Home News Page 79

News

All news items from around the world

‘PAINFUL CONSEQUENCES’ – warns Bush

0
President Bush yesterday warned Americans that the economic damage to the US will be ‘painful and lasting’ if Congress fails to pass his $700...

More aid seekers slaughtered in Rafah

0
ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...
The struggle of the Egyptian workers is an inspiration to the workers of the world

‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm

0
EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
UAL students are in indefinite occupation opposing the Elephant & Castle gentrification

University Of Arts London Occupied!

0
STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...

British Gas 5,000 job cuts! – GMB has vowed to fight for every job

0
‘GMB will fight for every single job,’ the GMB union said, reacting yesterday to the news of yet another 5,000 job cuts at British...
Youth join the march through Enfield Town on the day before the A&E at Chase Farm Hospital was closed last December

Intensive care beds crisis 440 emergency operations cancelled

0
EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled putting hundreds of critically ill patients in danger as hospitals run out of intensive care beds, official figures have...
The front of the 4,000-strong demonstration against the police raid in Forest Gate making its way through Newham yesterday

‘WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!’ – declare 4,000 Newham marchers

0
MORE than 4,000 people joined an angry demonstration through Newham yesterday against the huge police raid in Forest Gate on June 7. As they made...
Demonstration in Tower Hamlets against the closure of a GP surgery

General Practice brought to its knees by funding crisis!

0
MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...
Maternity unit workers on last July’s North East London Council of Action demonstration against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

End PFI at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

0
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, is ‘costing £18 million a year too much’ and is due to cost more than £800 million...

Israeli forces kill more than 71 Palestinians

0
ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...
Demonstration outside St Helier Hospital against the closure of the maternity unit at the Epsom Hospital, the A&E and the cuts due to take place in surgery

Save Epsom Maternity!

0
Over 60 people protested outside St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday morning, against the ‘downgrading’ of its sister Epsom Hospital. The protest was called...

Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!

0
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...

GOURMET CRISIS! – Siegel flies back to the USA

0
THERE WERE no talks yesterday between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet bosses after its chairman David Siegel flew back to the US for crisis...

Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote

0
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...

Hamas says all resistance factions will support Sheikh Jarrah residents battling Israeli evictions

0
THE HEAD of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the East al-Quds neighbourhood of...

US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!

0
LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...

‘We are here for as long as it takes!’ say defiant Harland and Wolff...

0
HUNDREDS of workers joined yesterday’s Harland and Wolff Rally in Belfast, with speakers reiterating their demand for the renationalisation of the shipyard. Unite Regional Coordinating...
Enthusiastic pickets at the front of Chase Farm Hospital early yesterday morning determined to keep the hospital open

We’Re Marching To Save Chase Farm Hospital

0
HUNDREDS of angry workers, patients, trade unionists and youth joined the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. They all said they were...
Children of Vestas workers lead the march to the Newport Magistrates Court last Wednesday

‘Angry At The Courts!’

0
Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...

Nursing Loans Crisis!

0
EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...
Pickets were solid on day 2 of the 3-day Southern rail strike, after which 11 more days are planned

‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT

0
‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...

Scottish court rules prorogation ‘unlawful’

0
WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...

Restore All Funding To Palestine – Says Tuc Congress

0
THE TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16: Palestine, which calls ‘on the British government to maintain all funding to...
Bakers Union in Manchester supporting the Young Socialists 248-mile March for Jobs from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike

Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase declared

0
‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...

UK faces further tax increases within months

0
BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...

300 Brighton University students march to save lecturers’ jobs!

0
OVER 300 students marched yesterday against Brighton University’s decision to sack over 100 staff as part of a plan to make £17.9 million in...
Hundreds of medical students demonstrated on the steps of University College London Hospital yesterday, demanding their right to accommodation when they become junior doctors

A £5,000 PAY CUT – for first year junior doctors

0
Over 200 medical students, with placards saying ‘No room for more student debt’ and ‘Junior doctors accommodation – going, going, gone’, demonstrated in central...
Firefighters on the picket line at Lambeth Fire Station at the beginning of the year

FBU – 4 Days Strike Action

0
THE FBU is escalating its strike action tonight with four days of action in England beginning at 6pm in the sharpening fight over pensions. The...
Students joined lecturers on the picket line at Aberdeen University yesterday morning demanding the UCU does not capitulate – by 4pm the deal had been rejected

NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!

0
A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...

Rcn Warns Tories

0
TORY changes to immigration rules, will mean thousands of NHS nurses being driven out of the UK ‘causing chaos’, the RCN nurses’ union...

From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!

0
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...
‘Bloody Sunday’ mural on a wall in Derry

UNARMED VICTIMS SHOT DEAD ON BLOODY SUNDAY – finds Saville

0
‘The immediate responsibility for the deaths and injuries on Bloody Sunday lies with those members of Support Company whose unjustifiable firing was the cause...

Series of 48 hour postal strikes

0
POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

Abbas Suspends Contact With Israel

0
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...
Striking Bectu members on the picket line outside the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton on Friday morning

Ritzy Strike

0
A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...
Junior doctors on the picket line during their strike in 2015 – they are often exhausted says the General Medical Council (GMC)

Junior doctors ‘burned out’ GMC

0
NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...
Midwives campaigning outside the House of Commons last month insisting that thousands more midwives are needed to provide a proper service

North London will suffer if Chase Farm closes

0
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...

Sunak Has Questions To Answer – Says Labour

0
CHANCELLOR Sunak has ‘a series of questions to answer’, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said yesterday, as the Tory tax scandal developed. Last week,...
South East London Council of Action march in Southwark against the demolition of council housing

PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite

0
‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...
Mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning – the day the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward was due for closure, putting children’s lives into jeopardy

Ealing mass picket condemns the closure of Children’s Ward

0
A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...
Busworkers & campaigners at Greenford Bus Garage yesterday – they are determined to occupy Ealing Maternity to keep it open

Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers

0
‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...

Jobless rate up to 7.2%

0
THE rate of unemployment in the UK has risen from 7.1% to 7.2% the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday. The ONS figures...

UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings

0
ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...