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LAST Friday, at the NATO summit, the outgoing US Defence Secretary Bill Gates flayed NATO savagely and ridiculed the military alliance, threatening that the...

The NHS faces a crunch week, says the Unite union. It has issued a statement saying prime minister Cameron’s pledges on the health service were...

WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...

THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...

OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...

UNIONS have reacted angrily following the Tory-LibDem Coalition government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable’s threat to ban strikes. Cable accepted an invitation from GMB General Secretary...

DELEGATES at the GMB conference in Brighton booed and jeered Business Secretary Cable yesterday as he threatened to bring in new anti-union laws to...

ELEVEN Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians stormed the occupied Golan Heights and demonstrators...

TAMIL youth activists in Britain took their ‘Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to the Lords cricket grounds on Saturday, the third day of the...

THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...

Tens of thousands of babies will be vaccinated as part of a strategy to fight the resurgence of the deadly respiratory disease Tuberculosis (TB)...

UNISON yesterday called on the government to end the public sector pay freeze, set to stretch for another two years for local government workers...

NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...

HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...

A STORM of anger has erupted following the broadcast of Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama programme, which revealed terrible abuse of vulnerable adults at a...

WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...

Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...

Age UK yesterday published a damning report, which shows the depth of the crisis in social care and its consequent human cost. The report ‘Care...

A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...

It emerged yesterday that the UK is training Saudi Army troops who are being used to suppress demonstrators against the feudal ...

AT the Group of 8 meeting (G8) of the largest industrialised nations, the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy voted for regime change in Libya and then...

AFTER initial hesitation, and no doubt after a talking to by President Obama, and after President Sarkozy jumped the gun with his announcement, the...

THE Libyan prime minister gave an hour and 55 minute-long news conference relayed by Al-Jamahiriyah TV at 11.35 gmt last Thursday. Al-Mahmudi said...

US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...

ON WEDNESDAY morning, at 9.00am, 15 NHS Direct Action and UK Uncut activists visited 2020health to protest against the think-tank’s role in lobbying...

THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...

TamilNet reports that uprooted Tamils in Champoor, whose lands were taken away by the Sri Lankan government for India’s thermal power project, depopulating the...

FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...

TWO million workers in the UK are joining together to fend off savage attacks on working people and their families. That was the message from...

Yesterday’s announcement of 1,500 job cuts by Tata Steel in mills in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Hartlepool, is a ‘devastating blow’, the GMB union said. Keith...

SUPPORT is growing for an international, independent inquiry into the 2009 genocide against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Over 10,000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square...

THE South East London Cluster combines the PCTs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation trust is a large...

MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow yesterday responded to the McNulty review of the UK privatised railway system by pointing the finger at privatisation as...

BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER THE destruction of NHS hospital care continues in London with the NORTH WEST LONDON CLUSTER. This includes Primary Care Trusts...

UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

OFFICIAL unemployment figures released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday, revealed that nearly two-and-a-half million people remain unemployed, one million of them youth. The...

THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...

CONSUMER Prices Index inflation rose from 4.0 per cent to 4.5 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reported yesterday. ‘It’s a...

BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...

THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...

Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...

UK Chief of General Staff, General Sir David Richards has called for an easing of restrictions on NATO targets to allow the bombing of...

THE NATO war that was supposedly being waged to defend Libyan civilians must be stepped up and Libya’s infrastructure destroyed if Colonel Gadaffi is...

THE Tory Prime Minister Cameron and his LibDem Deputy Clegg visited the Olympic site in Stratford yesterday to spell out that the only future...