Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...
Firefighters Responding To Medical Emergencies!
CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...
Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes
ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’
HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...
Museums taking strike action
Strikes by workers at museums and galleries across the country today kick off a long weekend of action against government cuts. The Public and Commercial...
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...
‘WANTED FOR ROBBERY!’ –pensions strikers condemn coalition
OVER 8,000 striking teachers and college lecturers from the NUT and UCU unions in London yesterday marched from University College Union London to the...
BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’
The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...
Kensington Election Campaign
CAMPAIGNERS for WRP Kensington parliamentary candidate Scott Dore took to the streets yesterday. Ayan gave her support to the candidate. She said, ‘I think that...
STUDENTS’ ROBBERY! – to repay twice their fees and loans
The University and College union (UCU) yesterday welcomed findings by the BBC, which it said shone a light on the real level of debt...
US Steelworkers To Protest At National Grid Agm
MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...
Savage Cuts On The Way!
THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...
Strike Breaker Gove Is Condemned!
Schools unions have reacted angrily to a letter to heads from education secretary Gove, advocating strike breaking during their June 30 pensions action. His letter...
BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07
Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
Tory plan to replace school meals with ‘25p breakfasts’ slammed!
TORY plans to replace free school lunches with free ‘breakfasts’, costed at 25p, for primary school children have been lambasted by the...
Dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Israeli genocidal regime
DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...
Workers support WRP candidates
‘I AM voting Jonty Leff WRP because I want Universal Credit scrapped,’ David Vervin said as the team fighting to get Leff elected launched...
110,000 Single Parents To Be Forced Into Work!
‘Welfare changes starting today will see up to 111,000 single parents set up to fail as they are forced to seek work – or...
NHS STRIKE SOLID! – Angry midwives, ambulance workers & NHS staff act!
AMBULANCE staff, midwives and hospital staff walked out on strike yesterday in a solid action affecting the whole country. It was the first time midwives...
Nationalise Gm Vauxhall
Business Secretary Mandelson told the BBC yesterday that there will be ‘painful change’ resulting from the takeover of GM Europe. He said that whichever of...
CWU rally rejects pensions blackmail!
‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...
STOP HEATHROW JOBS BLOODBATH – Unite must call national strike action now!
‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...
Easyjet Pilots Will Fight For Every Job – Balpa
MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...
Cuts to be met by sustained industrial action
A delegation of over 40 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members and officials lobbied the Treasury as Chancellor Osborne was making his budget...
‘Thousands will back tanker drivers!’
PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...
Hunt rationing healthcare!
The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...
Greek conservatives build ‘front against populism’
The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...
Johnson Faces Calls To Resign
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...
Sri Lanka – Lives Of 100,000 Civilians Threatened
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG-T) said it has received credible information that Sri Lankan government forces are preparing for a final...
CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers
A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...
CUTS AND FORCED LABOUR! – UNISON slams Tory and Labour reforms
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday slammed the latest Tory and Labour attacks on disabled people and the unemployed. Tory leader Cameron announced a ‘big bold’...
2.7m people frightened of Universal Credit
A PAYMENT COUNCIL survey shows that more than 2.7 million people who are currently receiving benefits fear they will struggle when Universal Credit replaces...
Lifeline Convoy Sets Out For Gaza
British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...
PUT BLAIR ON TRIAL! – say parents of UK soldiers killed in Iraq
Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...
‘Don’t cut bursaries’ demand 500 nurses
‘DON’T cut bursaries!’ and ‘Jeremy Hunt, Shame on You!’ shouted a crowd of around 500 student nurses and supporters, both Unison and RCN members,...
Ert Workers Re-Employed!
THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved late on Tuesday a government Bill that re-establishes ERT, the state national tv and radio network. This is a vindication...
‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes
Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
‘SCANDALOUS’ 10.4% NPOWER HIKE – unions slam energy price rises
UNISON yesterday slammed Npower’s ‘scandalous’ 10.4% energy hike that will ‘bring misery to millions of households this winter’. While the TUC said that energy prices...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic
THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...
Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut
A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...
GPs are not gatekeepers, their place is in the communities
GPs have stressed that the best place for GPs to work is in their community, as opposed to working in hospital triage as first...
Hundreds more Gazans killed in hospitals and homes!
THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in...
Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back
The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...
‘DITCH THE PRIVATEERS’ – if you really love the NHS say BMA to Labour
Political leaders should ‘abandon pro-market policies’ and not just ‘love the NHS’, but look after it, said doctors’ leaders yesterday. The Chairman of the British...