15th GP dies of Covid Doctors demand NHS staff vaccination speed-up & condemn gap...
HIGHLY respected London GP Dr Augustine Obaro died from Covid-19 on New Year’s Day, becoming the 15th GP lost to the pandemic. Dr Obaro, who...
End Eurozone Austerity!
UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...
61,000 nursing posts at risk – says RCN nurses leader Carter
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday that the NHS is ‘sleepwalking into a crisis’, and demanded immediate action to stop trusts cutting...
GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals
Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...
Iran declares ‘historic & crushing defeat’ for USA
IRAN yesterday declared a ‘historic and crushing defeat’ of the United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war. It announced that Washington...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
Thousands March In Athens
Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...
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...
British Steel – placing 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs at risk!
BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...
5,000 Greek teachers in insurrectionary march
OVER 5,000 striking state schools teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Friday and attempted to storm into the Vouli building (Greek parliament)...
BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite
TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...
Rescuing Banks Is Brown’s Policy
At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling stressed his support for the banks. In his keynote speech, moving the resolution ‘Prosperity...
Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action
ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...
Article 50 Showdown Postponed
ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...
Referendum Dropped!
PREMIER Papandreou told the Greek parliament yesterday that he was now adopting a ‘national position’ and was discussing with the right-wing...
1.6 million Palestinians are starving in Gaza!
MORE than one and a half million Palestinians are starving in Gaza this New Year’s Eve, as the Israeli army continues to block essential...
Aminata Eviction Stopped!
‘I AM not going to give up, I am going to fight the council until they give me and my family somewhere to live...
Plymouth principal Phillips quits
UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...
Greek Parliament Votes For Massive Austerity
THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved on Friday morning by 222 to 64 votes, the new EC-IMF-dictated third austerity bailout accords, proposed by the SYRIZA-ANEL...
‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN
‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...
Anti-Corbyn coup attempt!
SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...
‘Russia will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine!’ says Dmitry Peskov Kremlin spokesman
RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...
Media workers demand indefinite general strike
GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...
HALT NHS JOB LOSSES! says RCN
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be holding a national rally in Westminster on May 11th ‘to voice opposition to the government’s...
Hamas Landslide!
Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...
Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!
GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...
Draconian New Laws Are Rushed In By The Tories!
‘DRACONIAN’ new laws have been rushed in by the Tories ahead of Saturday’s coronation and a letter described by lawyers as ‘intimidatory’, has been...
Iran warns UK over ‘terror designations’
THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...
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...
‘A MOMENTOUS BREAKTHROUGH!’ – ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes
AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...
£11bn of council cuts!
COUNCILS in England have been forced to cut almost £11 billion from their budgets in the first two years of the Tory coalition government,...
Metro – Hundreds Of Pickets Out
THERE were over 100 pickets covering all the entrances to Willesden Bus Garage in north west London yesterday morning. Bus driver and TGWU member Christine...
Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...
Miliband Hits Out At The Trade Unions
THE MILIBAND leadership of the Labour Party is to invite non-party members to vote for the party leader in future elections, in an attempt...
Israel – 5 massacres in 24 hours
ISRAELI occupation forces committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...
PASSPORT RETURNED – to MDC leader Tsvangirai
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...
NO WATER, NO DOCTOR, NO SCHOOL, NO JOB!’ – IDPs leave Kandahar camp
Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas...
Pickles ‘out to smash union’
A LIVELY PCS lobby yesterday of the Royal Courts of Justice took place as the union took the Department for Communications and Local Government...
Support The Firefighters!
Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...
£900m PFI COLLAPSE!
‘WE absolutely call for pfi to be abandoned, it is a failed system which is costing the nhs billions,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told ...
‘We won’t accept closures!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack
SEVERAL thousand firefighters and supporters yesterday lobbied the London Fire Authority meeting in Southwark which was to vote on the London Fire Commissioner’s revised...
Striking Consultants & Junior Doctors Picket
STRIKING consultants and junior doctors held mass pickets outside hospitals around the country yesterday in a show of strength in defence of the NHS...
Rolling Post Strikes Called
After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...
John McDonnell to speak at Gate Gourmet locked-out workers rally
‘THEY can’t be allowed to do this,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parminder Brar said yesterday after hearing that the TGWU leadership plans to...
‘WE’RE READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND’ say BA cabin crew
THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...