MPs SPLIT ON BREXIT BILL!
OPENING the debate in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill, Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said the bill was ‘the next step...
Tories Forced Back On Ealing & Charing Cross NHS Cuts
The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...
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...
TUC delegates speak out in favour of an anti-Tory general strike!
DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...
Housing crisis: ‘national emergency’
HOUSING has become a ‘national emergency’ as it emerged the proportion of home ownership has fallen to the lowest level since 1986 and, as...
‘GP’s WILL BE STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT’ – warns Royal College of GPs
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned that the scale and pace of change contained in the government’s health White Paper risks...
‘Rebels’ Under The Control Of Foreign Intelligence Agencies
AMMAN – The Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm website on August 1st wrote the following about the Syrian ‘rebellion’. ‘As the “decisive” battle for Aleppo rages...
No joint press conference in Luxembourg – ‘We’re ready for no-deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel. After the meeting, Johnson...
Join Our Picket Lines Urge Junior Doctors!
MORE than 100 demonstrators were outside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night to protest against Osborne’s Autumn Statement of £20bn more cuts...
EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013
THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
BMA CONDEMNS SECOND CLASS PRIVATISED GPs!
Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...
Tories agree C02 industry bailout! Unite wants to join talks with bosses
WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...
Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!
SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit
Sunday 14 October, 2-8pm Southall Community Centre Merrick Road, Southall (nr Southall station) Beat Gate Gourmet & other cheap labour bosses! Support our cases for racial discrimination against...
60 media and rights organisations urge the EU to impose sanctions on Israel for...
SOME 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of ‘massacring journalists’...
Combining health & social care opens door to paying for NHS says deputy chair...
‘ONCE the funding of health and social care are combined, then the door is opened for means testing and charging for healthcare,’ Anna Athow,...
STOP PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! – End unfair NHS in England urge Welsh doctors
DOCTORS in Wales yesterday called for doctors’ prescriptions to be made free to all patients in England. On the second anniversary of the abolition of...
Defend Council Estates! Keep Homes Open!
SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...
USDAW delighted at Tory defeat!
SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...
Demonstrate April 1 15% for all NHS staff
PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...
Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure
‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
Elderly face £150,000 Care Bill
WHEN the Care Bill becomes law the elderly will have to spend £150,000 on care before receiving any financial help. The Bill had its second...
‘GET DIRTY AMBULANCES OFF THE ROAD!’ – demands UNISON trade union
UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...
British Steel – placing 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs at risk!
BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...
Greek Riot Police Attack Workers
THIRTY-SIX trade unionists, including members of the GSEE (Greek TUC) general council, were attacked by the riot police with tear gas and truncheons and...
TRAITORS! – locked-out Gate Gourmet workers condemn TGWU leaders’ betrayal
THIRTY FIVE locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday went to see Brendan Gold, the TGWU’s Head of Civil Aviation. He is one of the trade...
RCN condemns Labour plan for hospital league tables plus threats to sack NHS workers
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) condemned the Labour Government’s announcement of hospital league tables and its threat to scapegoat and sack NHS workers...
Axeing Bus Services Is Isolating Communities!
‘WHEN bus services are axed, it isolates communities,’ Unison warned in launching a new campaign to save local bus services. ‘We are living in isolation!’...
Israeli police beat up murdered boy’s US cousin
AFTER the 15-year-old American cousin of murdered Palestinan teenager Mohammed Abu Khedair was beaten up by Israeli security forces last week, the US State...
Labour Shadow Ministers Prepared To Join Nurses On The Picket Line!
WITH THE Royal College of Nursing launching a £35 million strike fund to defeat the Tory government’s 1% NHS pay insult at the weekend,...
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...
‘Smash Fees Restore Free State Education!’
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education set off early yesterday for the latest leg from Stoke to Stafford. Hitting the road...
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...
Lu Strikers Standing Firm
TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...
‘Down With The Pasok Junta’ Shout Greek Workers
50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...
ROYAL FREE BED CUTS! – 100 beds and a number of wards to go
London UNISON health convenor Geoff Martin yesterday slammed plans by the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust to slash up to 100 beds and close...
UNSAFE! – GPs condemn addressing 4 health issues in ten minutes
BIRMINGHAM GP Dr John Cosgrove and 74 fellow GPs have slammed Health Minister Norman Lamb’s call for GPs to explore four personal health...
Oecd Issues Slump Warning
US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...
‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’
‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...
May’s Brexit crisis deepens
‘WE are going through our potential financial commitments line by line,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in a statement to Parliament yesterday afternoon about...
‘Obscenely inflated prices paid for unusable PPE’ by the Tories
£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...
Lansley pledges NHS privatisation!
Health Secretary Lansley yesterday outlined coalition plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS, announcing the White Paper titled Liberating the NHS. In his...
MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha
The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...
‘We’re striking to defend the NHS!’ – Junior Doctors
‘WE’RE striking to defend the NHS,’ doctors said on the over 200-strong rally of junior doctors outside University College Hospital in central London yesterday. There...
Palestinian prisoners – indefinite hunger strike
HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...