BMA condemns private management consultants
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned the government for spending £171 million on private management consultants, who have been hired to advise NHS...
‘Shameful Brown’ Wants To Sack Workers On The Cheap
‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...
John Roan resists! – No Academisation!
‘JOHN Roan Resists!’ is the battle cry of 1,200 pupils, their parents and 60 teachers who are in an escalating struggle to stop their...
Enfield Residents Will Stop Chase Farm Closure
ENFIELD residents yesterday made it clear that they are more determined than ever to keep Chase Farm Hospital and all its departments open. They were...
BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07
Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts
ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...
Hamas, Fatah Gun Battles In Gaza
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas yesterday accused Palestinian National Authority President Mahmud Abbas of attempting a military coup after Fatah forces sealed off two Hamas-led...
29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...
TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...
Docklands strike illegal!
THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...
Record top grades for private schools – huge social gap in education
THE FORMER schools ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins, says he is worried about the vast gap in in the just announced A-level results between...
Israeli Forces Live Fire Kills Palestinian Women
A PALESTINIAN woman was killed yesterday when Israeli forces opened live fire in the Al-Jenena neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to...
MANUFACTURING COLLAPSE – Nissan cuts production
Nissan announced a halt to production at its Sunderland plant for a fortnight and shorter working days for three weeks during October and November...
The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...
Labour Adds 10% To NHS Deficits
From today, NHS organisations are to be charged ten per cent interest on money they borrow when they run up deficits. The NHS Bank, run...
Join Our Picket Lines Urge Junior Doctors!
MORE than 100 demonstrators were outside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night to protest against Osborne’s Autumn Statement of £20bn more cuts...
Cabin Crew Determined To Win
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
US CRISIS DEEPENS – Porsche warns – ‘Serious slump’ in world motor car industry
US consumer spending fell by one per cent in October, the largest decline since September 2001, in a further sign of the deepening slump,...
Strikebreaking managers are acting as rail guards!
AS Northern and South Western Railway guards strike again this weekend, rail union RMT has raised new safety warnings with the regulator over the...
Tuc Looking For Tory Allies
DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton voted unanimously yesterday to defend the right to strike and political protest. They voted for Composite Motion...
SCRAP SATS – Teachers better than tests at predicting grades
CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...
Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza
ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...
‘English Only Spoken Here’ Says Miliband
IN a speech on immigration in the Wirral, north-west England, on Saturday, Ed Miliband pledged a Labour government would make sure everyone in Britain...
TsIpras rebuffs coalition call
Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...
Vote Wrp In Hackney – Defeat Tory Cuts
‘THE GOVERNMENT must not cut the funding for education, the NHS or council housing because these are the things that matter to us,’ Carla...
Corbyn demands that May resign!
SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election...
‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn
‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...
1,250 Manchester Firefighters To Be Sacked!
FIREFIGHTERS are furious at plans to sack the entire workforce of Greater Manchester. All 1,250 firefighters in the area are to be sacked. Only those...
Unite won’t tolerate illegal Doncaster strikebreaking!
THE UNITE union has warned that it will leave ‘no stone unturned’ if Doncaster refuse contractor Suez presses ahead with strike breaking during...
GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals
Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...
Hamas message to Riyadh Summit
THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure...
‘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...
MASS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN – pushed by desperate Tories!
THE UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up...
DEFEND NHS BEDS! – Managers confederation urges axe thousands
The latest hospital trust to announce staff cuts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, has said it plans to axe up to 150 jobs. The trust,...
Cleaners fight 23% wage cuts
ANGRY GMB members are demonstrating outside the CoNEL College in Tottenham this morning against an ‘utterly shameful’ attack on college cleaners which cuts their...
Tories Refuse Additional Help To Gp Practices! – BMA
GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...
Brown Denies Split With Bank Of England Head King
Prime minister Brown yesterday attempted to play down reports of rifts with the Bank of England, and between the EU and the US...
Attempt to bring in strike ban bill defeated
AN ATTEMPT yesterday by the Tories to introduce a bill which would ban the right to strike in critical services, was overwhelmingly defeated...
Disabled ‘fit for work’ assessments failure!
THE privatised assessment tests which find sick and disabled people ‘fit for work’ are ‘failing claimants and taxpayers’ and must be ‘brought back in-house’,...
£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!
‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...
‘SHOP A SCROOGE BOSS THIS XMAS’ – urges TUC
THE TUC has urged workers to ‘Shop a Scrooge’ this Christmas. It’s message is dial the National Minimum Wage helpline – 0845 6000 678,...
Angry Sparks Demand Official Action
ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...
THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes
FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...
Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport
‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
Stormy Syriza Meeting
GREEK Prime Minister and leader of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) Alexis Tsipras convened a meeting on Wednesday of SYRIZA’s 149 parliamentary deputies...
Starmer urges EU war on Russia!
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...












