Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!
DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
Action Needed To Defend NHS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...
‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham
AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law
The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
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...
STRIKE! – Don’t allow Royal Mail privatisation!
POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...
Kent firefighters ready to strike against closures!
FIREFIGHTERS in Kent are considering strike action against threatened mass sackings of 76 firefighters and the closure of five fire stations by the newly-elected...
Iran warns that it is prepared to stop all exports from Gulf!
TEHRAN – Iran has warned every state in its region that joining Washington’s economic offensive will be treated as an act of enmity, threatening...
GOLDSMITH REFUSED TO BACK IRAQ WAR – in March 2008, 2002 letter to Hoon
THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...
Only 137 have signed ‘Compromise’ deal
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday were determined that they will win their struggle to return to their jobs on their...
‘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...
4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker
SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...
‘Save our NHS!’ demands 400-strong lobby
THERE was a lively 400-strong lobby of Parliament organised by the Unite trade union yesterday afternoon to ‘Save Our NHS’ and ‘Stop the Cuts’...
Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico
THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...
KEELE BOYCOTT! – unless 38 academic sackings are withdrawn
Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...
Britain Must Stop The Killing Of Tamils
THE Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) mobilised over 3,500 supporters of the struggle of the Tamils in a lively and colourful demonstration outside Downing Street...
Warships Shell Gaza!
Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...
‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions
‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December...
‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December strikes ‘WHILE billions of pounds is being spent on temporary measures...
‘BLAIR SHOULD GO TO THE HAGUE’ – says Rose Gentle
‘Tony Blair should be going to the Hague Tribunal after what he has said,’ Rose Gentle of Military families Against the War, whose son...
Postal Workers Call To ‘Bring Down Tories’
ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...
Tories throw down gauntlet! – separate pay awards for police & prison officers
IN A SLAP in the face for the TUC Congress, the Tory government yesterday announced pay rises for police and prison officers, while leaving...
Sheffield lecturers are determined to beat the attack on their pay!
THERE were picket lines outside every department at Sheffield University’s many buildings yesterday morning with striking lecturers and staff determined to fight until they...
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...
Tamils Massacred By Sri Lankan Army
TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lankan army is massacring Tamil civilians in heavy fighting in the North of the island. Initial...
£32 million cuts planned at NW London NHS – 400 jobs threatened
The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...
BRITISH SOLDIERS LED THE ‘REBEL’ ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI – says Labour MP Gardiner
A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...
North Shropshire Disaster For Tories – Pm Johnson Facing Sack!
THE Tory Party has lost the ‘farming country’ North Shropshire seat’ that it has held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats, in...
PM’s top advisor Cummings refuses to quit
‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...
Brown Threatens Universal Entitlement To NHS Care
PREMIER Brown’s plans for the NHS to refuse to treat patients whose lifestyles are judged to be responsible for their illnesses...
KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! – march today
HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...
‘Don’t blame me’–if ‘Remain’ loses says Corbyn!
ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...
Crucial Ballot To Continue Night Tube Strike!
THE BALLOT for a new mandate to continue the powerful RMT Night Tube strike on London Underground has reached a crucial point, with the...
Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp
FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...
Free Palestine! No war on Iran! – demand 350,000 on London march
OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...
Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
‘NHS being collapsed by coalition!’
THE very minimum number of nurses required for A&Es to function safely was published yesterday in an attempt to address the acute staff shortage...
‘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...
The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...
THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...
‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
‘REJECT MARKET POLICIES IN NHS’ –BMA delegates opposed to privatisation
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – Tuesday October 21st
Tuesday’s 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the government’s policies takes place in an explosive period. The world economic collapse has...
A WAR ON CHILDREN! – says Save the Children
ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid...