Ledbury tenants moved! – council fears gas explosion
HUNDREDS of Peckham, southeast London, tenants living in tower blocks on the Southwark Council’s Ledbury Estate are being moved out after safety checks carried...
Bma Condemns The Abduction Of Bahraini Doctors
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ the terrorising and detention of doctors in Bahrain by the feudal regime that is armed...
100,000 Children Are In Temporary Accommodation
HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...
$10 Trillion US Deficit Looms
The US government is heading for a massive $10 trillion budget deficit over the next decade, analysts warned yesterday after the White House projected...
‘Free Schools’=Chaos
‘The Government’s commitment to “free schools” will create chaos at local level,’ National Union of Teachers (NUT) General Secretary Christine Blower warned yesterday. She continued:...
‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
‘Our policy for the TUC is to call a general strike’ says RMT’s Lynch
‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...
Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...
UCU ‘No’ To Campus Spies
UNIVERSITY and college lecturers yesterday morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for ‘extremism’. The controversial proposals,...
Fire Service stretched to the limit!
A VERY STRETCHED fire service has been hard at work throughout New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, the London...
PA signs £80m Gaza reconstruction deal with UN
WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine...
999 Ambulance Crisis
‘Paramedics don’t have referral skills. ‘Andy Burnham is not redefining the health service and Patricia Hewitt got her facts wrong last year when she...
UK Did Torture Kenyans!
THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...
‘Test Grenfell community for toxic contamination!’
A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...
3 Years Of Guards Strikes
HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
RUN ON NORTHERN CONTINUES! – double digit inflation on the way says Greenspan
YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...
G4S & Serco ‘criminal investigation!’
NOTORIOUS private security companies G4S and Serco now face criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in the wake of the electronic tagging scandal. Earlier...
Over 100,000 March On The US Embassy!
MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...
‘Troops to pull out of Syria’ – Putin’s orders
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. He gave the command during a surprise visit to Khmeimim Airbase...
Occupy Ealing Hospital! – Clinical Commissioning Group sets July 1st Maternity closure
‘EALING Hospital maternity department is to close by July 1st’, Pippa Nightingale Maternity Lead for ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ told a meeting of Ealing...
£5.96bn TRADE GAP
The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 4.5 per cent yesterday, as latest official figures showed Britain suffered a new record...
9-hour waits to transfer a patient into hospital! Huge crisis hits the NHS
Ambulance services are under ‘unprecedented pressure’ Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of the College of Paramedics said yesterday morning, with hand-over delays at a scale...
HALT ATTACK ON BURSARIES – RCN, BMA, Unison, Unite, RCM urge government
LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...
FIGHT MASS SACKINGS – 200,000 jobs to go in the next three months
THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...
‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin
Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...
Greek Debt Crisis Talks
The Greek government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis stated that the Prime Minister was to meet with Institute of International Finance (IIF) director Charles Dallara yesterday...
Greek State Of Siege Is Defied
THOUSANDS of youth and workers participated throughout Greece in the annual Athens Polytechnic Uprising marches and mobilisations last Tuesday, defying a state of siege...
Israeli tanks close Rafah crossing!
AS the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 214 yesterday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different...
‘Stop UK arms sales to Israel and end Gaza blockade’
END the blockade of Gaza! Stop selling arms to Israel! Investigate Israel for war crimes! delegate to the Labour Party conference, Sarah Jane Potter...
34 Tories quit government positions
BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...
Thames Water must be nationalised!
THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This...
Tory pay rise is a pay cut!
‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...
No more talks until 620 prisoners released!
IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...
Famine Spreads In Gaza!
AT LEAST 15 people, including four children, died from famine and malnutrition in Gaza yesterday, the Health Ministry reports. Israeli forces also killed at least...
Bank Will Accept Credit Card Debt As Collateral!
The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...
Resident Doctors staging a full walkout from 7am today
RESIDENT doctors across England are staging a full walkout from 7am today until 6.59am tomorrow. The British Medical Association says years of pay erosion and...
Israel Arrests Birzeit Students!
THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...
Greek Port Workers Strike
GREEK port workers staged a 100% solid national strike on Thursday against the privatisation plans of the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) and...
EVICTIONS PROCEED – for those with pre-pandemic arrears
DESPITE the Tories’ assurances that no one will be evicted during the pandemic, any renters who have built up arrears before the pandemic face...
Apprenticeships Rip-Off Exposed
PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...
CWU National Action this Friday!
THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...
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...
Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia – medics receiving pleas for help as soldiers shoot...
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...
‘we All Need To Strike Together’
THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...