£512 billion propping up banks!
Banks are relying on the taxpayer for £512 billion support this year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported yesterday. The parliamentary...
Childrens’ speech and language services slashed
SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...
Israel F-16 planes bomb houses close to Kamal Adwan hospital
DIRECTOR of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said that Christmas Eve was one of the most difficult nights in Kamal Adwan Hospital...
‘Citizens Being Treated As Toxic Waste’
RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...
Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date
FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...
Coulson Crisis Deepens
Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure after it was announced yesterday that MPs will hold an emergency debate in...
Dutch To Follow French Example
Dutch workers are ready to deal another blow to the bosses and bankers’ EU by following the example of the French and voting ‘NO’...
MAY’S WAR ON MIGRANTS! – condemned by Institute of Directors
‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...
Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!
ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...
General Strike in Palestine!
A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...
Monstrous Greek Betrayal!
EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...
Iran warns UK over ‘terror designations’
THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...
200-Strong Picket Supports Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers
TWO hundred people joined a mass picket by the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow, six months after the 700-strong workforce at the airline...
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...
30,000 March Against Cornish NHS Cuts
The organisers of the biggest demonstration so far in defence of the NHS, a huge 30,000-strong march against NHS cuts in Cornwall, yesterday slammed...
Polar storm rips through Gaza
A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...
No money for food, heating or electric
OVER a third of low paid workers have had to skip meals, sitting at home in the dark and cold because they have no...
‘Take action to stop Maudsley closure’
UP to sixty trade unionists, patients, local residents and youth demonstrated outside the Maudsley Hospital, south London yesterday, against planned cuts including the closure...
Angry Iraqis March For Saddam
Hundreds of angry supporters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, many of them armed, protested yesterday against his execution and blamed leading Iraqi politicians for...
Starmer-Streeting declare war on NHS – and pledge to ignore the vote to reverse...
DELEGATES at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool overwhelmingly voted to overturn the Labour government’s abolition of the Winter Fuel Allowance yesterday. Moving the motion,...
STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!
‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...
‘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...
BA Sellout!
THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley
Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...
‘Staff May Strike Again This Summer’ Warns RCN
ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary and chief executive, Professor Nicola Ranger yesterday warned staff may strike again this summer unless the government...
‘TAKE US BACK IN-HOUSE!’ – demand British Museum workers
BRITISH Museum cleaners, porters and security staff, who used to be employed by collapsed contractor Carillion, are demanding that they are brought back in-house...
Carillion liquidated! – Re-nationalise all services demand unions
THE BOMBSHELL announcement yesterday morning that Carillion had gone into liquidation had immediate and devastating consequences for the 20,000 workers employed by the private...
20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget
TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...
LABOUR GIVEN A WEEK! – to disclose torture evidence
Yesterday’s High Court ‘torture verdict strongly condemned the UK government for complicity in US crimes’, said legal charity Reprieve. Lord Justice Thomas and Justice...
25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!
TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...
Unis already raising fees to £9,250
UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
Netanyahu’s ‘reshaping of Asia has been shattered’ – Hamas
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...
Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack
FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...
Bma Slams Profits Before Patients
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...
‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside parliament
Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...
‘WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!’ – New Era Estate tenants march to Downing Street
‘WE will not be moved!’ declared 600 furious residents of the New Era Estate in Hoxton, Hackney and their supporters at a mass lobby...
Fire & Underground staff cuts! – Could London cope with another King’s Cross fire?
SAVAGE Tory cuts to the fire service have led the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to ask the following ominous question: ‘Could the...
University privatisation plan outrage
STUDENTS will be ‘outraged’ at Tory proposals to raise tuition fees even higher and privatise education, the NUS said yesterday. Tory Universities Minister Jo Johnson...
Israeli trade unions call a general strike!
THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...
‘A&E SERVICES ARE AT BREAKING POINT!’ – due to government changes
HEALTH Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has agreed to the relaxing of ambulance response times for some ‘Red 2’ category patients, which include those with...
‘FORWARD TO A GENERAL STRIKE!’ says a London PCS leader
STAFF fighting the imposition of pay cuts and the threat of more sackings – after 25,000-plus job cuts in the last three years –...
CWU to be reformed to suit Royal Mail
A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...
NUJ and BECTU condemn the BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs
THE NUJ and BECTU have condemned the BBC’s plans to cut around 2,000 jobs. The NUJ is urging the broadcaster to meaningfully engage workers and...
UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’
THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...
‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC
TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: ‘The...