Prison staff at breaking point
‘WE NEED a general strike before this government dismantles everything. The trade union movement must stand up as one. There is a breaking point...
Israel threatens 14,000 people in Gaza’s Al Quds Hospital!
ISRAEL is threatening Gaza’s Al-Quds Hospital and the 14,000 people who are sheltering there with bombardment. The Israeli occupation authorities issued their threat to completely...
Stop arming US police – demands 250,000-strong petition to UK government
AFTER last Wednesday’s massive march demanding justice for George Floyd, over a quarter of a million people in the UK have intervened in the...
‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’
DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...
Israeli bulldozers demolishing the homes of Palestinians is a war crime!
ISRAELI bulldozers yesterday demolished Palestinian homes in Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas city. Mu’taz Besharat, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement activities in Tubas,...
‘IT IS OVER’ SAYS WALLACE – as UK leaves nationals behind in Kabul
‘IT IS OVER,’ Tory defence secretary Ben Wallace admitted yesterday over the UK’s Afghan debacle. He added: ‘It is with deep regret that not everyone...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF THE LEBANON’ say Gate Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...
Turned away from A&E!
GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...
IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro
A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...
RESIGN NOW HEWITT! – demand junior doctors
‘The appropriate thing for Patricia Hewitt to do, would be to resign now,’ said furious junior doctors yesterday after their personal details were made...
UNARMED MAN SHOT IN CHEST – after 300 police raid east London home
‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...
‘LOL’ Dave to Rebekah
Prime Minister Cameron ended several text messages to former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks with the letters LOL, she told...
Recognise RMT Demand London United Bus Workers
ANGRY busworkers, members of the RMT, yesterday demonstrated outside London United’s Hounslow bus garage, as part of their fight for trade union recognition. Since joining...
FIRE SALE! Serco takes Carillion NHS contracts
IN THE WAKE of the collapse of Carillion, another outsourcing giant, Serco has taken over 15 healthcare contracts at a bargain basement price in...
‘We reject compulsory redundancies’ – say Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, determined to win their rights, having been told on Wednesday that British...
SCRAP THE BILL! – and the Board says Unite
‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...
GPs condemn £1.43 million Clinicenta contract
LONDON GPs have complained that £1.43 million has been cut from their commissioning budgets for 2009/10 while £1.4 million is paid for a centrally...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
Doctors – No Confidence In Blair
the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...
Israel destroys 95% of Gaza’s fishing fleet
ISRAEL has continued its genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians across Gaza and occupied Jerusalem this week. The Gaza Centre for Human Rights issued a report...
Brexit vote Friday
THE NEW Tory government with its majority of 80, plans to ask MPs to vote on PM Johnson’s Brexit bill as early as this...
Trade unions must take action to restore the whip to Corbyn
TWENTY seven Labour MPs have signed a statement from the Socialist Campaign Group describing Labour leader Keir Starmer’s decision not to readmit Jeremy Corbyn...
1,500 Lorries Still Stuck
ONE THOUSAND five hundred lorries are still stuck in Kent unable to leave the UK as Tory PM Johnson and French President Macron thrash...
Brown Beats Law And Order Drum!
After boasting that the number of crimes was falling by six million each year, PM Brown announced an even bigger...
£1bn NHS privatisation! –Unison demands full disclosure
UNISON has demanded a ‘full disclosure’ of moves to privatise Staffordshire cancer services and warned NHS commissioners that ‘secrecy is against the public interest’. The...
GG workers lobby TGWU leaders
GATE Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the General Council of the TGWU yesterday morning. They called on their union leadership to reinstate their hardship payments,...
EU to throw 1.26 trillion euros at the banks
EUROPEAN Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday launched the bank’s ‘expanded asset purchase programme’, to buy bonds from banks to try...
GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA
GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...
More FBU strike action
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced that its members in England and Wales will take strike action again next weekend, Friday 13 and...
‘Baha Mousa is not the only Iraqi killed by British forces’
The High Court yesterday gave the go ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. The...
Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey
‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...
Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!
UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...
Fears Of Eu Debt Meltdown
CITY regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has stepped up scrutiny of UK banks’ exposures to foreign government debt after fears of a European...
Israeli tanks push deeper into Gaza City encircling Palestinian families!
LOCAL authorities say Israeli occupation forces have pushed deeper into Gaza City in open violation of the ceasefire, expanding the so-called ‘yellow line’ and...
BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...
Israel targeting the national & historical rights of Palestinians
THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...
Israeli soldiers & settlers intensify West Bank offensive!
ISRAELI soldiers intensified their offensive in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem yesterday, raiding at least 20 towns and villages as well as...
Triple Strike To Keep Train Guards
TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...
‘Stop NHS medical records sale to Capita!’ urges Unison
CHRISTINA McAnea, Unison National Secretary for Health, has written to Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about the proposed transfer of Primary Care Support services...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
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...
Putting safety at risk! – Aslef & RMT accuse London Underground
RAIL unions ASLEF and RMT yesterday accused London Underground of putting safety at risk in its determination to push through changes in working practices,...
DOCTORS TAKE PENSIONS ACTION!–following the lead of the firefighters
AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...
Bma Slams Profits Before Patients
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...
Tories ‘blithely sailing NHS towards an iceberg!’
THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...