Scotland Yard To Be Investigated!
SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...
British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...
Johnson-Sunak Sought To Avoid Self-Isolation
PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...
Serco Altered Data For Out Of Hours Gp Service
PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...
3,000 Junior Doctors Jobless!
AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...
OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire
German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
‘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...
Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...
East London families march against disability cuts
AROUND 100 angry family members demonstrated against the threatened closure of their Bangladeshi Parent Adviser (BPA) service yesterday, marching from Chrisp Street Market in...
Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...
‘WE ARE MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER’ – Vestas occupiers
‘FANTASTIC,’ was how Vestas factory occupier Chris Ash responded to the decision at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday to adjourn the wind turbine company’s attempt...
London Transport Strikes Escalating!
LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...
Tuc Supports Tube Strike!
THE TUC has declared its support for Tube workers who are on strike today over the imposition of night working. Commenting on the strike on...
‘Stop NHS Mass Sackings!’
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that the NHS is heading for crisis point with 56,058 NHS positions across the UK due to...
Manchester health cuts condemned
DOCTORS, nurses, staff and patients alike are furious at the major staff cuts and proposed further funding cuts affecting the hospitals in the Manchester...
70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!
CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...
Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...
Full support for junior doctors! – –Hunt threatens to illegalise strikes
THIS MORNING for the first time in history, junior doctors launch their full walk-out, taking the government head on. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded yesterday...
Hamas agrees 60-day ceasefire!
HAMAS negotiators in Cairo have agreed a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which calls for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release...
Massive General Strike In Greece
Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...
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:...
‘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...
Stop A&E Closures!
THE British Medical Association yesterday warned against mass A&E closures implicit in a review of emergency services being carried out Professor Sir Bruce Keogh,...
Thousands of patients sent home too soon!
THE NHS is so short staffed, with such a lack of beds that patients are being sent home too early, as a result...
Safety Before Profits!
SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...
A NATIONAL SCANDAL – Help the Aged condemns winter death figure
‘THESE figures are nothing short of a national scandal. It’s obscene that in this day and age more than 25,000 people aged 65 and...
Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia – medics receiving pleas for help as soldiers shoot...
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...
‘GROSS INJUSTICE’ – PCS slams benefits cap
‘It is a gross injustice that hard-pressed households are being punished for economic problems caused by greedy bankers and politicians by having their benefits...
RAAB GRILLED BY MPs
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...
BLAIR ON THE ‘HIGH WIRE’ – ‘A significant number of my side are against’
Prime Minister Blair yesterday admitted at his monthly press conference that the opposition to his schools ‘reforms’ made getting them through parliament ‘a...
‘Staggering rate of evictions’
HOMELESS charity Shelter has denounced the ‘staggering’ amount of families who are being forcibly evicted from their homes, the highest since records began. Figures released...
Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...
Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers
TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...
Housing crisis: ‘national emergency’
HOUSING has become a ‘national emergency’ as it emerged the proportion of home ownership has fallen to the lowest level since 1986 and, as...
Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade
Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...
6,000 Palestinians are in a ‘large prison’
ISRAELI forces have sealed the main entrance to the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Zaayyem ‘locking up more than 6,000 Palestinians in a large prison,’...
Cameron’s Police State
PM CAMERON addressed the House of Commons yesterday on the crisis with Russia, the IS movement in Iraq and security in the UK. On the...
Smash the Tory Anti-Strike Bill!
THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...
WE’LL STOP NHS PRIVATISATION – say BMA consultants
‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...
‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’
OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...
Israeli strike on Gaza City kills seven & wounds 20!
AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...
Sheffield workers fight sackings
THE 38 striking Sheffield recycling workers, alongside their supporters, lobbied the Labour Council at Sheffield Town Hall yesterday to demand the reversal of five...
PRIVATEERS OUT! – say BMA delegates in Belfast
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...
Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates
JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...
‘WITHDRAW HEALTH BILL’ say 92% of GPs
Over 92 per cent of respondents to a poll carried out by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) think that it is appropriate...


















