Doctor forces Tories to publish Cygnus in full!
A SIX-MONTH campaign led by an NHS doctor to have the full report into a pandemic preparation exercise published has successfully forced the Health...
EXPROPRIATE P&O – Shapps fails to stand up to the bandits
MICK LYNCH, RMT General Secretary said yesterday ‘Despite all the bluster, Grant Shapps has failed to grasp the opportunity to adequately stand up to...
Thames Water ‘drowning in debt’ – nationalise without compensation demand GMB and FBU
‘THAMES WATER is drowning under a mountain of debt,’ GMB union National Officer Gary Carter said yesterday, in response to the privateer’s announcement of...
This Is A War Crime! Israel Fires Missiles At Ambulances!
‘EVERYONE should stand up and say this is a war crime, genocide, the ambulances were just trying to evacuate the patients,’ Al Shifa Hospital...
CGT warns French fascists will attack the trade unions
‘ON THE EVE of a crucial election for our Republic,’ the CGT French trade union federation warned of the ‘alarming consequences for our freedoms...
Three-day general strike action brings Belgium to a standstill
A GENERAL strike in Belgium, on its third day on Wednesday paralysed major transportation and public services, including the construction sector, said the Building...
NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
Tory borrowing breaks all records
GOVERNMENT borrowing broke all records soaring to historic heights in November, figures released yesterday show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said borrowing hit £31.6bn...
FREE THE FILTON 24! say Palestine campaigners at Woolwich Crown Court
THE RETRIAL of six of the Filton 24 opened at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London yesterday, with scores of demonstrators outside supporting the...
‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson
SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...
1.5m face living in the dark and cold – As more energy companies go...
NEARLY 1.5 million customers have been hit by energy firms collapsing under soaring gas prices. Avro Energy and Green ceased trading on Wednesday and their...
Gaza and West Bank deaths surge to 3,866!
IN the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has surged to...
‘MAY’S TIME HAS RUN OUT!’ – Corbyn calls for general election
TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday. He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...
HOTEL QUARANTINE – Pay £1,750 for ten days or fined £10,000 – Lie on...
ANYONE who has visited one of the red list countries and who fails to quarantine in a government-designated hotel faces a fine of up...
Tories refuse to repeal draconian corona laws
MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Crime!
ISRAEL is carrying out ‘the crime of apartheid against Palestinians’ and must be held accountable for treating them as ‘an inferior racial group’, Amnesty...
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...
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...
‘ABHORRENT BEYOND WORDS!’ – RCN & BMA condemn Farage threat to deport thousands
‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...
‘Abysmal response’ to corona – experts warn antibody tests are ‘invalid’
EXPERTS have heavily criticised the Tories’ ‘ad hoc system’ for coronavirus tracking, testing and contact tracing, stating that the government’s ‘abysmal response’ means that...
Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members
UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
Five and a half million families skipping meals – ‘horrendous new normal’
MORE than five and a half million low-income households in the UK are cut ting down on or skipping meals, the Joseph Rountree Foundation...
Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...
96-hour walkout by the junior doctors!
THE BMA yesterday announced dates for a new 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England after the government’s failure to make any credible offer...
Iranian missiles cause panic in Israel and close Knesset!
IRANIAN missile strikes triggered widespread panic across Israel yesterday, forcing the suspension of a Knesset (parliament) session. On the 25th day of the conflict, unrelenting...
30,000 university staff jobs at risk!
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday launched action to support casualised staff. Over a third of all staff are on ‘fixed-term contracts’ rather than...
Johnson puts UK military at the disposal of Zelensky!
TORY PM Johnson visited the Ukrainian capital on Saturday and walked through the deserted streets of Kiev alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky, flanked by machine...
‘HE’S SHIFTED DEFICIT ONTO THE POOREST!’ – McDonnell condemns Hammond
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond promised in his Spring Statement to MPs yesterday in Parliament to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...
Israel Steps Up Jabalia Genocide
QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...
LABOUR’S £26bn NHS ‘RESCUE!’
LABOUR has announced a £26bn real terms Rescue Plan to deliver ‘real change in our health service’. The Labour Party is pledging to end the...
Labour MPs barred from entering West Bank
TWO Labour MPs barred from entering West BanTWO Labour MPs were ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel to visit the occupied West Bank...
‘A tragic milestone’ says Johnson as death toll passes 150,000!
PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...
NAO TO PROBE GREENSILL! – and how it collapsed the UK steel industry
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...
MASS ATROCITIES IN THE WEST BANK – warns Human Rights Watch
AN ONGOING Israeli army raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded about 35 yesterday. Israeli settlers also...
Horrific Israeli massacre in Beit Lahia
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...
MET POLICE SPYING BREACHED HUMAN RIGHTS! – says Investigatory Powers Tribunal
AN activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover, spying police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human...
Hundreds protest in Chicago against Israeli raids
HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...
Nursery heads march on Downing Street!
NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT RESIGNS – Medvedev to be deputy head of Russian Security Council
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly yesterday. According to Putin, the birth rate in the...
Call a general strike or resign – UCU CONEL demands of TUC
UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...
Corbyn, McDonnell on their knees
LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...
Starmer warmongering ‘doomed to failure’ warns Moscow
‘IT IS high time to make it clear to London that its efforts to ignite a conflict are doomed to failure,’ the Russian Foreign...