Tag: budget
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced...
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...
Biden trip seeks to obliterate Palestinian cause
THE Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned US President Joe Biden’s forthcoming visit to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, as being...
RMT joins striking barristers outside Old Bailey
STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...
Police violently attack Ecuadorian protesters
THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...
Ecuador general strike defies state of emergency
FOR over a week now, farmers, students, workers, and transporters continue to join the national strike called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of...
DESPERATE STATE OF CARE PROVISION IN UK –a catalogue of unmet...
PEOPLE with care needs are having to turn down support packages because they cannot afford them. Backdated bills for care arrive without any explanation of...
‘The political people … have delivered incompetence and indifference towards us’...
FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...
Equity Phoenix victory after Leeds demonstration
FOLLOWING performers’ union Equity’s demonstration outside the Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds on Monday morning to demand that the contemporary dance company reverse their decision to lay...
NEW ECONOMIC CRASH WILL DWARF 2008! – warn 58 economists
A GROUP of economists issued an open letter yesterday warning that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s planned financial deregulation bill will lead to an economic...
Tories Exacerbate NHS Crisis In ‘Urgent Care’ To Rush In Their...
‘THIS Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS,’ warned Alastair McLellan, the editor of Health Service Journal (HSJ), in a leading...
Labour Calls For An Emergency Budget!
LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...
Australian government planning wage-cutting anti-worker legislation
AUSTRALIA’S Prime Minister Scott Morrison used the cover of the Easter long weekend to announce his government’s plan, if re-elected, to bring in anti-worker...
Johnson and Sunak are criminals – kick them out along with...
PM JOHNSON made it clear on Tuesday night that he has no intention of resigning despite the fact that he has become the first...
Tory 2-3% pay offer ‘an insult’ – civil servants’ ‘outrage has...
THE government pay policy to limit civil service pay rises to two to three per cent, announced on Thursday, is an insult to PCS...
Sunak’s Spring Statement reinforces Tory war to make workers pay for...
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak opened his Spring budget statement with a naked appeal for the nation to ‘pull together’ and that the nation should...
‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK...
‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...
The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise...
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...
German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the...
THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis to organise a new...
PM Boris Johnson is now fighting on two fronts. At home, against the Metropolitan Police inquiry into his law-breaking, and the demand that he be...
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE – FBU responds to the latest...
Responding to the latest State of Fire report announced by the chief inspector of fire and rescue services Sir Tom Winsor, the Fire Brigades...
Clover Workers Escalate Strike Action!
THE STRIKE at South African dairy giant Clover, that started on 22 November last year, has brought together unions, political parties, civic organisations and...
Nationalise all bus networks – demands TUC
The TUC responded on Thursday to cuts to bus routes by privateers set to be implemented across the country calling for all bus networks...
Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations...
THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
1,500 Greek Hospital Workers March In Athens
SOME 1,500 hospital workers and doctors, along with delegations from public and private sector trade unions and university students, staged a militant rally and...
Disabled angry at Grenfell ‘safety advisor’ appointment – ‘legitimised a discriminatory...
DISABLED Grenfell campaigners are shocked and outraged at the reappointment of the very same firm that wrote fire safety guidance before the Grenfell Tower...
Palestinian prisoners boycott Israeli military courts
HUNDREDS of Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails have been boycotting the regime’s military courts for 16 consecutive days now, in protest against Israel’s...
British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis –...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...
Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with...
US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...
London fire service facing ‘unprecedented’ staff shortages
Rising Covid cases have left London fire and rescue with ‘unprecedented’ staff shortages, meaning that up to a third of London’s fire engines have...
Bring LT cleaners back in-house
AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...
Govia Must Be Stripped Of All Franchises Says RMT!
GOVIA must be stripped of all franchises and a wider review launched says RMT as the ‘fatally compromised’ review into Southeastern Rail Franchise finds...
G15 service charge strike after 500% hike
RESIDENTS of G15 housing association are going ‘on strike’ and refusing to pay service charge bill increases in response to their monthly payments having...
Education spending cuts ‘without precedent’ in post-war UK history – Institute...
‘The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school...
Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the...
THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...
Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections...
EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...
RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working...
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...
Huge Tax Cuts For The Bosses – In Sunak’s War Against...
‘FAMILIES hit by the cost of living crisis, business hit by a supply chain crisis, those who rely on our schools and our hospitals,...
Sunak Budget – tax cuts for banks and corporations – poverty...
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled the government’s spending plans in a budget he billed as preparing the country for a new ‘age of...
RMT to strike during COP26! The trade unions must follow RMT...
STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...
Iran’s response will shock Israel – warns Shamkhani – after Israel...
IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...
Failure To Invest Will Mean Disaster For NHS, Says RCN!
‘FAILURE to invest more now to tackle the nursing workforce crisis will mean disaster for the health and care services this winter,’ the Royal...
US economy has crashed into recession – time to put capitalism...
THE US, the most powerful economy in the world, has already crashed into a recession that will shatter the capitalist world. This is the inescapable...
Value Engineering Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry A new play...
Value Engineering Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry
By Richard Norton-Taylor
Produced and directed by Nicolas Kent
The Tabernacle
Powis Square, London W11
13 October-13 November 2021
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
16 November-
20...
Tory war against GPs must be answered by the entire working...
THE TORY government has launched a vicious war against GPs. 778 GP surgeries have closed in the last eight years alone, forcing patients to move...