Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!
‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
50,000 RMT members take strike action!
OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...
Iran coastline will become ‘a hell’ for any invading forces
‘ANY attempt by foreign forces to land on Iran’s shores will be met with overwhelming resistance,’ Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination...
Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!
DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...
TUC denied seat at Tories trade table
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...
Israel’s Blockade Has Collapsed Healthcare
ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...
‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’ – say defiant...
‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...
NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards
CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...
EU invites Syria’s Tahrir al-Sham
THE European Commission has invited representatives of Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), currently ruling Syria, to attend an official donor conference despite the group’s...
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...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis
THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...
‘TORIES WANT TO SUPPRESS THE UNIONS!’ says RMT leader Mick Lynch
‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...
Iran deals heavy blows to the US
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic will be met with an immediate and...
Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...
THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...
‘Don’t lecture us about wage restraint’ – ‘the alarm bells are ringing!’ says Unite’s...
‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...
MASS GRAVES AT GAZA HOSPITALS – EU & UN call for war crimes inquiry
THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...
Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens
THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...
Israel targeting the national & historical rights of Palestinians
THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...
‘We need a general strike’ – the Tories have to go!
‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...
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...
Israel bombs Gaza wedding – kills 6
THE Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned an Israeli attack on a wedding celebration in Gaza that killed at least six people, including...
Day four of Harland & Wolff occupation – South African unions send international solidarity...
THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...
AVIATION ABANDONED! – Unite’s Graham demands meeting with chancellor Sunak
THE UNITE trade union has hit out at the Johnson government for once again failing to recognise the impact of Covid restrictions on the...
Lively picket lines outside Imperial College campuses
THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...
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...
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...
Keep a guard on every train! – RMT leader Mick Cash tells News Line
RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
FORGEMASTERS NATIONALISED – as Honda Swindon is closed
UNITE yesterday welcomed the news that the government will bring Sheffield Forgemasters into public ownership. The news came as the giant Honda plant in Swindon...
JOIN FORCES TO DEFEAT ISRAEL – urges Hamas
ISRAELI forces carried out simultaneous huge explosions in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank yesterday, destroying 20 homes in one residential neighbourhood. The...
Israel bombs Jenin refugee camp!
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...
Israeli jets target children in UNRWA shelters
An Israeli raid on the Attar area on the western outskirts of Khan Younis killed at least 13 people and injured 26 yesterday, Gaza’s...
‘Test Grenfell community for toxic contamination!’
A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...
Greek PM calls students ‘robbers’
LAST Tuesday on national state television, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likened students to ‘robbers’ because they have occupied their university departments in...
Assange sent back to Belmarsh!
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...
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...
Homeless Children Housed In Containers!
TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...
100,000 on London march for Palestine
OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...
Harland & Wolff occupied!
SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...
Sharp rise in Israeli mass killings & assassinations! – a pattern of systematic genocide
THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said on Thursday it had documented a sharp rise in Israeli mass killings and assassinations of Palestinian civilians...
Labour is to immediately recognise Palestinian state
LABOUR’S Manifesto declares that it will ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine.’ It adds that Labour will ‘Introduce a War Powers Act to ensure that...
‘We are pushing back the enemy’ – Iran speaker Qalibaf
PARLIAMENT Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf says Iran, relying on national unity, is pushing back the enemy in a ‘history-making’ war. He made the remarks on Sunday...
Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...