Tag: nhs
Midwives To Ballot!
MIDWIVES in England and Wales are to be balloted on industrial action. The move was announced by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) at its...
Truss and Kwarteng declare war on unions – TUC must respond...
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled the plans by the Tory government to drive part-time workers back into full employment by cutting their benefits. Under the...
ENERGY COMPANIES ‘LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK’ says Unite
TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...
Liverpool Dockers Begin 2-Week Strike!
FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...
With Food Banks Going Broke And The Tories Targeting The Railways...
THE TUC CONGRESS is set to meet on Tuesday October 18th, just as the Truss government is poised to take the rail trade unions...
Biden Urges Railroads And Trade Unions To Avoid Railroad Strike That...
THE BIDEN administration urged railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a railroad work stoppage, saying on Monday it would pose ‘an...
Demand an immediate recall of the TUC to call a general...
THE UK’s job market, which the Tories and their supporters have long held to be evidence of the ability of British capitalism to ‘bounce...
Santiago clashes on 49th anniversary of Pinochet coup
SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...
British workers face massive crisis as capitalism lurches into the abyss...
THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...
British capitalism is in its death agony – working class must...
TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...
Tory energy bill freeze will cost workers £130 billion – get...
AN article in Monday’s Daily Telegraph by Sherelle Jacobs bluntly states: ‘Liz Truss has just two months to save broken Britain from terminal decline.’ Jacobs...
‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ –...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
With the NHS ‘close to collapse’ and wages being slashed by...
WITHOUT enough staff, the NHS is increasingly close to collapse,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive,...
Bernie Sanders addresses packed ‘Save London Transport’ rally at the TUC
BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building...
Tories Plan Huge Increase In Military Spend While The Masses Go...
PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war...
‘Vote For Strike Action This Year’ – Urges Rcn
ROYAL COLLEGE of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen has responded to NHS data showing nurse vacancies have jumped to a record level by urging...
Primary care has been run down under successive Tory governments
THE GPs’ magazine Pulse has published the results of a major survey of GP surgeries, showing the extent to which primary care has been...
Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills
THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...
Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity...
THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to...
AS WORKERS well know, the coming winter is going to be a desperate affair with sky-high inflation and food and energy rationing, leaving families...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike’ – RMT Pickets Tell News...
RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay...
RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...
Enough is Enough! – With no time to lose lobby the...
THE ACCUSATION that the Tory government is paralysed waiting on the outcome of the leadership battle between Truss and Sunak is very wide of...
Nurses & midwives determined to strike for pay!
A BALLOT of Royal College of Nursing members in Scotland has shown the majority are willing to take part in strike action – with the...
Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...
‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets
THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’...
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
French workers battle to save hospitals and pensions
FRENCH workers are fighting attacks on their pensions and health service. French trade union federation CGT has raised the alarm over hospital closures. On Saturday March...
Kick Out The Spineless Trade Union Leaders Who Refuse To Call...
THE SENSE of alarm and downright terror mixed with a sense of helplessness amongst the British ruling class saturates the bourgeois press today as...
Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism
Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...
Nurses Move To Strike Vote
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...
Iran condemns murderous Israeli attacks!
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has sharply criticised the Israeli regime’s latest deadly airstrikes in Gaza, condemning the international community’s inaction and silence about the...
Israeli attack on Gaza is an act of clear aggression says...
THE Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the latest Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza Strip is an act of clear aggression and...
Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven
ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...
Nurses pay cut plan a ‘death knell’ for Truss!
TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...
Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to...
Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...
THE NHS STAFFING CRISIS: ‘A NATIONAL SCANDAL’ says House of Commons...
THE HOUSE of Commons Health and Social Care Committee is publishing a report this morning which calls the NHS staffing crisis a ‘national scandal’. The...
People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories...
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...
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...
Inflation Out Of Control – Only Solution Is Get Rid Of...
BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...
Unions Strike Ballots To Achieve Inflation-Busting Pay Rises!
UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...
Inflation Is Cutting Pay At A Massive Rate – The Trade...
THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...
Australia Fining Nurses For Going On Strike!
AUSTRALIA is now threatening to fine health workers and their unions for coming out on strike, in a move which is set to be...
NHS not living with Covid but dying from it
‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...