Tower Hamlets demonstration against the closure and sell-off of GP surgeries

Reject Devo Manc To Defend The NHS!

0
GREATER Manchester Association of Trades Union Councils (GMATUC ) has called a mass NHS emergency protest rally for Sunday to protest against the plan...

Abbas welcomes 81 UK MPs condemnation of mass evictions

0
JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has welcomed the letter by 81 British parliamentarians to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, calling...
Under planned new Tory powers targeting ‘all forms of extremism’ – views of protesters on demonstrations like this one which took place last Saturday in Sheffield would be considered ‘extreme’ and individuals and organisations targeted by the state

Tories launch war on ‘all extremism’

0
‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...

US bank rule changes threaten a new crash

0
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...
Sheffield GMB provided a smashing fish dinner and 100 per cent solidarity with the Young Socialist marchers yesterday mid-day

Students rise up against fees

0
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...
French workers marching through Paris last week against the privatisation measures of the Sarkozy regime

Ports Stop Across Eu!

0
Several thousand striking fishermen from across Spain, as well as some of their counterparts from France, Italy and Scotland, protested outside the Ministry of...

‘WE’RE ON LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE’ – barristers tell MPs

0
BARRISTERS lobbied parliament yesterday and raised with MPs the demand of an urgent injection of funds into Legal Aid. Lucie Wibberley, the Criminal Bar Association...
Yorkshire ambulance workers in the Unite union striking to defend patient safety

Yorks ambulance workers fourth strike against cuts

0
AMBULANCE workers in Yorkshire walked out on strike yesterday afternoon for the fourth time in an escalating battle against cuts and changes in...
‘Hands off our Horton’ demand demonstrators from North Oxfordshire in Trafalgar Square, London on October 10th

NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!

0
THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq

0
THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...

20 Nations demand that Israel scraps West Bank occupation plans!

0
ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...
NHS Rationing ‘Widespread’

NHS Rationing ‘Widespread’

0
Rationing of NHS treatments is becoming more widespread, a survey of GPs and hospital doctors for ‘Doctor’ and ‘Hospital Doctor’ magazines has found. Of the...

Met Chief’s Call For Troops

0
‘This militarisation of the police will increase the risk that we run already, not just to our civil liberties but to our very safety,’...

International support for UK rail workers!

0
STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...

Carry Out Pledges – Demand Greek Workers

0
THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...
GPs taking part in a demonstration of junior doctors

‘End 7-Day Open Obsession’

0
‘FOUR months ago in this very hall the profession declared that General Practice is in a state of emergency,’ BMA GPs Committee (GPC) Chair...
Thousands of students took the streets of London for the National Day of Action last November against fees, education cuts and the scrapping of EMA

Students walkout today!

0
TENS of thousands of students are expected to participate in a national walkout today in campuses in every part of the UK against the...
Thousands of workers rallied last year outside Whittington Hospital in north London to stop it from closing. Now the government is threatening to close NHS hospitals up and down the country

ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals

0
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...

Gate Gourmet Strikebreak At Stansted

0
The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the use of Gate Gourmet-employed catering workers as strike breakers at Stansted Airport. Security workers who scan luggage at...

NO CHOICE BUT TO STRIKE! – teachers ready for national action

0
THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...

OIC condemns Israel for rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state!

0
THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...

Bma White Paper ‘Concerns’

0
THE BMA has been shocked and shaken by the resistance of its members to the Tory-LibDem NHS White Paper which seeks to make GPs...

Authorities Face Financial Collapse – Defend Jobs & Services!

0
‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...
Basic rights were under attack on all fronts yesterday. Picture above shows demonstration in support of the jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside Westminster Magistrates Court where he was bailed but not immediately freed

‘Kettling Is Illegal!’

0
Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) yesterday commenced a legal case against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. They are challenging the unlawful imprisonment, through kettling of...

Scottish midwives industrial action vote!

0
MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...

Powerful demo to stop ticket office closures

0
A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...

Points-based immigration system launched!

0
TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...

French police smash up refugee camp! – as Polish forces attack refugees

0
FRENCH police have smashed up a large refugee camp on its northern coast where increasing numbers of people hoping to reach the UK had...
The front banner on Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration in support of a Palestinian state

Cash for Israeli army scandal!

0
ON HER return to the UK after her secret visit to Israel, Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, asked her department...

Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed

0
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...

UK Tax Havens Scandal

0
‘The UK is responsible for one in five of the world’s tax havens – that’s more than any other country,’ stated Tax Justice Policy...
Weary looking Blair came under fire at GMB conference

POLICE QUESTION LEVY AGAIN – Blair expected to be interviewed under caution

0
Lord Levy, Prime Minister Blair’s chief fundraiser and close political ally was questioned for a second time yesterday by police investigating the ‘cash...
Whipps Cross strikers took their campaign to Rentokil head office in Victoria, central London, yesterday

STRIKE WAVE! – Firefighters, hospital workers and postal workers take action

0
Firefighters, hospital and postal workers were manning picket lines yesterday as the working class stepped up action to defend jobs, wages and conditions. Over 1,100...

Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...

0
THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
Young demonstrators during a mass protest in Trafalgar Square on Saturday against the Israeli war on Gaza, shortly before Israel announced it would withdraw

‘A GREAT VICTORY’ says Hamas leader

0
Confirming the extent of the Israeli rout, Hamas’ armed wing said yesterday it lost only 48 fighters during the 22-day bombardment of Gaza and...
Young Socialists marching in Cambridge last November 14 for a socialist future

Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back

0
The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...

THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes

0
FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...

Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover at once!

0
JAGUAR Land Rover’s (JLR) suspension of production after last month’s cyber-attack has thrown tens of thousands of workers and small suppliers into crisis, with...
Unison healthworkers from St Georges Hospital on a TUC demonstration – they demand more staff or patients will die

Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!

0
‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

Three Raf Airmen Killed In Iraq

0
Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...
ANNA ATHOW, WRP candidate, with supporters, had a great day campaigning on Thursday and won lots of support

Vote WRP & Athow in Hornsey & Wood Green

0
HORNSEY and Wood Green WRP candidate Anna Athow was campaigning with her team at Haringey Sixth Form College yesterday. Amongst the youth who signed up...

Cambridge to remain in NUS

0
THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...
Demonstration outside the US Embassy on February 17 by the successful campaign to get Binyam returned to Britain

MI5 WORKED WITH TORTURERS! – Binyam Mohamed exposes complicity

0
MPs yesterday demanded a judicial inquiry into a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s claims that MI5 was complicit in his torture. In a ‘Mail on...

‘Only real solution is a two state solution’ says Biden

0
US President Joe Biden affirmed last night that a two-state solution was the ‘only real solution’ to the war in Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  attending yesterday’s Tribunal hearing

Ex-Military Used Against Gate Gourmet Workers

0
YESTERDAY was the second day of the Employment tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers where they are bringing their claim for unfair dismissal. Kay Collins,...