Tag: britain

THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...

The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...

THE US has laid down the law to the Tory government that the UK must stay in the EU and keep its Trident...

PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...

THE GREAT gold rush has begun! Gold surged 5% on Thursday to a five-year high as plummeting world markets have driven investors to search...

HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...

OVER 1,750 support staff working in UK state-funded schools responded to a questionnaire stating that they are ‘overworked, underpaid and taken for granted’, the...

‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...

A HIGHER nurse-to-patient ratio is linked to a reduced risk of inpatient death, finds a study of staffing levels in NHS hospitals, published in...

TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...

DEPUTY Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said Syria is ready to go for a Syrian-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions and will...

YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

WESTERN leaders and their allies have opened a donor conference in London with an urgent plea for billions of pounds in aid for refugees...

1,300 IRISH bus drivers working for Bus Éireann have returned a massive 94% ‘YES’ vote for strike action to defend their pay and conditions,...

JUNIOR doctors are to take strike action on February 10th after rejecting the government’s proposals in negotiations, where the government was represented by NHS...

A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...

ANGRY GPs on Saturday voted for action over underfunding and a workload that threatens patient safety and their own health. But at the start of...

LABOUR and the RCN have reacted angrily to instruction from NHS bosses and regulators to impose a ‘headcount reduction’ to reduce their deficits...

‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

THE Tory government’s flagship Bedroom Tax was delivered a ‘massive blow’ yesterday when Court of Appeal judges declared it to be ‘discriminatory’. The judges’...

‘FIRE deaths in Merseyside have doubled in the past five years,’ Merseyside firefighters warned yesterday as further savage cuts are planned to their service. Merseyside...

LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

VICE President Joe Biden said on Saturday that if upcoming negotiations fail and no political solution to the civil war in Syria is possible,...

AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...

CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...

THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...

THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...

ALMOST none of the 230 Tamil political prisoners currently languishing inside Colombo prisons had command responsibilities in the Tamil Tigers or even contributed...

THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...

THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...

THE number of struggling families sending their children to school hungry has increased over the past year, according to a poll of almost 900...

THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...

SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...

SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...

YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...

THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...