Stop Sidcup NHS Closing
THERE was uproar in south-east London yesterday, after the announcement of plans to shut the Accident and Emergency and maternity departments at Queen Mary’s,...
‘THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS A LIAR’ says Saddam Hussein
At his continuing show trial in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Bush of lying about Iraq’s non-existent stockpiles of chemical weapons as...
DEATHS WILL RESULT – from attacks on ambulance service
‘TINKERING with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths,’ the GMB union, which represents ambulance drivers, warned yesterday. The union added that the government’s...
GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today
A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...
BA workers coming to Gate Gourmet rally
BRITISH Airways workers are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday. Buying his ticket for the...
NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working
The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...
BRING OUT THE AIRPORT – urge Gate Gourmet workers
‘We are calling for the whole airport to come out, not just to support us but to defend themselves,’ Jaswinder Phal told News Line...
US shoots down Syrian warplane
US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...
Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!
DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...
‘KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC SECTOR’ – but unions refuse to strike against privatisation
‘Today’s positive results are more compelling evidence of why Royal Mail should be kept in the public sector,’ CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward,...
£490bn GOES MISSING! – as bosses move to crash UK economy
REVISED figures from Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Blue Book’, which measures economic activity in the UK, show that Britain’s global investments have collapsed...
PRIVATE TREATMENT CENTRES OUT OF CONTROL – Watchdog slams ‘paucity of data’
The secrecy surrounding Labour’s favoured Independent (private) Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) has been slammed by the government’s own watchdog. Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker...
Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled
Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...
RELEASE ALL 11,000 PRISONERS – demands Palestine National Authority
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said yesterday Israel’s promised release of 400 Palestinian prisoners was ‘not enough’. Palestinian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Hasan...
Terrorists shell Ghouta escape routes!
TERRORISTS based in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta have imposed a curfew during humanitarian pauses to prevent civilians from leaving the enclave, the...
STRIKE! – Royal Mail Court bid fails
THE Royal Mail bid to get the three-day London CWU postal strikes declared illegal failed yesterday late afternoon. The London reps meeting taking place in...
‘REFORM OR DIE’ – Starmer launches major attack on the NHS
THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...
‘A desperate attempt to silence voices exposing Israeli crimes!’
GLOBAL outrage has followed Israel’s assassination of five Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted drone strike outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa...
McDonnell offers cooperation if Osborne drops Credits Bill
AHEAD of today’s debate in the House of Lords, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Labour would ‘co-operate’ in future efforts to review the...
Massive Uni staff strike!
TUESDAY’S strikes by staff in colleges and universities closed institutions and key learning facilities with hundreds of classes cancelled, the UCU said yesterday. The action,...
NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis
‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
Banfield slams 2.8% pay offer
HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...
Johnson-Sunak Are Criminals Say The Met Police!
PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak are criminals according to the Police! Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be issued fines – officially known as fixed...
LABOUR’S POLICIES ‘MAD’ – GPs leader meldrum threatens action over pensions
Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GPs Committee yesterday warned Labour not to marginalise family doctors. He was referring to Practice Based...
Parliament erupts over Brexit on 1st day back
PARLIAMENT erupted yesterday on the burning issue of Brexit, on the first day back after the Xmas break. Moving an Urgent Question Labour Leader...
BIG SUPPORT FOR GG LOBBY – But TGWU leaders refuse locked-out workers visitors credentials
TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm
St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Labour Failing Homeless
Homelessness charity Crisis yesterday called on the government to make public services more accessible to homeless people. Crisis said: ‘Public services are failing homeless people. ‘Public...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay Dispute!
RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...
Abbas Suspends Contact With Israel
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...
Balpa Leader Buys Ticket For August 20 Rally
BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...
Fearful Kiev ‘warns’ Russia
THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...
French police smash up refugee camp! – as Polish forces attack refugees
FRENCH police have smashed up a large refugee camp on its northern coast where increasing numbers of people hoping to reach the UK had...
CHILCOT INQUIRY– ‘COME THE DAY YOU’LL BE THERE’ – Rumsfeld was sure that...
‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...
‘Keep Ealing Maternity open or A&E will be next!’
‘WE ARE all very upset, my colleagues and I are being told to go and work elsewhere. We will support the meeting and the...
NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members
Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
Russia poised to recognise Donbass republics! 5 Ukrainian officers killed trying to cross into...
THE RUSSIAN Security Council discussed yesterday recognising Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region of Ukraine as independent states. Russian President Vladimir Putin said: ‘I...
60 media and rights organisations urge the EU to impose sanctions on Israel for...
SOME 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of ‘massacring journalists’...
NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...
Police take full responsibility for unlawful killing
THE Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of Ian Tomlinson and reached an out-of-court settlement over his ‘unlawful killing’ by a police officer...
Flawed Intelligence Being Used In Secret No Jury Courts
Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...
Teachers ready for more action!
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...
‘Just 15 Minutes Of Care!’
ELDERLY and vulnerable people are receiving just 15 minutes of care during homecare visits because of savage 40% council budget cuts, Unison warned yesterday. Unison...