General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
HEATHROW CHAOS – Passengers & staff at risk of infection
CHAOS reigned at Heathrow Airport with five-hour queues reported over the last few days risking passengers spreading the virus to each other, as the...
Jenin general strike after Israel massacres 6 citizens
A GENERAL strike took place yesterday in the Palestinian city of Jenin in mourning for the six citizens killed in a massacre committed by...
EXECUTING AFGHAN CIVILIANS – SAS unit is accused
A unit of the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) has been accused of carrying out night missions in which they executed civilians in...
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...
Hospitals & Staff Under Extreme Pressures! Says NHS Boss Stevens
‘THE FACTS are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them, hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure,’ NHS...
BMA condemns ‘patient list cleansing’
Over 300,000 patients have been stripped away from GP practices across England in the last year as part of what the BMA describes as...
TUC must call a General Strike to kick the Tories out now! – Hunt...
Tory Chancellor Hunt declared that the entire cost of British capitalism’s crisis is to be dumped onto the backs of the working class yesterday. Hunt...
US bank rule changes threaten a new crash
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
Harland & Wolff in administration
WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins
MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...
SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation
HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...
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...
NO EXTENSION FOR EVACUATION! – Taliban tells US & UK
AN AFGHAN security forces member has been killed in a gunfight by ‘unknown assailants,’ as US and German troops joined the fighting at Kabul...
Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’
HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...
Points-based immigration system launched!
TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...
GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...
‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners
PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were...
Tories announce £330bn bailout for big business
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled a multi-billion bailout for big businesses in light of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the daily press conference Sunak...
Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry
US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...
RCN delegates strongly back Cullen’s YES vote call
DELEGATES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress at the Brighton Conference Centre cheered and gave General Secretary Pat Cullen a standing...
Youth are marching against capitalism!
OVER 10,000 school youth from around the South East of England descended on London’s Parliament Square yesterday shouting: ‘Solution not pollution! We want change!’...
40,000 Railworkers Strike Today!
BRITAIN is in shutdown again today as 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies strike in defence of jobs, pay, conditions,...
‘Be ready for action this Autumn’ says NEU
‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...
TORY PROTEST BAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE!’ – London marchers clash with police
At least 36 people were arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ after a march of thousands of protesters through central London came under attack by...
Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade
Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...
Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving
THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...
TUC stands with Palestine – TUC statement declaring solidarity with Palestine
THE TUC stands in solidarity with all Palestinian workers and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) who on Tuesday took part in...
Chronically ill thrown off benefits – because GPs ‘misled’ by DWP
PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....
RMT East Mids Strike Is On
THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...
Hamas opens fire on Israel
HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...
Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions announced
NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...
No demolition without our say so – Grenfell families
‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...
Hamas Rejects Israeli Gaza ‘Conquest’ Threat
‘HAMAS rejects Israel’s Gaza conquest threats’, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi declared yesterday after Israel announced plans for the ‘conquest’ and indefinite occupation of...
Gatwick Airport Faces Default!
GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...
Israel disregarding ceasefire agreement!
THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...
FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them from ‘pay award’
THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...
PCS Fights Tate Sackings
A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
ICC seeks arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders!
THE DECISION by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh...
Labour government planning over 100,000 NHS sackings
MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...
NURSES DRIVEN OUT – Low pay & axing bursary has caused 37,821 vacancies
THERE are now 37,821 nurse vacancies in the NHS, NHS England confirmed yesterday, releasing the latest data. This is a rise of 1,738 from the...
STRIKE ACTION SPREADS TO 68 UNIS – more than 50,000 staff mandated to strike
STRIKE action at UK universities spreads to 68 institutions today as more than 50,000 staff are mandated to strike and well over a million...