Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!
OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...
Maudsley CEO joins strikers on the picket line!
STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...
Iran condemns murderous Israeli attacks!
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has sharply criticised the Israeli regime’s latest deadly airstrikes in Gaza, condemning the international community’s inaction and silence about the...
Israeli jets target children in UNRWA shelters
An Israeli raid on the Attar area on the western outskirts of Khan Younis killed at least 13 people and injured 26 yesterday, Gaza’s...
Tax Hikes & Cuts Come In
TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...
Top Bosses Earn 120 Times A Worker’s Wage!
THE HIGH Pay Centre’s ‘High Pay Day’ research, published Wednesday, is evidence that the government must rebalance the economy after Covid-19 to make it...
Israel steps up genocidal war on Gaza and West Bank!
AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...
Theatre Nurses Picket St Thomas’ Hospital!
THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...
Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport
‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
‘No settlements in Gaza!’ – says UN sec gen Khaled Khiari
THE Assistant UN Secretary-General, Khaled Khiari, has urged the international community to categorically reject any Israeli moves to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip...
‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’
TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...
Frontline NHS staff must be vaccinated! – Many NHS staff have lost their...
FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...
‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of capitalism’ – says...
‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...
UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS INFLATION! – says World Bank President
THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World...
13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!
At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Manchester bus strikers huge victory!
‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...
Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...
‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...
PCS Heathrow strike ballot launched! – while TUC and Unite stress that they support...
THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...
South Africa warns Israel over genocide
SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The...
200 steelworkers march on Parliament! – fighting to defend their jobs
OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...
‘Work together and occupation will end’ – Palestinian union leader tells TUC Congress
‘I DEMAND the recognition of Palestine’ Shaher Saed, the General Secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), told the TUC Congress...
Postmasters Convictions Quashed!
JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...
Taliban: ‘We have emancipated Afghanistan and made it free’ – Amnesty for all announced...
THE TALIBAN announced a ‘general amnesty’ yesterday for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. ‘We must congratulate the victorious struggle...
NO SHEIKH JARRAH EVICTIONS! – Settler shoots Palestinian outside High Court
MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...
NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire
THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...
TORIES SPLIT – Johnson faces revolt over new restrictions
‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...
Strike Action Sweeping Heathrow
HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
GRENFELL – ‘PROSECUTE THE GUILTY!’ – Survivors still demanding justice
JUSTICE for Grenfell yesterday branded as ‘outrageous’ and ‘atrocious’ the demand by company officials called before the Grenfell Inquiry for immunity from prosecution. The Grenfell...
Cladding Lobby
TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
UN condemns Tories
THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...
Unite Claims Rolls Royce Jobs Victory!
THE long-running campaign to secure the future of the historic Rolls-Royce factory of Barnoldswick in Lancashire has finally ended. Following a ballot the workers at...
‘There will be absolutely no pay increases for doctors or nurses above 5%’ declare...
TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! – demands Palestinian Ambassador to UN
PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...
More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...
Reverse Winter Fuel Allowance cut!
A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...
Israel opens fire on Palestinians – dozens killed and wounded!
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on civilians gathered near its GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) site in Rafah, southern Gaza again yesterday, killing at...
Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...
Close down Gaza ‘killing fields’ say 169 charities
‘THE KILLINGS near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating, considering how much Palestinians are in need of...
Gaza ceasefire deal ‘at closest point yet’
‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
‘A fascist policy of collective punishment’ – Hamas accuses Israel’s PM!
HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his...
‘We will win!’ 50,000 farmers warn Starmer
OVER 50,000 farmers and their supporters held a demonstration on Whitehall and outside Downing Street yesterday, demanding an end to the increase in Inheritance...
Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’
AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...