Tag: parliament

Civil rights organisation Liberty welcomed yesterday’s Law Lords ruling in favour of anti-war protesters who police stopped from travelling to a protest at RAF...

A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...

Military disaster stares Bush and Blair in the face in Iraq, where the toppling of the puppet regime in the Green Zone will result...

DRAFT CORPORATE-killing legislation to be debated in parliament today would have made no practical difference to the four major railway disasters since 1997 had...

Demonstrators remained camped near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to the government’s headquarters on Saturday following Friday’s million-strong opposition protest, led by...

‘This is further repressive legislation from a very repressive government – attacking the most vulnerable,’ mental health service worker and user Jo Squires said...

METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...

Two Worthing Hospital intensive care consultants have produced their own ‘Fit for whose Future?’ report, opposing plans to axe the hospital’s emergency services. Dr Richard...

Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...

BECTU yesterday named two new strike dates for its BBC News members, on the 23 and 24 November. ‘They are trying to bring in a...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

‘We have to take action at Whipps Cross Hospital against cuts and closure,’ consultant surgeon Mrs Anna Athow told a packed public meeting in...

OH how the mighty have fallen. It was not so long ago that Blairites were queuing up to challenge Gordon Brown for the premiership....

MANY thousands of NHS staff, from cleaners to doctors, from all over the country, were joined by members of the public fighting hospital closures...

‘BLOOD on your hands!’, ‘Shame on you!’ shouted demonstrators opposite parliament on Tuesday night, as MPs left the House of Commons after a debate...

YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...

NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...

‘Lebanon is implementing (UN) Resolution 1701 while Israel is dragging its feet and is showing intransigence’, Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora told a joint...

‘We will be consulting our members on what action should be taken to defend these NHS jobs’, GMB trade union national officer Sharon...

ON Monday 23rd October Hertfordshire County Council gave five hours notice of closure of Radlett fire station, betraying understandings and agreements made with...

HUNDREDS of angry pensioners from all over Britain descended on parliament on Wednesday to demand an immediate increase in the basic state pension to...

TREVOR Phillips yesterday warned that Britain was becoming polarised and that the controversy over women wearing veils would lead to worse riots than were...

THE Egyptian security delegation’s efforts succeeded last Friday night in reaching a mutual agreement between Fatah and Hamas to contain the tensions and differences...

ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...

THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...

The Blair government was yesterday paralysed in the face of a mutiny by Britain’s Chief of the General Staff who demanded...

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Na’im Qasim said last Thursday: ‘We proposed the national unity government as a positive concept.’ Speaking on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television, Qasim continued:...

YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...

Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...

AT a time when the government is still seeking to extend the period the police have for holding a person without charging them from...

‘STOP the employers getting away with murder,’ angry bereaved relatives said on their Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) lobby of Parliament on Tuesday. Hilda Palmer...

‘I feel as though they killed my son and the government is covering up for them. It is one big cover up,’ Linda Whelan...

PRIME minister Blair is frequently accused of replacing the established form of bourgeois rule in Britain, through an elected parliament, a government and a...

Health campaigners yesterday warned that NHS privatisation and cuts will be ‘Labour’s poll tax’. The warning came as the number of protests mushroomed around the...

POLICE brutally attacked the large teachers’ rallies which were held in all major Greek cities on Monday, as the primary schools teachers entered the...

THE Afghan war saga continues. First of all it was the tour of duty that would last for three years, with Labour Defence Minister John...

‘I will be seeking a fresh ballot for more strike action,’ NHS Logistics UNISON Maidstone assistant branch secretary Dean Lane told News Line yesterday. ‘Personally,...

THERE WERE up to 50 pickets and supporters on the picket line at the Maidstone NHS Logistics distribution depot on Tuesday evening at 10...

CHANCELLOR Brown yesterday, on the BBC Politics Show, sought to trump his rival, the outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the competition between them...

UP TO 5,000 health workers, trade unionists and local residents determined to save their jobs, hospitals and NHS services from massive cuts marched through...

THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...

THE Hamas-led Palestinian government spokesman Dr Ghazi Hamad confirmed on Monday that the current freeze of the negotiations, regarding forming a Palestinian national...

Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...

‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16: Palestine, which calls ‘on the British government to maintain all funding to...