NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights groups
MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...
‘The Junior Doctors’ dispute is for all of us’ says TUC – however it...
‘THE junior doctors’ dispute is an issue for all of us,’ declared Unison delegate James Anthony moving Emergency Motion 5 Support for the BMA...
Labour planning ‘previously unthinkable’ NHS cuts!
THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...
Baha Mousa Atrocity!
‘THIS is torture by any definition of that word.’ That was the reaction of lawyer Phil Shiner, as he made public photographic and medical evidence...
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,’...
Occupy Chase Farm!
HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...
George Floyd murder trial begins ‘Whole world is watching’
‘GEORGE Floyd was living, breathing, walking and talking just fine until the police put him face down in handcuffs and put a knee on...
ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...
Ramsey Clark Warns Against Saddam ‘guilty’ Verdict
RAMSEY Clark, a former US attorney general who is one of Saddam Hussein’s lawyers, said on Thursday that any death sentence against the former...
‘We’re in this for the long haul’ – insist NHS consultants as they announce...
CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...
3-quarters of medium-rises use combustible material!
THREE-QUARTERS of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials, data show. These include 76 schools, 25 hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and older people’s...
Greek Youth Tv Takeover
Throughout Greece last Tuesday school and university students continued with demonstrations and occupations against the right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis. Virtually all schools and...
MANUFACTURING COLLAPSE – Nissan cuts production
Nissan announced a halt to production at its Sunderland plant for a fortnight and shorter working days for three weeks during October and November...
Food parcels for students – being considered at Exeter University
The National Union of Students has expressed concern over a huge increase in student hardship, with over 50 per cent of students working during...
Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda
The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...
‘You Have Right To Refuse To Work!’ – Aslef Advises Members
As London Underground ramps up services today, ASLEF has advised members of their right to refuse to work in circumstances where they are at...
Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members
UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
Warsi expenses row
TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...
UK unemployment soars to 5%
The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...
UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations!
ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...
Bma White Paper ‘Concerns’
THE BMA has been shocked and shaken by the resistance of its members to the Tory-LibDem NHS White Paper which seeks to make GPs...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
Greenford Bus Workers To Join Mass Picket
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...
250,000-strong London march for Palestine
OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...
Israeli Forces Severely Beat Palestinian
ISRAELI forces transferred a Palestinian man to a hospital after severely beating him in his house in Abu Shkheidim village, northwest of Ramallah,...
‘WE WANT TO BE EMPLOYED BY NHS!’ say 700 SERCO East London strikers
TODAY more than 700 SERCO cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters, who are in the middle of a week-long strike across four hospitals,...
TUC National Day of Action on March 15!
There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
Clashes outside the White House – as debt decision day looms
ANGRY crowds in Washington DC have clashed with riot police in front of the White House over the current government shutdown. A number of rallies...
30,000 March Against Cornish NHS Cuts
The organisers of the biggest demonstration so far in defence of the NHS, a huge 30,000-strong march against NHS cuts in Cornwall, yesterday slammed...
Spain held general strike against Israel’s genocide!
A day of protest was called on Friday, September 27, and a general strike took place across the whole of Spain in solidarity with...
Staffs Bed Closures – Lives At Risk!
‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...
End Taxpayer Bailouts Of Private Railways!
WITH services collapsing into chaos the RMT has demanded publication of contract documentation which shows that Northern Rail get paid whether they run services...
Vauxhall copter crash! – Emergency services save the day
Two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tall building under construction in Vauxhall,...
LANSLEY MUST GO! – BMA SRM told
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...
‘KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC SECTOR’ – but unions refuse to strike against privatisation
‘Today’s positive results are more compelling evidence of why Royal Mail should be kept in the public sector,’ CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward,...
26 College Principals received pay rises of over 10%
ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...
Students And Unions March Against Fees
TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...
Take Action To Increase Nurse Numbers!
TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...
‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!
GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...
BMA CONDEMNS SECOND CLASS PRIVATISED GPs!
Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...
SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors
THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...
Coalition cuts doctors and then turns away patients!
THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...
Labour Misses Targeted Councils
LABOUR failed to take targeted councils from the Tories in Thursday’s elections, including Wandsworth, Kensington & Chelsea, Swindon and Westminster. However it won back...
Nato Murders Gadaffi
COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...