Tag: local government

‘FAMILIES are being forced to choose between staying on the right side of the law or feeding themselves,’ warned Labour’s Shadow communities secretary Hilary...

THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...

CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...

EALING Council is going to go to court today, 9 October in a bid to secure a full judicial review (JR) of plans...

THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...

HEALTH unions have warned that the coalition government’s moves to withdraw a previously announced 1% pay rise for all NHS staff next year are...

THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) says about 250,000 workers from 300 areas around the country will go on strike if last-ditch negotiations...

SYRIA'S President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office, and has the right to decide to run for re-election next year, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi...

A PAYMENT COUNCIL survey shows that more than 2.7 million people who are currently receiving benefits fear they will struggle when Universal Credit replaces...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Latin America TeleSUR TV channel last Wednesday which has been featured on the Syrian state TV...

ROYAL Mail shares are to be sold by mid-October, with the government under-pricing the industry and selling for between £2.6bn to £3.3bn to make...

TWELVE thousand Chicago children are walking new, often longer, routes to school this autumn – after Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 47 state schools, almost...

‘AFTER taking legal counsel’s advice, the closure of Chase Farm Hospital would be unlawful,’ Enfield Council warned yesterday. This was its response to the decision...

FIREFIGHTERS throughout England and Wales walked out of their fire stations at noon yesterday at the beginning of the Fire Brigades Union National Pensions...

FIREFIGHTERS in Wales will march on the Welsh Assembly today in protest against attacks on their pensions. From noon until 4,00pm, firefighters across England and...

FIREFIGHTERS are on strike in defence of their pensions from 12noon until 4.00pm today with pickets outside fire stations and mass demonstrations in towns...

FIRE Minister Brandon Lewis’ claims over firefighter pensions have been ‘comprehensively discredited’, the Fire Brigades Union declared yesterday in a statement issued ahead of...

THE General Council of the ADEDY (public sector trades unions federation) has called another 48-hour national strike for today and tomorrow against the destruction...

17,000 secondary school teachers are set to go on strike over the Irish government’s plans to cut their pay and allowances. The Association of Secondary...

GREEK teachers voted on Thursday by clear majorities for another five-day national strike starting Monday. The final decision will be taken by the OLME (teachers’...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has said he agrees with the plan, brokered by the US and the Russian governments, to secure and to eventually destroy...

OVER 200 people attended a ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Arts’ rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night. The rally was organised...

WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...

SINCE the bedroom tax came into force this year, one in three council tenants have fallen behind in their rent, the TUC’s False Economy...

THE Greek state secondary teachers’ national strike, which began on Monday, is spreading and deepening attracting other sections of workers. Primary state school teachers declared...

SYRIA has handed over ‘material evidence’ to Russia proving that foreign-backed terrorists were behind a recent chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus. The...

MONTHLY figures released yesterday reported that inflation in Britain had fallen from 2.8% in July to 2.7% in August, leading some bourgeois economists to...

ANY attempt to use a new ‘Ofsted-style’ hospital inspection regime to justify closure of any South-West London hospital will be ‘vigorously fought,’ leading local...

TAMIL National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has called for an international investigation into the state of Prisoners of War (POW) in Sri Lanka,...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales are preparing for strike action over pensions after governments in Westminster and Cardiff refused to reach a compromise in...

THE New York Times has just printed a letter from the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, which he described as a direct address to the...

DEPUTY Prime Minister and Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, has announced that the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the proposal of the Russian leadership...

THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...

YESTERDAY’S TUC Congress in Bournemouth voted unanimously for coordinated industrial action to smash the coalition government’s public sector pay cap and for the outlawing...

THE EGYPTIAN Army, mimicking the brutal methods of the Zionist occupiers, have been bulldozing Palestinian homes on the Rafah border with Gaza, destroying smuggling...

RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...

OVER half of universities and colleges use lecturers on zero-hour contracts and, furthermore, universities and colleges are twice as likely to use zero-hour contracts...

THE GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 to 50,000 from...

A LIVELY PCS lobby yesterday of the Royal Courts of Justice took place as the union took the Department for Communications and Local Government...

SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...

OVER 7,000 workers, youth and middle class protesters shouted Hands off Syria! as they marched in central London to a Stop the War rally...

US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

PRESIDENT Francois Hollande has said a vote by UK MPs against involvement in military strikes on Syria has not changed France’s resolve to take...

PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...

THE UK National Security Committee met midday yesterday to put the final touches to the UK contribution to a massive cruise missile strike that...