Sheikh Jarrah resident is threatening to blow up his home rather than leave it!
ON MONDAY a Palestinian man carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in occupied Jerusalem as his family faced eviction. The Sheikh...
Nationalise P&O says RMT
ON THE day the owners in Dubai are set to pay hundreds of millions in dividends, RMT has called for P&O Ferries to be...
Israel assassinates Gaza mayor
ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government...
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...
Israeli Tanks Mass On Border Fence!
AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday...
Tories ‘blithely sailing NHS towards an iceberg!’
THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...
London Tube Staff To Walk Out
TUBE staff have called for urgent talks with London’s mayor to avert a strike expected to cause severe disruption. Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union...
Hundreds protest in Chicago against Israeli raids
HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...
Junior Doctors Taking 5 Days Of Strike Action
JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...
More than 239,000 Palestinians killed or injured in Gaza!
THERE has been a significant rise in miscarriages in Gaza in the past 12 months, alongside a sharp 40% drop in new births compared...
Israel launches major offensive!
THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...
General strike across Palestine today! ‘Recall Israeli ambassadors’ – Palestinian PM Shtayyeh
A GENERAL strike has been called for today across the whole of Palestine. The call began from Palestinians living and working in Israel and was...
Starmer to be forced to publish what he knew
THE TORIES are to force a vote in the House of Commons today to make the Labour government publish more information related to Peter...
Hamas condemns Biden for rushing arms to Israeli state
HAMAS has slammed the US Biden administration’s announcement that it is rushing another $20 billion worth of arms to Israel to escalate its genocide...
Hamas fighters in fierce battles with Israeli army in Jabalia!
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even...
‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s first socialist mayor
ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...
‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’
ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year
THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...
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...
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...
2.8% Rail Fares Rise – ‘A Kick In The Teeth For Passengers’ – RMT
THERE is to be a 2.8% rail fares rise for 2020. The increase will be based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure of...
Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs
THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...
‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
‘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...
Priti Patel ramps up police enforcement!
‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...
UCL Condemned For Going To The Law Courts!
‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and...
World Bank Halts All Its Funding For Afghanistan!
THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...
More Unite ambulance workers to take strike action on May 2
MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...
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...
Tory Crisis Deepens As Parliament Returns
LIZ TRUSS returns to Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister today, amidst a bubbling rebellion of MPs and economists who are aghast...
‘A MOMENTOUS BREAKTHROUGH!’ – ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes
AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...
320,000 children face acute malnutrition
ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
Iran Accuses US & Britain Of Complicity In Carnage At The Al Nuseirat Camp
THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...
Court case against Johnson dismissed!
YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...
LABOUR WILL VOTE TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50 – rather than accept ‘No Deal’
THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...
‘SORRY WRONG HOUSE!’ say Israeli soldiers after murdering 21-year-old
‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...
Flammable wooden cladding found on 20 blocks!
AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...
Anti-racist protesters who deface statues could get 10 years under Tory legislation!
ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...
Trade unions must take action to restore the whip to Corbyn
TWENTY seven Labour MPs have signed a statement from the Socialist Campaign Group describing Labour leader Keir Starmer’s decision not to readmit Jeremy Corbyn...
Royal Mail Xmas Strikes Against Mass Sackings
NEW Christmas strikes have been called against the destruction of postal workers’ livelihoods Following further attacks on the terms and conditions of postal workers, the...
TORIES ‘FORCING’ WEEKEND RAIL STRIKES – insist ASLEF’s Whelan and the RMT’s Lynch
ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...
Anti-monarchy protesters arrested in police state UK
‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...
Dismissal of consultant is unacceptable says BMA
THE BMA says the dismissal of a consultant from Hampshire for whistleblowing is unacceptable and further highlights the need for cultural and legal reform...
Tata steel workers vote to take strike action!
TATA Steelworkers have overwhelmingly voted to strike with three quarters of them backing industrial action, the GMB union announced on Monday. The ballot ended with...
RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...