Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS faces 430 jobs axe
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday announced plans to axe 430 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving £84m in the...
NHS winter crisis is ahead warns Dr Boyle
SPEAKING ahead of the three-day strike of tens of thousands of NHS Junior Doctors which begins at 7am on Wednesday morning, the leader of...
Miliband Won’t Reverse Tory Policies!
IN THE middle of the greatest ever capitalist crisis, Labour leader Miliband, while the ruling class is attacking and robbing the working class...
Round the clock GPs slammed
TORY leader Cameron is today unveiling measures to force GPs to open from 8.00 to 8.00pm and on Saturdays and Sundays. The hours change is...
Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...
Half of A&Es in Red Zone
‘OVER half of all major Emergency Departments are currently operating in the Red Zone,’ Dr Adrian Boyle of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine...
2% austerity ‘pay rise’ for teachers!
TEACHERS unions reacted angrily to the news yesterday that the Tories are once again to hold their wage ‘increase’ at just 2%, well below...
‘We are putting up gallows for you’ – Greek workers tell MPs
THREE thousand workers staged a militant march through Athens on Thursday, despite temperatures of 40 degrees, demanding the overthrow of the government and an...
China Hits Back At US Trade!
China launched countermeasures against the United States’ trade war attacks yesterday, with the Chinese People’s Daily saying that Beijing ‘will never waver in its...
‘Unions need to stand together to properly defend the NHS!’
THERE were three sets of NHS workers on strike at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday, the domestic and catering workers, the pathologists...
Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration
THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...
Kiev Attacks Civilians
KIEV forces have been attacking civilians in residential areas in east Ukraine over the last few days. This is in spite of the promise by...
Tories scrap 2 weeks cancer waiting times target – new boost for health...
THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...
Stena Plan For Cheap Labour Crews
The proposal by Stena Line to introduce a low-waged Polish crew on their Stena Seatrader ferry on the Dublin/Holyhead route from next July was...
ULU students march
AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...
‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan
The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...
DEFEND ROYAL MAIL – action needed not words
Postal workers called for action to defend their jobs and Royal Mail as a public service in response to yesterday’s publication of the...
‘We support LSE occupation!’
OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...
Syriza Declaring War On Seafarers!
THE Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and Independent Greeks party (ANEL) coalition government, has confirmed that it is to implement a privatisation programme. This...
‘World Crisis Opening Up Socialist Revolution’
‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...
‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE’ – PCS, GMB, Unite condemn coalitions’ attack!
‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...
Grenfell Tower survivors threatened with eviction
MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...
Boycott EuroVision
‘WITH THE Eurovision Song Contest taking place on Saturday, the year-long campaign to boycott the competition in Israel is ramping up,’ Zoe Lawlor from...
‘Stop Pandemic Profiteering!’
‘PANDEMIC PROFITEERING has to stop’ says RMT as FirstGroup ann-ounces a £500 million shareholder payout and boasts that new National Rail Contracts will ‘support...
‘ELITE CONSPIRACY’ Johnson warning
FORMER foreign secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that changing the date of leaving the EU from 29 March would be ‘shameful’, and the public...
ADAMS-PAISLEY DEAL – UK devolved local government for North by May 8
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...
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...
SLUMP DEEPENS –Coalition vows to continue permanent austerity
THE SLUMP deepened dramatically in the UK in the year’s second quarter. Official figures showed yesterday that output fell by a startling 0.7% between...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike at 58 unis
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
Israel committing horrific Gaza massacres
IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...
Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!
DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...
Railworkers will resist any Tory attack on their right to strike!
RAIL unions yesterday slammed Tory plans to illegalise rail strikes. Page 60 of the Conservative Party general election manifesto says: ‘We will work with train...
This Sunday – EALING CONFERENCE – No more cuts and closures!
EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...
Wages being slashed!
PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...
BIRRI REJECTS UN DRAFT – as 11 Israeli soldiers killed, many injured in Katyusha...
At least eleven Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were injured, some seriously, yesterday when a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit...
Tanker drivers being ‘driven into conflict’ – says Unite trade union leadership
TANKER drivers are being driven to strike action, the Unite trade union warned yesterday. The UK’s major oil companies, retailers and independents providing fuel for...
NO PAY RISE IN 5 YEARS! – ASLEF strike expands
ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...
Palestinian prisoners plan open-ended hunger strike for March 24th
BY KHALED TAYEH EVER since Israeli Jewish supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, became officially a part of the new Israeli far-right government, he...
Putin ‘astonished’ by Cameron defeat
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has commented on last Thursday’s vote in the British parliament against supporting a US military operation in Syria. Putin said...
Refugees left to freeze!
‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...
Stop Claremont School Becoming An Academy!
TEACHERS from the ATL, NASUWT and NUT trade unions leafleted outside Claremont High School in Brent on Tuesday to oppose academy status for...
‘The ANC is in a mess’ – Zingiswa Losi COSATU President
‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...
FBU Pensions Victory!
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has won a landmark ruling in its dispute with the government over changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015....
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Stella Assange outside High Court
‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...