Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures
FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...
‘Unions must strike to release Assange!’ Protesters rally outside the Old Bailey
‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...
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...
RMT calls a march on Downing Street
RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...
No limits Stop and Search! Youth chain gangs! – Sweeping police powers ‘discriminatory’ –...
THE TORY government yesterday put forward proposals for even more sweeping police powers. They include taking off all restrictions on Stop and Search. Under the...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
Another 10,000 to be driven onto UC – After Rudd drives through legislation with...
AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...
Corona care homes horror – Tories were ‘negligent’
THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee released a damning report this morning which condemns the Tories’ ‘slow, inconsistent and at times negligent approach’ to the social...
Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients
THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...
Investors Dump Stocks As Capitalism Crashes!
INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
40,000 NHS Staff Off Work Sick – In A Single Day
YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...
Johnson’s brother stabs him in back
TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...
Over 71,000 sofa surfing this Xmas!
‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...
Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months
THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...
‘NOW PUNISH THE GUILTY!’ – demands Palestine Red Crescent
THE Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) demanded an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 paramedics in Gaza last month, when it held a...
‘Unworkable unethical and extortionate!’ – Patel’s war on asylum seekers is condemned
‘UNWORKABLE, unethical and extortionate,’ was Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s response to Home Secretary Priti Patel’s statement to the House of Commons on...
One in six Gaza children severely malnourished!
‘ONE IN SIX children under two years of age are acutely malnourished in northern Gaza,’ Richard Peeperkorn, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative said yesterday. ‘This...
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...
‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs
A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...
Junior Doctors walk out today!
JUNIOR doctors are staging a full walkout in England beginning at 7am today, Thursday 27 June and ending at 7am on Tuesday 2nd July. The...
‘There is no safe place on the Gaza strip!’
‘LIFE has completely vanished, and the displaced wander with uncertainty, not knowing where to go as there is no safe place in the Gaza...
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...
Unite and GMB surrender to BA and mass sackings!
BOTH the Unite and GMB trade unions have given up the fight to halt the mass sackings organised by British Airways, centring on Heathrow...
Bma Doctors Defiant!
THE British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that it is consulting its members over the latest government offer to settle the resident doctors dispute,...
Junior doctors out of their depth – Forced to make end-of-life decisions during pandemic
MANY junior doctors feel out of their depth with the end-of-life decisions faced during Covid-19 pandemic In normal times, end-of-life care discussions are most commonly...
Cabinet Minister Gove Broke The Law Rules The High Court!
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove broke the law by acting with ‘apparent bias’ in handing a £560,000...
Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...
FOURTH DAY OF FUEL PROTESTS IN IRELAND – as prices rocket by 50%
FUEL protests entered their fourth day across Ireland yesterday, with blockades at the country’s only oil refinery and major ports forcing Taoiseach Micheál Martin...
Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament
THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...
FAMINE – warning from World Food Programme!
THE humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘could soon escalate into famine’ as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies...
Tories scrap Leeds leg of HS2 – trade unions must take action
THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...
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...
Starving Palestinians storm US-Israeli GHF ‘aid’ centre
The first day of the Israeli-US ‘aid’ distribution mechanism in Gaza ended in abject failure yesterday. The ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) distribution centre in Rafah...
Turkish invasion escalates! – condemned by 13 UK unions
ON THE SECOND day of the Turkish invasion of Syria, after a massive bombing raid striking northern Syria over 180 times, killing at least...
Israel kills 67 waiting for aid in northern Gaza
The Israeli military killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says. Six more people...
Police surround the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia to try & seize Morales’ ministers!
Last Sunday night in Bolivia around 10pm, 220 police, armed and accompanied by trained dogs, surrounded Mexico’s Embassy in La Paz. According to a statement...
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...
West Bank Explodes As Abu Diyak Dies In Israeli Jail!
HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...
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‘We are here for as long as it takes!’ say defiant Harland and Wolff...
HUNDREDS of workers joined yesterday’s Harland and Wolff Rally in Belfast, with speakers reiterating their demand for the renationalisation of the shipyard. Unite Regional Coordinating...
Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel
UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...
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...
Take to the streets to defend Gaza! urges Hamas
‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...
Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!
DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...