Frontline NHS staff must be vaccinated! – Many NHS staff have lost their...
FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...
97% of teachers oppose SATs – National strike is looming
NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...
‘THROW OUT THE GOVERNMENT’ – demand Greek workers and students
OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...
‘THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN!’ Coalition’s unlimited fees plan condemned
Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...
‘Strike together against anti-union laws!’
INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...
Rcn Demands ‘A Pause’
A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...
1,000 face eviction during lockdown!
CITIZENS Advice (CA) has confirmed that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related to...
PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike
BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...
‘Care disaster of epic proportions’
‘A CARE disaster of epic proportions looms’ as care for the elderly and disabled reaches such a crisis that the future of social care...
Nurses Ready To Strike Over Pay–Ballot Shows
THE VAST majority of nurses are prepared to strike over pay, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday as it announced a ‘summer...
No Forced Labour For Youth!
Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...
‘Hooded, shackled, with gun to my head’ – UK spies witnessed
‘WE still don’t know the process of accountability,’ British citizen Moazzam Begg, previously held in Guantanamo Bay, said criticising the scope of an inquiry...
Sri Lanka Tea Workers Arrested
Thirty four civilians were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the government security forces at Gampaha town from Saturday...
May Finished!
PM MAY is to meet with Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, to agree a timetable for her departure as...
‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the NHS
BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
Huge turnout for Ukraine referendum
THE referendum in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions, seeking independence from the central government was massively supported yesterday. THE referendum in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk...
Refugees left to freeze!
‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
GLUM KING ADMITS TO SLUMP! – while EU rows over Greek euro exit
GOVERNOR Mervyn King announced yesterday that the Bank of England has cut its growth forecast to close to zero – from the 0.8 per...
‘Grenfell Tower was a death trap before any firefighter arrived!’ – says Matt Wrack...
MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...
Corbyn Calls For Pm May’s Resignation!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...
‘Part-time low-wage economy’
THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...
Dozens of civilians killed in Palestine
ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 642nd consecutive day on Wednesday. Using airstrikes, artillery shelling and live...
Restore student nurses bursaries
NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...
Staff On Terminal Covid Ward Were ‘Denied Ppe’
STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...
‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
School buildings axe challenged
A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...
‘HONOUR THE GUARD GUARANTEE!’ – RMT challenges South Western
THE RMT has launched a direct challenge to South Western Railway to honour the guard guarantee on their trains. It wants a ‘yes or no’...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
We need strike action to save Ealing Hospital
‘THE PEOPLE will be very badly harmed by the closures of Southall JobCentre and Ealing Hospital,’ Raj Anton told News Line outside the closure-threatened...
Series of 48 hour postal strikes
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...
Call Off The Talks!
‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
LANSLEY RESIGN! – BMA demands
DELEGATES at the BMA representatives meeting in Bournemouth yesterday called for Health Secretary Lansley to resign against the advice of their leadership. Motion 22 from...
‘We need mass industrial action!’ says McCluskey
OVER 10,000 workers, trades unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday on May Day. There were banners from trades unions, trades...
‘PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!’ – postal workers demand action to win the struggle
TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...
Palestinian mother & child arrested
ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...
Hamas denounces silence over Israeli raid on al-Shifa hospital!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where...
‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
‘No To A Race To The Bottom’
‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...
NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
Grenfell Tower council opted for flammable cladding
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council turned down a proposal to clad Grenfell Tower in fire resistant material and instead opted for a cheaper option, allowing...
‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
Support Pours In For Chase Farm March
‘WE urge all trade unions to follow Unite’s example and back our March to defend Chase Farm, Hospital’ states Bill Rogers, Secretary of NE...
No admission at BP AGM!
BP yesterday faced angry protesters – including Louisiana fishermen, Canadian Indians opposed to Tar Sands, and locked out UK construction workers – at its...
Starmer rebuffs Trump’s call for Hormuz escalation!
LABOUR Prime Minister Starmer yesterday rebuffed US President Trump’s demand that the UK joins him in escalating the war on Iran. Trump urged Britain and...