RCN SETTING UP A £35m STRIKE FUND
FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...
Youth Being Treated Like Slaves
POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
BA Boss Cruz Sacked
ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...
‘GREECE WILL NOT BECOME THE EU’s LEBANON’
GREECE has recalled its ambassador to Austria amid sharp divisions among EU states over the migrant crisis. The move came after Austria hosted a meeting...
GPs HIT BACK AT PM MAY!
DOCTORS leaders yesterday hit back at PM May’s threat to cut GP funding to surgeries that did not open for longer hours and offer...
LABOUR’S POLICIES ‘MAD’ – GPs leader meldrum threatens action over pensions
Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GPs Committee yesterday warned Labour not to marginalise family doctors. He was referring to Practice Based...
Plo Suspends Recognition Of Israel!
AT LEAST 37 Palestinian protesters and three journalists were injured by live shots or suffocated from tear-gas inhalation on Friday as Israeli forces attacked...
Eight Days To Greek Default!
GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...
Manchester University strike – 140 sackings
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) will walk out on strike on Monday and Tuesday against moves by the university to sack...
BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!
DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...
Israeli war planes bomb Jabaliya refugee camp! – scores of children are killed
ISRAELI warplanes bombed the Al Jabaliya refugee camp again yesterday morning, killing scores of children, burying them in their homes. Extending just one square kilometre,...
Glasgow Cladding Scandal
HUNDREDS of residents have received letters confirming Glasgow tower blocks have the very same combustible cladding that rapidly spread the fire in the Grenfell...
General Strike Shuts Down Greece
GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...
Staffs Bed Closures – Lives At Risk!
‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...
£3bn of savage education cuts
CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...
Greek Teachers Strike Continues
THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...
NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union
ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...
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...
Tata Union Reps To Meet Monday
‘I DO not believe that nationalisation is the right answer,’ Tory PM Cameron said yesterday, putting two fingers up to the 15,000 steel workers...
Youth In Poverty!
THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...
BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay
THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...
‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail workers
‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...
Brown Savages Sick And Poor
Prime minister Brown signalled more attacks on workers, the sick, unemployed and disabled people in his speech to MPs yesterday, outlining the government’s draft...
Lecturers more resolute than ever
STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...
British Officers For Libya!
TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...
‘SERIOUS UPHEAVALS’ – predicted by head of World Bank
WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...
BMA Council votes to call special conference
The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...
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...
‘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...
Minister seeking to ban NEU teachers strike!
TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...
24-Hour Firefighters Strike Solid!
‘THIS dispute is not over,’ declared Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack at a packed 2,000-strong rally of striking firefighters in Westminster, central...
School funding cuts devastate a generation of children
AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...
Kiev Attacks Civilians
KIEV forces have been attacking civilians in residential areas in east Ukraine over the last few days. This is in spite of the promise by...
‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’
GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...
Right-wing beaten at Labour Conference
LABOUR right-wingers were resoundly beaten yesterday in their attempt to reject Brexit and push the Labour Party conference to accept that Britain should remain...
Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures
FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
£6bn PENSIONS DEFICIT EXPLOSION!
THERE has been a £6 billion explosion in the pensions scheme deficit ‘black holes’ of Britain’s major retailers since the beginning of the year,...
NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!
THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
Teachers Reject Savage Cuts
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) hit back yesterday at Education Secretary Ed Balls over his call to sack thousands of school heads and...
Savage Cuts Risk ‘death Spiral’
THE new allegedly independent fiscal watchdog has downgraded the economic growth projections for the UK economy, and also cut its debt projection as a...
Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves
FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...
Hospital Hit For Third Time In A Week
TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have fired artillery shells into the makeshift hospital in Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal East, killing at least...
CIVIL SERVANTS TO STRIKE – 250,000 to come out for 48 hours
OVER quarter of a million civil and public servants will stage a 48-hour national strike on March 8-9. Up to 270,000 members of the PCS...















