‘Underhand’ plan to fire 50 Kent dockers
‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...
GMB pledges to defeat new strike-breaking laws!
‘Butt Out!’ the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday, after it overturned a Welsh law on Monday night banning the use of agency...
15th GP dies of Covid Doctors demand NHS staff vaccination speed-up & condemn gap...
HIGHLY respected London GP Dr Augustine Obaro died from Covid-19 on New Year’s Day, becoming the 15th GP lost to the pandemic. Dr Obaro, who...
Reserve Major General describes current events as a great disgrace to Israel!
A RESERVE Major General in the Israeli occupation army, Yitzhak Brik, yesterday spoke out about the dire situation in the Gaza Strip. Brik described the...
TORIES TO USE ARMY TO BREAK STRIKES! – PCS leader condemns strike-breaking plans
THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...
Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!
TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place
POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...
SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors
THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant
THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...
Police take action against Oxford students occupation
SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...
300 Brighton University students march to save lecturers’ jobs!
OVER 300 students marched yesterday against Brighton University’s decision to sack over 100 staff as part of a plan to make £17.9 million in...
5% pay rise and £1,000 bonus offer to NHS – will not be recommended...
A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...
Tories Transport Refugees To ‘Deathtrap Barge!’
REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...
‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...
‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’
THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...
FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers
CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...
Half A Million Are Starving In Gaza!
MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!
At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Coventry Council sacks hundreds!
THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...
Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...
Mass Protest On First Day Of Assange Case
A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...
Public support for nurses rising!
PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...
Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!
TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...
‘STOP LOOTING OUR PENSIONS!’ – demands FBU, PCS, GMB and POA
THE POA has joined the FBU, PCS and GMB in a Legal Challenge to ‘stop the looting of their pensions!’ The POA, along with the...
11,355 Children Killed In Zionist Genocide
THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by...
Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report
THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay Dispute!
RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...
Huge Tax Cuts For The Bosses – In Sunak’s War Against Workers!
‘FAMILIES hit by the cost of living crisis, business hit by a supply chain crisis, those who rely on our schools and our hospitals,...
‘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...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
More aid seekers slaughtered in Rafah
ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...
‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns Zarif
IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...
17 More Universities Vote For Strike Action!
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
Vicious Tory Onslaught On Asylum Seekers Condemned
HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...
GAZA CITY MASSACRE! – 29 killed and 80 missing
‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...
‘A nurses strike is long overdue’
NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
‘Unite has aided mass sackings!’ – BA workers demand recall Unite conference to sack...
BRITISH Airways workers yesterday accused their union leaders of ‘aiding and abetting’ BA in its mass sackings and contract-busting plans, and demanded the Unite...
Iran Will Fully Defend Itself
IRAN will ‘irreversibly’ destroy vital energy and fuel infrastructure across the region if the United States attacks power plants inside the country, Parliament Speaker...
NHS 50,000 Doctors Short!
THE NHS is 50,000 doctors short new British Medical Association (BMA) re-search released yesterday has found. The number of doctors in England has fallen even...
TUC outlines conditions for a safer reopening of schools!
THE TUC on Friday published a joint statement that was sent yesterday evening to the Secretary of State for Education, on behalf of unions...
Manchester indefinite bus strike!
MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...