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TENS of thousands of workers and youth congregated early yesterday morning in Athens at three pre-arranged points to enforce an encirclement of the Vouli...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

BY ANNA ATHOW, BMA COUNCIL, IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government is determined to push through the Health and Social Care Bill...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION WE are writing as a group of concerned doctors and we are also members of UK BMA Council. Next...

‘THE murderous NATO child killers are continuing their terror raids on Libyan civilians’. Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim, speaking in the city of Surman, west...

A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...

TAMIL youth activists in Britain took their ‘Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to the Lords cricket grounds on Saturday, the third day of the...

Age UK yesterday published a damning report, which shows the depth of the crisis in social care and its consequent human cost. The report ‘Care...

A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...

ON WEDNESDAY morning, at 9.00am, 15 NHS Direct Action and UK Uncut activists visited 2020health to protest against the think-tank’s role in lobbying...

THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...

Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...

SUPPORT is growing for an international, independent inquiry into the 2009 genocide against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Over 10,000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square...

THE South East London Cluster combines the PCTs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation trust is a large...

MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...

UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

CONSUMER Prices Index inflation rose from 4.0 per cent to 4.5 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reported yesterday. ‘It’s a...

The NUT ballot of members for national strike action in defence of teachers’ pensions commenced yesterday, and will close at midday on Tuesday June...

BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...

THE Tory Prime Minister Cameron and his LibDem Deputy Clegg visited the Olympic site in Stratford yesterday to spell out that the only future...

‘Cuts Kill – Kill the Cuts!’ shouted an over 5,000-strong march of disabled people, their carers and friends as they approached parliament on Wednesday. The...

CPI inflation is expected to hit 5% later this year due to higher energy and other utility bills that will continue rising by up...

Pakistani HUMAN rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar presented evidence from his pioneering lawsuits for victims of US drone attacks in Waziristan, Pakistan at a...

The Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill risks ‘unravelling and dismantling’ the NHS, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) warned yesterday. The competition running...

THE coalition with the Tories is proving to be the kiss of death for the LibDems. They are hated, and paying the price for...

THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...

UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...

Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...

In a report published today, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has warned that the reorganisation of the NHS in England could...

A bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees in Oklahoma’s largest cities is on its way to Republican Governor Mary Fallin’s...

THE Colombo High Court allowed on Wednesday an application by the accused Sarath Fonseka, retired Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), to reconsider...

THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...

‘UCU and Unison staff will resist all cuts to courses, jobs and provision at London Met by whatever means, including industrial action.’ University and College...

NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...

On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...

With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...

Prime minister Cameron has broken the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the NHS, both Labour and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have warned. Labour’s...

MANCHESTER Metropolitan University (MMU) is under fire after its security forcibly evicted staff members from picket lines across the university’s buildings on Thursday...

CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...

HOSPITAL doctors at the BMA Consultants Conference yesterday voted with just three against to ‘ballot the consultant membership regarding all forms of industrial action’...

TONY Brown, University and College Union (UCU) president at University College London (UCL), told News Line on the Gower Street picket line yesterday morning:...

THE UK CPI inflation rate rose to to 4.4% in February from the January figure of 4%, while the RPI inflation rate which includes...

INFLATION soared upwards last month, with the government’s preferred Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure rising to 4.4 per cent, up from 4 per cent...

NINETY-THREE per cent of college principals are concerned that the abolition of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) will lead to a devastating drop in...