Cut emergency admissions or face elderly care cuts! – GPs told
GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...
UN condemns Tories
THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...
PCS & Prospect take action at the British Museum
‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...
World Stockmarkets Shudder!
Billions of pounds were wiped off share prices in London yesterday, as oil prices surged back towards the March high of $57 a barrel. Brent...
Striking NHS Workers March
STRIKING NHS workers from south London’s psychiatric hospitals marched yesterday from Camberwell Green to the headquarters of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust...
Postmasters Convictions Quashed!
JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...
5 days of Govia strike action
FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...
OCCUPY GM! –Fiat takeover threat to plants
‘Vauxhall workers should occupy to defend their jobs’, Belfast Visteon convenor John McGuire told News Line yesterday. He was responding to news that Fiat...
Tories Want Mass Sackings!
Liberal Democrat employment minister, Ed Davey, announced plans to change labour laws yesterday, to enable employers to sack large numbers of workers easily. The Tory-LibDem...
Bed shortages ‘threat to patient care’ says the RCN!
WINTER hospital bed shortages pose a ‘real threat’ to patient care, the Nuffield Trust warned yesterday. On average, about 95% of English hospital beds were...
Gadaffi Will Never Quit Libya
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi issued a defiant audio message which was aired by the Syrian Arrai television channel yesterday. Colonel Gadaffi said: ‘Youth are ready...
OUTPUT FALLS! – as food prices are set to rocket
UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in June, the latest official figures revealed yesterday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said industrial output fell 0.5 per...
‘AN UPRISING OF THE WORKING CLASS IS COMING’ – say Greek transport workers
ABOUT 2,000 Greek public transport workers took part in a magnificent demonstration last Tuesday afternoon in Athens, against the government’s Transport Bill which slashes...
Assange Must Be Freed!
ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...
Free, free Palestine! – chants 30,000 Glastonbury crowd as Cooper prepares ban
‘We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally,’ Belfast rap group Kneecap singer Mo Chara told a...
NAHT industrial action ballot after 90% reject pay offer!
THE NAHT school head teachers union executive has announced that it will move to a formal industrial action ballot after a 90% membership vote...
Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!
TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
‘Be ready for action this Autumn’ says NEU
‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...
‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion
Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...
GPs are calling for industrial action
A SPECIAL GPs conference in just a few weeks called by the BMA GPs Committee (GPC) is set to hear unprecedented calls for industrial...
Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...
Mass Picket For Victory For Gate Gourmet Workers
‘WELCOME to all of you. We are very proud of all of you,’ Parmjit Bains told a rally on the hill near the Gate...
‘Health And Care Is At Breaking Point!’ – Says Rcn Director Marquis
‘WITH more than 13,000 patients a day stuck in hospitals because the community and social care they need to be safely discharged is unavailable,...
Palestinian infants are dying from the cold!
A PALESTINIAN infant died on Friday from severe cold while sheltering with her family inside a makeshift tent in Gaza, as Israeli restrictions continue...
NO CAP ON GPs PAY – Insist BMA doctors and RCN nurses
Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...
BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers
THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
RCN calls 48-hour national strike
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...
Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS
Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
Field Joins The Tories!
Birkenhead MP Frank Field yesterday became the first Labour right winger to defect to the Tory-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Field, who is an...
Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover at once!
JAGUAR Land Rover’s (JLR) suspension of production after last month’s cyber-attack has thrown tens of thousands of workers and small suppliers into crisis, with...
G8 WILL NOT MAKE POVERTY HISTORY – admits Blair
‘Blair is no saviour for the African people,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told News Line yesterday. He was responding to Blair’s statement on...
British Officers For Libya!
TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...
‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244
A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...
MORE GAZA MASSACRES! – as Israel intensifies bombardment
Israel early yesterday ignored a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an ‘immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal...
Rail Companies Are Paying Massive Dividends Says RMT
NEW RMT research has revealed that the private companies responsible for supplying trains to the railways have been paying massive dividends to their shareholders...
Javid gambling with people’s lives! – self-isolating rules abandoned
GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday. He told Parliament: ‘We...
‘We won’t accept poverty pay’ say striking mixed fleet cabin crew
‘WE WANT support from the whole airport and wider,’ striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew member and Unite rep Charly Bacon said yesterday. She was...
BMA Consultants defending NHS
STRIKING BMA consultants, picketing outside UCLH hospital yesterday on day two of their action, were adamant that the strike was not just about pay. It...
TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee
The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...
National Gallery strike today!
NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
‘Board of Peace’ issues its 1st Gaza construction plan
THE ‘Board of Peace’ has issued its first construction contract in Gaza, for a 150-person military outpost to house Moroccan troops. The contract, not yet...
Criminal Police Officers To Face Automatic Sackings!
POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers...
UK Grinds To A Halt!
THE UK economy ground to a halt in the three months to June 30, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up just 0.2 per...
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...