Tag: britain

UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU has warned of ‘chaos on campus’ as a nationwide strike is looming in response to a full frontal attack on...

TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...

PATIENTS suffering from serious conditions, requiring hip or knee replacements, hernias repaired and cataracts removed, all considered ‘non-urgent surgery’, have been told that they...

THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...

PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...

‘MINISTERS are colluding in a growing scandal. Their promises about Grenfell, about new council homes, and action on safety are proving hollow,’ said Eileen...

PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...

IN 21st century Britain, in the richest borough in London, working class children are being diagnosed with diseases and ailments that belong in the...

‘THE WORLD’S first socialist revolution when the working class took power is showing us the way forward today,’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Frank...

AFTER the defeat of the imperialist powers and their terrorist proxies in Syria, the US, the other imperialist powers, and their Saudi-led allies are...

OVER 300 workers and youth attended Sunday afternoon’s WRP-YS celebration of the Centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution. Opening the rally the Secretary of the...

THE rally this Sunday will not just celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It will be a clarion call for workers to...

AT THE BMA Local Medical Committees (England) conference yesterday, GPs voted against a proposal to allow privatised GP services in England. The motion stated:...

THE BREXIT-supporting minister for disabled people, Penny Mordaunt, yesterday was promoted to International Development Secretary by PM May replacing Israeli backed Priti...

THE UNION representing 12,000 striking Ontario college faculty called on Tuesday for its members to reject their employers’ latest contract offer in a ballot...

THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...

ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...

PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s senior adviser Wilbur Ross has just addressed the CBI bosses and given that body its orders as to what it must...

ON HER return to the UK after her secret visit to Israel, Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, asked her department...

THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a boost to Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt and business secretary Sajid Javid during his speech at the CBI...

OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...

AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...

‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...

THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...

TORY Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, resigned his cabinet post on Wednesday, admitting that his behaviour had ‘fallen below the high standards required’ of a...

THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday raised interest rates for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate...

ON THE hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration more than 60 leading British personalities signed the Balfour Centenary Declaration launched in London on Tuesday...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...

‘WE have an NHS and maternity service that is heading for a crisis and the government’s policies are clearly failing,’ the leader of the...

IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said yesterday that Palestine is still waiting for the US Administration to submit its ideas and plan for achieving...

THE NUMBER of firefighters has been cut by nearly a quarter over the past decade, a newly released Home Office report has shockingly revealed...

CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...

THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...

MORE than a thousand parents, teachers, heads and support staff converged on Westminster on Tuesday to lobby MPs on school funding. Shadow education secretary Angela...

IT has become crystal clear that the Universal Credit system equals universal misery for the growing masses of the working poor in the UK. As...

ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

A PALESTINIAN prisoner in Israeli jails has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 12 consecutive days to protest over his administrative detention...

‘WE are going through our potential financial commitments line by line,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in a statement to Parliament yesterday afternoon about...

AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...

AS IS to be expected the Labour leadership has been unable to hold fast to the Corbyn line that the party will support Brexit....

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) will walk out on strike on Monday and Tuesday against moves by the university to sack...