Rcn Warning Over NHS Cash And Nursing Crisis
COMMENTING on Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to cap charges for NHS agency staff, Janet Davies, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN...
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...
Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...
‘Save Charlie Chaplin ward’! – Occupy!
‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...
‘Slippery Slope To NHS Privatisation’
‘THIS SORT of service is the slippery slope towards the privatisation of the NHS,’ Dr Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee warned...
Britain Must Stop The Killing Of Tamils
THE Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) mobilised over 3,500 supporters of the struggle of the Tamils in a lively and colourful demonstration outside Downing Street...
Imposed junior doctors contract hits cancer patients
470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...
‘WE WANT A PAY RISE’ say 200 Barts SERCO strikers
‘WE WANT a pay rise!’ said over 200 striking Bart’s NHS Trust ancillary workers employed by privateer SERCO at the trust’s four London hospitals. The...
BANK BAIL-OUT! – as shares crash by £79 billion
At 7am yesterday morning, Chancellor Alistair Darling issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange. He outlined plans to convert the £25bn of taxpayers’ money...
12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year
THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...
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...
US Prison Ships Used Diego Garcia
‘The US government must reveal information about prison ships used for “terror suspects”,’ the legal action charity, Reprieve said yesterday. In June 2005 the UN’s...
‘NEGOTIATION NOT IMPOSITION!’ – Unite calls BA cabin crew strike ballot
The Unite trade union yesterday announced it is to ballot 14,000 British Airways cabin crew for strike action after weeks of talks over BA’s...
Israel Planning Iran April Strike
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a ‘strong likelihood’ that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said...
‘Dreadful Outlook For Wages!’
LIVING standards are the worst since the last war ‘if not since the 1920s’, the leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) declared...
ISRAEL KILLS 28 FARMERS – close to the Syrian border
Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...
Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job
PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...
Southern drivers 9-day strike
SOUTHERN train drivers in the ASLEF union are bringing the network to grinding halt over the Xmas period with nine days of strike action. The...
UCU calls global boycott of Leicester University
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday announced a global boycott of the University of Leicester as the union hit the institution with the...
Teachers fury at Labour’s ‘inadequate & unfunded’ 2.8% offer!
DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...
Virgin-Ryanair Job Cuts
The airlines industry was hit with a wave of job cuts yesterday. Virgin Atlantic announced 600 sackings. Ryanair announced cuts in its summer schedule at Dublin...
Putin Peace Plan
PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...
Immigrant Children Held In Greek Jails!
ATHENS – Greek state officials delivered shocking reports on the treatment of immigrant children held in jails, at a meeting last Friday of the...
22 GP PRACTICES BEING BANKRUPTED – GPs MARCH TODAY
TODAY, GPs and their supporters will be marching through Tower Hamlets to demand proper funding of GP surgeries, which are threatened with closure due...
CHARGE POLICE – demand the Menezes family
‘It could not have been more wrong what has been done to Jean,’ said a cousin of the young Brazilian man Jean Charles de...
RCN SETTING UP A £35m STRIKE FUND
FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...
McDonnell wants a national anti-Brexit government
LABOUR Shadow Chancellor McDonnell said yesterday that Labour may form the next government, a minority government, without a general election, if MPs don’t back...
Clashes and gunfire! Thousands protest Sudan military coup
THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum yesterday, to demand the release of the political leaders amid reports of clashes and gunfire....
Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...
ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...
Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed
SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...
‘Unprecedented economic uncertainty in the UK’ BoE
BANK of England (BoE) boss Andrew Bailey has said the UK faces ‘an unprecedented level of economic uncertainty.’ Britain’s economy shrank by 20% in the...
50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine
OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...
‘WE ARE READY FOR A FIGHT’ – CWU postal worker delegates speak to News...
Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...
Nigerian General Strike!
Nigeria’s main trade unions, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC), have declared mass backing for an indefinite general strike and...
‘IT WAS MURDER!’ – says Sophie Hurndall after Israeli soldier guilty of manslaug
‘It should have been a murder case’, said Sophie Hurndall, the sister of Tom Hurndall yesterday. She was speaking to reporters just after her brother’s...
Stop Barnsley Hospital Being Privatised Says Gmb
BARNSLEY Central MP Dan Jarvis has backed a GMB campaign against the privatisation of Barnsley hospital. Demonstrators are expected to gather outside the hospital today...
Heathrow boss threatens to sack third of workforce
THE BOSS of Heathrow airport has warned of making 25,000 job cuts as the Tories’ 14-day quarantine system came into force yesterday morning. Heathrow boss...
Circle taking £1bn out of NHS!
THE first private company to run an NHS hospital claims it has cut waiting times, improved care and delivered savings in its first six...
Picket Line Victory
GATE GOURMET locked-out workers won a victory yesterday, when they successfully carried out their picket at the Gate Gourmet plant front gate, despite a...
Personal budgets cutting care!
The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...
Greek Students Mobilise!
REPRESENTATIVES of Greek students’ unions along with hundreds of university students carried out mobilisations last Thursday in Athens and Thessaloniki. The three main demands of...
Dictator Hunt imposes NHS contract
HEALTH Secretary Hunt has decided that Junior Doctors are to have a new contract imposed on them from August next year. The imposition follows on...
‘They flock us towards their fire’ – aid points are traps for mass killings
The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre on Sunday morning in southern Gaza, killing at least 31 aid seekers and injuring 120 others...
Parents demand judge-led inquiry
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...
‘WE SHOULD ALL COME OUT!’ – Serwotka tellls CWU rally
‘We offer our full solidarity,’ civil servants’ union PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told a 500-strong rally of striking postal workers in central...