HMRC staff to strike from midday today over office closures
HMRC staff take strike action today over office closures at Ealing Tax workers in the PCS union will take strike action from midday in their battle to prevent office closures. […]
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NHS England’s ‘plan to scrap privatisation’ is anything but
In this guest article, highly-respected medic and campaigner Dr Kailash Chand OBE exposes the latest fallacy being pushed by the media: that NHS England is planning to ‘scrap laws driving […]
List of Tory ‘achievements’ makes horrifying reading
The blight of Tory government on the UK and its people in a few short bullet points As the government prepares for the Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’, a list of Tory […]
Corbynism unites West Wales
By Maria Carroll Last week, guest author Maria Carroll wrote movingly about her own experiences as the daughter and mother of soldiers and the state’s abandonment of veterans to […]
Hancock’s half-app is a licence to kill the GP services we rely on
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is taking over where his woeful predecessors Jeremy Hunt and Andrew Lansley left off by escalating the Tories assault on the NHS as a public, comprehensive service […]
Tory chair Lewis gets owned by locals for SureStart jibe – it’s both hilarious and tragic
Tory chair and Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis showed typical Tory arrogance yesterday with a dismissive comment about a large attendance of local people to protest against Tory-controlled Norfolk County […]
All Liverpool CLP Chairs, Secs, sign letter calling on fire authority to abandon accelerated cuts
Merseyside firefighters are in dispute with the area’s fire authority over its plans for a major downgrade of fire cover on top of cuts already made in the first eight […]
Important: Keep our St Helier Hospital/NHS70 march this Saturday
The ‘Keep our St Helier Hospital’ (KOSHH) campaign has been fighting hard to prevent the planned closure and/or downgrading of one or both of Sutton’s hospitals. In recent months the […]
Liverpool’s most right-dominated CLP swings left
Liverpool Riverside CLP – whose MP Louise Ellman is considered on the hard right of the party – has long been the most right-dominated CLP (constituency Labour party) in Liverpool, […]
As A&Es collapse, meeting happening right now to close “last walk-in in SE London”
As headlines continue about the collapsing NHS and the ‘third-world conditions’ in Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments, with inability to access GPs and other non-emergency facilities blamed for a significant […]