Banks ‘racing to the bottom!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell
THE BANK of England has revealed that banks extended new mortgage commitments to borrowers worth £69.6bn in the three months to the end of...
‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths
‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
Marching For A Living Wage!
RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...
‘US Troops Must Leave Iraq’ Say 170 Lawmakers
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...
Wmd Lies Being Used Against Syria
USING the Bush-Blair WMD tactic, manufactured for use as the cause of war with Iraq, the imperialist powers and Israel were yesterday insisting that...
NHS CRISIS – SEND THE PATIENTS TO INDIA says Hewitt
TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...
GMB defies ‘lock-out’ notices
THE GMB trade union has reiterated its stance of refusing to enter talks at Rhondda Cynon Taff in response to the issuance of a...
‘WE WILL DEFEND OUR MEMBERS AGAINST ALL ATTACKS!’ says Unite General Secretary Graham
‘WE WILL defend our members against any and all attacks,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham declared yesterday, in response to Tory Business Secretary Kwasi...
Stp Onslaught On Ealing & Charing Cross Hospitals
EALING and Charing Cross District General Hospitals are to have their Accident and Emergency Departments closed under the North West London Sustainability and Transformation...
FOREST GATE SHOOTING – ‘It had to happen,’ Blair tells MPs Committee
Prime Minister Blair has once again refused to apologise for the police raid and shooting of an innocent man in Forest Gate, as he...
20 million on food banks!
BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
HALT FAILING NHS POLICIES – doctors’ leader urges Blair
The leader of the UK’s hospital consultants will today call for a halt to the government’s health privatisation policies that have ‘failed to improve...
‘MAY’S TIME HAS RUN OUT!’ – Corbyn calls for general election
TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday. He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...
Nurses using bin bags as PPE test POSITIVE!
NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...
Gaza War Crimes Exposed!
ISRAELI forces slaughtered Palestinians, including women and children, during their Gaza onslaught, under rules of engagement drawn up by the military and approved by...
No Pledge From Mandelson – Over Gm-Magna Jobs!
BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson yesterday refused to give any guarantees to keep open the GM Luton and Ellesmere Port car plants and prevent mass...
TORIES ARE FORCING NURSES TO STRIKE – says Cullen
NURSES will strike across Britain on Thursday 15th & Tuesday 20th December, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced yesterday. ‘Strike action will happen in...
Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!
DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...
Syrian rebels reject Annan plan!
SYRIAN ‘rebels’ yesterday announced that they are no longer committed to the Annan plan. Major Sami al-Kurdi, for the rebel military council stated that...
DROP IMPOSED CONTRACT – Royal College urges Secretary Hunt
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s decision to impose the new contract onto junior doctors must be reversed since the premise behind the contract’s...
42,728 evictions in 2015!
42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...
DISGRACEFUL! Cornwall council to continue fire service cuts
THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ Cornwall Council’s proposals to downgrade Falmouth and Camborne fire stations, just one week after the Newquay...
LABOUR GIVEN A WEEK! – to disclose torture evidence
Yesterday’s High Court ‘torture verdict strongly condemned the UK government for complicity in US crimes’, said legal charity Reprieve. Lord Justice Thomas and Justice...
Metro Bank Shares Crash!
METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...
NHS Trusts – No money for surgeons
THE government’s privatisation drive is threatening the development of a new generation of NHS surgeons. This was revealed yesterday by Britain’s top surgeon, President of...
No Deal Brexit Is Only Way Forward
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday displayed ‘unredacted documents’ about secret US-UK government trade talks putting the NHS on the table in any future post...
GMB denounces May’s NHS plan
‘How does the government expect to deliver everything promised in the plan without the staff to deliver the services,’ asked GMB union yesterday in...
Israel bombs Gaza wedding – kills 6
THE Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned an Israeli attack on a wedding celebration in Gaza that killed at least six people, including...
Regional benefit cuts next!
UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...
‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
CHASE FARM WILL NOT CLOSE! say residents and nurses
ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
‘RENTQUAKE!’ –tenants face unaffordable rents
‘RENTQUAKE’ has hit middle England as rents race above wages in market towns, said housing charity Shelter yesterday. Rents have risen 60% faster than...
Locked-out US steel workers lobby UK AGM
REPRESENTATIVES of United Steel Workers (USW) trade union members who are locked out in Massachusetts, USA, by National Grid, lobbied the parent company’s AGM...
Tories stripping MS sufferers of mobility
THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...
Greek 2-day general strike!
WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...
‘Shoot-to-kill’–law change!
PRIME Minister Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris terrorist attacks. The review...
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...
Sparks Battle 35% Wage Cut
MORE than 200 construction workers fighting 35 per cent pay cuts demonstrated on the Crossrail site at Farringdon Street in central London yesterday, brushing...
HAMAS ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE! to end the war in Gaza and begin the withdrawal...
HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement...
SCOTTISH TUC BOMBSHELL – General Council supports Labour in election by just one vote
Labour has only very narrowly retained the formal endorsement of Scotland’s trades unions for May’s Holyrood and council elections. The General Council of the STUC...
Euro Crisis Crunch Time
US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...