A ‘MASSIVE DESTRUCTIVE HAMMER! ’– GP leaders condemn Care Quality Commission
THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) forcibly deregistered at least 14 GP practices last year, the highest number to date under its three-year inspection regime. The...
‘Trump Wants Coup’– Maduro
PRESIDENT Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela’s embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw its weight behind opposition leader...
NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights groups
MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...
Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’
THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...
‘Hostile environment’ alive and kicking!
LAST week the National Audit Office launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision in 2014, when Theresa May was Home Secretary, to accuse...
BBC unions to ‘trawl for volunteers’ for the sack
‘The BBC unions agreed ‘a trawl for voluntary redundancies’ during last Wednesday’s four-hour meeting with BBC Director General Mark Thompson. Thompson would give no guarantee...
Stop Child Deportations
‘A Rochdale head teacher, Jed Morgan, and the families of refugee children, travelled to London yesterday in a bid to stop the deportation of...
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)...
Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS
VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...
11,074 Attacks by violent settlers on Palestinian homes
SETTLER attacks on Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank have reached intolerable levels, the UN Human Rights Office has warned. The office called on...
A&E CUTS WILL COST LIVES!– ‘dying patients will be abandoned’
‘THE idea that acute district general hospitals ( DGHs) can be run safely without acute surgical cover, a proper intensive care unit (ITU) and...
PCS-Budget Day Strike!
UP to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK will be taking part in a one day strike...
‘CRUEL PUNISHMENT’ OF POOREST PEOPLE! – Xmas Universal Credit to be stopped
TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...
Nightmare facing Israel pledges IRGC!
THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned of the ‘nightmare’ facing Israel after the Tel Aviv...
30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament
SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...
‘We’re going to strike!’ –real doctors are not fooled by spin doctors
JUNIOR doctors told News Line yesterday that they were definitely voting for strike action and are very confident of winning the ballot which begins...
No Crown Post Office closures!
FOUR THOUSAND workers in Britain’s network of 371 Crown Post Offices are on strike today against the government’s policy of wholesale closures and in...
Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS!
MORE than 150 workers and youth attended the conference for strike action to defend Ealing Hospital and the NHS, in Southall yesterday. Moving the resolution,...
Reinstate Ricky Matthews
FIREFIGHTERS are coming from all over the country to protest in Bucks over the sacking of firefighter Ricky Matthews. Matthews was sacked for coming out...
Israel bombs Gaza wedding – kills 6
THE Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned an Israeli attack on a wedding celebration in Gaza that killed at least six people, including...
Huge Tax Cuts For The Bosses – In Sunak’s War Against Workers!
‘FAMILIES hit by the cost of living crisis, business hit by a supply chain crisis, those who rely on our schools and our hospitals,...
Prosecute companies who exploit graduates
‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...
REPLACE GREEK TUC BUREAUCRATS – demand youth
GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...
Thousands denied benefits now driven to food banks!
THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...
BROOKS MUST GO! – insists Miliband
Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...
Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...
TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...
‘PENSIONS DEBACLE’ IS CONDEMNED – NASUWT refuses to sign deal
The National Executive of the teacher’s union NASUWT, yesterday refused to sign up to the government’s ‘Heads of Agreement’ pensions plan. The NEC had met...
Ban zero hours! – New figures show massive rise
‘ENOUGH is enough, it’s time to follow the successful policies of other countries and ban these contracts once and for all,’ GMB’s Tim Roache...
‘THE WAR WAS ILLEGAL!’ – the opinion of all Foreign Office lawyers
ELIZABETH Wilmshurst yesterday, appearing at the Chilcot inquiry, deplored the fact that Lord Goldsmith was asked formally about the legality of the Iraq war...
Managers Ignored Doctors Warnings!
THE BMA issued a powerful statement yesterday calling for ‘non-clinical managers in the NHS and other health service providers to be regulated, in line...
FREE THE FILTON FOUR! – Palestine activists face sentencing today!
FOUR Palestine Action activists face sentencing today in what would mark the first time protesters have been sentenced as terrorists in British legal history,...
UK-UKRAINE ALLIANCE – ‘We are strategic partners’ – UK Defence Secretary
THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...
‘We are pushing back the enemy’ – Iran speaker Qalibaf
PARLIAMENT Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf says Iran, relying on national unity, is pushing back the enemy in a ‘history-making’ war. He made the remarks on Sunday...
Pm May Is Canvassing For Labour, Lib-Dem & Snp Votes
JACOB Rees-Mogg Tory MP for North East Somerset yesterday warned that ‘Brexit is being watered down to the extent where you couldn’t really tell...
Polar storm rips through Gaza
A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...
Workhouse Master Duncan Smith Attacks Poor
PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...
Brexit vote Friday
THE NEW Tory government with its majority of 80, plans to ask MPs to vote on PM Johnson’s Brexit bill as early as this...
Israeli army commits nine massacres in 24 hours!
THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...
‘Labour a government in waiting’ – Corbyn responds to Queen’s Speech
‘MY GOVERNMENT’S priority is to secure the best possible deal as the country leaves the European Union,’ the Queen said yesterday, outlining the Tory...
Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!
The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...
No Safety Cuts Says RMT-Tssa
RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...
No confidence in Sussex fire bosses – FBU votes unanimously
THE FIREFIGHTERS’ East Sussex union branch has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the senior leadership team of East Sussex Fire and...
‘Unions will take to the streets’ – to defend N Ireland NHS
MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...
Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...