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...
BUSH STOKES BALKANS WAR! – pledges independent Kosovo in Tirana
US President George W Bush yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Russia, when he said ‘the time is now’ to grant independence to...
We are fighting to continue child heart surgery
THE fight goes on to continue child heart surgery at London’s Royal Brompton, Leeds General Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. An NHS review concluded...
Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike
‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...
‘WE HAVE INTENSE SECURITY COOPERATION’ – says PM Netanyahu
‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...
GATE GOURMET – 37 claims dismissed
THE Reading Employment Tribunal yesterday reported that as a result of its May 18th hearing it had struck out and dismissed 37 claims for...
Stoke-On-Trent NHS Beds Crisis
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is urging people to avoid using the Accident and Emergency department at weekends because of the pressure...
COUNCIL TAX HIKE! –families’ bills set to rise by up to £600 a year
LOW-INCOME families will see their council tax bills rise by up to £600 a year from April, warns a report by the Resolution Foundation. The...
Young Socialists hold May Day meeting!
THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...
Israel bombs 2nd UN school in two days
ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...
London Bombings Linked To Iraq War
Former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short yesterday insisted she ‘had no doubt’ the July 7th London bombings were linked to Iraq and Palestine. Short...
Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’
CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...
GRENFELL INQUIRY: May forced to retreat!
‘WE ARE extremely pleased, we are relieved, but we are disappointed that we had to go through all of this to get the Prime...
Inquiry Into Mi5 Death Squads In North Of Ireland
AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...
Don’t bully GPs – BMA warns Tories
THE BMA has responded angrily to threats to GPs issued by the government’s new Chief Inspector of Primary Care, Professor Steve Field, who takes...
Labour government ‘willing to let hunger strikers die’!
THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...
Half A Million Are Starving In Gaza!
MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...
Assad Visits Moscow!
SYRIAN President Bashar Assad visited Moscow on Tuesday to extend thanks to the Russian authorities and people for helping to preserve the unity and...
POMPEO VISITS LONDON – after Iran suspends nuclear deal
IRAN has suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was ripped up by President Trump. President Hassan Rouhani said...
Greek bosses stop wages!
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
NO CONFIDENCE IN HUNT! BMA votes for repeal of Health & Social Care Act
ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...
Norwich City Council to strike!
WORKERS who carry out vital services for Norwich City Council have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action. In the Unite ballot 83% of the workers backed...
35 Years Since Battle Of Orgreave!
ON Saturday, Wakefield was like a sea of miners’ banners, declaring: ‘United we stand, divided we fall,’ ‘An injury to one is an injury...
China No! To North Korea Blockade!
China has refused to search North Korean ships, throwing US attempts to enforce a blockade and sanctions into disarray. The United States is urging China...
‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Pressures Engulfing Social Care!
A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...
Large scale assault on northern West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
Tamils Continue ‘Death Fast’
British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...
‘When we start you will know’ – says Nasrallah
THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...
Osborne Targets Eu Welfare
CHANCELLOR Osborne has called for an all-out EU-wide War on Welfare, demanding yesterday that the European Union must ‘do more’ to ensure economic competitiveness...
Huge victory for Filton 24!
Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...
CEASEFIRE! – or face Middle East war says Saudi King Abdullah
Yesterday fighting in the Lebanon was continuing in Bint Jebayl with Israeli tanks and troops in the town. However, the Israeli Army admitted it...
Mother and child face eviction!
HEYGATE Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian is facing eviction this Wednesday, putting her on the street with her young daughter! The Heygate Estate in south London...
WORKERS BRING DOWN CAMERON –with massive vote against EU
YESTERDAY British capitalism was rocked to its core as the consequences of the massive Brexit vote to leave the EU emerged. Tory leader Cameron...
MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations
A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
Millions of American workers fight health privateers and mass sackings
OVER 46,000 US healthcare workers have gone on strike against private health provider Kaiser Permanente. 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) members...
Hunt is driving doctors out! Restore strikes!
‘IT IS a very hollow gesture, to open up more spaces while simultaneously driving doctors out of the profession,’ said Dr Aislinn Macklin-Doherty. She was...
Parliament taking control from government!
‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...
Ys Lobbies Tuc
THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...
43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!
NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...
Palestine erupts! As Pence says US embassy to open in Jerusalem next year!
THE US ‘will open its embassy in Jerusalem next year’, US Vice-President Mike Pence said addressing the Israeli parliament (Knesset) yesterday. His announcement...
‘CUTS PUT OUR KIDS AT RISK’ – say Sure Start protesters
Over 60 parents, children and their supporters from around the country staged a ‘Save Our Children’s Centres’ Mothers’ Day rally outside Downing...
Working class kids denied education!
THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...
Greece – 24 Hour National Strike
Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...
LIBYAN DIPLOMATS EXPELLED – by terrorist government that’s bombing Tripoli
THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...
Nuj Defends Bbc Jobs!
The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...















