Tory NHS Funding Scandal
THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...
‘They bang your head on a wall – then give you a hot meal’
SHAKER Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, has spoken out about his treatment at detention centres in the US and Afghanistan,...
NHS ‘CAN’T DELIVER WHAT IS REQUIRED!’ says Hopson
‘WE FACE the greatest challenge in a generation,’ NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday. The just launched The...
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...
Rescuing Banks Is Brown’s Policy
At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling stressed his support for the banks. In his keynote speech, moving the resolution ‘Prosperity...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
‘ZERO CHANCE OF TRANSPORT DEAL’ – RMT warns Johnson government
RMT WARNS there is zero chance of agreement to government plans to increase transport services on 11th May in the current climate, as a...
‘We will resist Met Uni cuts!’
‘UCU and Unison staff will resist all cuts to courses, jobs and provision at London Met by whatever means, including industrial action.’ University and College...
MOSUL OFFENSIVE BEGINS – ‘The hour of our victory has come’ says Iraqi PM
THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...
Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’
THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...
HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
Sack Woodley and Simpson!
ANGRY Rover workers yesterday slammed their betrayal by trade union leaders, Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley, and Amicus General Secretary...
‘We will win this dispute!’ says John McDonnell at Heathrow
‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...
Longer Hours And Pay Cuts For UK’s Magna Workforce
AFTER weeks of extensive negotiations, an agreement on the future of the UK Vauxhall plants has been reached between Unite, the biggest UK union...
Unions at No 10 appeal to May
‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...
Piraeus port blockaded!
ATHENS – Thousands of Greek seafarers supported by other workers as well as students blockaded, from early on Wednesday morning, the ships and ferries...
‘Come clean over tuition fees’ – UCU tells Labour
‘IT’S time for Labour to come clean on university fees,’ the University and College union (UCU) said on Friday, as it called for education...
RETURN US TO OUR CHAGOS ISLANDS – Hengrid Permal urges TUC Congress delegates
‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...
BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture
‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...
Tories unveil sweeping new police powers to ban protests
THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...
Birmingham bin strikers bring their fight to London
STRIKING Birmingham binworkers are holding a London rally outside Parliament today where their Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham will deliver a speech calling...
Johnson Faces Calls To Resign
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...
Bank prints another £50bn!
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to increase its Quantitative Easing (printing money) programme by £50bn to a total of £325bn,...
No direct talks with US insists Iran
‘IRAN has not held any direct talks with the United States, but has only received messages through some mediators regarding the US’ desire for...
‘Remain in EU an option’ says Starmer
‘CONFERENCE, it is right that Parliament has the first say, but if we need to break the impasse our options must include campaigning for...
WE ARE GOING TO WIN! – say striking Grangemouth workers
The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...
GPs SLAM ‘RISKY’ TORY PLANS – including floating GP practices on stock market
THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...
Israeli occupation massacres families in the Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...
Met Police take charge of regime change op!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
‘We need properly funded GP services!’ – says BMA’s petition to government
MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...
Lonmin Agm Picketed!
PROTESTERS picketed South African mining company Lonmin’s AGM in central London yesterday, demanding it pays compensation to the families of mineworkers killed in a...
Manufacturing Orders Decline
UK manufacturing growth fell to its lowest rate for 21 months in June as new orders declined, the latest Markit/Cips survey says. The groups’ manufacturing...
COUNCILS CRISIS – government refuses to guarantee funds
The Brown government has pledged to do all it can to help recover public money held in failed Icelandic banks but has refused to...
Smash The Health Bill
Public sector union Unison and the TUC have called a candle-lit vigil outside parliament at 9.30pm on September 7th, as the Health and Social...
Russian Foreign Ministry summons UK ambassador – after drone attack on the Black Sea...
THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...
LIBYAN FORCES FIGHTING ON – admits NATO
LIBYAN Government forces are firing Russian-made rockets and howitzers on counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and their Western commanders and forcing them back. Meanwhile, NATO bombers are clearing...
Prosecute Netanyahu For Fraud Demands Tel Aviv Mass Rally
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...
‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab
ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...
Jobless rate up to 7.2%
THE rate of unemployment in the UK has risen from 7.1% to 7.2% the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday. The ONS figures...
‘March With US To Stop Chase Farm Closure!’
THE North-East London Council of Action yesterday called on everyone opposed to the threatened closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department and...
Carillion crash hits NHS hospitals hard
THE LIQUIDATION of Carillion has created such a crisis in the NHS that 14 hospital Trusts have had to trigger their emergency ‘contingency...
‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’
ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
UK Threatens To Storm Ecuador Embassy!
ECUADOR yesterday granted political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and called on the UK to ‘guarantee safe passage to Mr Assange to complete...
Patient diverts neither safe nor effective – Confirms new EMJ research
DIVERTING patients, who are ‘not seriously ill’, away from emergency departments is neither safe nor effective, new research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal...
Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!
‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...