Tag: england
BofE keeps interest rates at record level and promises further rises!
AS WIDELY predicted, the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday voted to hold the UK key base interest rate at 5.25% while...
PAC report into emergency care ‘should concentrate government minds’ – BMA
THE HOUSE of Commons PAC (Public Accounts Committee) report into emergency care should ‘concentrate minds’ in government, says the BMA. Responding to Wednesday’s PAC report...
Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick...
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...
US prohibited Ukraine from negotiating peace with Russia – says former...
THE UNITED STATES prohibited Ukraine from conducting peace negotiations with Russia in March 2022, Germany’s former chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder has claimed. Schroeder said in an...
Inflation here to stay and global banking system faces collapse
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that...
The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the...
UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...
Politicians have been ‘too squeamish’ to take action on immigration –...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire for her speech to the party conference viciously attacking refugees. She told the Tory faithful that...
PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The...
THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...
STOP PRIVATISING THE NHS! say BMA and Unite strikers
BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity...
Striking Doctors Besiege Tories In Manchester
STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...
TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!
The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels: issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...
Capitalism is crashing and must be replaced by a socialist revolution!
THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...
Visa-free travel between US and Israel – ADC movement files lawsuit...
THE BIDEN administration has formally included Israel in the US Visa Waiver Programme. This decision has ignited a heated debate surrounding issues of discrimination, American...
Banfield urges Tories –‘No more excuses – make credible offer!’
WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...
Local councils £3.5bn financial hole Tories are demanding savage cuts –...
LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...
Burnham threatens legal action over HS2 rail link
LABOUR’s Andy Burnham has said he will consider taking legal action if the government abandons plans for building the HS2 rail link in northern...
Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war...
ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...
University pickets call for a general strike!
Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...
Time To Disband The Police As Met Gunmen Hand Back Their...
SCOTLAND YARD’S firearms command has hit the rocks with their police gunmen refusing to do their duty and carry their firearms against ‘enemies of...
Met police officer charged with murder of Chris Kaba – ...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Wednesday that the Metropolitan Police Officer who shot Chris Kaba is being charged with murder. Chris Kaba, 24,...
Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation...
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...
Bank of England votes 5-4 to keep interest rates at 5.25%
UK interest rates have been left unchanged after the Bank of England said price rises were slowing faster than expected. Interest rates were held at...
Trade Unions Must Defend The Nurses Right To Strike By Calling...
AS LONG AGO AS LAST FEBRUARY, the Regulatory Policy Committee’s report on the Tory proposed anti-strike legislation found the government had not fully assessed...
Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war...
IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...
TUC calls for Israeli boycott but sets no date for action
TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...
TUC – call a general strike now to smash the Strikes...
THERE was a powerful Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Conference in Liverpool on Monday morning, where delegate after delegate...
Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!
THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...
‘Strike together against anti-union laws!’
INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...
UAW at US ‘big three’ motor companies set to strike...
The United Auto workers union (UAW) says that its 146,000 members at the so called ‘big three’ motor companies – General Motors, Ford and...
13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out...
At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Charge cop who killed Chris Kaba ‘without delay’ – parents demand...
PARENTS of Chris Kaba, who was shot dead by police in south London a year ago today, said yesterday that they need to hear...
Sunak halved school rebuilding budget!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...
Unsafe schools set to collapse! Pupils and teachers are in danger...
YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by...
Consultants, Junior Doctors and rail workers are in struggle. TUC must...
THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will...
Criminal Police Officers To Face Automatic Sackings!
POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers...
26 College Principals received pay rises of over 10%
ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...
Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and...
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...
CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!
CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...
Now The Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Defend The...
NHS CONSULTANTS in England today begin two more days of industrial action, and have announced further strike dates in October, demonstrating their commitment to...
CONSULTANTS 2 DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION! – and further action to...
CONSULTANTS in England are holding two more days of strike action today and tomorrow, demonstrating their commitment to fix consultants’ pay in order to...
Family Of Kelso Cochrane Demand Access To Police File On His...
THE FAMILY of a black man murdered in 1959 is demanding access to the police file on his unsolved killing, said the radio documentary,...
UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis
THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...
The only way to ‘fix’ capitalism is to overthrow it and...
THE euphoria over figures released this week that the UK inflation rate in July had dropped to 6.8%, meaning that prices were shooting up...
‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs
A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...
Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp...
INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...