Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...
‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!
PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...
Leicester faces localised lock-down!
HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...
9-hour waits to transfer a patient into hospital! Huge crisis hits the NHS
Ambulance services are under ‘unprecedented pressure’ Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of the College of Paramedics said yesterday morning, with hand-over delays at a scale...
‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced
MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...
Thousands denied benefits now driven to food banks!
THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...
Over 10,000 workers & youth march to Trafalgar Square!
OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...
Labour in crisis after shock Runcorn defeat
REFORM UK’s shock win in Runcorn & Helsby has plunged Labour into crisis. Nigel Farage’s candidate Sarah Pochin snatched the seat by a mere six...
Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel
UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...
Racists driven off the streets!
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...
‘Forced out by company greed’ – Unite condemns BA mass sackings and wage cuts
A BLEAK day for staff ‘forced out by company greed’ will scar spiteful BA indefinitely the Unite union said yesterday, It added: ‘On the day...
NURSES UNDER PRESSURE TO WORK WITHOUT PPE – says RCN
NURSING staff in the UK are still under pressure to work without PPE and lack promised gowns. Over a third of nursing staff (34%) in...
AVIATION ABANDONED! – Unite’s Graham demands meeting with chancellor Sunak
THE UNITE trade union has hit out at the Johnson government for once again failing to recognise the impact of Covid restrictions on the...
Train companies ‘trouser £1.3bn’
THE TORIES have allowed train companies to ‘play the system’ collecting more than £1.3bn from the taxpayer for delayed services and passing only a...
Parliament reopens after Supreme Court ruling
‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...
Homeless Children Housed In Containers!
TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway
THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...
‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
DOWNING ST LAWBREAKERS – to be named by Civil Service boss Gray
SUE GRAY INTENDS TO NAME civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street. The senior civil servant will publish...
No demolition without our say so – Grenfell families
‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...
BMA condemns ‘patient list cleansing’
Over 300,000 patients have been stripped away from GP practices across England in the last year as part of what the BMA describes as...
Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN
‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...
‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
‘Corridor care seems to have become the norm’ says the RCN’s Patricia Marquis
‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...
REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association
THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...
Tories Ignore RCN Offer To Talk!
TORY Foreign Secretary James Cleverley yesterday rejected talks with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), whose members are coming out on strike this Thursday...
May Preparing Indicative Votes To Try & Smash Brexit
10 DOWNING Street is preparing to allow parliament to vote on seven alternative EU options next week amid their growing fears that PM May...
Maudsley & Royal Bethlem Hospital workers on their 3rd day of strike action!
FACILITIES staff are on the third day of their four-day strike action today at Maudsley and Royal Bethlem Hospitals. Lois Gyabi, striking GMB member, told...
Striking Consultants & Junior Doctors Picket
STRIKING consultants and junior doctors held mass pickets outside hospitals around the country yesterday in a show of strength in defence of the NHS...
Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest
A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...
TUC gives its full support to Sunak
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
‘TORIES WANT TO SUPPRESS THE UNIONS!’ says RMT leader Mick Lynch
‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...
‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children
THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
NHS – Unison Serves Strike Notice!
UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland. Phase 1 of the Unison...
UK unemployment surges! – while IFS predicts debt to GDP of 110%
THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...
‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell
SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...
15th GP dies of Covid Doctors demand NHS staff vaccination speed-up & condemn gap...
HIGHLY respected London GP Dr Augustine Obaro died from Covid-19 on New Year’s Day, becoming the 15th GP lost to the pandemic. Dr Obaro, who...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
Watson and Starmer move against Corbyn
DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...
Resident doctors fighting Labour attacks on the NHS!
RESIDENT doctors leaders declared their determination to defeat the Labour government’s continuing attacks on jobs and pay when they appeared on BBC Radio yesterday...
A further half a million will be in fuel poverty! warns shadow business secretary...
‘THERE is absolutely no question of the lights going out,’ Kwasi Kwarteng, Tory business secretary claimed yesterday He was making a statement after a number...