RCN OPPOSES ‘RELENTLESS’ NHS ‘REFORM’ – UNISON Health Conference to demand action
A Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey of senior nurses, released yesterday, says 13,000 NHS job losses have been announced in the last six...
£150bn MORE FOR BANKS – as B 0f E starts printing money
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...
Upfront fees deter patients – Immigrants denied cancer treatment says BMA
PATIENTS from other countries are failing to get the urgent cancer treatment they need, because of upfront fees. These fees are ‘deterring immigrants from...
‘Voting for the end of the NHS’
‘ANY MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS,’ said Christina McAnea,...
Three new junior doctors strikes
JUNIOR doctors in England have confirmed three further strike dates. In a BMA ballot of junior doctors last November, 98 per cent of those who...
NINE PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE – against detention without charge
NINE Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest against their unfair administrative detention without charge or trial, says the...
Putin urges ‘Defend Arctic’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...
Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...
Prentis ‘Call To Arms!’
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...
Blair at Inquiry on Monday
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...
Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change
NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...
Powell Suffers Multiple Memory Failure!
WHEN Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1997-2007, Jonathan Powell, was questioned yesterday about the September 2002 dossier that took the UK to war...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...
CAMERON DEMANDS STRONG GOVERNMENT! – as pound sterling falls
URGENT talks began yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron demanded a ‘strong and stable government’ is formed ‘quickly’ to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’. This was after...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
‘FIGHT THEM!’ – Libyan forces launch counter-attack
The battle for Libya continued yesterday with government forces launching bold counter-attacks on the counter-revolutionary ‘rats’ in the wake of Thursday night's call to...
Netanyahu accused of blocking ceasefire – fears prosecution!
AS ISRAELI Knesset members accused PM Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire deal being reached with Hamas for personal reasons in order to avoid prosecution,...
‘World Crisis Opening Up Socialist Revolution’
‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...
£11bn of council cuts!
COUNCILS in England have been forced to cut almost £11 billion from their budgets in the first two years of the Tory coalition government,...
‘FORWARD TO A GENERAL STRIKE!’ says a London PCS leader
STAFF fighting the imposition of pay cuts and the threat of more sackings – after 25,000-plus job cuts in the last three years –...
COUNCILS SUING RBS – over pension fund losses
Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...
Anti-racist protesters who deface statues could get 10 years under Tory legislation!
ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...
Ex-Army Chiefs Beating War Drums
FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...
TREATMENT BY TELECARE! – Brown’s alternative to District General Hospitals and elderly care
Speaking yesterday to charities, NHS workers, trade unions and local government leaders, prime minister Brown announced the publication of a consultation document on ‘options...
TPP pushed through!
THE HATED anti-working class, pro-privatisation ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ deal was pushed through yesterday, in the teeth of opposition. Leaders from a dozen countries agreed the trade...
Angry Aslef pickets reject four per cent pay offer!
STRIKING ASLEF pickets were at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning on the first of three one day strike actions. They are extremely angry over the...
14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!
THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
2,600 armed police on London streets
SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...
‘Social Housing Is Our Right’!
‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...
Student Fees Anger!
the National Union of Students (NUS) is lobbying Parliament today against a threatened unlimited hike in university top up fees. The NUS has called the...
No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers
ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...
Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!
MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...
Artificial heart saves 13-year-old – Royal Brompton must not close!
THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...
Hunt signals more NHS cuts
THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...
30,000 March Against Cornish NHS Cuts
The organisers of the biggest demonstration so far in defence of the NHS, a huge 30,000-strong march against NHS cuts in Cornwall, yesterday slammed...
Inquiry into sub-postmasters scandal opens
‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...
Israel Steps Up Jabalia Genocide
QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...
PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act
SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...
‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...
‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...
Labour Stabs Iraq In The Back
LABOUR leader Corbyn absented himself from the vote on Wednesday night when Labour and Tory MPs voted down an SNP motion condemning the ...
‘Dismantle Zionist Settlements’
POLICE yesterday arrested several protestors who were laying siege to Downing Street, demonstrating against the visit of ‘war criminal’ Binyamin Netanyahu. They were also demanding...
Take Action To Support Doctors!
‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...
Rafah Warning – Israeli Attack Will Murder Thousands!
THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred...
March to TUC begins!
‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...
IRAN STRIKES BACK! – and condemns US-Saudi attack on Iraq
THE Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have staged a retaliatory ballistic missile strike against an American airbase in Jordan, besides halting three trespassing vessels...