NO PRIVATE SECTOR IN NHS! – ‘Public don’t want it’ says Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...
3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!
THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...
STOP HUGE PROFITS FROM NHS! – urges BMA as more cuts are revealed
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday hit out at the ‘huge profits being made by private companies providing NHS services’. This followed the revelation that...
270,000 Civil Servants Ballot For Strike
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday announced that it will start a strike ballot today of 270,000 PCS members working for the...
Short Shoots Down Blair
NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...
DON’T ATTACK IRAN! –warns Stop the War Coalition
‘The announcement from Barack Obama’s administration that it is siting Patriot missiles in four Gulf states marks not a defensive but an aggressive act,’...
HEADING FOR THE ROCKS – The Fed’s Kohn warns of ‘uncharted waters’
The Bank of England is warning that high street banks face big new risks from future rises in interest rates and the current crisis...
BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter
TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
NHS Crisis – Drastic Cuts Planned
DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...
‘REASONABLE CASE’ – For the slaughter of Iraqis
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday told the Iraq Inquiry, that he was not pressured into discarding his opposition to going to war without...
‘THE WAR WAS ILLEGAL!’ – the opinion of all Foreign Office lawyers
ELIZABETH Wilmshurst yesterday, appearing at the Chilcot inquiry, deplored the fact that Lord Goldsmith was asked formally about the legality of the Iraq war...
PASSENGERS AT RISK! – if BA uses strikebreakers
The Unite union yesterday warned that British Airways’ passengers could be put at risk by inexperienced strike-breaking cabin crew. As BA began its conversion courses...
‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen
‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...
NO PAYMENTS FOR NHS SERVICES – urges BMA
Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...
BLIX WARNED BLAIR ON WMDs
HANS BLIX, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq told yesterday’s BBC Radio Today programme that he had warned Tony Blair the...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE . . . AND FULLY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES’ says Straw...
JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...
HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’
Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...
GOLDSMITH REFUSED TO BACK IRAQ WAR – in March 2008, 2002 letter to Hoon
THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...
Powell Suffers Multiple Memory Failure!
WHEN Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1997-2007, Jonathan Powell, was questioned yesterday about the September 2002 dossier that took the UK to war...
HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless
ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...
US TASK FORCE HEADS FOR HAITI says Admiral Mullen
Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...
‘MILLIONS IN URGENT NEED’ after Haiti’s biggest earthquake in 200 years
SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...