$8.7 Billion Iraq Oil-For-Aid Cash ‘missing’
ALMOST 96 per cent of oil and petrol money earmarked for humanitarian needs and reconstruction in Iraq after the 2003 invasion has gone missing,...
Cwu Offers Wage Cuts!
THE Communication Workers Union has said it is prepared to ‘settle around inflation’ for the next two years. Given that ‘around’ means less, and that...
Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’
THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...
Trade unionists to join junior doctors picket lines
TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...
£32 million cuts planned at NW London NHS – 400 jobs threatened
The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...
Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians
NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...
CHARGE POLICE – demand the Menezes family
‘It could not have been more wrong what has been done to Jean,’ said a cousin of the young Brazilian man Jean Charles de...
Greek Hunger Strikers Victory
The 287 immigrant workers in Athens and Salonica ended their 44-day hunger strike last Wednesday evening with jubilations. The immigrant workers, most of them of...
Homeless Youth Given Tickets To Sleep On Night Buses
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...
Bbc Unions To Go For Strike Ballot
BBC journalists, technicians and production staff and electricians will be balloted for strike action if the BBC proceeds to call for ‘voluntary redundancies’ today,...
Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned
YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...
Unite calls May Day NHS strike NHS – St Thomas’ & Yorks Ambulance to...
LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...
EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’
EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...
Garment workers force Rajapaksa retreat
THE Sri Lankan government has announced that it has temporarily suspended the implementation of the proposed private sector pension scheme which was opposed by...
HEALTH PRIVATEERS MOVING IN ON GPs!
NHS London has signed a £7 million contract with a group of multi-national privateers to provide business training for GPs – even before the...
‘WE WILL WIN!’ – call for support at News Line-Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ conference
‘WE MUST not allow the Gate Gourmet workers to be starved. ‘The whole trade union movement must rally round and provide the funds and make...
Greek Workers & Youth Will Fight New Bourgeois Regime Of Papandreou!
The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...
Stop The NHS Cuts!
THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...
DEFEND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS – decides NHS Consultants conference
The British Medical Association consultants conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ‘mount the strongest defence of integrated District General Hospitals’. In his keynote speech to the...
‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers urge TGWU executive
‘WE are lobbying the TGWU national executive today to demand that it immediately restore our hardship pay, which has been stopped by Tony Woodley,...
Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced
LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...
Directors Declare War On Workers
TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...
STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison
UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...
Probation Staff Strike Today!
STAFF working for the probation service in England and Wales are walking out of their offices at noon today in a 24 hour strike...
ISRAEL TO INVADE GAZA!– Olmert gives final warning
Israeli officials have warned that the Israeli military is preparing to attack Gaza in the coming days. On Wednesday Israeli airstrikes and ground invasions...
CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson
NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...
Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon
A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...
‘ARM US – SEND US TO GAZA!’ – chant Egyptian demonstrators
EGYPT will continue to support Gaza against the attacks from the Israeli armed forces, President Mohamed Mursi reiterated yesterday as Israeli airstrikes continued on...
Medical notes outsourced – threatening patients’ lives says Prentis
Thousands of patients’ lives may be put at risk because a growing number of hospitals are sending medical notes abroad for typing, UNISON is...
Nuj Stops Bbc Over Sackings
‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
Left seeks to form Greek government
The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy party came top in last Sunday’s general election, winning just below 19 per...
UNARMED VICTIMS SHOT DEAD ON BLOODY SUNDAY – finds Saville
‘The immediate responsibility for the deaths and injuries on Bloody Sunday lies with those members of Support Company whose unjustifiable firing was the cause...
SNP ready for Corbyn-led interim National Government
THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...
£4bn claim against RBS – taxpayers will have to pay bill
THOUSANDS of investors have launched a joint compensation claim for more than £4.0bn against Royal Bank of Scotland, claiming the 82% state-owned bank deliberately...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
Fe Colleges Disaster!
Further Education Colleges in England have indicated they face bankruptcy and disaster aftter their refurbishment programme has been halted. The colleges have lost up...
‘UNAFFORDABLE!’ £718–average monthly rent in England & Wales
‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
UNIVERSITIES WALKOUT! – over 1% insulting pay offer
ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...
Saudi Troops Open Fire On Democracy Demonstrators
SAUDI security forces yesterday opened fire on anti-regime demonstrations in the eastern city of Qatif, injuring several protesters. The attack came after thousands of Saudi...
MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
‘We will return!’
‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...
‘ALL EUROPE IS FIGHTING’ say Greek workers
GREEK local government along with college and university administrative workers are continuing with occupations, strikes and demonstrations against the government’s mass sackings plans. On...
CUTS COSTS LIVES! says Chase Farm mass picket
Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...
VENEZUELA – MILITARY INTERVENTION IMMINENT – China-Russia warn USA
CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...