BMA Wales 3-day February strike
British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...
Postal workers strike vote ‘biggest ever’ says CWU leader Dave Ward
POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...
Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS
CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...
FBU strike ballot opens on December 5th!
LAST week the FBU said it would formally issue notice of ballot if ‘a substantial pay increase that takes into account the current level of inflation...
UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump
TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...
Parliamentary Democracy RIP! – Stewart wants a ‘Citizens Assembly’
BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...
Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!
THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...
‘All bus workers must strike together’ – Renationalise now! – demands Harrow picket
THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...
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...
4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!
THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...
800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut
BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...
Gaza ceasefire possible if Israel stops setting new conditions says Hamas
HAMAS said yesterday that ‘a Gaza ceasefire is possible if the occupation stops setting new conditions’, while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was reportedly heading...
Israeli war planes bomb Jabaliya refugee camp! – scores of children are killed
ISRAELI warplanes bombed the Al Jabaliya refugee camp again yesterday morning, killing scores of children, burying them in their homes. Extending just one square kilometre,...
Refugees unlawfully imprisoned in Napier – High Court rules Home Office broke the law!
IN A CRITICAL and damning judgment, the Home Office’s decision to house asylum seekers who had made it across the Channel in a ‘squalid’...
UK ‘The Sick Man Of Europe!’ Say Nurses
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...
Truss Quits – TUC Must Call A General Strike To Kick Out The Tories!
PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she...
‘Real value’ of pay in freefall
THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...
‘Stay Off Work From Next Monday’ Say Neu Leaders!
MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...
Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over! – ‘people won’t be taken for granted’
POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...
20 Nations demand that Israel scraps West Bank occupation plans!
ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...
Resident doctors fighting Labour attacks on the NHS!
RESIDENT doctors leaders declared their determination to defeat the Labour government’s continuing attacks on jobs and pay when they appeared on BBC Radio yesterday...
TUC demands recognise the state of Palestine and permanent ceasefire!
THE TUC unanimously passed Composite Motion C17 at its Congress in Brighton yesterday, demanding: ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine... end licences for all...
86 violently arrested at Wormwood Scrubs
POLICE violently arrested 86 people who were peacefully protesting at Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London on Saturday night. They had gathered in a show...
‘We demand a pay rise’ – Nurses, midwives & NHS staff rise up against...
OVER 500 angry NHS workers marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street on Wednesday evening to demand a 15 per cent pay rise. ‘Enough...
‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!
‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...
Iran Defying US Threats
‘AMERICAN military movements and rhetoric in West Asia are part of a calculated effort to destabilise the region,’ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said yesterday. ‘The...
Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!
PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...
6th Form strikes escalating
ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...
Corbyn woos CBI bosses
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
Israel steps up its counter-revolutionary war on Hamas!
AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an...
Greek students march against riot police
SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians
NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...
26 Labour MPs condemn Mahmood appeal plan
A GROUP of 26 MPs and peers have written to the government condemning its plan to appeal against last Friday’s High Court ruling that...
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...
UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!
PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...
UK faces further tax increases within months
BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...
‘No breakthrough’ in Russia/Ukraine talks
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke yesterday about his talks with the Ukraine regime’s Foreign Minister, earlier that morning. At a press conference, attended...
Israel demolishes UNRWA HQ in Jerusalem!
ISRAEL is bulldozing the headquarters of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem. The genocidal Netanyahu regime is clamping down...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...
GMB warn of furlough cliff edge
‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...
Junior Doctors Are On Strike Today!
JUNIOR doctors in England begin five days of strike action at 7am this morning, until 7am next Tuesday morning. Strike leaders Dr Robert Laurenson and...
RAIL STRIKE SHUTS DOWN UK! – Labour MPs defy Starmer and join pickets
‘The TUC should have called a general strike already. They’re too slow to act,’ was the message from the Waterloo Station picket line yesterday...
‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened
THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...