REINSTATE ENFIELD GP – Haringey BMA condemns surgery closure
A MEETING of Enfield and Haringey Division of the BMA yesterday stated that it was appalled by the treatment of Dr...
2% austerity ‘pay rise’ for teachers!
TEACHERS unions reacted angrily to the news yesterday that the Tories are once again to hold their wage ‘increase’ at just 2%, well below...
600 Combustible Cladded Towers!
‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...
The prince and the oligarch
AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...
STRIKE WAVE! – Firefighters, hospital workers and postal workers take action
Firefighters, hospital and postal workers were manning picket lines yesterday as the working class stepped up action to defend jobs, wages and conditions. Over 1,100...
‘Labour won’t be able to spend its way out of the mess!’ – Starmer...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...
Stena Plan For Cheap Labour Crews
The proposal by Stena Line to introduce a low-waged Polish crew on their Stena Seatrader ferry on the Dublin/Holyhead route from next July was...
Porter Driven Out By Student Anger
National Union of Students President Aaron Porter has quit, driven out by the fury of his members after he accused them of violence during...
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...
70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!
CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...
Hands Off Our Homes!
‘HANDS off our Homes!’ shouted over fifty trade unionists and youth at a lobby of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, in north west London...
STOP ISRAELI AIR RAIDS – or Syria will retaliate!
SYRIA has warned that it may use its right to self defence after recent Israeli air raids against a civilian airport near Damascus...
PFI DAMAGES THE NHS – Private investors are draining away NHS funds say BMA
Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...
Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!
GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...
‘WE SILENCE OUR GUNS – TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE’ say Tigers
SELVERASA Pathmanathan, head of the Tamil Tigers International Diplomatic Relations, issued an urgent statement on Sunday morning. He said: ‘Despite our plea to the...
50,000 South African bankworkers to strike! – as miners vow to occupy mines to...
Bankworkers union Sasbo (South African Society of Bank Officials) said South Africans should brace themselves for a complete standstill in the financial services sector...
‘WE WILL HAVE TO STRIKE’ – UNISON Conference is told
UNISON members at their national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the attack on their pensions with coordinated industrial action. Before debating...
NEW ‘MEDICAL TRAINING DISASTER’ – warning from BMA
‘Unsatisfactory’ government proposals mean a new junior doctors ‘medical training disaster’ is looming, warned the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday. Commenting on the proposals to...
COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial
UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
Israeli forces storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital!
ISRAELI forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday morning setting it alight. This was after airstrikes on a nearby building killed 53...
‘This Is A Fight We Cannot Afford To Lose’
Postal workers yesterday called for public sector unions to come out on strike with them on the eve of the second of two 48-hour...
‘I’M EXCITED BUT CAUTIOUS!’ –sister of Omar Deghayes tells News Line
‘I’m excited but cautious,’ Amani Deghayes, the sister of Libyan-born Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, told News Line yesterday. She was responding to news that UK...
BA Sellout!
THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
‘A DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS SITUATION!’ – Brown pledges to work on the side of...
‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...
‘Outlaw fire and rehire’ – demands TUC, warning the tactic is widespread during the...
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that ‘fire and rehire’ tactics have become widespread during the pandemic, with new polling finding that nearly...
3,300 STAFF & 1,500 BEDS CUT SINCE 2010! – in the mental health service
MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...
‘WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH MAY’ says McDonnell
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...
French unions hold mass rally in Paris tomorrow
SOPHIE Binet, general secretary of the CGT French trade union federation, has called for people to join the rallies on July 18 in front...
School Strike Solidarity
ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
COALITION RAIL DISASTER – RMT condemns Command Paper
THE RMT yesterday warned that ministers are preparing to wind back the clock to the days of the Hatfield and Potters Bar disasters and...
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...
NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds
YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...
Grenfell Fire Doors Failed
DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...
Killing Continues Minutes After Ceasefire!
Israeli forces targeted a home in Gaza City early Monday, killing a young girl and injuring dozens of Palestinians just minutes after a humanitarian...
Scrap Sky High Student Fees And Debts!
THE TORY coalition government has rejected demands that it hold an urgent review into the student loan system, despite the system reaching...
BUS STRIKE ‘GREAT TURN-OUT!’ – RMT refuses to cross picket lines
LONDON bus workers took their second 24-hour strike yesterday demanding that all drivers are paid the same rate of pay. There are further strikes planned...
US Expels Sixty Russian Diplomats
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that yesterday’s decision by western states to expel Russian diplomats was a mistake and a mirror response will be...
May Is Full Of Praise For Labour Right Wing
PM MAY danced onto the stage at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham yesterday to the strains of Abba’s Dancing Queen and claimed that...
‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous
TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...
Sinn Féin win 37 seats in Irish election!
SINN Féin was celebrating the results of the Irish elections yesterday which saw them as the second biggest party, winning 37 seats – an...
Close down Gaza ‘killing fields’ say 169 charities
‘THE KILLINGS near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating, considering how much Palestinians are in need of...
Blackburn College Sacking Staff But Boosting Bosses’ Pensions!
LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...
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...
‘Get Out Of Iraq’ – US Abandons Citizens After Its Terror Attack
THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...





















