Labour plans for private companies to take over primary care
‘CARE in the NHS should be driven by patient need, and not by profit or financial gain,’ a BMA spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She...
RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter
Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...
‘LICENCE TO PRINT MONEY’ – £1.8bn for consultants as thousands sacked
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this morning accused the government of giving management consultants a licence to print money at the taxpayer’s...
US Lawyers Launch Bid To Have Assange Extradited From The UK
US LAWYERS yesterday launched a fresh attempt to have Julian Assange extradited from Britain, arguing that concerns about the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health should...
Unprecedented Carnage In Vanni
TAMILNET reports ‘mad shelling’ yesterday morning by the Sri Lanka Army into civilian areas in Mu’l’livaaykkaal north, forcing everyone into the bunkers. Several...
999 calls diverted – ‘Gambling with patients lives!’
‘AMBULANCE workers skills are being downgraded by schemes which suggest that a video call can be a substitute for an emergency service arriving at...
Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally
Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...
MAY GOES TO GROUND! – Johnson & Gove are battling for her job
PM MAY was holed up in crisis talks with senior Tories including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at Chequers yesterday, with rumours that a...
£700bn of government debt
GENERAL government debt is now over £700 billion as the slump hits public finances. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: ‘Net debt was £703.4...
BMA condemns ‘trial by media’
THE BMA has made a legal intervention to highlight the huge implications to doctors posed by the outcome of the Bawa-Garba case. The ongoing two-day...
‘Syrians Alone Have The Right To Choose The Government’
‘SEATED amongst us today in this room, are representatives of countries that have the blood of Syrians on their hands, countries that have exported...
Towers Threatened With Collapse
TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...
It’s Not Over! Admit Cameron & Sarkozy In Tripoli
NICOLAS Sarkozy and David Cameron, with delegations of businessmen plus NATO officers, visited Tripoli yesterday to try to shore up the split and divided...
Bank of England begin 3-day strike
STAFF at the Bank of England kicked off their three-day strike yesterday with a big picket and demonstration addressed by Labour shadow chancellor John...
‘Everything In Spain Is Based On Oppression!’
YESTERDAY Catalan president Carles Puigdemont held a noon press conference in Brussels to explain why he had left Spain, and to outline his perspectives. He...
100,000 Jobs To Go After Xmas!
‘Public sector job losses are coming thick and fast. Councils in particular are bringing forward job losses in order to cope with the deep...
Stop The Hospital Closures!
LIBDEM Health Minister Burstow declared on Monday night that the coalition government was ‘right’ to announce the closure of Chase Farm Hospital ‘after years...
‘REVERSE GP CUTS!’ – Dr Gerada warns coalition
PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...
Greek youth jobless reaches 64.9%
THE unemployment rate in Greece increased to a record 27.60 per cent in May of 2013, up from 26.90 per cent in April of...
YS March for Jobs – Zero-hours contracts condemned
DAY 15 of the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool saw the marchers leaving Stockport Labour Club for Manchester. They had...
DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million on base
The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...
GM – ‘No repeat of Vauxhall closure
There is growing anger amongst workers over the future of the GMM Luton plant, at the same time as a decision is imminent...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
Bombardier Mass Sackings
BOMBARDIER announced the sack for over 1,000 Belfast workers yesterday, as a portion of 7,000 sackings they are planning worldwide over the next two...
Junior Doctors walk out today!
JUNIOR doctors are staging a full walkout in England beginning at 7am today, Thursday 27 June and ending at 7am on Tuesday 2nd July. The...
Parliament Square Occupied!
‘FREE Education Now!’ chanted over 10,000 students on a march through central London to Parliament yesterday. Demonstrators from all over Britain also shouted: ‘Workers and...
STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM
DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...
‘we’ll Keep Chase Farm Open’
‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...
FOREST GATE SHOOTING – ‘It had to happen,’ Blair tells MPs Committee
Prime Minister Blair has once again refused to apologise for the police raid and shooting of an innocent man in Forest Gate, as he...
860,000 jobseekers are sanctioned in 2013
A HIGHLY critical report, published by a committee of MPs yesterday, suggests that Jobcentre staff are given targets for kicking people off benefits. The...
GPs REFUSE TO CHARGE PATIENTS
GPs FROM across the UK yesterday resoundingly rejected calls to introduce a charge for access to general practice. The proposal was debated and voted...
SOCIALISM THE FUTURE FOR YOUTH – no jobs under capitalism
Teachers and lecturers yesterday congratulated teenagers over the best ever GCSE results, but warned youth faced a tough future in the face of education...
PC Monk gets 8 years for Taser death – Dalian Atkinson’s family speaks out
POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...
Unite Demands 15% NHS Pay Rise
NHS workers should receive an early pay rise of 15 per cent or £3,000, whichever is greater, the Unite union, said yesterday. Unite, which has...
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...
Thousands March In Athens
Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...
Chase Farm – Council Seeks A Judicial Review
Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...
Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...
‘TAKE US BACK IN-HOUSE!’ – demand British Museum workers
BRITISH Museum cleaners, porters and security staff, who used to be employed by collapsed contractor Carillion, are demanding that they are brought back in-house...
‘HALT TERRORIST ATTACKS AND AMBUSHES’ –Venezuelan President Maduro calls for dialogue
VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has calledfor dialogue to settle political differences and achieve national peace. ‘Let’s put all our cards on the table and halt the...
Doctors taking on coalition!
A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...
Gaza – Red Cross insists that the lives of hospital workers must not be...
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...
MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’
PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
Tube strikers determined to win
TUBE drivers were on strike across London yesterday and are out again all day tomorrow, for 24-hours from midnight tonight, in their fight against...
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),...