‘CORE SERVICES’ ONLY IN AN ‘INDEPENDENTLY RUN NHS’! – BMA leaders’ recipe for NHS...
British Medical Association (BMA) leaders yesterday launched what they described as their ‘Green Paper’ for an NHS of ‘core services’ run by an independent...
Publish austerity death rates!
A PETITION launched by campaign group Change.org has called on the Courts and Tribunal Service to force the release of data on the number...
No Compensation For A Wrongly Accused ‘Highjacker’
A pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 hijackers has lost his fight for compensation for his ordeal. Lotfi Raissi was detained for nearly...
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers
Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...
PROVOCATION! – Management bullies force Royal Mail workers out
ROYAL Mail’s bullying management, backed to the hilt by the Brown government, yesterday sought to impose extreme flexibility onto the country’s postal workers, ...
‘Blatant complicity in genocide!’ – US vetoes UN ceasefire resolution
HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in...
‘Say No’ To Academies
ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...
COOL RECEPTION FOR BROWN – at the TUC Congress
GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...
Ealing Gmb To Take Action!
EALING Hospital workers are stopping work for two hours next Wednesday 1st July and joining the march and occupation to save the hospital’s maternity...
WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER! – WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney tells the News...
‘The only way to solve the problems facing the working class today is for the working class to take state power and smash...
Axis of evil – Blair meets Olmert
PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...
THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust
Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...
Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close
WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...
Refugee crisis doubles
THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...
Disaster At Royal Free
ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...
Excessive A&E waits cause 320 extra deaths a week!
THERE were more than 16,600 deaths associated with long A&E waits before admission in England last year, analysis by the Royal College of Emergency...
‘Baha Mousa is not the only Iraqi killed by British forces’
The High Court yesterday gave the go ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. The...
UNIONS AGREE WELSH NHS PAY DEAL! – Monday’s Welsh strike action cancelled
HEALTH unions have agreed a separate deal on pay for NHS workers in Wales, meaning they will not be taking part in Monday’s four-hour...
THE MAJORITY ARE STANDING FIRM – say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are on the picket line today, determined to win victory this year. The airline catering company at Heathrow sacked over 700...
RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation
MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...
BA WANTS A WAR! – says Tony Woodley
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...
‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm
EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
MUBARAK GOES! – chased out by the masses
THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...
XAVIER GOURMET LOCKS OUT 200 WORKERS – says workers must claim their money from...
A GATE Gourmet supplier locked out 200 workers in Heston, one mile from Heathrow Airport, yesterday. Xavier Gourmet, which was trading up until seven months...
‘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:...
Labour Woos Democratic Unionists!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday to urge the Democratic Unionist Party to join Labour in...
Johnson Leaves May Off Hook!
FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs in his resignation speech: ‘It is not too late to save Brexit. We have time in...
RMT slams ‘bandit capitalism’
THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...
‘We will proudly break sanctions’ – Iran defies the US
‘WE WILL proudly break the sanctions,’ Iranian leader President Hassan Rouhani said defiantly at a meeting of economic officials yesterday, describing the new wave...
SHAME ON RATCLIFFEE!’ – shout Grangemouth refinery workers
Workers on the second day of their two-day strike over pensions at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland yesterday remained defiant and determined...
260 DEAD IN KENYAN FIGHTING – after Presidential election rigged
As the death toll rose to 260, EU monitors yesterday cast doubts on the results of Kenya’s disputed presidential vote. This stepped up the pressure...
Teachers ready for more action!
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...
Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital Under Siege!
AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...
98.7% NO CONFIDENCE IN LANSLEY – frightened Miliband urges ‘junk the Bill’
NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...
HINCHINBROOKE JOBS FREEZE! – Circle-run hospital deep in debt
THE privately-run Hinchinbrooke Healthcare Trust in Cambridgeshire has imposed a jobs freeze after making a £2.3m loss in the three months to the end...
Saudis systematically targetting Yemen’s water infrastructure
WHILE a United Nations panel has found that the daily Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have caused more than 18,000 civilian casualties since 2015,...
Anger Over Doctors For Export!
Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...
SECRET JUSTICE AND SECRET HEARINGS – is now Coalition policy
A SECRET Justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation, warned legal action charity Reprieve yesterday. Reprieve said: ‘The government this week confirmed that plans...
‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’
‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....
209,000 Miss Out On University
Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...
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...
Inflation Up To 5.2%
inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest rate since 1992, rising from 4.7% in August, according to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures...
Israel continues its terror raid on Jenin refugee camp
ISRAEL continued its terror operation against the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp yesterday, with drones, airstrikes and missiles killing 10 Palestinians and injuring over 100...
DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – against Tory-Lib Dem rush to privatisation
‘THIS IS a match-fix for privatisation,’ the leader of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday, after the Tory-Lib Dem coalition announced it was...