Burnham Moves To Rescue The Tories
ANDY Burnham, the shadow health secretary, met with around 40 representatives of leading NHS organisations on Wednesday night, to discuss Labour policy for the...
Pm Starmer Meets With Zelensky In Downing St
PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for...
Boris Bikes Strike
FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...
Mobilise unions to save Ealing Hospital – says WRP’s Arjinder Thiara
THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following...
Russian Foreign Ministry summons UK ambassador – after drone attack on the Black Sea...
THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...
Syrian Army launches fresh Idlib offensive!
SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...
Syriza to impose austerity – with support from the right-wing
IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between...
Junior doctors considering strike action
JUNIOR doctors, furious at being offered only a 2 per cent pay rise last month, are considering strike action. The British Medical Association (BMA)...
IRAN FREES SAILORS – as a gift to the British people
‘Although Iran has the right to prosecute them by following the model of the Prophet, the fifteen people are pardoned and their freedom given...
Al Sweedy witchhunt!
DEFENCE Minister Fallon yesterday announced that there would be an investigation into solicitors who represented Iraqi complainants at the Al Sweedy inquiry. He made...
Labour planning speeding up eviction of asylum seekers
LABOUR Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is planning an overhaul of the asylum appeals system as it tries to cut the number of asylum seekers...
Thatcher funeral–a state of siege!
THATCHER’S state funeral on April 17, is to be a Tory state provocation of the working class. Her coffin is to be carried through the...
15,000 depend on foodbanks this Christmas!
THE number of people who turn to foodbanks over the Christmas fortnight is expected to double, with the economic crisis driving more households below...
Israel is conducting a fierce starvation campaign throughout the Gaza Strip
THE EURO-Med Human Rights Monitor has issued a stark warning that Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, compounded by a total blockade and acute shortages...
Israel Threatens To Bomb Beirut
Israel yesterday threatened to target Lebanese airports, other than Beirut’s international airport, and attack areas of Beirut where Hezbollah leaders live and where it...
A&Es being slashed all over the country!
THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...
UK turning a blind eye to refugees
THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...
UK banks £60bn black hole
THE UK’s ‘big four’ banks face a financial black hole of up to £60bn from regulatory demands, hidden losses, and potential mis-selling costs that...
MASS PICKET – a huge success say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...
Savage Cuts Risk ‘death Spiral’
THE new allegedly independent fiscal watchdog has downgraded the economic growth projections for the UK economy, and also cut its debt projection as a...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers throughout the world...
MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...
‘Million Moms March’
MOTHERS from across the United States poured into Washington, DC on Saturday, choosing Mother’s Day weekend to march for justice for the ‘epidemic’ of...
JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected
JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...
OCCUPY CHASE FARM say Enfield residents, patients and workers
THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass Xmas Picket outside the Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to step up the fight to...
Iran will never surrender! – says Ayatollah Khamenei
LEADER of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the Iranian nation will ‘firmly stand against’ an imposed war. In a televised message...
Royal Mail ‘Hedge Fund’
ROYAL Mail workers – whose jobs and pensions have been under sustained attack and are now threatened with privatisation – yesterday reacted with fury...
Graduate Tax Robbery!
The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...
Rajapaksa under fire in Australia
CANBERRA – Sri Lankan-born Australian Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran filed an indictment on war-crime charges against the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday, declaring he...
One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs
Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...
‘MILLIONS IN URGENT NEED’ after Haiti’s biggest earthquake in 200 years
SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...
Scottish Water 2-Day Strike Action
WORKERS employed by Scottish Water are staging a two-day strike amid a continued dispute over pay. Members of the unions Unite, GMB and Unison are...
50,000 South African bankworkers to strike! – as miners vow to occupy mines to...
Bankworkers union Sasbo (South African Society of Bank Officials) said South Africans should brace themselves for a complete standstill in the financial services sector...
‘WORST EVER GREEK RAIL CRASH!’ – government cuts blamed
GREEK transport unions laid the blame for the country’s ‘worst ever’ rail crash directly at the door of government cuts yesterday, as they demanded...
‘FAIR PAY NOW! BRING US BACK IN HOUSE AT ONCE!’ – demand hundreds of...
‘FAIR pay now! Bring us back in-house!’ demanded hundreds of Heathrow Airport workers as they marched to the Compass Centre headquarters of Heathrow Airport Limited...
Massive Support For Visteon Occupiers
the occupied Visteon factories received massive support from workers in their areas yesterday, as workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon struggled to defend their...
BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...
NO WARNING SHOUT! – De Menezes inquest told
The firearms police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead in a tube carriage at Stockwell ‘gave no warning’, a passenger on the train...
BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead
‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...
Ruling class moves to try to restore order
THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...
‘We are all tax avoiders’ says Tory Lord Fink
‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...
Food parcels for students – being considered at Exeter University
The National Union of Students has expressed concern over a huge increase in student hardship, with over 50 per cent of students working during...
25% of CCG members – with £65bn of NHS funds–linked to private healthcare
A QUARTER of Clinical Commissioning Group board members, who are responsible for £65bn of NHS money are linked to private healthcare companies. Unite has called...
NHS Backlog Plans Delayed
A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...
GPs pensions action!
DOCTORS have made an overwhelming call to their leaders to reject the government’s proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme and shown a willingness...
Mugabe Resigns!!
‘ROBERT Mugabe has handed me his letter of resignation,’ the speaker of Zimbabwe’s Parliament announced yesterday, sparking wild celebrations. Cheers, singing, shouting and dancing erupted...