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THE first thing about the McKinsey and Company report was that it was commissioned by the Brown government, at a great cost, and was...

‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...

Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...

A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...

Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned moves to allow a private company to take over the running of Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital in Huntingdon,...

WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...

RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...

‘Any further increase in university fees will be about as popular as the poll tax,’ says University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally...

Political leaders should ‘abandon pro-market policies’ and not just ‘love the NHS’, but look after it, said doctors’ leaders yesterday. The Chairman of the British...

‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

Postal workers were out on strike across London, Essex, Scotland and the West Midlands yesterday, the first of a number of days of strike...

UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...

JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt, in his last speech before retiring as Chief of Staff, did his best to open up a second front at...

The University and College Union (UCU) has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering into partnerships with private firms. This is after...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...

RMT leader Bob Crow yesterday called for the nationalisation of the occupied Vestas wind turbine factory at Newport, Isle of Wight. In their occupation statement...

Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack met fire crews across the East Midlands on Friday, to warn them about twin government threats...

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...

Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...

TOWER Hamlets College staff and students will demonstrate tomorrow, Tuesday July 7, outside the Board of Governors meeting, demanding: ‘No education cuts!’ The east London...

Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Liverpool on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for Motion 247 on ‘humanitarian crises in...

DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...

‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

THE OECD has warned that the British capitalist economy is the sick man of the capitalist world and is currently experiencing a record fall...

BRITISH capitalism is desperately cutting its coat according to its cloth as far as education is concerned. Deep in debt and risking state bankruptcy, the...

THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...

A SUCCESSFUL picket to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital took place outside the hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, attended by over 50...

THE voice of the NHS managers spoke up yesterday. The NHS Confederation reported ‘The health service in England won’t survive unchanged’. This is doublespeak, for...

A THOUSAND youth and workers marched through Enfield town centre on Saturday, shouting: ‘Stop the Closure! Defend Chase Farm!’ They were led by the North-East...

The British Medical Association (BMA) Consultants Conference on Wednesday voted to oppose government targets, NHS privatisation and to promote district general hospitals. Delegates at the...

The British Medical Association (BMA) on Monday launched a public campaign against the privatisation of the NHS. The BMA press statement said it is stepping...

WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...

THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...

IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday called for a public enquiry into the failings of London Metropolitan University (LMU) as students from the...

‘Gordon Brown is supporting Rajapakse and his genocide and murder of the Tamil people’, Loganathan said outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, where...

IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...

A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...

v‘We are meeting under the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system,’ Chair of Chingford ASLEF Bill Rogers told 150 workers and youth at...

TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...

A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...

APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...

The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that higher education could be brought to a standstill as the union announced that it is...