Tag: england
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...
Inflation still outstripping pay – workers won’t be fooled says Unite...
‘DESPITE Tory claims that the cost-of-living crisis is coming to an end, the truth is that inflation (RPI) is still outstripping wage growth,’ Unite...
Tories Escalate War On NHS!
AS THE junior doctors ended their latest four-day strike at 7.00am yesterday morning, Tory Health Minister Will Quince kicked out at them and NHS...
Short-term contracts driving teachers out of the profession
THE EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) has warned that the increasing use of short-term contracts in Scottish schools is driving many newly qualified teachers...
Tories scrap 2 weeks cancer waiting times target – new boost...
THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...
Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis
THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend...
TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...
‘The Tories leave us no choice but to strike!’ – junior...
A FIFTH round of strike action by junior doctors in England begins this morning, from 7am today until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. There will...
British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the...
The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high...
DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...
Tories are now rushing to smash & privatise NHS!
THE TORY goverment is now rushing to privatise the NHS, by using all means that are available for the task including the use of...
TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer...
YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...
BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances...
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...
St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars
TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue...
At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...
Tories ‘blithely sailing NHS towards an iceberg!’
THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...
Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years...
THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...
Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the...
THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must...
YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...
TROUBLES BILL: ‘Provides a blueprint for letting state forces and other...
MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...
NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’
NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...
Junior doctors condemn PM Sunak for ‘trying to intimidate & bully...
AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...
Sunak wants to abolish university degrees that don’t churn out ‘high...
YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...
‘We’re in this for the long haul’ – insist NHS consultants...
CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...
Starmer’s Labour Would Not Spend Any More Money On ...
THE LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer appeared on the Laura Keunssberg Show on the BBC yesterday where he refused to say whether a Labour...
UCU is in dispute with 88 English College employers – ready...
ENGLAND’S biggest-ever strike ballot is on the cards, confirmed the University and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after it entered into dispute with 88 English...
All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!
PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...
Junior Doctors Are On Strike Today!
JUNIOR doctors in England begin five days of strike action at 7am this morning, until 7am next Tuesday morning. Strike leaders Dr Robert Laurenson and...
Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt...
ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...
Teachers Will March On Tory Party Conference!
TEACHERS will march on the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in early October, with all teaching unions on strike together at the time, to...
The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major...
THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...
‘We will strike for as long as it takes!’ – says...
‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...
Tories won’t address NHS pay and workforce crisis!
CLEARLY the Tory government is determined NOT to address the drastic workforce and pay crisis in the NHS which is at the centre of...
Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!
A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
Workers, the poor and pensioners are being starved to pay for...
A LANDMARK research study by the Trussel Trust has revealed the excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the working class, the middle...
Britain an economic ‘basket case’ – time to end capitalist crisis...
Yesterday, Roger Bootle, a senior advisor to Capital Economics, wrote in the Daily Telegraph an article headlined ‘Basket case Britain is back – and...
Empire Windrush II launches 75th anniversary celebration in Brixton!
Cresting through the paper waves and spraying water all over the toddlers and six year olds, teenagers and grannies the Empire Windrush (II), blew...
Mortgage holders and public sector workers to be hit and hit...
PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...
Junior Doctors Taking 5 Days Of Strike Action
JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes...
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...