BMA condemns ‘patient list cleansing’

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Over 300,000 patients have been stripped away from GP practices across England in the last year as part of what the BMA describes as...

Young People Being Left To Suffer

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YOUNG people are being left to suffer, with 34 per cent of the country’s children’s centres slashed since 2010, says the GMB. ‘Unwarranted’ closure of...

No money for food, heating or electric

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OVER a third of low paid workers have had to skip meals, sitting at home in the dark and cold because they have no...

The occupation is starving us say Palestinian children

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‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...

BLAIR ON THE ‘HIGH WIRE’ – ‘A significant number of my side are against’

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday admitted at his monthly press conference that the opposition to his schools ‘reforms’ made getting them through parliament ‘a...
Horton Hospital is one of many that have been lobbying 10 Downing Street to tell the government ‘Hands off our Maternity Services’

Defend Maternity Services – THEY MUST NOT CLOSE!

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CAMPAIGNERS fighting the closure of maternity services in Lincolnshire say they will ‘not back down!’ Plans to remove consultant-led services in Boston and ‘centralise them’...
UNISON members campaigning to defend the NHS against a government bent on privatising it

‘END BOTTOMLESS PFI PIT’ – demands the UNISON trade union

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UNISON yesterday demanded ‘an end to this bottomless PFI pit’. The Treasury’s decision to pump an extra £2bn of taxpayers’ money into recession-hit PFI...

3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!

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THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...
Royal College of Nurses rally against cuts to keep patients safe

No mandatory safe staffing levels for the NHS!

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THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

DEFEND NHS BEDS! – Managers confederation urges axe thousands

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The latest hospital trust to announce staff cuts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, has said it plans to axe up to 150 jobs. The trust,...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Deptford Ambulance Station striking over pay – there is a massive lack of ambulance staff, creating an enormous crisis

AMBULANCE CRISIS: Patients are dying!

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AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...
BA cabin crew celebrating their High Court victory in May condemned BA management ‘bullying’

Resume BA strike action–urge cabin crew

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‘WE WANT the strike action reinstated immediately and extended, so that we can defeat Walsh’s union-busting operation once and for all,’ British Airways Stewards...

UK abusing terrorism laws! says Amnesty International Secretary General

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IN A MAJOR police state move, 29 demonstrators were arrested in London at a protest in support of Palestine Action on Saturday, the day...

Clarke Sacked – Refuses Other Job

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One of the most senior figures in government, an unwilling Charles Clarke was yesterday sacked as home secretary in the biggest cabinet reshuffle of...

‘Real value’ of pay in freefall

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THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...
CAROLINE CONNELLY (left) along with her daughter and grandson with Manchester Central WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Manchester health cuts condemned

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DOCTORS, nurses, staff and patients alike are furious at the major staff cuts and proposed further funding cuts affecting the hospitals in the Manchester...

Public sector workers at breaking point!

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‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...
Striking Serco workers outside The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday on the second day of their 48-hour strike

Serco Workers Are Determined To Win!

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‘WE WANT a 3% pay rise. SERCO are making us work more for no extra money,’ Unite hospital worker Florence Kwao said yesterday on...

Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!

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‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...

Storms And Floods Batter Gaza!

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HUNDREDS of displacement tents across Gaza were flooded from Thursday night into Friday morning as a powerful winter storm battered the besieged enclave, worsening...
Last week’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital – West London Council of Action is calling on the trade unions to occupy the hospital and defend all its departments

Stp Onslaught On Ealing & Charing Cross Hospitals

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EALING and Charing Cross District General Hospitals are to have their Accident and Emergency Departments closed under the North West London Sustainability and Transformation...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...

Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories

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THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...
At a rally last Friday at the Department for Communities and Local Government a resident from north Kensington holds up a piece of charred cladding that had fallen from Grenfell Tower during the blaze

600 Combustible Cladded Towers!

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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

SUSPENSION OF PARLIAMENT – ‘a political judgement’ says Eadie QC

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THE suspension of Parliament is ‘the territory of political judgements not legal standards’, the Tory government’s lawyer told the Supreme Court yesterday. The court is...

Trump imposes new 12.5% tariffs

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DONALD Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing a blanket 10 per cent duty hours before it lapsed. The new levies...

Huge sussex education cuts!

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HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...

Tories are driven back over schools opening!

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THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...
A strong and angry picket of New Scotland Yard yesterday after the CPS refused to prosecute the policeman responsible for the deadly assault on Ian Tomlinson at G20 protest last year

COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial

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UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...

‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’

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THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
Health workers depicting Prime Minister Cameron and Health Secretary Hunt as Scrooges over the government’s refusal to pay the 1% pay rise to all NHS workers

‘Just 15 Minutes Of Care!’

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ELDERLY and vulnerable people are receiving just 15 minutes of care during homecare visits because of savage 40% council budget cuts, Unison warned yesterday. Unison...

NATIONALISE JLR AND CORUS – the only way to defend jobs

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Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

‘This will end up in a general strike!’ – Ambulance pickets tell News Line

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‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...
Rose Gentle (centre) leading a march in February this year demanding withdrawal of British troops from Iraq

GENTLE CONSIDERS ACTION AGAINST MoD

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An Oxfordshire coroner yesterday ruled that an Army logistics failure led to the unlawful killing in Iraq of Gordon Gentle, 19, of the Royal...

Labour lets May & Gove off the hook!

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THE LABOUR opposition let both Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May off the hook by failing to call for their...

‘We’Re Not Signing Compromise Agreement’

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‘WE are not signing the Compromise Agreement. It’s one big con. It’s daylight robbery. There’s no other word for it.’ ‘I sent in my application...

Parliament – special Brexit sitting October 19th!

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MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...

Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!

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THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...
CWU pickets at the Hampstead Delivery Office – determined to keep Royal Mail as a public service

POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN MANDELSON – TUC must support us!

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday afternoon attacked London postal workers in particular for not accepting the government and Royal Mail plans to...
Orthodox Jews, joining the rally on Saturday against the Israeli killings in Gaza, condemn Zionist terrorism

29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...

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TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...

POA condemns ‘reserve force’

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THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...
WRP Manchester Central parliamentary candidate (right) with his team making every minute count in the last days of the campaign

WRP campaign steps up a gear

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THE campaign for Jonty Leff, the WRP candidate for Manchester Central, has stepped up a gear on the eve of Thursday’s general election. While canvassing...

LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion

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HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...