‘DON’T MESS WITH OUR JOBS AND PENSIONS!’ says BMA’s Meldrum
THE BMA’s Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, fired a warning shot at the government yesterday as he opened the Association’s annual conference in Brighton. His...
YS MARCH STARTS TODAY! –for jobs and free state education
‘WE’RE calling on everyone to join our march from Manchester to London for jobs for youth, and for the smashing of all tuition fees...
May appeals to Corbyn ‘join the talks!’
‘FOLLOWING last week’s vote, it is clear that the government’s approach had to change, and it has,’ Tory PM Theresa May insisted, coming back...
Bma Condemns ‘Junk Healthcare’
GPs in the West Midlands are up in arms over plans to franchise out services along the lines of fast food outlets or estate...
PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan
TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...
NO BALLOT ON INDUSTRIAL ACTION – BMA leaders decide
THE GENERAL Practitioners Committee has abandoned balloting GPs for industrial action despite being mandated by their own conference to do so. A motion at the...
Tories plan cap on GP visits!
THE Tories are considering capping visits to GPs, that is limiting the number of times in a year that a patient can see their...
Gate Gourmet Strikebreak At Stansted
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...
STRIKERS CALL FOR UNITED ACTION –to defend the public sector
Civil Servants on the second day of their successful 48-hour strike yesterday called for all public service workers to join in united strike action. Over...
Bedroom tax challenge is going ahead!
DISABLED children and adults are challenging the legality of the coalition government’s ‘bedroom tax’ and have won the right to take their cases to...
‘Let’s get our act together!’ –TUC leader O’Grady appeals to the Tories
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said yesterday that the jobs market is on ‘red alert’, with thousands of firms set to go ‘over a...
‘WE DON’T BACK NHS BILL!’ – 400 doctors warn House of Lords
THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...
Police attack Greek pension cuts protest
FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...
Private Pensions Robbery!
UNISON yesterday called on private companies to act responsibly and provide decent pensions for their workers, instead of leaving individuals struggling to make complex,...
BROWN HANDS BANKS £500bn
Brown and Darling yesterday announced a £500bn package of measures aimed at rescuing the banking system. The equivalent of $880bn, it means they are handing...
Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’
THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial
UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no water or electricity
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
Ben-Gvir hands out weapons to illegal settlers!
ISRAEL’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has authorised personal firearm permits for residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West...
NHS IS FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL! says the British Medical Association
Public sector union UNISON yesterday again urged the government to stop the privatisation of the NHS. Commenting on a warning by Audit Commission chairman James...
POOR HAMMERED! – by Osborne budget says the IFS
CONTRARY to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s claims that his Emergency Budget is ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’, it is actually unfair and regressive, hitting the poorest hardest. That...
THE RETREAT FROM SANGIN! – British army suffers major defeat
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have handed over responsibility for security in Sangin to US forces, marking the defeat of their four-year mission in...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review
THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
Labour Right Wing Ready For Breakaway!
150 LABOUR MPs are plotting to form a breakaway party codenamed ‘Continuity Labour’ when Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership battle. Pontypridd Labour MP Stephen Kinnock...
No Xmas Wages For 600 Workers
THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...
Tories Mount Jobs Assault
Chancellor Osborne yesterday announced the first £6.2bn of savage cuts planned by the Tory coalition. At a press conference, Osborne confined himself to generalities, then...
CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST
THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...
Night Tube Strike Rock Solid! – RMT
STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...
Drive To Close London NHS Hospitals
HOSPITALS are facing closure across London as the government begins making savage cuts to the NHS budget to deal with its debts crisis. With the...
NHS Staff Face ‘intense Stress Levels’
THE just published Unison NHS staff survey reveals the increased levels of stress being heaped on staff by a combination of government cuts, the...
A&E Visits Halved By Virus Outbreak
A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...
Hamas says all resistance factions will support Sheikh Jarrah residents battling Israeli evictions
THE HEAD of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the East al-Quds neighbourhood of...
SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Saturday April 6th
DEFEND EVERY HOSPITAL
NHS registration fee – 18% hike opposed
A 38,000-STRONG petition was handed in to the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) in Kennington, south London at midday yesterday, protesting at the...
Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN
‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...
SHARES CRASH! – GM down $51bn in 3 years
YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...
LONMIN SHARES CRASH – as it announces 6,000 job cuts
SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...
‘Don’t Play Games With A&E!’
‘NO more games with our A&Es,’ doctors demanded yesterday in the wake of the intense A&E crisis over the winter. Doctors union, the BMA, said...
Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah
‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...
SUPPORT GROWS FOR 25th MARCH
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning all week for their march through Hounslow this Saturday. Yesterday morning a delegation of locked-out workers visited Greenford Royal...
Paddy Hill condemned British & Irish governments!
ONE of the Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1975, branded the British legal system as unable ‘to spell the...
OUTSOURCING FOR TORTURE – House of Commons Committee demands investigation
THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...
Rcn Demands ‘A Pause’
A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...
68 universities ballot for action
PENSION cuts are prompting fears of two-tier pensions being imposed on academics Staff at some of the UK’s most selective universities will have pensions up...