Tag: nhs
Sudanese workers force PM Hamdok to quit – now the working...
THE NEWS Line Editorial Board sent its revolutionary New Year greetings on January 1st to the workers and youth in Sudan who are continuing...
Palestinian PM Shtayyeh calls for international action now! – Hunger striker...
PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in...
British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis –...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...
World Revolution In 2022!
New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...
‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over...
THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
Iran-Iraq investigation into the US ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination of top...
A SENIOR Iranian judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination by...
Senior nurses take strike action in New South Wales
SENIOR nurses in New South Wales, Australia, took two hours of strike action on Monday, saying that chronic staff shortages have pushed them to...
Johnson cannot rule out Xmas lockdown!
THE TORY government ‘can’t make hard, fast guarantees’ that there will not be a Christmas lockdown, Deputy PM Dominic Raab said yesterday. The cabinet met...
FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs
HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...
Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the...
THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...
Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The...
THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...
100 Tories rebel over ‘Plan B’
JOHNSON’S ‘Plan B’ measures to attempt to slow the advance of the new Omicron strain of coronavirus only passed in Parliament yesterday with the...
Labour-Tory Crisis Deepens As Covid-19 Omicron Variant Races Ahead Infecting...
WITH the North Shropshire by-election looming on Thursday, just two days after the vote in Parliament on Boris Johnson’s Plan B to try and...
JOHNSON FACING REBELLION – 60 Tories preparing to vote against Plan...
THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...
Govia Must Be Stripped Of All Franchises Says RMT!
GOVIA must be stripped of all franchises and a wider review launched says RMT as the ‘fatally compromised’ review into Southeastern Rail Franchise finds...
60 per cent of gig economy workers injured at work get...
THE MAJORITY of gig economy workers are injured at work and suffer from sprains, cuts that require stitches, and even fractures and broken bones. According...
Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with...
WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...
Six million waiting for NHS treatment – Highest since records began
ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...
Trade Unions must call a general strike now to scrap the...
ON TUESDAY the Unite union, which has 100,000 members working in the health sector, wrote to every member of the House of Lords urging...
BBC Panorama exposes HC-One – UK’s largest care-home operator!
MONDAY night’s BBC Panorama documentary exposed the operations of HC-One, which, with 265 facilities and a bed capacity of 16,116, is the UK’s largest...
G15 service charge strike after 500% hike
RESIDENTS of G15 housing association are going ‘on strike’ and refusing to pay service charge bill increases in response to their monthly payments having...
Truss portrays herself as Thatcher’s heir as Tories scheme to make...
ON TUESDAY Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss used a photo opportunity to stake out her bid to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The photo...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike...
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
Australian teachers to strike over pay & workload
AUSTRALIAN school teachers and principals in New South Wales (NSW) are taking part in a pay strike next Tuesday, December 7th. The 67,000-member union said...
BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis!...
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...
Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the...
THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...
Midwives rally across UK to highlight maternity crisis
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity...
Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by...
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...
Tories bringing in a pro-Zionist police state. They must be brought...
HOME Secretary Priti Patel, not satisfied with wanting to send asylum seekers to Albania for processing, has announced she is seeking to declare the...
‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth’ ...
NEWS LINE Editor Jonty Leff told the News Line 52nd Anniversary Rally on Saturday: ‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth. ‘We...
US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review
THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
‘Investigate The Tel Aviv Regime’s Crimes’
THE PALESTINIAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an immediate investigation into the Tel...
‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Pressures Engulfing Social Care!
A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...
Sheffield refuse workers vote for indefinite strike!
TWO HUNDRED Sheffield refuse workers voted unanimously on Monday to go on indefinite strike from Monday 22nd November. The vote took place at a mass...
Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC
MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...
Refugees Fleeing ‘Hell’ Of Libya
LAST Saturday evening, November 6th, the Italian Coast Guard informed the bridge of the German charity rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 that the Italian authorities...
1,700 GPs quit in six years
THE NHS’ latest GP workforce data for England has shown a drop of more than 1,700 full-time GPs – in the last six years. And...
RCN to hand 160,000-strong petition into Downing Street! – demanding 12.5%...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...
1,383 US medics demand deportations stop!
1,383 MEDICAL professionals last Friday demanded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) end the Title 42 border expulsions order that has...
Israeli persecution of Palestinian human rights groups condemned in Australia!
The Australian government is being urged to condemn Israel’s ‘dangerous attack’ on six prominent Palestinian human rights groups after Israeli authorities declared them terrorist...
UK Trade Unions Must Take Action To Support The Sudanese Workers...
SUDAN has been in the midst of an enormous economic and political crisis since the masses of workers and youth overthrew the UK- and...
Over 300 United Families and Friends march on Downing Street
‘Who ARE the murderers? Police are the murderers!’ shouted a demonstration of over 300 on the annual United Families and Friends march from Trafalgar...
AMBULANCE CRISIS – Handover delays put patients at ‘catastrophic risk’ of...
PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...
RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working...
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...