Tag: england
Free Palestine – End The Occupation
OVER 20,000 youth, trade unionists and solidarity activists marched through central London on Saturday demanding ‘End the occupation – free Palestine!’ on the...
NHS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER MUST RESIGN NOW! – demands BMA consultants...
ANGER over the junior doctors training debacle saw hospital consultants on Wednesday demand the ‘immediate resignation’ of NHS Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Liam Donaldson. The...
Fingerprinting At Over 280 Schools
‘Schools should hold off until there is proper guidance,’ NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates told News Line yesterday. The teachers union leader was responding to...
Campaign For A Trade Union Boycott Of Israel Growing Fast
THE Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadidah on 2 June praised the decision of the UCU trade union to discuss in every one of...
FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’
Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...
UNISON INDUSRIAL ACTION WARNING – if NHS pay award is staged
industrial action is inevitable if the government insists on paying the NHS pay award in stages, UNISON warned yesterday. ‘If there is no change of...
THE WAY OUT! – Negotiate with the Resistance, Punish the criminals!
The Brussels Tribunal and the International Anti-Occupation Network have issued the following statement on Iraq entitled ‘The Way Out’: ‘If the US military declare...
UK sanctions torture, police shootings and deaths in custody – Amnesty...
In its Annual Report 2007, covering events of 2006, Amnesty International (AI) is scathing about the UK. It says: ‘The government continued to erode fundamental...
DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students
TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
Unison Leaders Seek To Gag Conference Over How To ‘Save Our...
THE AGENDA for UNISON’s 14th National Delegate Conference in Brighton from 19-22 June only palely reflects the exploding anger and determination of public sector...
‘After Blair, Not Brown But A Workers’ Government And Socialism’
TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, last Sunday. Opening the conference, chairman...
Emergency Clinic Replaced With ‘Information Service’!
OVER 60 health workers, service users and local residents demonstrated against the closure of the Maudsley Hospital Emergency Clinic outside the renowned mental health...
‘CORE SERVICES’ ONLY IN AN ‘INDEPENDENTLY RUN NHS’! – BMA leaders’...
British Medical Association (BMA) leaders yesterday launched what they described as their ‘Green Paper’ for an NHS of ‘core services’ run by an independent...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward...
LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...
LABOUR SAVAGED! – Party pays the price for Blair-Brown policies
LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...
New North Of Ireland Police Powers Opposed By Nuj
The National Union of Journalists in Ireland and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on Thursday joined together to condemn new powers which threaten...
WORKERS DEMAND NEW LEADERSHIP IN UNIONS – ‘We are fighting our...
UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...
Marchers Support Gate Gourmet Workers
UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...
ESOL CLASSES ARE A BASIC RIGHT! – call for mass registration...
TWO thousand people took part in three marches that converged on Hackney Town Hall on Saturday, demanding free English language courses for everyone. The marches...
Junior Doctors Slam ‘Shambolic And Deeply Destructive’ Changes
Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...
All Out On May 1!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL
Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
‘THE FUTURE OF THE NHS IS AT STAKE!’ – say ‘Mums...
OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...
Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis
PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...
Bush Rails As Pelosi Visits Damascus
US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...
IRAN FREES SAILORS – as a gift to the British people
‘Although Iran has the right to prosecute them by following the model of the Prophet, the fifteen people are pardoned and their freedom given...
FIRST NHS TAKE-OVER – Heart of England Foundation Hospital swallows up...
This Sunday April 8th will mark the first takeover by a foundation trust hospital of a ‘bankrupt’ NHS hospital. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust...
‘MY NIIn a statement al-Rawi, a businessman from south-west London, said:...
‘My nightmare is finally at an end,’ said British resident Bisher al-Rawi yesterday, just back in the UK after being held in Guantanamo Bay...
UK ‘Practising Deliberate Policy Of Destitution’ Of Asylum Seekers
‘The government has indeed been practising a deliberate policy of destitution’ of vulnerable asylum seekers, say MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee...
The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare...
TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...
LABOUR CRASHING NHS!– with its privatisation policies
‘Increased use of the private sector is skewing staffing levels in the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...
Brown In Blinkers Ignores The Economic Crisis
BROWN’S ‘big’ budget speech yesterday was an anti-climax, since it was an obvious attempt to ignore the worldwide capitalist economic crisis, and the completely...
Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!
INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...
COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%
COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...
Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories
ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...
Shut down Campsfield – repeal all racist immigration acts
ONCE again yesterday morning, Campsfield detention camp was on fire, with coachloads of prison officers, the ‘tornado team’ armed with riot shields, arriving and...
Firefighters Look For A Candidate Who Will Defend Their Collective Bargaining...
NEARLY 1,000 US Fire Fighters (IAFF) are set to take part in today’s 2008 presidential campaign’s first bipartisan candidate forum on Wednesday in Washington,...
Heading For A Housing Crash!
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...
We need more doctors and nurses not less
AS a result of Tory and Labour health reforms designed to break up the NHS, we now have thousands of unemployed nurse graduates and...
Reid rants against foreigners ‘stealing our benefits’
YESTERDAY Home Secretary John Reid showed that patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when he attacked foreigners for ‘stealing our benefits’....
REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra
THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
WELFARE ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – says CPS civil servants union
Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...
ACTION must be taken by the trade unions to defend the...
THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...
SAVE FREE ENGLISH COURSES – brutal move to drive students out...
IMPOSSIBLE fees estimated at £1,500 a year will be imposed in September, if the government is allowed to go ahead with planned cuts in...