PM’s top advisor Cummings refuses to quit
‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...
NHS WINTER CRISIS – government NHS cuts are the cause
THE NHS in England will struggle this winter without more beds in care homes and other community settings to ease hospital pressures, Nuffield Trust...
Thomas Cook workers freed after angry demonstration
SIXTEEN workers, eight trade union representatives and the partner of one of the staff who were brought before the High Court after they refused...
‘Kill The Bill’ Demos Nationwide!
‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...
‘Single Status Used To Cut Wages’
PUBLIC sector union UNISON finds itself in conflict with employers using equal opportunity legislation supposed to protect the most vulnerable workers, to oppress them...
Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’
AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...
US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis
US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...
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...
Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer
FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...
Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!
ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
Summary Powers!
Civil rights groups yesterday slammed calls from police chiefs for summary powers to dish out ‘instant justice’. Surrey Police chiefs went on television and gave...
Big Response For Wrp’s Scott Dore
A LARGE Vote WRP, Vote Scott Dore campaign was out in Ealing Central and Acton yesterday. Many local people joined the WRP and promised...
Sunak Is Silent Over Procurement Scandal
AT PRIME Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday PM Sunak sought to divert questions away from the developing Tory PPE procurement...
‘Malnutrition is a big part of the everyday experience of children!’
CHILDREN are starting school underweight, hungry and anaemic, a committee of MPs warned yesterday, and teachers’ union NUT blamed Tory cuts as responsible for...
100 firefighters picket courts! – to stop closure of 10 London fire stations and...
OVER 100 firefighters picketed the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday against the decision to close ten fire stations in London and cut 552 jobs...
Hunger Strikers Reject Offer Of Exile!
HUNGER striking Palestinian prisoners have rejected an Israeli proposal to ‘free’ them, on condition that they are expelled, the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees...
‘Grave concerns’ over Taser roll-out
‘Grave concerns’ have been expressed over the wider deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to police officers in ten forces across the UK which are...
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...
Hamas calls for unconditional ceasefire in Gaza
THE Hamas Movement, along with the Palestinian presidency, welcomed the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming adoption on Thursday of a resolution calling for an immediate,...
‘GREEDY PRIVATEERS’ – slammed by RMT’s Bob Crow
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow yesterday responded to the McNulty review of the UK privatised railway system by pointing the finger at privatisation as...
More platinum miners join strike action!
MORE South African platinum miners came out on strike yesterday at the Royal Bafokeng Platinum mine outside Rustenburg, in the North West. They gathered...
Sulivan teachers, pupils & parents lobby council
Teachers, parents and pupils are lobbying a full Cabinet meeting of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which starts at 6pm tomorrow at Hammersmith Town Hall,...
Restore junior doctors’ 25% pay cut now!
TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...
Sussex uni marches against privatisation
ONE hundred Sussex students, UCU members and students from other universities marched through the campus of a snow-bound University of Sussex yesterday lunchtime. The ‘Fight...
‘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...
Occupy to save steel jobs!
TATA Steel could close down its remaining UK operations as soon as 28 May if a viable deal to sell the assets is not...
‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244
A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...
Maternity deaths will rise – UNDER THE HEALTH BILL, WARNS UNISON
THE Health and Social Care Bill will increase the number of deaths on maternity units, Unison warned yesterday. A leaked NHS report revealed that...
150,000 March Against War In Usa
On Saturday at least 150,000 people from all walks of life and in every part of the USA participated in eleven regional demonstrations against...
TORIES DECLARE WAR ON BMA! –TUC must call a general strike now demands Chingford...
'WE are striking to defend the NHS,’ consultants told News Line on their picket lines as Tory Health Secretary Barclay issued a declaration of...
‘Take action to stop Maudsley closure’
UP to sixty trade unionists, patients, local residents and youth demonstrated outside the Maudsley Hospital, south London yesterday, against planned cuts including the closure...
Tories Busting NHS!
NHS leaders in England say they have reached a ‘tipping point’ and cannot maintain standards for patients on the funding they are getting. Chris Hopson,...
70% of medical students can’t afford necessities!
SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...
One year since Greek riot police broke up ERT occupation
SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...
BANKERS PANIC! – It’s the survival of the fittest as bankers call in debts
There is a real panic setting in in the capitalist world’s financial system with the main world banks beginning to act to secure themselves...
Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!
CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...
3,000 Greek Doctors Fight Health Bill
Over 3,000 medical doctors and health workers demonstrated on Wednesday through the Athens city centre against the government’s Health Bill, shouting ‘Loverdo (Health Minister)...
Iran won’t tolerate Israel’s atrocities in Lebanon
A SENIOR military spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces warned Israel and its allies yesterday that Iran will not tolerate the occupying regime’s...
‘WITHDRAW BILL!’ – DEMAND GPs
AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...
Irish Privatisation Disaster!
FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...
Special measures for more NHS A&Es says NHS England
NHS Trusts performing poorly against the four-hour target could be placed in new ‘A&E special measures’ if their performance does not improve by June,...
Massachusetts teachers win ‘illegal’ strike!
TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...
General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General
Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...
2,018 babies taken into care
A HUGE rise has taken place in the number of babies taken by social services from ‘Troubled Families’. Figures compiled by the University of Lancaster...