Tag: local government

The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...

AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...

HALF of Cambodia’s garment workers, roughly 600,000, began a nationwide four-day ‘stay at home’ strike yesterday, called by eight trade unions demanding a higher...

THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...

THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...

WITH the strike by platinum miners continuing to grip South Africa, senior police officer Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak outlined internal problems that contributed...

WITH a view to possible action against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of MPs representing both majority and opposition parties have asked...

THE ‘project of political Islam has failed,’ Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, calling for the separation of religion from politics, state television...

ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...

NATO’s decision to suspend co-operation with Russia brings the world back to Cold War-style sword swinging, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. The 28-nation...

AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...

ONE year on from the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, the BMA has launched a new campaign, warning that ‘the damage...

THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) wants to expand the platinum sector strike. ‘We have filed an application with Nedlac (National Economic...

SCHOOLS were closed or disrupted across England and Wales on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of angry teachers took part in a one-day strike...

CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...

Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...

A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...

HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...

SAMANTHA Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, did not waste any time in attacking the Russian veto of the imperialists’ ...

IN A speech last Wednesday to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian President Abbas declared: ‘I want to achieve something for my country and I...

150 workers began a week-long strike at closure-threatened Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday against the privateer Medirest. The porters, catering and domestic workers, all...

THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...

THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...

GREEK public sector workers went on a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday against the so-called government ‘mobility scheme’ to bring in tens of thousands...

THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...

EGYPT is gripped by a wave of strikes as the working class continues its revolutonary actions along with the country’s youth that have seen...

A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...

THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...

ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...

A STATEMENT by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) National Office Bearers on Sunday outlined the union’s views ‘on the state of...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police were employed last Friday morning in Athens in a series of tear-gas and truncheon attacks against protesting state teachers,...

ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...

FAMILIES of 34 South African Marikana miners shot dead by police in 2012, arrived at the ongoing Inquiry into the massacre, being held in...

ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...

RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...

BILLIONS going into fat cats’ wallets and off-shore tax havens from Housing Benefit would be better spent building houses and homes for working people,...

As well as Lviv, the occupation of government buildings by anti-government activists and confrontations with police were reported yesterday in the western cities of...

UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...

RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

THE GMB  has   reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...

OVER 1,500 workers and youth were present at a solidarity concert in Athens last Thursday evening for the sacked workers at ERT (Greek state...

THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday warned that the public sector, excluding the NHS and education, faces an ‘alarming’ 40 per cent cut...

GREEK health centre workers and doctors, on indefinite strike for over a month, demonstrated once again last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill...