Tag: britain

Banks are relying on the taxpayer for £512 billion support this year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported yesterday. The parliamentary...

THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...

TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

RATIONING is denying many thousands of patients much-needed surgery, leaving them in excruciating, unnecessary pain as NHS trusts proscribe certain procedures in unofficial ‘local...

FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...

‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...

THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...

Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...

THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...

RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...

BP yesterday faced angry protesters – including Louisiana fishermen, Canadian Indians opposed to Tar Sands, and locked out UK construction workers – at its...

Officials in Doha have confirmed that Qatar is secretly supplying French-made ‘Milan’ anti-tank missiles to Libyan counter-revolutionaries in Benghazi, as part of the western...

OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...

THE announcement by the Coalition Government back in May 2010 that it would be ending the detention of children for immigration purposes was widely...

THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...

THE London Ambulance Service (LAS) announced yesterday that it plans to cut 890 jobs over the next five years. The LAS, which is making £53...

EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...

IT is reprehensible that neither the contractors nor BP seem to give a toss about these 430 workers who have been locked out but...

THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...

The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...

BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...

The following report was delivered by Nasim Ahmed to a Palestine Return Centre Workshop on Palestinian prisoners in London earlier this week. ‘I would...

Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...

Two international ‘contact groups’, one each to check Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fund-raising and arms purchases, were initiated by the US in...

THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...

Over 60 parents, children and their supporters from around the country staged a ‘Save Our Children’s Centres’ Mothers’ Day rally outside Downing...

‘NHS hospitals and their contents – including hundreds of thousands of beds, scanners, X-ray equipment, incubators, bedpans, syringes, operating theatre equipment, pacemakers, surgical instruments...

UNISON is holding a lunchtime demonstration outside the main entrance of Chase Farm Hospital between 12noon and 2pm today, as part of its All...

THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...

A LIVELY picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital took place on Tuesday, March 29. Beverley Stevens, a Unison support worker in Enfield...

Libyan government forces stopped the pro-imperialist assault on Muammar Gadaffi’s home town of Sirte and drove back the counter-revolutionary forces yesterday. A Pentagon spokesman in...

LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

IT is now crystal clear that the Nato airforces are in Libya to blast a way through the Libyan people, both fighters and civilians,...

500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...

OVER half a million trade unionists and youth from every town and city in Britain joined Saturday’s TUC march against the savage spending cuts....

TODAY’S march called by the TUC is a massive demonstration of the anger and hatred felt by the working class, whole sections of the...

Today’s massive London march against the coalition government will be the biggest since the two million-strong march against the Iraq war under the Blair...

MANCHESTER Metropolitan University (MMU) is under fire after its security forcibly evicted staff members from picket lines across the university’s buildings on Thursday...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...

‘AS we send this press release, Palestinian civilians across the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, are encountering extremely violent waves of state-sponsored oppression along...

IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...

CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...

THE Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi gave a televised address, live from his Tripoli’s compound of Bab al-Aziziyah on Tuesday night. The compound has already been...