BMA CONDEMNS SECOND CLASS PRIVATISED GPs!
Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...
Bring Down Coalition With A General Strike!
THOUSANDS of students and workers will be marching from the University of London Union (ULU) to parliament tomorrow, when the Tory-LibDem Coalition government...
SLAVE LABOUR UK – but TUC Congress has no solution
Two million UK workers are ‘trapped in a continual round of low-paid and insecure work where mistreatment is the norm’ according to the findings...
MANUFACTURING COLLAPSE – Nissan cuts production
Nissan announced a halt to production at its Sunderland plant for a fortnight and shorter working days for three weeks during October and November...
UP TO THEIR NECKS IN DEBT! – Labour and Tories have £58.7m in loans...
The Labour Party yesterday admitted it faces ‘acute cash flow problems’. It was responding to the publication of Electoral Commission figures showing that the main...
ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...
Support Builds For Gate Gourmet Workers Rally
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers got great support for this Sunday’s anniversary march and rally on Southall’s busy High Street yesterday. Locked-out worker Parmjit Bains told...
Rbs Thumbs Nose At Jobless!
The Royal Bank of Scotland, which received a £20bn bail-out with taxpayers’ money, is to proceed with a £1bn payout in annual bonuses. This is...
NO PAYMENTS FOR NHS SERVICES – urges BMA
Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...
TAKE ON ANTI-UNION LAWS – Rob Williams tells TGWU conference
THE leadership of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was shaken at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Brighton yesterday, when a substantial...
Civil Servants Fury Over Job Cuts
OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...
THREAT TO STRIKE GAZA! –made by Israeli Premier Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned yesterday that Israel will strike ‘aggressively’ at Gaza in reaction to any fire from the territory. He said at...
Weak Osborne declares ‘We are not powerless’ – as he demands EU Monetary Union
Chancellor Osborne and Bank of England Governor King announced a massive £140bn emergency stimulus package for ailing British capitalism on Thursday night. Both were speaking...
‘FIGHT THEM!’ – Libyan forces launch counter-attack
The battle for Libya continued yesterday with government forces launching bold counter-attacks on the counter-revolutionary ‘rats’ in the wake of Thursday night's call to...
Call NHS Day of Action! – urges consultant surgeon
HEALTH unions yesterday slammed the government’s announcement of six new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital projects costing £1.5 billion. Not only will the schemes...
Lobby The Tgwu Biennial Conference
ALMOST two years after over 700 Gate Gourmet, Heathrow workers were sacked and locked out by the Texas Pacific equity capitalist group, the...
Buy A University Place Fury!
THERE was massive anger yesterday after the Tory-led coalition announced its plan to enable the rich to purchase a university place for...
Sack Sats Private Contractors – Says Nasuwt
TEACHING trade unions have condemned the government’s use of private contractors, hired to mark school children’s ‘SATs’ exam papers. The condemnation was in response to...
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...
T&g Backs Sainsbury Family Against Texas Pacific Raiders
The Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a statement backing ‘the Sainsbury family’s hostile position to the private equity bid for the supermarket...
GM mass meeting demand
WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...
BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture
‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...
NHS – CLOSE AND PRIVATISE SAYS CBI – as government welcomes report
Public sector union UNISON yesterday rejected a call from the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) for ‘failing’ hospitals to be closed and replaced...
STUDENT LOAN RATES HIKE! –scrap all student debt, demands YS
Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...
SHELL TANKER DRIVERS OUT – from 6am Friday June 13th
SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...
Suspects’ detention extended to 28 days
A High Court judge has given police another seven days to detain without charge, five suspects in connection with the alleged plot to blow...
Students Erupt Again In Quebec
Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...
DELEGATES CHALLENGE TUC LEADERS – as POA demands action
THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...
The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...
‘A FAILURE OF DUTY’ – Surgeons president Ribeiro quits junior doctors talks
Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...
‘TAKE STRIKE ACTION IN OUR DEFENCE!’ – urge Vestas occupiers
‘we are calling for strike action in our defence,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith declared yesterday, after bailiffs turned up at the wind turbine...
9-1 Vote For Po Strike
Post Office workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the Crown...
Power Workers Strike Extended
‘YOU have to stand up for what you think is right. It’s all about passenger safety. All the rules are being broken on a...
SCRAP ‘RISKY’ NHS BILL – says Unison
In a report published today, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has warned that the reorganisation of the NHS in England could...
HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown
ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...
‘DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL’ – US Congress condemns Blackwater’s 200 shootings
Private security firm Blackwater USA, which sent its mercenaries to Iraq, has been condemned as being ‘dangerously out of control’ after nearly 200 shootings...
DELIGHTED! – with caravan say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are delighted at last to have a shelter for their picketing. The TGWU ceased sending a tent as shelter for the...
Battle To Save Ward At Ludlow Hospital
Campaigners angry over plans to axe services at a community hospital in Shropshire will be confronting health officials at a public meeting tomorrow. Residents...
THREE MILLION FEAR FOR JOBS – TUC must act, says ATUA
‘The TUC leaders must act to defend jobs or make way for those who will,’ Dave Wiltshire, national secretary of the All Trades Union...
Defend Public Sector Jobs!
Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...
‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’
OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...
Banning Procedures On NHS – A ‘gamble With Patient Health’
Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...
CUT PAY & PENSIONS! – demand BCC bosses
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report on Wednesday, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for cuts across the board in public services,...
Johnson’s Fire Service Cuts Rejected!
OVER three hundred firefighters lobbied the Fire Authority meeting in SE London yesterday, where the decision was being made to defy Tory Mayor Boris...