Tag: housing
Poor Families Driven Out Of London
HOUSING benefit cuts being debated in parliament today and set to come into force next April will see local authorities ‘decanting’ poor families out...
Hit Squad Takes Over Se London Healthcare
PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were revealed at a south London press conference on Monday. The government-appointed Trust...
An all-out assault on the working class and the poor
TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...
‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...
More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...
Mass sackings & A&E closures – proposed in South East London...
PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were yesterday revealed at a press conference called by the government-appointed administrator...
Workhouse Master Duncan Smith Attacks Poor
PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...
Israeli Navy Boards Finnish Ship & Tasers Passengers
ISRAELI naval forces used stun guns when they boarded a Finnish ship which was attempting to break the sea blockade of Gaza on Saturday,...
500,000 March For Action To Bring Down The Coalition!
500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...
Call general strike! Bring down coalition! Forward to workers government!
TODAY’S march called by the TUC must not be just another mass demonstration against the drive by this coalition to bail out the banks...
Universal Credit–a weapon for attacking the disabled and their families
UP TO half a million (450,000) disabled people and their families – including children and disabled adults living on their own – will be...
Tories Attack The Disabled
HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
Lebanese Camps Exact Toll On Over 400,000 Palestinians
NEW research published in The Lancet has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. The...
Osborne pledges to hammer the poor and the unions
IN an attempt to show some class war steel, Chancellor Osborne began his speech at the Tory Party conference with an assault on a...
Osborne out to grind workers and youth into the ground
IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...
Osborne War On Benefits
‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...
£16bn more welfare cuts! – before the next election
PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...
Save Charing Cross A&E – anger over NHS cuts
THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...
Coalition plans to slash benefits!
IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...
‘Welfare reforms’ a declaration of war against workers and youth
THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...
Co-ordinated strike action – unanimous vote at the TUC Congress
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...
Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job
HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...
Homeless squatters are ‘criminals’
SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...
33% rise in Court Orders to evict private tenants – while...
new figures show there has been a massive 33% rise in court orders to evict private tenants over the past two years. Housing charity Crisis...
RENTS OUT OF CONTROL! –families cutting food to pay the rent
HOUSING charity Shelter yesterday described the rental market as ‘out of control’ as letting group LSL revealed the average rent paid by private tenants...
Jobcentre Strike Solid
JOBCENTRE staff who deal with calls from people entitled to benefits and crisis loans went on strike yesterday over oppressive working conditions and unrealistic...
TUC CONCERNED ABOUT MASSIVE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT – but has no...
SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...
TUC CONGRESS CALLS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE TO AUSTERITY’ – but refuses...
THIS year’s TUC Congress next month is meeting at a time when all of the basic rights and gains of the working class are...
Occupy Chase Farm And All Closure Threatened Hospitals
THE daily picket to stop of Chase Farm Hospital will be marking its 150th day by mid-August. Organised by the North East London Council of...
Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!
TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
IndustriALL demonstrates at mine owners Glencore HQ
IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...
‘TANKS ON YOUR LAWNS’ – warns Olympics missiles solicitor
‘If this is allowed to go ahead then the precedent that has been set is that tanks can turn up on your lawn, missiles...
Cameron’s war on youth
TRADE unions yesterday slammed Cameron’s plans to axe housing benefits for under-25-year-olds. A TUC spokesman told News Line: ‘This is a vicious attack on young...
Cameron Declares War On The Youth!
THE PM has said that people under the age of 25 are to lose their right to housing benefit, as part of moves to...
UK back to Victorian times
OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...
BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more...
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...
US-Israel Organising Cyber Warfare
THE New York Times has revealed that the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus cyber-warfare attack on Iran and its nuclear...
Egyptian class struggle continues
While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...
Hands off our training budgets – say UCU
The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...
End Military Trials –Release Detainees
Dozens of activists launched a hunger strike on Sunday at the Egyptian Press Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo to protest against military rule and the...
Migrant workers face forced labour and Exploitation in uk!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...
German election crisis for Merkel
The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...
Tenants’ Aylesbury floods fury
Tenants on the Aylesbury estate are very angry at Southwark Council’s indifference to their complaints and the Council’s high handed attitude towards tenants’ needs. Tenants...
Universal Credit Attack On Poor
UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...