Home News Page 44

News

All news items from around the world

‘MY BLOOD WAS BOILING!’ says RCN leader after Army mobilised against strikes

0
‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...

KING CRISIS WARNING –prepare for Eurozone break-up

0
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King yesterday urged banks to brace themselves for a eurozone collapse. Introducing the latest financial stability report, King said: ‘Faced...
Nurses and junior doctors demonstrating against the attempt by Hunt to impose a contract. Both sections condemn Hunt’s thoughtless cuts

‘CUTS WITHOUT THOUGHT’ – condemned by RCN nurses

0
‘THIS report highlights yet another case of cuts without thought for the impact on staff and patients,’ said Stephanie Aiken, RCN Deputy Director of...

Gaza workers closure protest

0
HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...

ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford

0
THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...

Another Huge Rise In Jobless

0
There was another record increase in the unemployment rate to reach 2.38 million in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest figures...
Homeless Youth Given Tickets  To Sleep On Night Buses

Homeless Youth Given Tickets To Sleep On Night Buses

0
HOMELESS youth are being given bus tickets and told to sleep on the back of night buses because all the hostels are full. The New...
Health workers marching in London in defence of the NHS last May

Action Needed To Defeat The Health Bill

0
‘the BILL remains fundamentally flawed and should be withdrawn,’ the BMA doctors’ union said yesterday. ‘Amendments amounting to little more than minor tweaking have not...
Local residents joined the FBU/Justice for Grenfell march last June – soil in the area around the Grenfell Tower has been found to be toxic

Take action over toxins around Grenfell Tower – Lords

0
‘WHAT steps will they take in response to concerns over the level of toxins found at the Grenfell Tower site and calls for survivors,...

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes

0
ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...
Lobby of Waltham Forest council meeting last month to win support for the campaign against the closure of Whipps X Hospital A&E

DEFICITS NOT PATIENT CARE! – driving Blair’s NHS plans

0
Shocked health unions yesterday warned against prime minister Blair’s plans to close a large number of District General Hospitals’ Accident & Emergency...
Firefighters marching on their national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16th October stressing the vital role that they play

ASLEF & FBU taking strike action

0
BOTH ASLEF train drivers union and the FBU firefighters’ union announced strike dates yesterday. ASLEF has called two 24-hour strikes on the TransPennine Express on...

Hewitt Prepares To Close Bart’S

0
LABOUR’S Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said yesterday that London’s St Bartholomew’s Hospital could face closure. She was being interviewed about her decision to carry out...

Junior Doctors Defy Tory Slurs!

0
TENS of thousands of junior doctors begin a four-day strike over a 26% erosion in their real-terms pay over the past 15 years, at...
Orthodox Jews, joining the rally on Saturday against the Israeli killings in Gaza, condemn Zionist terrorism

29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...

0
TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...

Pm Johnson Facing Defeat On Foreign Aid Budget Cut

0
THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...
Firefighters lobbied the London Fire Authority showing their determination to defend the fire service against the most vicious attacks ever

Defend The Fire Service

0
ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...

‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader

0
‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

STARING DEFEAT IN THE FACE! – in Iraq and Afghanistan

0
BRITAIN is staring defeat in the face in Afghanistan according to Paddy Ashdown and Lord Inge, the ex-Chief of Staff, British army. In a House...
RMT members and supporters demonstrating outside the Department for Transport yesterday morning – later on in the afternoon the government conceded there would be talks at Acas

EUROSTAR 7 DAY STRIKE! –as government agrees to ACAS talks over Southern dispute

0
EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...

‘Life-threatening’ failings – in BMI private hospital

0
EX-PATIENTS and their families were angry yesterday to hear that the local clinical commissioning group (CCG) has only suspended referring NHS patients to the...

‘THE JOY OF RETURN!’ – Hundreds of thousands go home in Gaza

0
HUGE crowds of Gaza residents, old and young, walked northwards with their belongings along the main road next to the Mediterranean Sea coast from...
Young workers lead the way at the Unite to ‘Defend the NHS’ march last year

SAVE OUR NHS! – TUC must call a general strike

0
Thousands of health workers, patients, trade unionists and young people will be joining the mass protests to ‘Save Our NHS’ outside Parliament today. ‘Make...
South-East London Council of Action members along with users of the ‘Peckham Spike’ community project  lobbying Southwark Town Hall on Wednesday evening

Mass Lobby Of Southwark Town Hall

0
MORE than 100 people staged a mass lobby of Southwark Town Hall in south London on Wednesday night. The rain did not dampen their spirits,...

‘Israeli army carrying out field executions!’ – says Palestinian spokesman

0
THE official Palestinian presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, yesterday condemned what he described as ‘the dangerous Israeli escalation against our people’, which resulted in...

‘We will save Egypt from military rule!’

0
CROWDS marched to Cairo’s Tahrir Square again yesterday after the April 6 movement called for a protest starting at 5.00pm (1500 GMT) ‘against the...
Part of the contingent of Gate Gourmet sacked workers with their historic banner outside the TUC Congress yesterday

‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility

0
Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...

1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige

0
Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  attending yesterday’s Tribunal hearing

Ex-Military Used Against Gate Gourmet Workers

0
YESTERDAY was the second day of the Employment tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers where they are bringing their claim for unfair dismissal. Kay Collins,...
MPs who supported the recognition of Palestine outside parliament on Monday

‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian

0
‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...

British Gas engineers strike as bosses carry out ‘fire & rehire’

0
FORTY striking pickets gathered at the Gas Training Centre in Dartford yesterday, to protest against the ‘Fire and Rehire’ policy of Centrica, who now...

Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!

0
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

0
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...
The banner of the Coordination of Trades Unions at last Friday’s Athens demonstration. It reads ‘Down with the government and with any government that carries out the orders of the IMF-EC-Capital’.

Eu Jackboot Over Greece

0
THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...

Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians

0
ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....

Gaza War Crimes Exposed!

0
ISRAELI forces slaughtered Palestinians, including women and children, during their Gaza onslaught, under rules of engagement drawn up by the military and approved by...

US ‘heinous act of aggression’

0
US FIGHTER planes attacked a Syrian Army post on Sunday evening, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13 others in what has been condemned...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

0
GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...
Medical students demonstrating in June last year against the loss of accommodation allowance for first year junior doctors

COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader

0
‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...

Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!

0
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
Greek hospital workers demanding free health care for all. Their banner declares ‘All together we will win!’

Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!

0
THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...

Greek Workers Battle Riot Police

0
ATHENS public transport workers were yesterday continuing for the fourth day running their ‘rolling’ strikes. The strikes were called against the government’s plans to transfer...

Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!

0
PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...

120-strong Gate Gourmet picket

0
THERE was a large picket of about 120 sacked Gate Gourmet workers yesterday. Daljit said: ‘We are waiting to see if British Airways sign ...