School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!
THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...
3,000 sackings as Grangemouth closes after 100 years!
ALL OIL refining ceased in Scotland yesterday with the closure of the Grangemouth refinery, after more than 100 years of operation. Mass sackings of the...
Corona cases soar by 25% across UK!
CORONAVIRUS infections have risen by 25% across the UK, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, to more than 35,200...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
GPs reject imposed contract! – 99.2% vote NO!!
GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...
UN Reafirms Palestine Support
UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to supporting the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights, including the right to live...
Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...
‘Israel wants to erase the Palestinian nation – now is the time to act’
‘THE question here today is not why we are sailing. The story is not at all about the mission we are about to embark....
Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!
THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...
2,800 steel jobs set to go! – workers demand general strike, while the...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak has begged Tory PM Sunak to stop Tata carrying out last Friday’s threat to sack 2,800 steelworkers in Port...
‘We will absolutely not pause our strike action’ – says RCN leader Pat Cullen
‘WE WILL absolutely not pause our strike action,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen said yesterday morning on the BBC’s Laura...
Palestine Demands A Criminal Investigation
PALESTINE has demanded an immediate international criminal investigation into the Tel Aviv regime’s policy of settlement expansion and expropriation of Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Ministry...
Palestinian leaders condemn Trump-Netanyahu Gaza plan!
HAMAS is studying the 20-point plan for Gaza which US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu published on Monday evening. Trump claimed yesterday that...
US, UK & France ‘complicit in possible Saudi war crimes’ – Amnesty
A NEW report by Amnesty International reveals that precision-guided bombs made by the United States have been used in Saudi-led deadly airstrikes against civilians...
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 to ‘Son of a Dog’ Trump’s deal – Abbas
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ the details of which were announced yesterday evening. Abbas said: ‘Trump...
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...
‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...
‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...
Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’
THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
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...
Workers ‘will pay for recovery’ says Sunak
‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...
New Tent Camp Massacre!
ISRAELI air attacks targeted displaced Palestinians in tent camps in al-Mawasi refugee camp in western Rafah again yesterday, killing 21, including 13 women and...
JDE bosses step up fire & rehire dispute
UNITE has reported that bosses at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury will stop workers from taking summer holidays to thwart an overtime ban,...
PM Johnson reaches out to Labour!
‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...
The Great Care Home Massacre!
A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
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...
RMT calls new round of strikes – Rail bosses cancelled talks ‘at one hour’s...
THE RMT rail union will hold a series of 48-hour strikes in December and January after industry bosses failed to offer any new deals...
Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...
A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...
‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line
‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...
Removing 2-metre rule risks second wave warn unions
DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...
‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children
THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
Rail Fares Rise – A 2.7% Hit
MILLIONS of rail passengers will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for tickets from 2nd January, in a fare rise announced last...
Six million waiting for NHS treatment – Highest since records began
ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...
NHS ‘more than 10,000 doctors needed!’
THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...
‘Give It Back’ Huge Support For Strike To Restore 10% Pay Cut
IN the first test of public opinion since British Airways check-in staff announced that they will take strike action to have their pay restored...
Workers Revolutionary League statement – Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth...
STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...
No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas
HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...
Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband the police!’
THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...
AMAZON ACCUSED OF DIRTY TRICKS – as GMB withdraws bid for recognition
AMAZON was yesterday accused of ‘dirty tricks’ as the GMB withdrew its recognition bid. Amazon refuses to pay workers a decent wage, but are paying...
Budget cuts of up to £5bn a year are provoking a Labour rebellion!
WORK AND PENSIONS Secretary Liz Kendall is making changes to her package of welfare reforms in a desperate attempt to reassure Labour MPs who...
Working class kids denied education!
THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...
Record redundancies! – JobCentre claimants rise to 2.7m
NEW OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) figures released yesterday show a record rise in redundancies of 370,000 and a fall in the number of...
Israel bombards areas west of Gaza City – 40,334 killed so far
SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...
Palestinians battle on!
FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...
TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines
THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...