Tag: education
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
‘Total Showdown’ Nigerian Unions Call General Strike
TRADE Union leaders of Nigeria’s JNPSNC are telling members in public service, in all 36 states and in Abuja, to prepare for ‘total showdown’...
Parliament & Peterloo Exhibition
‘Parliament & Peterloo’
Exhibition in Westminster Hall between 4th July and 26th September 2019
THE Parliamentary Archives invites people to visit the ‘Parliament & Peterloo’ exhibition...
STOP SACKINGS AT ARCELORMITTAL says Solidarity SA
TRADE UNION Solidarity on Friday said that it regrets the retrenchment crisis at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), warning that if key players in the...
Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime...
TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...
Staffing crisis! Patients waiting for operations! STOP TORY NHS CUTS!
IN RESPONSE to the most recent NHS performance statistics and the political situation in which they are occurring, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) director...
Yemen Boosts Its Defences Against Saudi-Led Aggression
emeni Armed Forces have unveiled new domestically-built military hardware, including ballistic and winged missiles in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles, which they say will...
97% of teachers oppose SATs – National strike is looming
NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...
‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election
SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE! – Message from PALEXPO July 6th &...
THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the...
Executed victims of Daesh found in Raqqah mass graves!
SYRIAN officials have discovered mass graves containing the bodies of people executed by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the country’s northwestern...
Casualisation is shattering the mental and physical health of university staff
Staff in UK universities working on insecure contracts say the lack of security is damaging their mental and physical health.
A report released yesterday says...
Tories in a crisis over state attack on Corbyn
THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to...
US ‘deal of the century’ legitimises Israeli crimes against the Palestinian...
THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions is ‘perturbed’ by the US’s Middle East Peace Plan.
In a statement issued by COSATU national spokesperson Sizwe...
Day 16 of strike action against academisation
TEACHERS and pupils at The John Roan School in Greenwich took their 16th day of strike action to stop its privatisation.
The school is being...
Marseille Dockers Refuse To Load Arms On Ship For Saudi Arabia
IN THE French port of Marseille, dockers have been refusing to load French weapons which are thought to be heading to Saudi Arabia.
Following revelations...
SEND families take Tories to High Court over funding
PARENTS taking the government to court over SEND funding were cheered by a crowd of over 40 as they entered the High Court yesterday...
Palestine and Lebanon erupt as Bahrain conference opens ‘US conference is...
THE FUTURE of Palestine cannot be drawn up by the White House, Jared Kushner or anyone else, Palestinian presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh insisted in...
The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed...
IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...
GREECE GENERAL ELECTION JULY 7th –after 4 years of EU-imposed austerity...
A GENERAL election is to be held in Greece on Sunday 7th July with the right-wing New Democracy party seemingly heading for a comfortable...
Government Cuts Forcing Closure Of Children’s Hospices!
NHS and local council cuts are hitting lifeline care for seriously ill children, a survey of 27 children’s hospices in England carried out by...
‘What we are seeing is a naked, brutal form of capitalism’...
‘WHAT WE’RE seeing is really a naked brutal form of capitalism where people’s lives are expendable,’ says University of Western Cape Professor Ruth Hall...
Zane Gbangbola–tragically killed by Hydrogen Cyanide – implications for Grenfell toxicity...
News Line is pleased to reproduce a heartbreaking and moving account of a single family’s call for justice and their support for the families...
Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time...
THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony.
The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell.
On the...
‘INSULTING KICK IN THE TEETH FOR WINDRUSH GENERATION!’ –David Lammy MP...
AS A PARTING shot and final ‘kick in the teeth’ to the Windrush Generation, Theresa May has awarded a knighthood to the Home Office...
Sanders marches with McDonald’s workers in ‘Fight for $15’
VERMONT Senator Bernie Sanders marched alongside McDonald’s workers at a rally last Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He joined McDonald’s workers in the same way...
Childrens’ speech and language services slashed
SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre.
Rushcliffe...
US actions have throttled the Palestinian Authority politically and financially!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analyses, not least from...
GOVE ADMITS DRUG LAW-BREAKING! – as do six Tory leadership contenders
TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine.
The former Justice...
69 Universities Warned Rule Out Benefit Cuts Or Face ‘Wave Of...
UNIVERSITIES will find themselves prompting ‘a wave of industrial action across UK campuses’ later this year – unless they rule out benefit cuts or...
Burning of the US embassy in Honduras ‘a provocation’ says former...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations.
A group...
‘EU let thousands drown in Med’ – Lawyers submission to International...
THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...
‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a Tome of...
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...
Delivery riders unions are taking on gig economy employers
UNIONS representing delivery riders met at ITF (International Transport Federation) House in London to plan how to take on exploitative ‘gig economy’ employers, the...
May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must...
‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education.
The Augar...
Parents & children lobby Downing St
OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...
Poa Backing Corbyn
The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...
Notts College Industrial Action Ballot
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...
Sanders wins support from teachers and nurses to stand for presidency!
USA SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 presidential election, is gaining the support of nurses, teachers and...
Tsipras Calls General Election
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a general election for June 30 following the heavy defeat in last Sunday’s Euro elections of his...
President Assad visits ‘tunnel of death’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have visited one of the ‘tunnels of death’ which were dug by terrorists in Jobar neighbourhood, but...
70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years
A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
