Patel ratchets up enforcement
‘THERE is still a small minority who refuse to do the right thing and to them my message is clear: if you don’t follow...
‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free!’
MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Parliament Square on Saturday, chanting: ‘From the River to...
‘YOU CAN’T PAY WORKERS LESS THAN THE MINIMUM WAGE!’ – GMB writes to Chancellor...
IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...
Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners
THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...
TUC National Day of Action on March 15!
There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...
‘Rogue bus service’ commits ‘illegal safety breaches’ – Unite
THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...
Biden sending more heavy bombs to Israel – ignoring demands for a ceasefire
THE administration of US President Joe Biden plans to resume shipping heavy bombs to Israel, defying international appeals against this action, as part of...
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...
Dead Bodies Are Piling Up Near To Aid Sites!
ADDAMEER Human Rights Association has reported that 54 Palestinians are missing and unaccounted for after approaching Israeli-American aid distribution centres in Gaza, raising alarm...
35,000 gather at Marble Arch – BLACK LIVES MATTER!
35,000 WORKERS and youth rallied yesterday at Marble Arch, Speakers Corner, to insist that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and give their 100% support to the...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
Labour’s warm welcome for May!
THE ONLY MP in the House of Commons to call for Tory PM May to resign yesterday was a Tory. William Cash Tory MP for...
‘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...
Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!
UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...
TORY MPs BOYCOTT CORBYN MEETING
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn convened a meeting yesterday with opposition MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists, Greens, Plaid Cymru and Change UK ‘independents’...
‘We need properly funded GP services!’ – says BMA’s petition to government
MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...
Portsmouth Uni to axe staff!
THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...
200,000 March For Victory To Palestine
A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...
NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’
NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...
Patients to be turned away from A&E – Hancock outlines NHS 111 First
YESTERDAY in Parliament, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that less serious cases would be turned away from A&E and only the most serious...
Great Campaign In Ealing & Hackney
‘EALING Hospital workers and patients are fully backing us over our confrontation with Tory Health Secretary Hancock here on Monday when he refused to...
‘The Tories have left us with a black hole of £22bn this year’ Labour’s...
LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...
Tory war on teachers and their unions
THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...
Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!
ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...
Powerful demo to stop ticket office closures
A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...
Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military
LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
‘On the frontline fighting for the homeless’ says Unite leader Sharon Graham
OVER 100 striking St Mungo’s workers and other trade unionists lobbied City Hall yesterday lunchtime demanding better pay and conditions. There will be a further...
Council Made Millions While Cutting Grenfell Costs!
THE COUNCIL responsible for Grenfell Tower made multimillion-pound property deals while cutting costs to the tower’s restoration, it has emerged. Seventy-two people died when a...
BAME PPE crisis is continuing!
BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...
‘Israel intends the complete disappearance of Palestine’ – Riyad al-Maliki tells ICJ
PALESTINE Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called on judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday to order an end to Israel’s occupation of...
University of Maryland students denounce Gaza genocide & demonstrate for Palestine!
STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...
TEACHERS MASS STRIKE ACTI0N! – fighting for a 12% pay rise
TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...
Teachers fury at Labour’s ‘inadequate & unfunded’ 2.8% offer!
DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...
Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!
OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
Striking Nurses To March On Downing Street!
STRIKING nurses are marching on Downing Street today, leaving UCLH (University College London Hospital) at 2.30pm, as nursing staff go on strike in what...
Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses
BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...
Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers
St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
Greece Erupts As 200,000 Workers March In Athens!
THE VOLCANO of people’s rage which was building up its fury over the last few months, erupted in Greece on Wednesday in an unprecedented...
1-metre rule abandoned when schools re-open! – parents to be fined if they keep...
THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...
2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St
MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...
Ambulance Workers Call For A General Strike!
PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...
Hunger strikers for Palestine are defiant & determined to continue
‘I WAS admitted into A&E on Tuesday afternoon and was returned to Pentonville by Friday evening,’ said pro-Palestinian hunger striker Kamran Ahmed yesterday. Ahmed, one...
Black Schoolgirl Was Strip-Searched By Met Police
A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...
Lift lockdown now and our members will refuse to work
‘THE GOVERNMENT is trying to say: “You take the risk to the staff, and you take the risk to the passengers, it is on...