Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!
THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
TORIES PLAY RACE CARD – as Queen’s Speech lashes workers
VICIOUS attacks on workers, especially immigrant workers, were at the centre of the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s Queen’s Speech delivered at the State...
£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils
THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...
Labour supporting ‘Free Schools’ and benefit cuts!
LABOUR yesterday delivered another stab in the back to workers, when two of its newly promoted shadow ministers hit out at the working class. Shadow...
Johnson blasts ‘gloomsters’
THE NEW PM Boris Johnson, making his first speech outside the doors of 10 Downing Street yesterday at 4pm, denounced the ‘pessimists at home...
Don’t bully GPs – BMA warns Tories
THE BMA has responded angrily to threats to GPs issued by the government’s new Chief Inspector of Primary Care, Professor Steve Field, who takes...
Trump-Putin To Discuss Crisis In Syria
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the start of a G20 summit in...
Safety Case Is Proven!
THIS is the CCTV image – produced in court this week – which shows that Southern railways is wrong when it says driver-only operation...
Inflation Leap Slashes Wages & Pensions
‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...
Ferguson youth defy curfew
ANGRY workers and youth defied Saturday night’s midnight-5am curfew imposed in Ferguson, Missouri, where unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot dead by police...
Strip Capita!
A DEVASTATING ‘blunder’ that saw 160,000 patient records wrongly archived is the latest unacceptable failing from Capita, doctors union BMA (British Medical Association) said...
TUC–call a general strike! – demands YS lobby
‘TUC get off your knees! Call a general strike!’ shouted an enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby of the first day of the TUC Congress in...
30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament
SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...
Junior Doctors marching today
THOUSANDS of junior doctors will take to the streets of London today in protest at the imposed changes to their contracts. The rally today in...
EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013
THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones
A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...
‘We want to abolish poverty!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell
SPEAKING in Birmingham yesterday morning, Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: ‘On Tuesday a new Shelter report found 135,000 children will be without a...
‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E
NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...
STOP HUGE PROFITS FROM NHS! – urges BMA as more cuts are revealed
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday hit out at the ‘huge profits being made by private companies providing NHS services’. This followed the revelation that...
Uber drivers descend on High Court
HUNDREDS of Uber drivers descended on the Royal Court of Justice yesterday as Uber appealed once more, attempting to overturn the historic landmark ruling...
Tory Plans Require ‘Cuts Of Tens And Tens Of Billions’ Says Ifs
THERE was incredulity yesterday when Cameron declared the Tories are ‘the party of working people’, adding that the ‘good news in the economy’ was...
Housing Benefit Tenants Being Turned Away
LETTING agents are discriminating against tenants on housing benefit, an undercover investigation has found. Shelter and the National Housing Federation found one-in-ten agents in England...
NHS workers vote to strike
UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...
70,000 jobless rise!
YOUTH unemployment has risen by another 20,000 to very nearly one million, according to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. The number...
Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31
THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...
‘Down With Left Austerity’
TENS of thousands of workers, youth, students and professionals demonstrated on May Day in over 80 Greek cities and towns. In all marches, the...
OECD contracts – slump deepening – as Iberia workers battle riot police!
FOLLOWING Monday’s report that the eurozone contracted by 0.6% in the last three months of 2012, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
Three-Day General Strike In Turkey
AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...
Radiographers on the March!
RADIOGRAPHERS across the UK were on strike yesterday for the first time in more than 30 years in an escalating struggle over the Tory...
Riot Police Attack Sacked Greek Cleaners
A SQUAD of Greek armed riot police on Tuesday morning attacked the sacked women cleaners who were blockading the entrance into one of the...
‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT
‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...
End occupation – endorse Palestinian state
‘THIS YEAR marks 100 years since the Balfour Declaration when a British Foreign Secretary promised the land of Palestine to the Jewish people, my...
18-59% food prices hike!
The price of staple foods has shot up by between 18 and 59 per cent over the past three years, as world supply problems...
Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet
BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...
Private companies are screening GP referrals
PRIVATE companies are acting as a barrier between GPs and the NHS, putting patients’ lives at risk. Millions of pounds are being spent on privately-run...
No Surrender Says Sirte
THE Libyan government’s Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim has scornfully rejected a ‘rebel’ ultimatum to surrender or face an all-out military assault on the city...
Junior Doctors Strike Ballot Makes Hunt Think Again!
THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...
NHS Being Driven Backwards
The Royal College of Nursing yesterday called for a halt to the closure of hospital beds until trusts can clearly demonstrate that alternative, tried...
SLUMP DEEPENS –Coalition vows to continue permanent austerity
THE SLUMP deepened dramatically in the UK in the year’s second quarter. Official figures showed yesterday that output fell by a startling 0.7% between...
£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!
A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...
Tories stripping MS sufferers of mobility
THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...
20% Vat Disaster!
‘The VAT increase to 20 per cent, price rises and low wages are the ingredients for a disaster in the making for millions of...
‘WE WON’T BE BULLIED’ –say Glasgow City Council strikers
AS Primary schools and nurseries across Glasgow stayed closed on the second day of the massive 8,000-strong 48-hour equal pay strike yesterday, the SNP-run...
Tens of thousands strike in north of Ireland!
THE north of Ireland was yesterday gripped by a 24-hour general strike by health, education, transport and civil service workers protesting against job...
NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!
A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...