How the US government murdered Soleimani!
NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...
Action Needed To Defend NHS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...
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...
‘I WILL NOT SET A DATE’ – Blair defies Brown and unions
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
Bangladeshi parents fighting back
PARENTS and families of disabled children in Bow in East London are fighting back against the closure of the Bangladeshi Parents Advice (BPA) Service...
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...
ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot
RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...
Government NHS Reforms Impossible To Deliver – RCN
A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
Tory advisor OK’d flammable cladding
THE TORY party official fire safety advisor Ken Knight rubber-stamped the use of the flammable cladding, responsible for the rapid spread of the Grenfell...
‘IT’S GOING TO BE PAINFUL!’ Cuts must start this year – King to Osborne
Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday warned that the next few years are ‘going to be painful’ and that ‘markets would expect a...
‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Pressures Engulfing Social Care!
A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...
‘INTIMIDATION!’ –Labour threat to impose costs on Reprieve
Legal charity Reprieve has accused the Brown government of attempting to intimidate it into dropping legal action on behalf of torture victims. Reprieve said in...
‘WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO RETURN’ – insists Chagos Islands Community Association AGM
OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...
N Ireland health workers strike!
NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...
GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation
BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...
One million march for Palestine – Forward to a General Strike!
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched from Hyde Park Corner in central London to the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south west London...
‘Staff freeze’ and £22bn of cuts for NHS
THE NHS is facing a ‘substantial financial problem’ which politicians are ignoring in the election campaign, its former head, David Nicholson warned yesterday. Warning of...
‘ALL OUT ACTION!’ – demand Langley strikers
Yesterday workers at Royal Mail’s Heathrow Airport Worldwide Distribution Centre at Langley came out on 24-hour strike at noon, as part of the Communication...
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,...
Eurozone ‘tearing Itself Apart’
BANK of England Governor King admitted yesterday that risks to the UK economy from ‘difficulties facing the euro area’ are ‘impossible to quantify’. King was...
STAFF ‘LOCKED IN THE GATE GOURMET CANTEEN’ – sacked shop steward tells Employment Tribunal
THE Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ employment tribunal in Reading continued yesterday with the case for the sacked workers. First to appear was Sajit Sandu,...
NO TO TWO-TIER JUSTICE! say 3,000 marching lawyers
‘THIS is the biggest gathering that I can remember of solicitors, barristers, probation staff and the many people we represent,’ solicitor Paul Harris told...
Private companies are screening GP referrals
PRIVATE companies are acting as a barrier between GPs and the NHS, putting patients’ lives at risk. Millions of pounds are being spent on privately-run...
‘Disgusting plans’ to close Remploy factories
The GMB and Unite, the unions for Remploy workers, held a demonstration in Norwich town centre on Saturday against the government’s plan to shut...
Ealing Children’s Ward Must Be Re-Opened Urges Xmas Picket
THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...
Scores of constituencies will vote for my point of view says Galloway
SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...
Bt Accused Of Aiding Drone Strikes
A COMPLAINT has been filed with the government against telecoms company BT over its apparent facilitation of illegal, covert drone strikes carried out by...
HALT WEST LONDON A&E CLOSURES! says RCN
THE Royal College of Nursing is concerned that a lack of focus on out-of-hospital care while A&Es are closing will result in an even...
‘Blair Lied Thousands Died’
‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...
Mass Picket–Keep Ealing Hospital Open!
‘SAVE our hospital! Defend the NHS!’ shouted up to 50 local residents and health workers who braved the pouring rain to join a...
FBU strike ballot on pensions
The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...
GREECE–Government days are numbered
ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....
WORK TILL YOU’RE 65 – BA unveils pensions plan for pilots
British Airways announced yesterday it has drawn up ‘a proposal to clear the £1 billion past service actuarial deficit in its New Airways...
Only 137 have signed ‘Compromise’ deal
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday were determined that they will win their struggle to return to their jobs on their...
Inflation Surge!
inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...
Hezbollah Halts Israeli Advance
Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...
Building materials will not be fire tested!
EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...
UN convenes to discuss Israeli airstrikes
THE UNITED Nations (UN) Security Council is to convene today at the request of Iran to discuss Saturday’s Israeli strikes on the country. Iran says...
NHS trusts proceeding with £20bn cuts
NHS bosses have started to implement the £20 billion savage cuts programme, officially described as ‘efficiency savings’, that the new Tory government insists must...
John Breen (1938-2010)
OVER 100 people packed out Hither Green Cremat-orium yesterday for the funeral of John Breen. His wife Doreen, their two daughters, family, friends and a...
UNSUSTAINABLE! – says EU Central Bank President Draghi
EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi yesterday warned eurozone leaders that current financial mechanisms are ‘unsustainable’. Addressing the European Parliament, Draghi asked: ‘Can the...
Gate Gourmet workers support PCS strikers
‘OUR conference will show the whole trade union movement that what the TGWU leadership has done to us is wrong,’ locked out Gate Gourmet...
‘US-Eu Stop Supporting Nazi Coup!’
SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...