Tag: britain
Ruling class moves to try to restore order
THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...
NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation
Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...
Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad
WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...
‘The Zionist Project Is Coming To An End – We Are...
‘The Zionist project is coming to an end; we are freeing Palestine inch by inch, foot by foot,’ a defiant Hamas representative told a...
UK STOP STARVING THE PALESTINIANS – Recognise the Hamas government!
Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories. Thousands...
VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers
Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the...
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
‘DON’T DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OVERSEAS DOCTORS’ – BMA tells trust bosses
The British Medical Association (BMA) last Wednesday, raised that overseas doctors are experiencing discrimination as a result of new immigration restrictions. Since last month, NHS...
Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!
VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...
TAKE ON GM! – urges ATUA National Secretary
The 900 Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers told yesterday they are being sacked in August have been abandoned by their trade union leaders and the...
German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – UNISON slams NHS Direct job cuts
THE sacking of nearly 800 staff was announced yesterday at NHS Direct – the NHS helpline created by the Blair government in 1997. The mass...
One Day Under The US/UK Occupation
BETWEEN 1300 and 2000 gmt on Sunday 14 May, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah Television in Arabic reported on ‘a new setback’ in the security situation...
Chavez Visit Poses World Revolution
THE visit of the left bourgeois nationalist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to Europe is much appreciated, and is...
Cwu Strike Notice
Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward have written to every member of the union informing them that the leadership is...
Stena Plan For Cheap Labour Crews
The proposal by Stena Line to introduce a low-waged Polish crew on their Stena Seatrader ferry on the Dublin/Holyhead route from next July was...
Two British Troops Killed By Basra Ied
Two British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment were killed near Basra, southern Iraq on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
Nurses Call For National Strike Action To Defend The NHS
NURSES and other National Health Service workers called for national strike action from all unions to defend the NHS last Thursday. RCN and UNISON health...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS faces 430 jobs axe
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday announced plans to axe 430 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving £84m in the...
‘MUCH OF THE PRESENT CRISIS IS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S OWN MAKING’...
The UK’s midwifery service is facing crisis point, the General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives warned the Blair government on Wednesday. ‘With midwifery...
Take Action To Defend The NHS! Statement By The All...
THE government is cutting more than £1bn from NHS hospitals. All over the country, trusts are cutting staff, beds, operating theatres and services. The result...
Putin Warns Usa Of Dangers In Attacking Iran
IN his ‘Address to the Nation’ last Wednesday, the Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin, was forced to deal with the fact that Nato is...
‘We don’t know the wickedness being done by our government’ –...
‘MY demonstration continues,’ said Brian Haw on Monday, after three Court of Appeal judges ruled in favour of the government and the chief of...
WE’LL STRIKE ON PENSIONS! say the rail trade unions
TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...
I’m Staying Put Says Brian Haw
‘I’M NOT going to be shut up. I want the whole people of Britain to raise their voice against this,’ said peace campaigner...
UAW President calls for national health insurance
RON GETTELFINGER the president of the UAW, auto workers trade union has urged that the US must adopt a national insurance system to provide...
Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run
SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
BROWN PROPS UP BLAIR! – while Byers warns against ‘forced removal’
Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday refused to call for prime minister Blair to set a date for his departure. Brown expressed his fears about the situation,...
Clarke Sacked – Refuses Other Job
One of the most senior figures in government, an unwilling Charles Clarke was yesterday sacked as home secretary in the biggest cabinet reshuffle of...
Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits
THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...
‘Robbing the dead and the dying’
Relatives and widows of the thousands of men who died from asbestos-related cancer, yesterday expressed their determination to fight on after the Law Lords...
Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley
‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...
IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT RUBBISH, TO BE USED AND THROWN OUT –...
OVER 25,000 refugees, workers and youth marched through the centre of Paris on Saturday, demanding, ‘Withdraw the CESEDA’! and ‘Immigrants are not disposable like...
Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change
MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...
Blair gang runs out of spin
THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...
VICTORY TO THE GATE GOURMET LOCKED-OUT WORKERS – reinstate their hardship...
ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 760 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their...
Fight Barking NHS Jobs Massacre!
THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...
‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers
THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
Milford Hospital Is Set To Close
The Board of Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust (PCT) in Surrey held an ‘extraordinary meeting’ yesterday where it decided to close Milford Hospital...
‘TONY BLAIR SAID HE WOULD SEE ME ONLY IF I GAVE...
OVER 100 bereaved relatives whose loved ones have been killed in the illegal war and occupation of Iraq were joined by MPs, peace campaigners...
HAMAS WILL NOT RECOGNISE ISRAEL – ‘whatever the pressure’
Palestinian national resistance movement, Hamas, insisted on Tuesday that it will not recognise the Israeli occupation whatever pressures are placed on the Hamas-led government. Speaking...
Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...
‘MARCH WITH US ON MAY DAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...
‘SKATING ON THIN ICE!’ – RCN warns Blair on NHS while...
Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...