£3,500 CUT IN BASIC PAY – West Midlands & Shropshire Ambulance workers to strike
Ambulance crews in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to start industrial action, beginning with an overtime ban next Wednesday, followed by a...
Nurses Heckle Lansley
Nurses at the RCN Annual Conference in Harrogate yesterday heckled and poured scorn on claims by Health Secretary Lansley that clinical staffing levels in...
Ryhurst driven out of Whittington Hospital
WHITTINGTON NHS Trust has had to abandon plans to put the company responsible for installing the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower in charge of...
Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...
Markets Dive
FOLOWING last Friday’s booting of the USA off its top-tier AAA credit rating, there were big falls in the world’s money markets yesterday. The...
Stop Israel’s Crimes Against The Palestinians Says PM!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the world should take a clear stand and do what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes...
A WAR ON CHILDREN! – says Save the Children
ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid...
Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves
FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...
Pm Johnson Facing Defeat On Foreign Aid Budget Cut
THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...
BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC
WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...
London Met Mass Picket
BOSSES of London Met University were yesterday accused of acting like ‘19th century mill owners’ at a rally outside the Holloway Road campus in...
‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!
THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...
Tories throw down gauntlet! – separate pay awards for police & prison officers
IN A SLAP in the face for the TUC Congress, the Tory government yesterday announced pay rises for police and prison officers, while leaving...
Gate Gourmet workers demand hardship pay
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers said yesterday that they were very happy with their conference with the News Line on Sunday. Mrs Rajamy Sharma told...
HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th
TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...
Palestinians Form Unity Government
Palestinian leaders unveiled a new unity government yesterday that they hope will stop months of deadly factional violence and end a crippling international aid...
Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown
In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...
20% cuts and a pay freeze
‘Raiding public service pay and pensions is a fundamentally flawed strategy,’ said the NASUWT teachers union yesterday. It was responding to calls for pay freezes...
29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...
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...
TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd
PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...
Kiev coupist Nuland visits Syriza leaders!
LAST Tuesday, in a visit that was kept quiet, the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (she oversaw...
Blair-Brown War On Single Parents
Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...
Greek General Strike Topples Government!
THE massive united action of workers and youth in Greece, unleashed in the enormous one-day general strike last Wednesday, has toppled the hated government...
Cable To Double Student Debt!
Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...
‘WE ARE LOSING IN IRAQ’ says US Senator Chuck Hagel
Leading Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has warned the US is ‘losing in Iraq’. He slammed the George W Bush administration’s Iraq policy as ‘disconnected from...
Huge sussex education cuts!
HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...
Medical Student Fees Could Reach £57,000 – Bma
New medical students are likely to graduate with debts of £37,000 warns a new British Medical Association (BMA) report published today. The BMA says this...
‘One solution Revolution!’ says 40,000 crowd outside US embassy
‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...
Rcn Rejects NHS Charges!
NURSES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress in Liverpool voted by a massive 91% majority against NHS charging yesterday. Delegates at the...
No More ‘Planned Births’ At Ealing From June 24!
A LETTER has been sent out to pregnant women and their families in Ealing announcing the closure of the maternity services on July...
‘A Government No Longer Fit For Office!’
TORY Chancellor Hammond kicked public sector workers in the teeth in his class war budget yesterday, refusing to lift the seven-year pay freeze which...
Capitalism faces a ‘crisis of legitimacy’ says Corbyn
‘THE CAPITALIST system still faces a crisis of legitimacy stemming from the crash,’ Jeremy Corbyn told the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday. In...
‘BRUTAL’ WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON RUGELEY!
THE GMB is presenting a giant Valentine’s card to the Amazon warehouse in Rugeley in the Midlands today to highlight the ‘brutal’ working conditions. Workers...
GOURMET CRISIS! – Siegel flies back to the USA
THERE WERE no talks yesterday between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet bosses after its chairman David Siegel flew back to the US for crisis...
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...
Teachers’ pensions hit again
‘THIS is just the latest blow to hard-working teachers and other public sector employees already reeling from a raft of changes to their pensions,’...
‘The Big Squeeze Is On 9 Million Households’
‘THE squeeze is on for nine million households’, says consumer organisation Which? The latest Which? Quarterly Consumer Report reveals that 1.5 million more families are...
NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
No Forced Labour For Disabled!
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to make disabled people work for no pay for charities, corporations and other firms, said Disabled...
‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx
LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...
‘The Met took my son’s life’
‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...
Hard-Pressed Schools Face Savage Cuts
‘THE government plans the biggest real-term cuts in school funding since at least the late 1970s,’ warns the National Union of Teachers. The NUT has...
Social Care in ruins after £4.6bn cuts over 5 years
THE Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, has warned that huge cuts in funding in recent years have left the social care...
TUC denied seat at Tories trade table
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...
48-hour rolling strikes in Greece
THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...