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‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND THE NHS!’ – says...

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A HUGE CROWD rallied in Whitehall, opposite 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the first day of the British Medical Association’s three-day strike of...

BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers...

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MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...

General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors...

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SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...

Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now...

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BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...

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MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...

Restore junior doctors’ 25% pay cut now!

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TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...

‘No Deal – Nothing On The Table!’– Junior Doctors to strike...

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‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...

Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th

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THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...

TORY REFUSAL TO TALK ON PAY ‘BEYOND BELIEF’ says BMA

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s refusal to join today’s meeting between doctors’ leaders and the Department of Health is ‘beyond belief when the stakes...

‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike...

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JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...

‘Insulting’ changes to GP contracts rejected!

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The BMA (British Medical Association) England GPs committee has rejected ‘insulting’ proposed changes to the GP contract in England which completely ignore the unsustainable...

Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them...

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Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...

‘We’re heading for a general strike’ say UCLH nurses

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THE HUGE picket of around 400 nurses on the steps of University College Hospital (UCH) on the Euston Road in central London was featured...

BMA Junior Doctors Unite With The RMT To Demand Action Against...

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THE sight of the junior doctors of the British Medical Association and the RMT union beginning to form an alliance in order to defend...

‘We’re ready to take on the government and the employers’ –...

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Prof Philip Banfield, Chairman of BMA Council had opened the rally. He said: ‘Every day I am 100% committed to restoring your pay and...

‘VICTORY TO THE DOCTORS AND THE RAIL WORKERS!’ – RMT’s Mick...

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ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...

Junior doctors are ready to walk out for 72 hours in...

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JUNIOR doctors in England WILL walk out for 72 hours in March if the ballot for industrial action is successful, says the BMA. The BMA...

Junior doctor pay has ‘fallen off a cliff since 2008’ –...

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THE DIRE state of junior doctors’ finances has been revealed in a British Medical Association survey. Junior doctors are cutting back on buying food and...

Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working...

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THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

NO MORE STALLING ON PAY! – warn physios as they launch...

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‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...

Hunt shreds Truss and Kwarteng budget and prepares for massive austerity...

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NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday...

Tories Are Split And Divided – Now Is The Time To...

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IT WAS ‘sackcloth and ashes day’ at The Sunday Telegraph yesterday as it surveyed the collapse of the Truss regime. It wrote that: ‘Jeremy Hunt,...

Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must...

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KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...

People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories...

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69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...

Tens of thousands forced into private ‘healthcare’ as Tories set out...

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GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...

BMA’s Annual Conference calls for restoring pay to 2008 levels!

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THE BMA’s annual conference has called for restoring pay to 2008 levels and for GPCEngland to organise the withdrawal of GP practices from Primary...

Government Failed In Its Duty Of Care!

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The UK government ‘failed in its duty of care’ to doctors and the healthcare workforce in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the...

Stop NHS cuts and privatisation – a general strike to defend...

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THE CRISIS in the NHS has reached a breaking point with NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation issuing an unprecedented joint report calling for...

Junior doctors have been ‘insulted’ by exclusion from any NHS...

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JUNIOR doctors have been excluded from any NHS pay rise, and they are furious. Yesterday, their union, the British Medical Association (BMA), announced they...

FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them...

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THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike...

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THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...

NHS pay fury at 3% pay rise – unions consider strikes

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HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...

BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...

Health Workers March On Downing Street!

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OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and...

Doctors To Take Action Over 1% Pay Offer

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SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...

Doctors are suffering ‘emotional and psychological distress–since they cannot give...

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BMA research finds doctors are suffering ‘emotional’ and ‘psychological’ distress because they cannot give patients the treatment and care that they need. New research by...

Hancock’s claim that ‘no NHS workers died from lack of PPE’...

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now...

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THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...

GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis

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THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...

Junior doctors out of their depth – Forced to make end-of-life...

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MANY junior doctors feel out of their depth with the end-of-life decisions faced during Covid-19 pandemic In normal times, end-of-life care discussions are most commonly...

Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must...

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THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...

To End The Covid-19 Crisis The Trade Unions Must Bring Down...

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TORY HEALTH SECRETARY Hancock yesterday said of the Covid-19 crisis that Britain was facing a ‘tipping point’ and ‘we have a choice’. It turns...

Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!

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PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...