‘SACK 137,000 FROM NHS’ – secret report tells Labour
Government ministers rushed out denials yesterday in the wake of a report calling for the axing of 137,000 NHS doctors, nurses and other clinical...
Strike At NHS Logistics
TWO 24-hour national strikes by staff at NHS Logistics were announced yesterday, after the workers voted 3-1 for action against the government’s plans to...
LET IN THE TRUCKS! – Israel blocking 6,000 aid trucks for Gaza
‘LET IN THE TRUCKS’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) demanded yesterday. Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA’s media advisor, demanded that Israel...
Palestinian prisoners – indefinite hunger strike
HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...
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...
‘the Last Days Of The Karamanlis Government’
GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...
Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers
angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...
‘WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!’ – New Era Estate tenants march to Downing Street
‘WE will not be moved!’ declared 600 furious residents of the New Era Estate in Hoxton, Hackney and their supporters at a mass lobby...
Thomas Cook workers freed after angry demonstration
SIXTEEN workers, eight trade union representatives and the partner of one of the staff who were brought before the High Court after they refused...
BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!
Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...
Imperialist wars engulf Middle East region and the world’s bankers start to panic!
THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, yesterday told The Guardian newspaper that the Bank is watching developments in the ongoing war...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
Unite Urges Tories To Avoid Petrol Clash
Unite has sent a letter to Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change yesterday, pleading with him to intervene in the...
‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
‘SERIOUS DANGER TO PATIENT SAFETY’ –from Ambulance Service privatisation
Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...
Rock-solid college strike!
‘THIS is a national one-day pay strike. We haven’t had a pay rise for six years – which represents a 17 per cent pay...
May Returns To ‘No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal!’
AFTER PM May’s Chequers deal was blown out of the water by the EU on Thursday evening, yesterday May ‘addressed the nation’ and said...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
AMAZON MUST BE NATIONALISED! – WRP’s Leff tells HQ rally
‘AMAZON and all companies and industries must be nationalised and put under public ownership,’ Jonty Leff, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and...
BMA senior leaders demand – JOBS GUARANTEE FOR ALL 35,000 JUNIOR DOCTORS
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday called for a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that not one of 35,000 junior doctors will be without a job...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen
On the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
‘Living standards being hammered’– says CWU leader Dave Ward
THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...
Cameron Forcing Through Benefit Cuts
Disability Rights UK, representing over 500 organisations across the country, and the Child Poverty Action Group, yesterday condemned MPs for overturning House of Lords...
DOCTORS ‘FEEL LIKE CANNON FODDER’ says Chair of Doctors’ Association UK
Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...
Post strike warning – as 3,000 more jobs face axe
Strike action ‘very close to the scale of the (1980s) miners strike, if not bigger’ is unavoidable – unless management withdraws attacks on the...
£1.9bn black hole pensions raid –as Corbyn ready to force vote on disabled cuts
A PENSIONS black hole has been identified in the Tory Chancellor’s budget plan with figures emerging yesterday showing that the...
ANGRY STEAD McALPIN WORKERS RALLY
OVER 50 sacked workers launched a 24-hour picket and demonstration yesterday morning outside the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle. Workers are angry that...
‘PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME’ – Scottish BMA condemns coalition
The leader of Scotland’s doctors has yesterday warned that a series of direct attacks on the medical workforce is testing the goodwill of the...
Israel targeting the national & historical rights of Palestinians
THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...
Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!
The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...
Ambulance Service ‘breakdown’!
UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...
MARCH FOR JUSTICE – called by TUC for May 1
‘Speakers from around the world will join the May Day March for Workplace Justice,’ said the TUC yesterday. Top trade unionists from South Africa...
Heathrow Strike Warning
Changes to shifts and rosters at Scandinavian Airways at Heathrow (SAS), now to be known as Scandinavian Ground Services (SGS), may lead to industrial...
NO PAYMENTS FOR NHS SERVICES – urges BMA
Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...
GAZA CEASEFIRE NOW! – UN votes unanimously, only US abstains
‘THIS MUST signal the end of atrocities against our people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said yesterday. He was speaking after the...
Publish 7-day NHS plan – BMA challenges Cameron
THE BMA yesterday called on David Cameron to set out the detail of his plans for more seven-day NHS services. The BMA said:...
NATIONALISE! – Steel workers demand
‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...
Greek Hauliers Defy Emergency Order
Hundreds of striking lorry drivers and hauliers clashed with Greek police in Athens, all day yesterday. Truckers and their surporters have been lining the highways...
Drivers fighting Tesco sacking deal!
‘WE see it as nothing but a “dirty deal” from Tesco,’ Unite shop steward Trev Cheetham said outside Tesco’s, near to Parliament, yesterday. Over...
‘CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE’ – Gadaffi urges in his will
THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...
Hackney students support WRP’s Leff
STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...
Labour Leads Anti-Brexit Coalition!
TORY PM Theresa May attended a summit in Brussels yesterday, hours after 11 Tory rebels and almost the entire Labour Party and all the...
Cutting council funding will harm public health!
FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...
‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’
PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...
Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition
THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...