Tories instruct students to stay on campus till Dec 22
STUDENTS and university staff are furious after the Tory government inst-ructed them to remain in their student halls and not to return home before...
BMA rejects NHS charging
THE British Medical Association (BMA) is today warning against NHS charging. Responding to Lord Warner’s call to introduce charging patients a monthly fee to...
Don’t Deport Students
THE NUS, UCU and Unison yesterday condemned the Home Office attack on London Metropolitan University and its international students, and demanded that not a...
‘SHOP A SCROOGE BOSS THIS XMAS’ – urges TUC
THE TUC has urged workers to ‘Shop a Scrooge’ this Christmas. It’s message is dial the National Minimum Wage helpline – 0845 6000 678,...
Hand all academies & free schools back
CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...
‘We’re in this for the long haul’ – insist NHS consultants as they announce...
CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...
COALITION LOOKING FOR NOVEMBER 30th STRIKEBREAKERS – to write to 2.5 million workers
Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...
‘We desperately need more midwives’ says RCM
THE UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in Western Europe, according to new research published in The...
‘REASONABLE CASE’ – For the slaughter of Iraqis
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday told the Iraq Inquiry, that he was not pressured into discarding his opposition to going to war without...
Gaza residents shocked by massive price rises!
GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first...
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...
7/7 Survivors Left To Fend For Themselves
London’s emergency plans must be changed to take into account the needs of survivors in the aftermath of a major incident, says the report...
NEW HOSPITALS THREAT by NHS Clinical Commissioner
CALLS by the head of NHS Clinical Commissioners for most hospitals to be ‘downsized’ or closed and for 50 per cent of current hospital...
US committed war crimes! says Iran
IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for pursuing legal action through competent international organisations over damage to Iran’s transport infrastructure, describing US attacks on...
Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...
‘No Forced Academies’
THE Tories published an Education and Adoption Bill yesterday, setting out plans to academise a further 1,000 schools by 2020. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan warned...
Great Support For WRP Candidates
THE VOTE Hassan Zulkifal Workers Revolutionary Party Ealing Southall campaign got great support at Greenford Bus Depot and Hanwell Royal Mail Delivery Office yesterday...
NHS ‘savings’ from wage cuts!
SAVINGS in the NHS over the past five years have been paid for by the workforce, a pre-election health debate heard yesterday. The packed hustings...
UK – Huge Trade Deficit
BRITAIN’S trade deficit has ballooned to its biggest since 1989, shocking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which released the data yesterday. In the three...
Bma Condemns ‘Junk Healthcare’
GPs in the West Midlands are up in arms over plans to franchise out services along the lines of fast food outlets or estate...
Trump to chair Gaza Board of Peace!
THE GAZA ‘Board of Peace’ has been announced, with US President Donald Trump as its veto-wielding chairman, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
Unions Rebut New Tory Strike Ban Threat
UNITE and Unison rebutted threats issued by Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude yesterday morning, in which he poured Tory vitriol on this Thursday’s mass one-day...
BMA condemns & rejects Primary Care specifications!
THE BMA’s England GP committee has voted not to accept a contract agreement with NHS England and condemned the recently-published draft service specifications outlining...
SOAS cleaners join striking lecturers
ON THE SECOND day of the three-day strike of 58 universities’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in central London yesterday...
Schoolchildren to be served smaller portions!
SCHOOL caterers will have to serve children smaller portions or use cheaper ingredients, they were warned yesterday. Andrew Selley, boss of Bidfood, one of the...
Iran retaliates for US strikes! – UK bans IRGC
THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes on US military bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait on Sunday night,...
Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
‘The sole intention is to destroy the jobs of postal workers’ says Dave Ward
CWU members braved the continuous pouring rain yesterday morning at the Greenwich, Blackheath and Charlton delivery office London SE10. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward told...
UK Huge Wages Fall!
WAGES in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union since the coalition came to power, according to official...
LABOUR’S COLLUSION WITH TORTURE CONDEMNED –as Johnson, Miliband and MI5 chief launch witch-hunt!
Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...
Egypt – Another Million-Strong Protest
Anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo yesterday have called for another ‘million strong protest’ in Tahrir Square today. This call was made as the Egyptian government and...
Israel intensifies its military presence around Rafah–fears of full-scale bloody intervention
ISRAEL HAS intensified its military presence around Rafah, deploying additional troops and destroying agricultural land in the district’s eastern areas. This escalation comes amid heightened...
Murdoch-Thatcher Wapping Deal
Rupert Murdoch sought assurances from prime minister Thatcher in the 1980s about policing of print union strikes, the Leveson Inquiry has been told. In a...
May undermines Parliament!
‘WHAT I am setting out today is a simple democratic demand, it is not taking an opinion one way or the other of what...
‘Living standards being hammered’– says CWU leader Dave Ward
THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...
‘Rampant Capitalism & Wage Robbery!’
THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...
Syriza Discussing Keeping Austerity Memorandum
THE Greek government’s proposals for a new agreement over the terms of the bail-out loan of 240bn euros were discussed at this week’s Eurogroup...
FIRST NHS TAKE-OVER – Heart of England Foundation Hospital swallows up Hood Hope NHS...
This Sunday April 8th will mark the first takeover by a foundation trust hospital of a ‘bankrupt’ NHS hospital. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust...
‘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...
‘The World Must Act Now Or Never For A Palestinian State’
FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...
30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament
SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...
Barristers Strike Growing In Strength
HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...
STOP GM PLANTS CLOSING! – workers must occupy!
General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
Ealing demands ‘Don’t close our hospitals’
CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...