Biden opts for super-inflation!
US President Joe Biden has released his first annual budget – a $6tn (£4.2tn) spending plan that includes steep tax increases. The bumper proposal would...
Cbi Calls For Two-Year Wage Freeze
Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...
TAKE GOVIA INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP demands RMT
A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...
‘MAKE CREDIBLE OFFER’ – Junior doctors tell Health Secretary Barclay
JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...
GREECE PLEADS FOR TIME TO REPAY LOANS – ‘EU exit would be a catastrophe!’
THE EU-IMF-ECB-imposed Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, on Saturday called for more time to carry out savage austerity cuts, warning that a Greek exit...
PM May’s 10-year NHS plan a fraud!
YESTERDAY’S claim by Tory PM May that she will hand over an extra £20bn a year to the NHS was described by Labour’s Shadow...
ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements
ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...
Return all academies to council control!
‘SCHOOLS must be returned to their local authority family of schools,’ Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said, responding...
Cut emergency admissions or face elderly care cuts! – GPs told
GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...
Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis
A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...
Syria Supports Truce Plan
THE UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said yesterday that the Syrian government had agreed to call a truce on the...
Return to election campaign needs PM May’s agreement!
THE LABOUR Party yesterday was unable to say when campaigning in the general election – which was suspended by PM May in the wake...
CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration
HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
Israel Attacks Palestinian Journalists!
DOZENS of Palestinian journalists have suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli military forces attacked a peaceful sit-in staged in the northern sector of...
Gchq Spying Ruled Legal!
JUDGES have ruled that the system of spying used by the British state does not breach the European Convention of Human Rights. The case...
London Mail Centres Out Today
THOUSANDS of postal workers at huge mail centres across the capital are taking action today, the third day of the London postal strike. Union leaders...
‘Victory for defiance in face of death!’
GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya has hailed the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as a triumph for the Palestinian people. He...
Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...
HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
BUS DRIVERS STRIKE! – for £30,000 a year & 38-hour week
METROBUS and First Centrewest Buses stopped throughout London yesterday. Metrobus is out for 24 hours while First Centrewest Buses are stopped for 48...
Private University £162,000 Degree!
STUDENTS and trade unions yesterday condemned next Monday’s opening of the first private medical school since the 1940s, charging students an astronomic £162,000 for...
Pilots Won’t Accept BA Pensions Diktat
The British Air Line Pilots Association (Balpa) warned yesterday that there is an increasing likelihood of a strike ballot over British Airways’ proposed changes...
‘NHS CHAOS!’ – Junior doctors warn
THERE will be total ‘chaos’ in the NHS by August – unless the government immediately scraps MTAS (the new Medical Training Application Service), a...
Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth
LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...
Savage Cuts To ‘Reset’ NHS Trusts
A REGIME of ‘financial special measures’ has been announced for trusts and clinical commissioning groups to ensure the NHS lives within its means by...
GAZA CITY MASSACRE! – 29 killed and 80 missing
‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...
Home Office Wants To Send Rose To Her Death
HER local Yorkshire community is defending Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian-born kidney-transplant patient, from deportation and death. The UK immigration authorities have hounded her, an ill...
Global Free Trade Worst Crisis Since 1947
THE HEAD of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said yesterday that global free trade is facing its ‘worst crisis’ since 1947. Roberto Azevedo said that...
NHS Francis Inquiry Slammed
THE Francis inquiry into what happened at Mid-Staffordshire ‘has allowed the government to blame frontline clinicians rather than those in charge.’ This was the...
ASDA takeover – 100,000 at risk
THE GMB union has demanded assurances from the new owners of Asda over the future of over 100,000 workers as the supermarket chain was...
Israeli forces execute health workers in Al-Shifa Hospital!
ISRAELI forces executed many health workers and other civilians at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during their two-week occupation which ended overnight yesterday morning. Many departments...
Monstrous Greek Betrayal!
EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...
LUTON 354 JOB LOSSES –announced by night shift management
Night shift workers at the GMM van plant in Luton were summoned to a meeting with the General Manager, Paul Staes, on Monday night...
‘Lots of workers agree with us’ – says Deon
‘PEOPLE are coming up to us in the street and telling us that they will vote WRP’, said Deon Gayle, WRP candidate for Streatham,...
TEN UNIVERSITIES OCCUPIED! – Day of Action on November 30
TEN universities remained occupied yesterday, including an historic building at Oxford University, while a national ‘student strike’ was called for next Tuesday, November 30. Students...
‘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...
NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts
ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...
‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the NHS
BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH
‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...
Extra Troops Sent To New Orleans
THE New Orleans river front was hit by a massive blast yesterday morning, with fires raging in the area. The blast at a chemical plant...
Israel repeatedly breaching ceasefire deal
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a televised statement yesterday that Israel has violated several provisions of the first stage of the ceasefire...
‘We will conclude this matter on the streets!’ say South African workers
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in Ekurhuleni is shocked and agitated that out of the blue, the City has provoked municipal workers...
‘IT’S TIME TO MAKE A STAND!’ – Unison’s Prentis tells TUC Congress
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 7 on Public Sector Pay and Living Standards. This includes the call on the...
Trump wants to withdraw United States from NATO
DONALD Trump said on Wednesday he is ‘absolutely without question’ considering withdrawing the United States from NATO, his most explicit threat yet against the...
Nationalise P&O now!
‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...
KEEP NHS A&Es OPEN!
The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...