Police Warned Over Press Links
The ‘close relationship’ between the Metropolitan Police and the media has caused ‘serious harm’, says a report by Dame Elizabeth Filkin. A former Parliamentary Commissioner...
NO BANKERS OCCUPATION! – Greek workers condemn government ‘traitors’
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS TRULY unprecedented spontaneous mass demonstrations of thousands of furious workers and students have forced the cancellation of the official military...
Jenin general strike after Israel massacres 6 citizens
A GENERAL strike took place yesterday in the Palestinian city of Jenin in mourning for the six citizens killed in a massacre committed by...
Landlord seeking ‘Benefit Cap’ possession orders!
HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...
Keep Mount Pleasant Nursery Open
Postal workers and their families staged a protest outside the giant Mount Pleasant International Mail Centre in north London yesterday lunchtime, against the planned...
EXTRADITION HALTED! ‘A victory for Julian’ – Stella Moris addresses Assange supporters outside Old...
‘TODAY is a victory for Julian! Today’s victory is the first step towards justice in this case,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee...
‘Closures Being Cynically Fast-Tracked’ Says Unite!
THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...
Taliban: ‘We have emancipated Afghanistan and made it free’ – Amnesty for all announced...
THE TALIBAN announced a ‘general amnesty’ yesterday for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. ‘We must congratulate the victorious struggle...
Raise productivity and cut welfare say Tories
RATHER that waiting to make a statement to the new parliament, Tory Chancellor George Osborne announced through the Sun newspaper on Saturday that he...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
18-59% food prices hike!
The price of staple foods has shot up by between 18 and 59 per cent over the past three years, as world supply problems...
Failing Universal Credit proceeds!
THE disastrous Universal Credit scheme, despite being lambasted by the National Audit Office for wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers...
Council executives in luxury while: WORKERS STRUGGLE!
PLAID Cymru Assembly Members have accused the Labour-led Welsh government of supporting the huge salaries of council chief executives. The chief executive of Wales’s biggest...
All contact lost with the Al-Shifa Hospital
ALL CONTACT with medical staff inside al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City has been lost after Israeli drones bombarded the area around it. The Gaza...
Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike
‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...
Tories plan cap on GP visits!
THE Tories are considering capping visits to GPs, that is limiting the number of times in a year that a patient can see their...
Greek Youth Unemployment Now At 52.8%
THE Greek Statistics Authority (EL.STAT.) has announced that the official unemployment rate for last March rose to 21.9 per cent, a huge increase compared...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress
TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...
Hunt must resign–says GMB – whole government must go says ATUA
TORY Health secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign, trade union GMB demanded yesterday, while warning that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into catastrophe.’ ‘The number of hospitals...
Day four of Harland & Wolff occupation – South African unions send international solidarity...
THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...
May government found in contempt of Parliament!
‘IT IS I think unprecedented for this House to find government ministers in contempt,’ Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary said yesterday, after a...
Big Business To Access Medical Records
PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...
GP fury at new Tory ‘name and shame’ regime
THE TORY government turned its fire onto GPs yesterday provoking an angry response from the trade unions. Under new measures announced yesterday GPs will be...
BMA Wales 3-day February strike
British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...
Two London A&Es closing on 10 September!
THE GAUNTLET has been thrown down on hospital demolition plans with health bosses told to ‘think again’, said Hammersmith & Fulham...
Sweeping emergency powers are unveiled! – Police given powers to arrest suspected corona...
NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...
3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!
THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...
Crucial Tsipras-Merkel talks
GREEK Prime Minister Tsipras is meeting German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin today, with officials in Brussels, Berlin and the ECB now openly acknowledging the...
‘UK is heart of tax avoidance’–Corbyn
‘THE public no longer have the trust in him,’ Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said of PM Cameron after he attempted to justify his involvement...
THUGS ATTACK TAHRIR DEMO – hundreds injured while Mubarak’s army looks on
TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...
Tuition Fees Challenged In High Court
TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...
‘Unite has aided mass sackings!’ – BA workers demand recall Unite conference to sack...
BRITISH Airways workers yesterday accused their union leaders of ‘aiding and abetting’ BA in its mass sackings and contract-busting plans, and demanded the Unite...
NO PRIVATE SECTOR IN NHS! – ‘Public don’t want it’ says Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...
Cambridgeshire privatised care collapses! – service back to NHS
THE PRIVATE company UnitingCare has collapsed after only eight months and pulled out of running care for the elderly in Cambridgeshire. The company won an...
GM decision this week – says German Economy Minister
General Motors is expected to make a ‘fundamental decision’ this week about selling GM Europe, which includes Germany’s Opel and the UK’s Vauxhall, threatening...
Yorks ambulance workers fourth strike against cuts
AMBULANCE workers in Yorkshire walked out on strike yesterday afternoon for the fourth time in an escalating battle against cuts and changes in...
6 children killed in water tanker massacre
Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...
‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told
STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...
Ward Closures And Bed Cuts At The Norfolk & Norwich
THE Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust (NNUH) has closed two and half wards, around 68 beds. The closures took place on Monday 15th August,...
End Franchise Farce!
RAIL unions demanded the immediate renationalisation of the railways yesterday after the Stock Exchange announced that the Virgin Trains privateer is to be asked...
80,000 civil servants strike today!
JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...
2nd Referendum part of Labour’s agenda – says Corbyn
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer were in Brussels yesterday putting forward Labour’s position to the leaders of the...
Johnson speaks as troops go in
‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...
Tories plan NHS destruction
OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...