17.8m out of work in eurozone
FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...
New GP contract doesn’t address 8,000 GP shortage
A NEW 2015/16 contract was signed by NHS Employers and the BMA’s GP committee on 30th September. However, there is nothing in next...
Israel intensifies its military presence around Rafah–fears of full-scale bloody intervention
ISRAEL HAS intensified its military presence around Rafah, deploying additional troops and destroying agricultural land in the district’s eastern areas. This escalation comes amid heightened...
B&B TO BE NATIONALISED – to head off run on the bank
Mortgage bank Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised to prevent a run on the bank and its complete collapse, possibly spreading...
FBU to strike – Oct 19
FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday. The...
3,439 firefighters dead after the 9/11 clean up – Thousands more dying of asbestos...
US FIREFIGHTERS are dying from asbestos-related diseases as a result of being sent in to clean up after the collapse of the Twin Towers...
NISSAN WILL SACK 12,500! Sunderland’s future hangs in the balance!
NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...
NHS Crisis – Drastic Cuts Planned
DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...
Tens Of Thousands Mourn Hamas Leader
Hamas officials headed to Cairo for ceasefire negotiations yesterday after tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them Hamas supporters, attended a mass funeral...
‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves
UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...
UN Condemns The Israeli Genocide Of Palestinians
A UNITED Nations special committee has declared that Israel’s warfare methods in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide, citing the regime’s deliberate use of...
Shoddy Safety Measures
TOWER block tenants on Camden Council’s Chalcots estate in north London are angry at the ‘shoddy’ safety measures carried out since they were ordered...
Strike Ballot Starts For Cabin Crew
Voting papers have been sent to more than 10,000 BASSA (British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association) members of Unite for a fresh strike ballot...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
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...
GM GOES BANKRUPT! – occupy GM Vauxhall & nationalise to save jobs
Senior executives at General Motors were meeting yesterday to finalise restructuring plans and proceed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. US President Barack Obama...
Lewisham Hospital Cuts Judged Illegal!
CHEERS went up outside the High Court when Justice Silber ruled yesterday that Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut the Accident & Emergency and Maternity...
Greenford Cwu To Join Gate Gourmet Lobby Of Tuc
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got good support yesterday as they campaigned for their lobby of the TUC annual conference in Brighton next Monday morning...
Labour attacks BA strike
THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...
Strong support for Uni strike
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday morning reported strong support by staff from four unions for the one-day strike action in universities across...
‘MAKE TUC ACT TO WIN OUR STRUGGLE’ say Gate Gourmet strikers
AN EMERGENCY resolution on the Gate Gourmet dispute is to be heard at the TUC conference in Brighton next week, TGWU full-time officer, Oliver...
NATO massacres Afghan civilians
TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...
No date for next meeting – Merkel
TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...
Smash The Pay Freeze!
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...
Rally against St Mungo’s union-busting!
‘ST MUNGO’S should hang its head in shame,’ said Unite ahead of today’s solidarity midday rally outside the homelessness charity’s London HQ in St...
Meeting – Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!
THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
Gadaffi ‘Alive And Well’
Fierce fighting continued in the Libya capital yesterday as government forces remained in control of large areas of Tripoli, holding off SAS-led mercenaries and...
‘Biden must follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel!’
THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...
Anti-tank missiles used against Palestinian home!
MOHAMMED Faqih’s body came out of a Hebron house in an army bulldozer bucket on Tuesday night, after the Israeli Army killed him and...
NHS ‘Reforms’ Condemned!
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday moved to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill, arguing that serious concerns have not been addressed...
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...
Itv Strike Ballot!
ITV staff are to ballot for strike action over pay. BECTU said: ‘Union officials at ITV have rejected the company’s latest pay offer for 2015...
Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!
‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...
Israeli forces carry out raids across West Bank and Gaza
ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...
Israel launches ‘war of extermination!’ – 274 killed in first few hours yesterday
THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...
‘We will work with Brown’–Prentis
‘We demand fairness and justice for our members – and we are prepared to fight and, if necessary strike, to get it,’ UNISON general...
JUDGE BACKS WALSH DIKTAT! – ‘A disgraceful day for democracy’–Woodley
‘It is a disgraceful day for democracy’, Unite joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley declared after a High Court judge ruled the...
‘End the criminal Israeli occupation’ – Palestinian Foreign Minister al-Maliki addresses the UN
THE international community has a responsibility ‘to put an end to Israel’s aggression on our homeland, and to enable our people to establish our...
Hands Off Our Homes! Say 10,000 Marchers
HANDS off our Homes! Kill the Bill! Homes for People! Not for Profit!’ chanted protesters yesterday on a 10,000-strong march through central London against...
‘No choice but to fight BT sackings!’ – Allan Eldred CWU National Officer
THE DEVASTATING ramifications for BT employees of the brutal new management approach sweeping across BT is not just illustrated by the scores of compulsory...
RENATIONALISE THE RAIL – demands RMT rail union
Rail union RMT yesterday called for the renationalisation of the railways. A union statement said: ‘The post-Christmas chaos caused by major engineering overruns on the...
Tories short-changed NHS by £3.9bn
THE TORY government gave the ‘wrong impression’ about how much extra they are spending on the NHS, the Health Select Committee said. The committee disputed...
UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’
THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...
Maternity Crisis
‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...
Government refuses to hand over pandemic messages & notebooks – NOW FACES LEGAL ACTION
THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...