Willetts resign! Demand UEA students
Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity
THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...
‘GPs – patients champions!’
GPs at the BMA Local Medical Committees annual conference in London yesterday debated motions in relation to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his policies. They...
‘WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF TALKS WE WANT ACTION’ say Gate Gourmet locked out...
The Gate Gourmet pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday had a Transport and General Workers Union shop stewards report back on a meeting held with...
HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release
ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...
Hundreds of us are fighting for reinstatement
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday determined to take their struggle forward to victory. Shop steward Gurdip Heer told News...
LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton
Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
Panic As China Cuts Rates Again!
CHINA cut its main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.6% yesterday, for the fifth time since November, as it moved to try...
PATIENTS’ SAFETY AT RISK! – warn consultants and junior doctors
Leading consultants and junior doctors have warned that the medical training crisis is risking patient safety as the NHS faces upheaval on August 1st...
FREE PALESTINE! – TUC Congress votes for boycott of Israeli goods
THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...
RCN leaders to stand down
THE ENTIRE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) union have announced yesterday they are to stand down, following the results of the...
Putin launches ‘Special Military Operation’ in Donbass
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine’s Donbass region early yesterday morning to ‘defend people there against government forces’, stressing...
‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced
MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...
Rcn Warning Over NHS Cash And Nursing Crisis
COMMENTING on Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to cap charges for NHS agency staff, Janet Davies, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN...
‘We must not let the maternity close’
THERE was a lively picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning where a lot of people said they would come to the meeting and march...
Steelworkers are resisting TATA plan – while unions stay on the fence
A DEAL to change Tata’s pension scheme has proved harder to sell to staff than was expected. It is being resisted by steelworkers who have...
May Finished!
PM MAY is to meet with Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, to agree a timetable for her departure as...
PRIVATISATION MENACE – a threat to road safety says Prospect
PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...
NO PRIVATE SECTOR IN NHS! – ‘Public don’t want it’ says Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...
‘WE WANT NATIONAL STRIKE ACTION’ say London postal workers
NATIONAL strike action by Royal Mail workers is imminent, after management continued to hit out at workers taking part in a series of local...
Terror Laws Used Against Unions
TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...
ADAMS-PAISLEY DEAL – UK devolved local government for North by May 8
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...
‘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...
Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults
THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
Monstrous Greek Betrayal!
EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...
Athens Law School occupied!
STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...
NO PAY CUTS! Southampton strike continues
PUBLIC services staff in Southampton have rejected a revised pay proposal by the Tory city council and voted to continue their programme of rolling...
2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month
Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
79% vote for London post strike
Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail...
Greek universities go bankrupt
THE Deans of Greek Universities and Technical Colleges are to take the Bank of Greece to court accusing the Bank of investing the universities’...
MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot
ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
Homeless Families Driven Out Of London
15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...
Lift Gaza Blockade!
ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...
CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers
A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations!
ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...
Gabriel Polley Speaks Out For Workers
‘THE working class is tired of listening to the lies put forward by the ruling class politicians,’ said Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Gabriel Polley,...
Virgin to axe 3,150 jobs! – and permanently leave Gatwick
VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...
CORBYN VISITS DUNKIRK – as Brit haulage boss urges ‘send in troops’
CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...
Residents charged £3.5m to remove flammable cladding – plus £5.4m to pay for fire...
LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
Unite ‘reassures members’ over NHS pay claim!
UNITE national officer for health Sarah Carpenter said yesterday: ‘A story appeared in The Guardian today (Friday 9 March) about an impending pay deal...
‘TIME TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT’ – chant Greek workers
IN temperatures of 42 Celsius in the shade, over 1,000 striking bank workers of the Agrarian Bank (ATE) and of the Postal Bank (TT)...
‘We will appeal!’ –as High Court rules Bedroom Tax for disabled is legal
OUTSIDE the High Court in London yesterday, lawyer Richard Stein said: ‘We, along with the other lawyers acting on behalf of adults with disabilities,...