Tag: britain
FBU condemns AssetCo’s ‘provocative manoeuvre’
‘AssetCo have taken 27 fire engines off station,’ London FBU official Ian Leahair told News Line. The private company AssetCo was awarded a 5-year...
Maternity and A&E departments being cut and closed
‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...
Union leaders are shocked by jobless figures!
Trade union leaders have been shocked by the latest jobless figures which saw a leap in part-time working and female and youth unemployment. Commenting on...
MEDICAL STUDENTS WILL BE FACING £100,000 DEBTS says BMA
Doctors’ leaders on Tuesday warned the government that increasing tuition fees could result in medical students facing a debt bill of potentially £100,000 –...
Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance –...
FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...
GMM Luton–decision within 6 weeks
A decision is to be made by GM within the next six weeks on whether the Luton GMM plant is to be closed in...
AFGHAN PUPPETS IN TALKS WITH TALEBAN ‘FOR SOME TIME’ says Karzai
AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai confirmed that his administration has been holding unofficial talks with the Taleban ‘for quite some time’. ‘We have been talking to...
BA strike ballot cancelled – BASSA website is blacked out
UNITE has cancelled its strike ballot of BA cabin crew stating that a new deal is now on the table, and the dispute could...
Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death
US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...
Currency War Prelude To Shooting War!
LEADERS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank came out yesterday with dire warnings about the emerging ‘currency war’. Speaking on the eve...
Defend pensions against Labour renegade Hutton
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has called for joint action to defend pensions against the proposals of Labour renegade Lord Hutton. Crow said: ‘It is...
THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes
FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...
Stop the great pensions robbery with a general strike
HUTTON, the Blairite currently doing the dirty work smashing up public sector pensions for Cameron and Osborne, has come up with no surprises. He...
NHS White Paper – ‘No Democratic Mandate!’ Says Unison!
The NHS white paper, which heralds the rapid privatisation of the health service, has no democratic mandate from the public, Unite said on Monday. Unite...
Taleban Offensive Actions On The Rise
THERE is no need for major changes in current Afghan strategy, US president Barack Obama told Congress according to a letter released by the...
Coalition To Use Prisoners To Cut Wages
PRISONERS will be forced to work 40 hours a week, Thatcherite veteran Clarke told the Tory Party conference yesterday. The Justice Minister...
CBI calls for more anti-union laws!
YESTERDAY the employers’ organisation, the CBI, was joined by Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, in demanding further laws to outlaw strike action against the...
Revolution – only way out for Ireland and Europe!
THE Irish Government’s guaranteeing 100 per cent of all banking deposits has resulted in the Irish state drowning in a bottomless pit of bail-outs....
‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP UNTIL WE WIN!’ –Lakhinder Saran tells...
TWO HUNDRED youth and workers took part in a rally and celebration of five years of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle in...
BMA ‘WHITE PAPER’ CRISIS! – ditches its unconditional support
THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...
PAKISTAN BLOCKS NATO ROUTE! –after US gunship kills three Pakistani soldiers
Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
UK unis ‘to be the most expensive in world’
Academics, students and community groups are celebrating a victory after University College London (UCL), one of the country’s leading institutions, agreed at last to...
Bectu Condemns ‘Massacre Of The Arts’
ARTS technicians’ union BECTU’S submission to parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, ahead of October’s Comprehensive Spending Review, predicts ‘conflict’ over savage cuts...
Forward with the European socialist revolution
YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...
Tortured Iraqis Seek Judicial Review!
FOLLOWING their previous threat of proceedings against the government, 34 Iraqi victims of hooding today issued judicial review proceedings against the government to challenge...
IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro
A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...
Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!
ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...
Chagos Fury – Over Cable Betrayal!
THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...
Olmert reveals the US agreed to ‘absorb’ 100,000 Palestinians – only...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that during his tenure as Premier he had reached an agreement with the United States for...
Deepening crisis means revolution in the UK and Ireland
THE amount of new public sector borrowing in the UK hit a record of £15.9bn for August. This is £1.8 billion higher than in...
THE RETREAT FROM SANGIN! – British army suffers major defeat
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have handed over responsibility for security in Sangin to US forces, marking the defeat of their four-year mission in...
Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses
THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...
No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope
TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...
Convoy Leaves For Gaza!
THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...
Pope Arrives To Organise Counter-Revolutionaries
THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...
Public sector must strike alongside the firefighters!
‘You want a war pal, you’ve picked on the wrong union and we’re going to take you on and you will not win,’ GMB...
‘White Paper Like Floating NHS On The Stock Exchange’
THE future of the NHS is at stake, delegates to the TUC conference in Manchester were warned in a debate on Tuesday. However, the TUC...
Essex FBU Gives Industrial Action Notice
As the TUC Congress kicked off in Manchester, the Fire Brigades Union on Monday issued lawful notice of the resumption of industrial action short...
Lesson from TUC is build the WRP NOW!
AFTER only two days of the annual TUC Congress the message is startlingly clear, the trade union and the working class movement stands at...
TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition
DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...
Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!
THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...
Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call
ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...
TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy
THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...
Tuc To Lobby Tories!
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned that the coalition’s cuts ‘not only threaten services but risk economic recovery’. He was speaking ahead of the...