Finucane Report Is A Whitewash Says Family
‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...
Strike till CPE is withdrawn
More than 2,000 students meeting outside the entrance of Jussieu university in the centre of Paris yesterday afternoon voted virtually unanimously to strike until...
‘A DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS SITUATION!’ – Brown pledges to work on the side of...
‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...
‘We’re fighting for our rights!’ say West Hendon tenants
OVER 250 tenants and supporters at the West Hendon estate in north London yesterday packed the community centre on the estate for a meeting...
‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told
EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR CRIME! – says UNISON’s Prentis
AN Israeli soldier was killed and another injured on Thursday during renewed clashes with Palestinian fighters near the Kisufim military post east of Al-Qarara...
GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils
GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...
NHS AUSTERITY – planned by Department of Health
THE government is already drawing up crisis measures to privatise the NHS. A ‘long list of possibilities’ is contained in a leaked Department of Health...
‘Stop war on NHS workers’
UNITE leader Len McCluskey visited locked out NHS biomedical staff yesterday to highlight the appalling treatment they’ve received at the hands of their NHS...
‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary
‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...
Willetts resign! Demand UEA students
Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay
THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...
‘Stop NHS medical records sale to Capita!’ urges Unison
CHRISTINA McAnea, Unison National Secretary for Health, has written to Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about the proposed transfer of Primary Care Support services...
14,000 Junior Doctors Will Be Without Posts
the actual number of specialist doctor training posts available in the UK is 18,518 – not between 22,000 and 23,000 as the government had...
Lecturers Take Strike Action!
AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...
Plan Action To Keep Hospitals Open –Bma Urged
The British Medical Association (BMA) Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC) is meeting today at BMA House, Tavistock Place, London. One of the resolutions before...
WHITEWASH! – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow
JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...
‘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...
STUDENT NURSES ANGRY – at Tory-imposed tuition fee debt
STUDENT nurses and midwives are furious that under new proposals to scrap bursaries, they could potentially be burdened with £65,000 worth of debt for...
Labour special conference to attack the unions!
THE Labour Party is to hold a Special Conference in London in March next year in which the Miliband leadershipwill seek the abolition of...
‘Dictator’ Hunt!
THE BMA yesterday responded angrily to health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s ‘wholesale attack’ on doctors and the threat to impose seven-day working for consultants...
TWO 24hr TUBE STRIKES
RMT pickets were out at all key locations yesterday morning as the strike action over the threat to jobs, safety and services was solidly...
Yorks Hospital Workers Strike To Defend Jobs
five-hundred clerical and administration workers at three hospitals in West Yorkshire came out on strike on Sunday. They are striking for five-days against threats of...
‘Don’t witch-hunt teachers!’
Teachers’ union leader Chris Keates yesterday slammed a BBC Breakfast programme claim that there are an estimated 15,000 incompetent teachers in schools. The NASUWT general...
HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union
THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...
Record Petrol Prices
Average petrol prices in the UK set a new record this week at 142.48p a litre, and 147.88p a litre for diesel. The AA Fuel...
Firefighters Deaths Rise
Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...
Doctors – No Confidence In Blair
the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...
SUPPORT OUR STRUGGLE! – Gate Gourmet workers urge Biennial Conference
A PACKED meeting of over 100 Gate Gourmet locked out workers and delegates to the TGWU Biennial Conference in Brighton took place yesterday lunchtime....
Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure
DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...
IRAN FREES SAILORS – as a gift to the British people
‘Although Iran has the right to prosecute them by following the model of the Prophet, the fifteen people are pardoned and their freedom given...
NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation
Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...
School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!
THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...
‘WE ARE HEADING FOR SERIOUS CONFLICT’ – over the NHS says UNISON
‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...
France – 3 Million Take Action
Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...
Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire
‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight
Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...
‘TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT THE HEALTH BILL’ – BMA SRM is urged
GPs, hospital consultants and junior doctors are convening today for a very important Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the British Medical Association (BMA) to...
Police Attack Greek Teachers
POLICE brutally attacked the large teachers’ rallies which were held in all major Greek cities on Monday, as the primary schools teachers entered the...
New Era Tenants Face Eviction!
TENANTS on the New Era estate in Hoxton, Hackney, east London, face eviction ‘ASAP’ after a promise not to impose huge rent increases had...
‘WE CAN’T GET JUSTICE!’ – Jean de Menezes’ cousin
‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...
‘HAMMER BLOW TO FAMILIES’ – TUC condemns benefit cuts
THE Trades Union Congress yesterday condemned cuts to housing benefit and other vital support, as sweeping changes to the Welfare State began to take...
BRING ARMY INTO SCHOOLS! – urges Chief of Defence Staff Guthrie
Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...