Tag: nhs

THERE was a lively 400-strong lobby of Parliament organised by the Unite trade union yesterday afternoon to ‘Save Our NHS’ and ‘Stop the Cuts’...

THE UNITED States has no option but to abandon its excessive demands and fully respect the rights of the Iranian people – diplomacy is...

THE Teamsters trade union on Friday accused the management of the world’s largest food and beverage company Nestlé of stopping its US workforce from...

IRAN'S President Masoud Pezeshkian hit out at Donald Trump over his threats, saying he is not in a position to deprive the Iranian nation...

THE political crisis engulfed Labour PM Keir Starmer yesterday over ‘being incompetent, gullible or a liar’, and misleading parliament over the appointment of Peter...

LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers came out on strike yesterday, Wednesday 15th April, having warned the university they would do so, if the management refused to...

At least 21,000 jobs in the NHS will be cut in health trusts across England by 2028 as they struggle to meet the Labour government’s...

Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, on Thursday denounced the US administration of President Donald Trump for trying to pressurise countries into refusing the help...

THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...

TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

Israel has continued its relentless military assault on the Gaza Strip carrying out bombings, drone strikes, shootings and artillery barrages against Palestinian civilians while...

TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors begin their 15th wave of strike action today in defence of their pay and conditions against attacks first...

A controversial UK-US medicines deal will cost the NHS an estimated £9bn a year by 2035 in higher drug prices, critics have warned. The agreement,...

THE Bank of England has issued a warning that Britain faces a financial crisis that would see households battling against much higher borrowing costs...

RESIDENT doctors in England will strike for six days from 7th April after rejecting a government pay offer that would spread already inadequate increases...

THE NHS’s three main groups of hospital doctors in England are set to coordinate their strike action in an escalation of their campaign for...

THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...

LABOUR Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has given the BMA doctors a 48-hour ultimatum that they must call off their ‘reckless’...

More than eight million workers and young people took to the streets in the United States as at least 3,200 demonstrations took place. There were...

AT THE rally in Whitehall the first speaker was the leader of the Together Alliance, Kevin Courtney, the former general secretary of the National...

NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, pleaded not guilty yesterday at Westminster Magistrates Court to charges of ‘inciting support for Hamas’ and ‘publishing material intended...

LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...

A damning report published on 16 March 2026, following a tribunal into British government conduct since the outbreak of Israel’s assault on Gaza in...

FORD Motor Company is investigating an accident on Monday at one of its transmission plants that killed an employee. First responders were called around 9.45am...

Amid relentless Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, paramedics, medical centres and ambulances have once again come under fire from Zionist fighter jets, echoing the pattern of Israeli...

AROUND 5,000 people attended Sunday’s Al Quds rally for Palestine on Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames London. Metropolitan Police ranks...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched defiantly in Tehran and other Iranian cites yesterday in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli genocide, for a Palestinian...

Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...

TENS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched through central London from Millbank to the American Embassy in Vauxhall on Saturday afternoon in...

THE United Nations said on Tuesday that at least 30,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon as a result of Israeli airstrikes and shelling...

The University College Hospital (UCH), in the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria, stopped admitting new patients on Monday as hospital workers started a...

LABOUR’S spectacular defeat in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, although expected, has driven deep splits and recriminations within the party. Hannah Spencer, the...

All three of South Africa’s trade union federations the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and...

AT LEAST six Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday in Israeli drone strikes on police posts in central and southern Gaza, as Israel continued...

ISRAELI forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip this week killing Palestinians in air strikes and shelling while reports emerged of Palestinian women detainees...

THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...

The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended at the weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labour action overwhelmingly voted...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza, has dismantled long-standing civilian waste systems, forced displaced Palestinians into burning plastic to survive amid siege conditions, and created a...

AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...

A court in Chile is reviewing a criminal complaint by the Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) against Rom Kovtun an Israeli sniper who served...

FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...

NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

Keir Starmer survived as Labour prime minister by the skin of his teeth on Monday night as his cabinet rallied round him, inundating Labour MPs...

SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded PM Keir Starmer stand down yesterday, saying: ‘The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street...

THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...