KHAN CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – Corbyn only one of the options
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...
CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers
A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
JOHNSON PROPOSES HEALTH INSURANCE! – as Labour crisis deepens
the Brown government’s health insurance and ‘age-tax’ plans announced on Monday were condemned as privatisation and ‘a punishment for growing old’ yesterday. ‘Health insurance means...
‘We must keep Chase Farm open!’
THERE was a lively picket of at least 40 workers and youth, including sacked Visteon workers, organised by the North-East London Council of Action...
McCluskey surrenders! before a shot is even fired
ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...
Chase Farm NHS Must Not Close
Drivers honked their horns enthusiastically saluting the picket line outside Chase Farm hospital on day ten of the daily picket fighting to keep the...
Widespread Russian-Israeli cooperation revealed
‘WE BELIEVE that the blame for the Russian Il-20 aircraft tragedy lies entirely with the Israeli Air Force,’ Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General...
Surgeons Condemn Targets!
THE NHS must address the significant variations in care experienced by the 170,000 patients who have major emergency abdominal surgery each year, says a...
Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!
‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
Plans to axe thousands of doctors and nurses!
PLANS to axe thousands of nursing, doctor and NHS staff posts under the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) were revealed yesterday by the Health...
Student grants abolished!
GRANTS were abolished yesterday leaving hundreds of thousands of poorer students with a stark choice: either spend the rest of your life in debt,...
Osborne hammers poor!
CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...
Obama’s last-minute talks – US on the brink
WITH Congress adjourned for the weekend, US President Obama was holding last-minute talks with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House yesterday evening...
Celtic Flies Palestinian Flags
CELTIC FANS displayed Palestinian flags in a demonstration against Apartheid Israel last Wednesday night, 17th August, during the Celtic v Hapoel Be’er Sheva match. Campaigners...
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...
GPs SLAM ‘RISKY’ TORY PLANS – including floating GP practices on stock market
THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...
Police Drag Assange Out Of Embassy
WIKILEAKS co-founder Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday. In an unprecedented move the embassy allowed...
Tens of thousands of teachers strike – ‘We are defending education’
TENS of thousands of teachers across the North West took strike action yesterday. This was a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions’...
Junior Doctors Want Their Pay Restored!
‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...
Syria – nationwide ceasefire proposed
RUSSIA and Turkey have reached an agreement on a proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria from midnight, Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency...
‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson
‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...
‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay
Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...
UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report
The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
‘A TOTAL DECLARATION OF WAR’ – Nigerian unions slam doubling of fuel price
THE Nigerian trade unions have called for a mass mobilisation of ‘strikes, street demonstrations and mass protests across the country’ in response...
HEALTHCARE FOR THE RICH! – being provided by the Tory coalition
Labour has accused the government of cutting NHS spending in England in poorer areas and moving funds towards richer parts of the country, citing...
‘We’ll have the last word’ say Greek youth
THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students took part in militant anti-government and anti-police marches in all the major cities last Friday to commemorate...
LEBANESE REVOLUTION! – masses opposed to all sectarianism
HUNDREDS of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying...
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...
FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school
worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...
Prosecute George Floyd’s murderers – demand millions of workers across the world
‘WE SEND solidarity to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) members and support the AFT’s call for the US Justice Department to conduct a...
‘Social Housing Is Our Right’!
‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...
Ealing Week-Long Strike!
150 workers began a week-long strike at closure-threatened Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday against the privateer Medirest. The porters, catering and domestic workers, all...
Universal Credit Attack On Poor
UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...
‘ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE!’ – Duggan family slams cover-up
‘ANOTHER slap in the face!’ was the verdict of Pam Duggan in response to Tuesday’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report which cleared ...
‘CHOOSE FRESH POLICIES AND LEADERS’ – TGWU message for LP conference
THE TGWU trade union yesterday warned Blair and Brown that they were ignoring Labour voters ‘at their peril’. ‘Choose fresh policies and leaders’ was the...
Debt tsunami engulfing UK
A 'DEBT tsunami’ is set to engulf Britain, Labour MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy warned yesterday. Consumer magazine Which? has just issued its Quarterly Consumer...
Look For Jobs And Lose Your Homes!
Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith yesterday revived former Thatcher minister Tebbit’s savage ‘on your bike’ attack on the unemployed. Duncan Smith announced plans for...
Hands Off Our Hospitals!
ANY attempt to use a new ‘Ofsted-style’ hospital inspection regime to justify closure of any South-West London hospital will be ‘vigorously fought,’ leading local...
Arrest Factory Fire Culprits
THE National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) Bangladesh held a symbolic one-hour hunger strike last Friday and are taking continuous actions to establish garment workers...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm
St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire
THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...
‘WE ARE READY TO STRIKE!’ – UNISON’s Prentis warns Brown
‘I send this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...
‘Unfunded and unsafe!’ –BMA condemns Tory plan for 7 day working
DOCTORS will not sign up to the Tory government’s proposals for a seven-day-a-week, 24-hours-a-day NHS service because the plans are ‘unfunded, undefined’, ‘wholly unrealistic’...
UK’s Shrinking Economy!
THE UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last three months of last year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics...
Striking Bus Workers To Top Up Their Claim!
BUS workers are to increase their Olympic Games payment claim against the bus privateers and Transport for London (TfL), Unite declared yesterday. London buses will...