Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
‘WITHDRAW THE HEALTH BILL!’ –insists BMA conference against executive advice
BMA representatives yesterday voted – against the advice of BMA Council Chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum – to ‘continue to call for the Health...
Maternity deaths will rise – UNDER THE HEALTH BILL, WARNS UNISON
THE Health and Social Care Bill will increase the number of deaths on maternity units, Unison warned yesterday. A leaked NHS report revealed that...
‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns Zarif
IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...
US privateer in charge of NHS England
THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...
‘Disband Iraq’s Puppet Police Force’
The puppet Iraqi police force is infiltrated by sectarian militias and should be disbanded and reorganised, a panel of retired US generals led by...
Further Mersey FBU strike dates
MERSEYSIDE fire crews will be taking a further two four-day blocks of strike action. The first four days will start at 10.00am on 28...
Tories hammering poor!
LABOUR’S shadow communities minister Hilary Benn has accused the government of unfairness in a letter to council leaders that shows that cuts for richer...
Corbyn wants Customs Union & Single Market
‘THERE is no deal which comes without a backstop and without a backstop there is no deal,’ Tory PM May said yesterday afternoon while...
Jenin is facing complete Gazafication – destruction
AN anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has issued a stark warning about the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin,...
SUPPORT BUILDING UP FOR WRP’s SELLU & LEFF
AMINATA Sellu, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Camberwell and Peckham, received a warm reception and enthusiastic applause when she spoke at a hustings meeting...
Mass Whipp’s Cross Strike Rally
A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...
Convoy Leaves For Gaza!
THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...
‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told
EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!
TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...
Trump Puppets Johnson & Farage Fall Out!
THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...
Out with Cameron! – nationalise Murdoch empire under workers control
RUPERT and James Murdoch yesterday sought to stonewall MPs questioning them about phone-hacking at the ‘News of the World’, denying any responsibility or knowledge...
FBU ‘will Strike Against Wage Cuts’
AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...
‘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...
Monstrous Greek Betrayal!
EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...
THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes
FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...
Cambridgeshire privatised care collapses! – service back to NHS
THE PRIVATE company UnitingCare has collapsed after only eight months and pulled out of running care for the elderly in Cambridgeshire. The company won an...
TWO-TIER GPs CONDEMNED
THE BMA warned yesterday that the Health and Social Care Bill will lead to more ‘conflicts of interest’, after it emerged yesterday that a...
FBU condemns Tories for ignoring Grenfell findings
THE Fire Brigades Union has written to the government to demand it rethinks its decision to reject a key Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation, on...
Rough Sleeping Doubles!
HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...
Hospital penalised for fast treatment
UNISON Eastern regional head of health Geoff Reason yesterday condemned Labour over £2.5m in penalties imposed on Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust for treating patients...
FINGERPRINTING AT TERMINAL 5 – for all internal and external flights
‘It’s unacceptable and totally undemocratic. We are having security decided by the private sector with no reference to parliament,’ Sharon Holder, GMB national officer,...
LABOUR MUST DELIVER A REVOLUTION – says Matt Wrack on eve of FBU conference
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) annual conference opened in Blackpool yesterday. On the eve of the conference union leader Matt Wrack said, ‘No one in...
Irish Privatisation Disaster!
FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...
Johnson starts to do a ‘May!’
EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...
‘We Don’t Want To Work For An Academy’
THERE was a big turnout of over 60 striking NEU (National Education Union) members and supporters on the picket line outside The Village School...
CAMERON DEMANDS STRONG GOVERNMENT! – as pound sterling falls
URGENT talks began yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron demanded a ‘strong and stable government’ is formed ‘quickly’ to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’. This was after...
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...
Defend West Hendon Homes!
TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...
MARTIAL LAW & CURFEWS – in event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock admitted yesterday morning that the Tory government is considering the imposition of martial law and curfews in the event of...
BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT – say French youth
IT is Thursday afternoon in Paris and TENS of thousands of school and student youth have converged on the Place d’Italie. They are marching towards...
THIS CASE THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM says Julian Assange’s fiancée
‘THIS CASE is a grave threat to press freedom, not just for Julian Assange, but for all British journalists,’ lawyer Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s...
A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...
Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT
THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...
Safety Before Profits!
SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...
Gate Gourmet Workers Battle On
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...
General Strike in Palestine!
A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...
‘You Have Right To Refuse To Work!’ – Aslef Advises Members
As London Underground ramps up services today, ASLEF has advised members of their right to refuse to work in circumstances where they are at...
‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside parliament
Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...
‘WE WILL NOT CHANGE COURSE’ – Cameron challenges trade unions
Prime Minister Cameron yesterday refused to rule out increases in fuel duty, and said the VAT increase to 20 per cent is here to...
















