Tag: scotland
COUNCILS SUING RBS – over pension fund losses
Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FIVE: Support for WRP...
NOVEMBER 1984 opened with a miners’ special delegate conference endorsing a plan to widen the dispute throughout the labour and trade union movement. That demand...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FOUR ‘Trying to reconcile...
THE TUC National Congress held in Brighton during the first week of September 1984 was dominated by the miners’ strike. Miners from the Cortenwood pit...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART THREE: ‘Now we are...
THE brutal police riot at the Orgreave coke depot was not the only state attack launched against the NUM and striking miners in June...
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART TWO: Mounted police and...
IN the last article we saw how the state had leapt into action from the outset of the strike to try and break it...
THE GREAT MINERS’ STRIKE 1984-85 PART ONE: No miner has the...
TODAY marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the beginning of the year-long miners’ strike, a strike that saw the full force of the capitalist...
ABOLISH PRESCRIPTION CHARGES – urges the BMA
England should follow the example of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and abolish all prescription charges, the British Medical Association (BMA) said today. The Department...
SHARES DIVE – as HBOS reports £10.8 billion loss
Tens of billions more pounds were wiped off the London Stock Exchange yesterday, in the wake of Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) reporting its HBOS...
Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs
YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...
RBS £344bn available! – and 20,000 workers to be sacked
The Unite trade union yesterday slammed former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss, 50-year-old Sir Fred Goodwin’s £650,000- a-year pension as the bank...
BINYAM MOHAMED ‘IS SKIN AND BONE’ – warns US military lawyer...
A team of British officials have travelled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit detainee Binyam Mohamed and make preparations for his expected release. A Scotland...
Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for...
THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...
Rbs Thumbs Nose At Jobless!
The Royal Bank of Scotland, which received a £20bn bail-out with taxpayers’ money, is to proceed with a £1bn payout in annual bonuses. This is...
HALT RM PRIVATISATION! – industry making £900,000 a day profits
‘We have to be bold and honest in our fight to stop Royal Mail privatisation,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region Secretary Paul Moffat...
Darling ignored over short selling
BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...
1.92 Million Unemployed
UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...
Jaguar – 1300 Jobs To Go!
The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...
Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!
THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...
BANKS MELTDOWN – Taxpayers to foot the bill
The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...
200,000 March On Israeli Embassy
OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...
‘Action must be taken against the officers responsible for my...
THE Justice4Jean Campaign said on Friday that Coroner Michael White ‘has presided over a complete whitewash’, following the conclusion of the inquest into the...
HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union
THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...
Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract
Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
PCS condemns job cuts!
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...
SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA
With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...
Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut
A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...
Civil Servants Vote To Strike Against 2 Per Cent Pay Cap
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over pay. A PCS...
BANKS FACE WIPEOUT! – Labour hints at state takeover
The first banks to get money under the UK government’s £500bn bank rescue plan are expected to do so this morning. Over the weekend, the...
The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish
THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...
BANK SHARES COLLAPSE! – Brown and bankers meet at 10 Downing...
Billions more pounds were wiped off UK bank shares, yesterday, in the wake of Monday’s falls which saw £93bn wiped off the London Stock...
Eu Shares And Banks Crash
UK share prices crashed yesterday, wiping over £85bn off the London Stock Exchange, with the FTSE 100 index crashing 391 points or 7.85% to...
Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family
THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...
NO PRIVATISATION! – Postal workers march on LP conference
MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...
Inquest Into The Death Of Jean Charles de Menezes Starts Monday
The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...
HBOS share price falls 50% in two days – as world...
QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...
Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!
SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...
Stormont ‘On The Brink Of Collapse’
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER STORMONT stands on the brink of collapse – a political dilemma the North has not faced since 2002 when...
‘Let them eat cake!’ Brown turns his back on the...
ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...
UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation
UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
‘FURTHER ACTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE’ – pledges Matt Smith of...
‘If there is no movement then we will have to look to further action in the near future,’ UNISON Scottish Secretary Matt Smith told...
Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system
THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...
DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million...
The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...
RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss
The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...
£3 billion more of state aid for the Northern Rock
THE Northern Rock bank, recently nationalised by the government has made a £585m loss for the first six months of the year, but the...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...