Tag: local government

AS Primary schools and nurseries across Glasgow stayed closed on the second day of the massive 8,000-strong 48-hour equal pay strike yesterday, the SNP-run...

TEACHERS and parents at The John Roan secondary school in Greenwich are determined to defeat an academy order issued by the Tory government calling...

HUNDREDS of tower blocks across the UK are be at risk of collapse, threatening multiple disasters on the scale of the tragedy at Grenfell...

SYRIANS in the occupied Golan Heights have demonstrated and burned Israeli election ballots in a symbolic dismissal of local council elections and ‘a policy...

THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) said it will escalate the strike by plastics sector workers after the Labour Court in Johannesburg...

TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...

TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...

At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...

STRIKING members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) held a mass demonstration on Tuesday to hand...

LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...

TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...

THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...

THE MASS closure of A&E’s at hospitals around the country has created a situation where many patients now live in A&E ‘black spots,’ where...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...

SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector,...

THE ENTIRE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) union have announced yesterday they are to stand down, following the results of the...

SYRIAN Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has said that Iran’s missile strikes against militant positions in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr in retaliation...

THE FIRST survivor to give evidence to the public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster yesterday told how he was trapped in his 10th floor...

FLAMMABLE cladding is not going to be banned from existing buildings, Tory Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announced yesterday at the Conservative Party conference. This...

THE Palestinian Civil Liaison on Sunday informed the family of Mohammed al-Rimawi, who was killed due to the excessive use of force by Israeli...

THE ENTIRE leadership of the nurses union RCN has been sacked by the membership! A vote of no confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...

THE INQUIRY into the Grenfell Tower inferno was told this week by senior London Fire Brigade officer Andrew O’Loughlin that ‘The building was so...

The US administration’s recent destructive and irresponsible moves threaten to plunge the entire region into chaos, violence and instability, Hanan Ashrawi, member of the...

Public services support staff – including teaching assistants and hospital porters – are doing more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year,...

AS A FRESH year of students start at their new universities, it has come to light that fifty-four student halls of residence tower blocks...

THE LEADERS of England’s councils have predicted the inevitability of ‘unpalatable cutbacks’ in vital council services next year as a result of the Tories...

THE WEST has plotted against Syria with the aim of changing the country’s stances, policies and national identity to serve a ‘New Middle East’...

Garment workers’ unions in Bangladesh have rejected an increase in the minimum wage, describing it as a ‘cruel joke’ and a ‘slap on the...

Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...

‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...

THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says last Thursday’s Constitutional Court ruling reinstating nine employees who were dismissed for singing struggle...

DEPRIVING Palestinian refugees of their basic rights is a recipe for trouble, says PLO official Hanan Ashrawi. Depriving 5.3 million Palestinian refugees of...

TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...

THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...

On the occasion of International Literacy Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report last week on the illiteracy rate in...

RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani says the United States must swiftly end its ‘illegal presence and interference’ in Syria, which, he added, has led to...

DRASTIC cuts, staff restructuring and rocketing stress levels are becoming the norm in UK schools, according to a survey of school support staff published...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...

THE LABOUR Party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), yesterday adopted all of the examples of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the international definition, in addition...

ONE hundred and eighteen council housing sites in London are facing privatisation, demolition or ‘regeneration,’ which will mean, according to council responses to a...

IN an Open Letter published on Friday in the Guardian newspaper, 15 academics and scientists from around the world expressed opposition to holding a...

BOTH the UK and the EU claimed yesterday that ‘progress’ is being made in the Brexit talks. Unresolved issues include intellectual property, data protection, the...

THE Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) proposal to take control of Norfolk fire service will put ‘public safety at risk’, a councillor has said. Norfolk...

‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...