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NHS pay fury at 3% pay rise – unions consider strikes
HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...
‘KILLING KELLY’ A documentary by George Galloway
REVIEW BY FRA HUGHES
THE strange death of Dr. David Kelly was exposed on celluloid at the premiere of the Killing Kelly documentary screened at...
Tories to slash public services by £17bn
UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer.
All she could say was...
Scrap the Tory Health and Care Bill – it is a...
TORY PM Johnson’s new Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament, is a fresh attack on the NHS by a Conservative Party that...
RCN Opposes Health Bill
THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
NUJ Condemns Home Office Call For ‘Increased Maximum Sentences’ For ‘Unauthorised...
THE UK HOME OFFICE has called for comment on proposed new laws with greater reach and harsher penalties to ‘counter state threats’.
These are intended...
Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth
LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill.
‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...
Johnson to remove restrictions – Putting transport staff’s lives at risk...
‘WE KNOW that we are going to see more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson admitted at yesterday’s 5.00pm press conference...
Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning...
ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...
Taliban attend intra-Afghan talks in Tehran
AS TEHRAN hosted a round of intra-Afghan talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the representatives of the Kabul government and the...
‘Summer Of Dissent’ Against Police Bill
A mass petition with over 600,000 signatures was delivered to the Government on Monday, demonstrating the strength of public opposition to the Police, Crime,...
Israeli Bulldozers Raze Gaza Farmland
Israeli forces have levelled large areas of farmland in the Gaza Strip after infiltrating the border fence between the besieged enclave and the occupied...
Javid gambling with people’s lives! – self-isolating rules abandoned
GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday.
He told Parliament: ‘We...
Assange’s vision was ‘to rescue democracy’ says John Pilger – as...
BY THE JULIAN ASSANGE DEFENCE COMMITTEE
The week of Julian Assange birthday events kicked off in London on Saturday with protests at the Australian Embassy,...
‘The right to return is not subject to any haggling process’...
HAMAS LEADER, Ismail Haniyeh warned the Palestinian resistance has many ‘powerful cards’ it can use in the fight to put an end to the...
Sajid Javid, the bankers’ man, put in to wage war on...
FORMER Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been installed as Health Secretary to replace the disgraced Matt Hancock, with a remit to...
‘My task – open the economy’ – New Health Secretary...
‘MY TASK is to return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great,’ new Tory Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said in...
Striking RMT Members Demand To Know How Much Has Been Paid...
WITH RMT members ‘rock solid’ in their latest day of strike action at Abellio ScotRail and Serco Caledonian Sleeper on Sunday, the railworkers union...
Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories
THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat.
Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
‘Scandalous and incompetent’ GMB SLAMS LACK OF SICK PAY!
THE GMB union has slammed as both ‘scandalous and incompetent’ reports that the government sought, at the start of the Covid pandemic, to make...
21st June ‘unlocking’ postponed – Johnson – Speaker condemns Johnson’s conduct
WE CANNOT simply eliminate Covid, we must be able to learn to live with it,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said in announcing a delay...
‘UPROOT VIRUS OF OCCUPATION–SANCTIONS NOW!’ – urges the Palestinian Ambassador Husam...
‘IT IS TIME to get serious. It is time to go all the way and uproot the virus of occupation. We demand sanctions on...
United Nations Slashes Food Aid For Syrian Refugees
THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that funding shortages have forced it to cut its food assistance for thousands of Syrian...
BARBAROSSA How Hitler lost the war – By Jonathan Dimbleby Published...
OPERATION BARBAROSSA was the codename given by Adolph Hitler to the invasion of the Soviet Union launched on Sunday 22 June 1941.
In the preface...
US Aiding Terrorists In Iraq And Syria
SECURITY experts believe the United States is targeting Iraq’s anti-terror Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) in order to resuscitate the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group that...
Iran, Russia and China congratulate Assad on election victory! while Germany...
IN SEPARATE messages, Iran, Russia and China congratulate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving a landslide victory in the 2021 presidential race.
Iran, Russia and...
‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home...
‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
Israeli troops and settlers raid al-Aqsa Mosque
AMID international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli settlers have once again raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied...
Teachers’ leader Courtney calls for General Strike for Palestine!
LABOUR MP for Hayes and Harlington John McDonnell said: ‘Netanyahu must be imprisoned for war crimes. The campaign for disinvestment in Israel must be...
OVERWORKED & UNDERPAID – New EPI study shows teachers are being...
A NEW report on local pay and teacher retention in England, published at the beginning of the week by the Education Policy Institute (EPI),...
I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem! We will not...
‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...
SAFTU condemns Israel
JOHANNESBURG – The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns the continued attacks on the people of Palestine by the Israeli apartheid forces.
Its...
OVER 500 CAPE TOWN FIREFIGHTERS FACE THE SACK! – treated like...
‘THE CITY of Cape Town cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it. We should not allow it to heap all praise...
‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite...
RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government.
‘The...
Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strike 40 years on
BY FRA HUGHES
‘THEY will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised,...
Johnson Calls A UK Summit – As Starmer Refuses To Resign!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, to a ‘Team UK’ summit.
Johnson congratulated...
COSATU president celebrates Workers Day on May 1st
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st.
‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...
Canadian government to ‘rip away’ dockers’ right to strike
Unions across the world are outraged to learn that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government teamed up with Canada’s Conservative opposition in the early hours...
Cape Town firefighters take to the streets to protect jobs
SCORES of South African firefighters facing possible dismissal and or disciplinary action marched on the City of Cape Town offices on Saturday in support...
Abolish cladding loan scheme! demands Housing, Communities & Local Government Select...
THE CURRENT government-proposed cladding loan scheme must be abolished – and it should be replaced with a ‘comprehensive’ fund, a cross-party group of MPs...
‘Palestinian political prisoners, a crucial part of our national struggle’ –...
AS Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prepare to vote in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections on May 22,...
President Abbas congratulates Bashar al-Assad on the anniversary of Evacuation Day,...
PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has offered his congratulations to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the annual anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day when...
Lifting all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ – Rouhani...
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the lifting of all US sanctions will create ‘a new atmosphere’ for the Islamic Republic’s economic cooperation with the...