Royal Colleges dump Cameron
Royal Colleges which attended last week’s Downing Street ‘Health Bill War Summit’ are reversing their positions and coming out in opposition to the Bill. Members...
Greek Hauliers Defy Emergency Order
Hundreds of striking lorry drivers and hauliers clashed with Greek police in Athens, all day yesterday. Truckers and their surporters have been lining the highways...
GP contract changes will harm patient care!
THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...
‘NO ERROR OF JUDGEMENT’ – Cameron defends hiring Coulson
PRIME minister Cameron claimed yesterday that Andy Coulson, who had resigned as editor of the News of the World and who currently faces charges...
North London will suffer if Chase Farm closes
IT IS being made even clearer that North Londoners will suffer if the projected closure of Chase Farm A&E goes ahead. The number of people...
Papandreou Agrees To ‘Great Sacrifices’
Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that Greece has agreed the terms of a financial rescue deal with the European Union and IMF. This will...
Ritzy Strike
A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...
US shoots down Syrian warplane
US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...
Osborne hammers poor!
CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...
Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates
JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...
3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!
A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...
Amnesty Condemns Bush
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has hit back at US president George W Bush’s criticism of its annual report which said the USA was...
ASYLUM SEEKERS RIGHT TO WORK – TUC launches national campaign
TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...
Treasury ‘stole’ £3bn from NHS – while hospitals close and services are slashed
THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...
MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’
PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military
LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
Smash the Tory Anti-Strike Bill!
THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...
Workers ‘will pay for recovery’ says Sunak
‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...
Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven
ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...
Corbyn Pledges Another 1945
Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...
Gate Gourmet pickets angry at TGWU leaders
GATE Gourmet locked out workers were angry yesterday when they were told by the local union office that that they had received the last...
Strike At NHS Logistics
TWO 24-hour national strikes by staff at NHS Logistics were announced yesterday, after the workers voted 3-1 for action against the government’s plans to...
Slashing Winter Fuel Payment is a death sentence!
trade unions and charities yesterday slammed as a death sentence for millions of pensioners, government plans to slash the annual Winter Fuel Payment by...
‘WE WILL HAVE TO STRIKE’ – UNISON Conference is told
UNISON members at their national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the attack on their pensions with coordinated industrial action. Before debating...
Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!
CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...
DEFEND MAIL CENTRES – with strike action across the country
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders yesterday condemned Royal Mail’s announcement of major automated sorting centre closures affecting Liverpool, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport and Crewe...
110,000 Palestinians killed, missing or injured
‘APPROXIMATELY 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing or injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip,’ Euro-Med...
DEBT CRISIS! – UNISON writes to all local councils
UNISON has written to all local councils demanding to know what steps they are taking to recover cash invested in Iceland banks and how...
Vote WRP & Athow in Hornsey & Wood Green
HORNSEY and Wood Green WRP candidate Anna Athow was campaigning with her team at Haringey Sixth Form College yesterday. Amongst the youth who signed up...
Israeli genocide in Gaza tops 35,000!
THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least...
SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
Snaresbrook Crown Court protest
MORE than 50 supporters of Waseem Yousaf demonstrated outside Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London yesterday morning as he faced the first day of...
SOLIDARITY SATURDAY! – for BA strikers
TODAY is ‘Solidarity Saturday’ when striking British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew are being visited by trade unionists and supporters from different trade unions...
Sweeping police powers extended for 6 months! – Labour votes with Tories to renew...
THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...
No beds for intensive care patients
INTENSIVE Care units (ICUs) are suffering such a chronic shortage of beds and staff that four out of five ICUs are having to send...
Firefighters strike tonight!
AHEAD of today’s and tomorrow’s four-hour national fire strikes in England and Wales, leading firefighters told News Line they want general strike action across...
British Gas – 500% Profits Rise
‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...
Teachers vote to fight SATs!
Head teachers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott SATs tests, which unions condemned as ‘focusing on failure’. Teaching unions are also deeply opposed to the league...
Gate Gourmet ‘Blacklist’
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that they are being told by the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) to hold on and...
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,...
£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR
The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...
Record petrol price rises!
Petrol prices yesterday hit a record average level of 121.76p for a litre of unleaded petrol. It is expected that fuel prices will rise daily...
Syria To Get S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia is going ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian army. The arms will help...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son’s murder
A distraught Maria Otone de Menezes visiting Stockwell tube station yesterday, the site of her son's murder. she called for her son, Jean Charles'...
Begg Offer To Help Refused
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg offered to help the British government in securing the release of hostage Alan Henning from Islamic State (IS)...