UNIS WILL BE FORCED TO AXE THOUSANDS – warns Universities UK President
Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...
‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
Defend the NHS!NHS – Foundation Trusts call to lift cap on private patient numbers
Public sector union Unison yesterday sounded the alarm bells over a move from NHS foundation trust bosses to lift the cap on the...
Labour-Tory Pro-Eu Front Forming!
LABOUR is ready to vote with Tory rebels to force PM Theresa May to agree a customs union with the EU, shadow Brexit Keir...
Four Weeks On Hunger Strike
Dramatic events are unfolding in Athens as the 287 immigrant workers’ hunger strike completes four weeks today, Monday, 21 February. Four hunger strikers have been...
OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham
OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...
Tories use ‘winter crisis’ to scrap thousands of ops!
THE TORY war on the NHS is continuing with thousands of operations to be cancelled and senior doctors diverted from operating theatres under the...
Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...
UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...
Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity
HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...
‘STRIKE INEVITABLE!’ says PCS leader Mark Serwotka
‘If we get a tax on pensions and jobs and pay, I think that the inevitability of industrial action stares us in the face,’...
January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...
FBU strike tonight
ESSEX fire chiefs are putting the people and communities of Essex at unnecessarily increased risk by notifying all wholetime firefighters they will not be...
‘PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!’ – postal workers demand action to win the struggle
TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...
‘We will win’ say BA strikers
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...
PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’
‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...
Tube Strike 100% Success!
‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...
38% increase in A&E waiting times – caused by government staff cuts
A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...
STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM
DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...
CWU to be reformed to suit Royal Mail
A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...
Wildcat Postal Strikes
WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
Teachers Vote For National Strike
‘NUT members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the campaign to stop cuts in the real pay of teachers,’ Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of...
Don’t Cut Public Services
Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...
UN condemns ‘deadly trap’!
Top UN and Palestinian health officials are warning that the new Israeli-controlled aid distribution system in Gaza is being used as a ‘deadly trap’,...
£1bn NHS underspend
Public sector union UNISON yesterday called for a ‘fresh start’ in response to a forecasted £983m surplus in the NHS. Mike Jackson, Senior National Officer...
Manchester workers greet march!
‘Victory to Palestine!’ rang out through the streets of Central Manchester on Day 15 of the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC...
RATES KEPT ON HOLD – as production plunges
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...
Wmd Lies Being Used Against Syria
USING the Bush-Blair WMD tactic, manufactured for use as the cause of war with Iraq, the imperialist powers and Israel were yesterday insisting that...
Disarm French Riot Police – Cgt
YELLOW Vests and trade unionists are seeking to deliver a crushing blow to France’s president Emmanuel Macron. The CGT union federation has called a...
Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing
FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...
GP practices face £70,000 charges!
GP PRACTICES are facing a doubling of management charges, medical magazine Pulse reported yesterday. Those practices that cannot afford to pay will be subject to...
‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...
‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...
‘100,000 PCS MEMBERS TO STRIKE IN JANUARY!’ says Union leader Serwotka
‘COORDINATED’ public sector strike action will escalate significantly in January and continue right up until May, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned yesterday in...
‘WE WANT TO BE EMPLOYED BY NHS!’ say 700 SERCO East London strikers
TODAY more than 700 SERCO cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters, who are in the middle of a week-long strike across four hospitals,...
Smash capitalism–demand Sussex students
‘Occupation makes us strong’, shouted over 3,000 students and their supporters as they marched through University of Sussex campus yesterday to stop privatisation. Banners from...
Cost of living soars – but CPI inflation rate stays the same
Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation remained at 2.7% in December, according to figures released yesterday, despite electricity, gas and food prices soaring, and wages...
NHS has £4bn surplus! – while hospitals are going bust
THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...
TsIpras rebuffs coalition call
Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...
NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham
The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...
No more talks until 620 prisoners released!
IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...
Not Enough Doctors!
Government cuts have seen two NHS hospitals call for Army medics to help them maintain an A&E service. NHS trusts in Yorkshire and Mid-Staffs cite...
Hundreds of thousands strike to defend pensions
ACROSS the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers were on strike yesterday against government plans to make them work longer and pay...
Shocking midwife staffing crisis
A SHOCKING Heads of Midwifery (HOMS) survey published yesterday by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) reveals that nearly half do not have enough...
Apprenticeships Rip-Off Exposed
PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...
Four Day Strike At Maudsley And Bethlem Hospitals!
FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...
RISE UP! Imran Khan urges students
‘My whole thing is that the students must rise up today,’ said Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan yesterday. Khan emerged to give a brief news...