Riot police attack Spanish Miners
RIOT police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at Spanish coal miners protesting in the streets of Madrid, along with tens of thousands of other workers. Hundreds...
RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...
‘REINSTATE OUR FULL A&E!’ demand Support Stafford Hospital campaigners
‘IT IS absolutely outrageous! We demand that they reinstate our full A&E, not only the children’s, to 24-hour A&E,’ Julian Porter told News Line...
Midwives angry over pensions attack
MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...
Imposed junior doctors contract hits cancer patients
470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...
Labour’s Secret Detentions On Diego Garcia
Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...
Over 700 Killed In Lebanon!
INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were...
UK is bankrupt! – UK national debt is 103.5% of GDP
UK GOVERNMENT borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was £28.4bn...
‘There is no safe place on the Gaza strip!’
‘LIFE has completely vanished, and the displaced wander with uncertainty, not knowing where to go as there is no safe place in the Gaza...
47m medical records sold to insurance companies!
UNISON and the GMB yesterday reacted angrily to the revelation that the hospital records of 47 million NHS patients have been sold to insurance...
Student Fury Over Lib Dem Betrayal
THE National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday issued a warning to Liberal Democrat MPs that they must keep their promises to their constituents to...
Royal Mail Engineers – Three Days Of Strike Action
‘They are trying to destroy our home life with no discussion. It’s back to the bad old days – at the beck and call...
Unite Demands 15% NHS Pay Rise
NHS workers should receive an early pay rise of 15 per cent or £3,000, whichever is greater, the Unite union, said yesterday. Unite, which has...
Huge cuts in school funding! says NUT’s Kevin Courtney
DAVID Cameron is misleading parents and the public on school funding, says the National Union of Teachers (NUT). Commenting on Cameron’s statement on school funding...
DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at St Paul’s Medical...
THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...
Miller sacked–now for the rest!
CULTURE Secretary Maria Miller was sacked by Prime Minister Cameron late on Tuesday night, after Tory MPs and local Tory parties threatened...
Westbourne Park busworkers set to strike again!
OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...
BofE & speculators drive £ down
STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...
McDonnell wants secret talks!
YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...
Firefighters 24-Hour Strike Action
FIREFIGHTERS in England have announced a further 24 hour strike to take place next Tuesday in the escalating battle over pensions. However no strike action...
IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army
TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...
52 Palestinians killed!
ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...
Woolwich Hospital two-day strike
WORKERS at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich in south east London were on strike yesterday and are striking again today in a bitter struggle...
Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!
THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...
US Under Attack In Baghdad
A US military post came under attack in Balad on the outskirts of Baghdad yesterday as explosions rocked the Iraqi capital, despite a round-the-clock...
‘Today we set out to transform Britain’ says Corbyn
AT THE party’s manifesto launch in Bradford yesterday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Today we set out a vision to transform Britain for the...
Welsh FBU Fury Over Doubled Working Hours
The South Wales Branch of the Fire Brigades Union is organising a ballot for industrial action to fight plans by senior Brigade management to...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Great Support For WRP Candidates
THE VOTE Hassan Zulkifal Workers Revolutionary Party Ealing Southall campaign got great support at Greenford Bus Depot and Hanwell Royal Mail Delivery Office yesterday...
State witch-hunt on labour
THE witchhunt against the Labour Party and its leader Corbyn is being stepped up with the news that The Equalities and Human Rights Commission...
Parents support Northolt teachers
TEACHERS on a second day of strike action at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London yesterday, were joined in support outside the...
GPs reject privatisation
AT THE BMA Local Medical Committees (England) conference yesterday, GPs voted against a proposal to allow privatised GP services in England. The motion stated:...
‘PAINFUL CONSEQUENCES’ – warns Bush
President Bush yesterday warned Americans that the economic damage to the US will be ‘painful and lasting’ if Congress fails to pass his $700...
READY TO STRIKE! – after BBC Director General announces 2,800 redundancies
Broadcasting and journalism unions BECTU and the NUJ said yesterday they are bracing themselves for the launch of strike action to defend jobs and...
Labour will renationalise water, power & Royal Mail ‘and we’re ready to win election’...
‘WE WILL be bringing water, energy, Royal Mail, rail back into public ownership again,’ shadow chancellor John McDonnell said to cheers during his speech...
GREEK RADIO & TV HAS BEEN OCCUPIED – General strike called and Greek riot...
TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth rushed to the state Greek TV and Radio corporation (ERT) building on Tuesday afternoon following the...
‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises
THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
Pay cuts or the sack doctors and nurses to be told
THOUSANDS of doctors and nurses face being sacked unless they agree to drastic changes to their pay and conditions as hospitals tackle an escalating...
Palestine march under threat! Police refuse to give go-ahead!
THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...
‘WE’RE READY TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet shop stewards went to a meeting at the Trades Union Congress in central London yesterday with leaders of their union, the TGWU,...
‘Life or death’ ambulance crisis
AN ACUTE lack of ambulances and paramedics has created a situation where 999 patients classed as ‘life threatening’ are waiting for up to...
Assad Visits Moscow!
SYRIAN President Bashar Assad visited Moscow on Tuesday to extend thanks to the Russian authorities and people for helping to preserve the unity and...
‘Patients treated on trolleys’ – crisis intensifies
‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...
MAY SUSPENDS ELECTION! – after Manchester terror attack
THE main political parties all suspended general election campaigning yesterday in line with PM May’s edict after Monday evening’s suicide terror bombing...
Israeli army turns Nasser Hospital into a military base!
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further...