Tag: education

The Independent Asylum Commission (IAC) on Thursday issued its interim report on its nationwide citizens review of the UK asylum system. In 2006 the then...

HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...

A ‘service reconfiguration’ for  Outer South East London Service is being proposed. Outer South East London comprises the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley....

AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...

TAMILNET has reported the call from South Africa expressing deep concern over the escalating violence in Sri Lanka, and calling for renewed negotiations...

THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut on Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honour of...

THE NUT conference has made it perfectly clear that teachers have had enough of the wage cutting and privatisation policies of the Brown government....

DELEGATES at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Manchester have called for action over pay, privatisation and teachers’ workload. During...

Teachers are heading for a conflict with the government over class sizes. The National Union of Teachers is to vote at its annual conference in...

Workers participated in their millions last Wednesday in the biggest one-day general strike in Greece. It was called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the...

Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in disarray, the human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity prevails,...

OVER 400 people attended the Chagos Islands Community Association rally in central London on Saturday evening, to demand the Chagossians’ right to return to...

All District General Hospitals in the South East London area are to be ‘radically overhauled’ with their Accident & Emergency facilities closed, according to...

In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...

BLACKSTONE, the world’s biggest private equity capitalist raider, has reported a collapse in its profits in the last three months...

PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...

‘No polyclinics! Save our surgeries!’ shouted over fifty Rugby GPs, medical staff and supporters during a town centre protest on Saturday. Carrying banners and wearing...

YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...

AN Israeli soldier was killed and another injured on Thursday during renewed clashes with Palestinian fighters near the Kisufim military post east of Al-Qarara...

TAMILNET reports that fatigue uniform clad armed men who came in a white van abducted a 16-year-old girl student last Monday night around 11.30...

RETROSPECTIVE changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) which originally passed into law in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants being forced...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said a report from the right-wing think tank Reform, has exposed the academy schools programme’s ‘real agenda’,...

There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...

WE are very sad to have to announce the death from lung cancer of Tony Hall, a very good friend of the News Line,...

Yesterday the government launched major attacks on workers and immigrants. Ministers announced plans to strip unemployed people of their benefits, force long term sick and...

THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...

Cuban President Fidel Castro on Monday delivered the following message announcing his resignation from the presidency. It said: ‘Message from the Commander in Chief ‘Dear compatriots: ‘Last...

UK military chiefs are screaming for more money to be spent on defence, as a desperate imperialism is driven to launch more wars for...

THE Tory Party has been driven to the brink of hysteria by the fact that the capitalist world banking system is on the brink...

AXED children’s theatre workers expressed outrage at Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham’s proclamation last Wednesday that ‘every schoolchild will get five hours of culture a...

‘The skyrocketing costs of our nation’s failing health care system are hitting employers hard and that means higher costs for all of us,’ says...

THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

THE leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, on 14 February warned Israel that it will respond to the killing the previous...

Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has proclaimed that the crisis of capitalism means huge ongoing cuts in the standard of...

Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

A HAMAS official on Tuesday renewed calls for a ceasefire amid mounting Israeli demands for a broad military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Writing in...

TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...

Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...

OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...

Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...

INITIAL reports say at least six Palestinians have been killed by the latest Israeli air strike on the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Several people...

UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

A 3,500-strong demonstration organised by the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) marked the 60th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka...