Stathis Kouvelakis, the leader of the Left Platform within Syriza, said at a rally in London that it is impermissible to describe the government’s endorsement of savage austerity as a betrayal.
The Holborn and St. Pancras district in London is deeply associated with the struggle for the political independence of the working class.
A quarter of households in the constituency have incomes of £20,000 or less, while in St. Pancras and Somers Town this figure rises to 44 percent.
Already 800 local authority jobs have been lost in Barking and Dagenham under cuts implemented by Labour.
The arrival of three water cannons in the UK represents a new stage in the militarisation of British police.
The brutal measure was exposed by a member of the public who passed the entrance each day on his way to work.
The GMB trade union, in collaboration with Green Party-run Brighton & Hove council, have called off a bitter strike by workers protesting cuts in pay.
London’s Metropolitan Police utilised the recent G8 summit in Northern Ireland to step up its demands for water cannon to be used against protests.
The Labour Party, trade unions and pseudo-left groups in Britain are playing the main role in facilitating the decimation of the National Health Service.
The UK Socialist Party web site boasted of a meeting with Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Britain’s largest trade union UNITE.
South London hospitals are facing devastating budget cuts, ward and service closures.
Four out of nine A&E departments catering to nearly 2 million people in northwest London face closure as part of £20 billion in cuts to the NHS.
A successful Freedom of Information request has revealed that additional public costs of hosting the Olympics Games in London are close to £24 billion.
The accumulated impact of corporate sponsorship on each successive games is extinguishing whatever remains of the original Olympic ideal.
The Royal Dock complex, adjacent to London’s financial district at Canary Wharf, is hosting up to one hundred super yachts, including twenty of the world’s most opulent, as the Olympic Games begin.
Territorial Support Group police officer Simon Harwood has been found not guilty of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson, killed during a major police operation against G20 protests.
The trade unions are pushing through productivity deals in the transport sector ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games due to start 27 July.
Thirty workers at Medirest, who clean theatres and clinics at Cambridge Addenbrookes Hospital, protested changes to shifts that will lead to a 21 percent pay cut.
Socialist Equality Party candidate for Bretton North Stephen Woodbridge attended a candidate question time organised by the Public and Civil Servants union.
The first privatised hospital since the creation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Hinchingbrooke Cambridgeshire, began operating under Circle Healthcare Limited on February 1.
