Turned away from A&E!
GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...
RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...
Starmer ignores calls to resign
‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...
FURY OVER STARMER SACKING OF TARRY FOR JOINING RAIL PICKET! – McDonnell calls for...
SUPPORTING calls for a general strike, leading Labour MP John McDonnell said he supports ‘co-ordinated action’. He also condemned Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer...
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...
200,000 March For Victory To Palestine
A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...
Over 71,000 sofa surfing this Xmas!
‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...
Ford to axe 12,000 jobs across EU – UK job losses double to 3,100
FORD has almost doubled the amount of job losses to hit car workers in the UK; now as many as 3,100 face the sack...
Labour crashes to historic defeat in Welsh election!
MORE than a century of Labour dominance in Wales ended yesterday as the party crashed to a historic defeat in the Senedd election, losing...
‘We must come together to stop no-deal’ – says Labour leader Corbyn
‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...
Teachers at breaking point – over Covid restrictions
THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...
TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned
THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...
Burnham prepares massive budget cuts
LABOUR PM Burnham and his former Defence Secretary Chancellor John Healey have written a joint letter to Cabinet ministers telling them that their job...
Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year
THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...
Labour is to immediately recognise Palestinian state
LABOUR’S Manifesto declares that it will ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine.’ It adds that Labour will ‘Introduce a War Powers Act to ensure that...
Tories scrap Leeds leg of HS2 – trade unions must take action
THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’
NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...
Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories
‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...
Over 700 homeless have died
AS MANY AS 700 people died on the streets while homeless last year, official estimates show, and the number is in reality likely to...
‘INVESTIGATE CIVIL SERVICE!’ – demands McCluskey after state attack on Corbyn
UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil...
Watson rebukes non-social democrat Corbyn
THE DEPUTY leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson spoke to Andrew Marr’s BBC show on Sunday about diverting the party away from its...
Starmer announces an additional £15bn to defend British capitalism
Keir Starmer announced an additional £15bn in the defence investment plan which was published yesterday, and showed that UK defence spending will be £80bn...
Scores of Labour MPs are ditching Starmer!
THE NUMBER of Labour MPs calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit stood at 87 by late yesterday afternoon, including four ministers. Allies of...
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...
Hammond pledges to bring down no-deal Tories!
Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
Johnson not aiming for No Deal
BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership,...
McDonnell wants secret talks!
YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...
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...
Stop Israel’s Crimes Against The Palestinians Says PM!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the world should take a clear stand and do what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes...
Unite-Rolls Royce jobs deal – includes a 10% pay delay for 1 year
THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...
‘100,000 PCS MEMBERS TO STRIKE IN JANUARY!’ says Union leader Serwotka
‘COORDINATED’ public sector strike action will escalate significantly in January and continue right up until May, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned yesterday in...
EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’
EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...
Sharma refuses to sign petition to reopen Ealing paediatrics and maternity
EALING Southall Labour MP Varindra Sharma refused to sign the West London Council of Action petition to reopen maternity and paediatrics at Ealing Hospital...
Duncan Smith Condemns The May EU Elections!
FORMER Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith called for Prime Minister Theresa May to quit before the European elections in May. Appearing on Sky’s Sophy...
Doctors defy Starmer’s ‘48 hours to call off strike’ threat
THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...
British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...
Truss to proceed with Budget & Benefit cuts for the poor!
AS THE Tory Party Conference began in Birmingham yesterday PM Truss boasted that she means to proceed from last week’s huge tax cuts for...
Tories step up war on the unemployed – new callous sanctions regime
JOHNSON’S Tory government have stepped up their war on the unemployed ratcheting up the sanctions regime, which leaves some of the most vulnerable people...
‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs
A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...
Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...
LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
MAYHEM THIS WEEKEND Winter flu epidemic creating hospital chaos–SAM
AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...