Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!
RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...
Greek Hospitals Collapse!
THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...
TEXAS PACIFIC SELLS GATE GOURMET – Private equity on the run
PRIVATE equity raider, the Texas Pacific Group has sold airline catering company Gate Gourmet to bankers Merrill Lynch. Gate Gourmet, which is based in the...
320,000 children face acute malnutrition
ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
Mass NHS closures in North
UNIONS are furious at the plans to make savage cuts in the NHS in Northern Ireland. The plan, called ‘Transforming Your Care’, is based on...
MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES
The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...
RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!
PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...
‘We will strike for as long as it takes!’ – says BMA chair of...
‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon
A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...
Mh17 Hit ‘By A Large Number Of High Energy Objects’
THE MH17 crash was a result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that struck the Boeing from the outside,...
Dozens of US banks on verge of collapse!
DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...
NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...
‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey
‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
Prisons Handed Over To Privateers Says Poa
THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...
‘US Troops Must Leave Iraq’ Say 170 Lawmakers
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...
Teacher Unions Vote To Strike
THE NUT and NASUWT teachers unions voted overwhelmingly for strike action at their annual conferences over the weekend. Speaking after the Priority Motion on Pensions...
Cwu-Royal Mail Talks
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been in ‘intermittent’ talks with Royal Mail for weeks, CWU London Regional Secretary John Denton confirmed to News...
National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel University picket line
‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...
‘DON’T BANK WORKERS’ JOBS MATTER!’ – Accord condemns Brown and Darling
‘IT seems to me that bank workers are treated as second-class citizens as though their jobs don’t matter.’ This is what Ged Nichols, general secretary...
‘We can’t allow the City to sink beneath the waves’
‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor...
Welsh FBU Fury Over Doubled Working Hours
The South Wales Branch of the Fire Brigades Union is organising a ballot for industrial action to fight plans by senior Brigade management to...
Imf Orders More Irish ‘Repossessions’
THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...
Rashford forces Tory U-turn over free school meals
OVER a million children suffering in dire poverty in the UK will now get free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a successful...
Hamas denounces Israel’s plan to execute Palestinian prisoners
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval in its first reading of a bill that would permit the execution...
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...
STRIKE GOING AHEAD – says Prentis
‘The strike will go ahead,’ said Unison general secretary Dave Prentis yesterday as more unions announced their members will be joining the November 30...
Arab states condemn Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ plan
THERE has been widespread condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments to an Israeli news channel on Tuesday night that he feels ‘very...
‘UNLIMITED NHS PRIVATISATION’ – health unions must act, says consultant
Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...
Thousands March For Palestine
‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...
‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...
‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...
BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!
Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...
WE’LL STOP NHS PRIVATISATION – say BMA consultants
‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers picket TGWU office
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Hillingdon Regional Office of the Transport and General Workers Union yesterday. They told fellow union members that their employment...
General Council Members Support Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers
TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...
West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened
FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
Junior doctors 48hr strike today
‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...
Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent
The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...
End Franchise Farce!
RAIL unions demanded the immediate renationalisation of the railways yesterday after the Stock Exchange announced that the Virgin Trains privateer is to be asked...
NURSES ANGRY! – ready for industrial action
ROYAL College of Nursing members in England will be asked next Monday if they favour a ballot for strike action to force the government...
Workers Revolutionary League statement – Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth...
STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...
Greek 2-day general strike!
WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...
Maternity & midwife cuts – 1,000 stillbirths
THE CLOSURE of maternity departments at hospitals up and down the country and the severe lack of midwives has created a situation where as...