‘WORST EVER GREEK RAIL CRASH!’ – government cuts blamed
GREEK transport unions laid the blame for the country’s ‘worst ever’ rail crash directly at the door of government cuts yesterday, as they demanded...
40,000 NHS Staff Off Work Sick – In A Single Day
YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...
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...
Truss Backing Call For UK Citizens To Fight In Ukraine
TORY Foreign Secretary Truss and Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy were united in calling for an escalation of military and economic war against...
Transport workers’ lives at risk – ‘Come into work’ TfL tells workers in S...
TRANSPORT union RMT has blasted Transport for London (TfL) for calling on staff in South African variant postcodes to ‘come into work as normal’...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’
‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
CWU National Action this Friday!
THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...
Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...
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...
DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!
‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...
‘CALL THE AIRPORT OUT’ – demand Heathrow strikers
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are taking the fourth of four days strike action today against the company’s imposition of twenty-five per...
PROSECUTIONS NOW! – demand Grenfell survivors
GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...
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...
Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth
LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...
Johnson’s mission to India fails
THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...
Minister seeking to ban NEU teachers strike!
TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...
PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan
TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...
Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
Hunt pledges sanctions against benefit claimants
‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...
Johnson Mortally Wounded In Confidence Vote
TORY PM Boris Johnson was mortally wounded in the no confidence vote in parliament last night, with 40% of Tory MPs voting against his...
US FORCES WILL NOT ENGAGE IN UKRAINE! says President Biden
PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...
No agreement in talks between UK’s Truss and Russia’s Lavrov – while PM Johnson...
THE MEETING between the UK foreign minister and her Russian counterpart yesterday was ‘like the mute talking to the deaf’, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
4.3m UK CHILDREN NOW IN POVERTY! – RAISE CHILD BENEFIT DEMANDS COMMISSION
THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...
10 days of university workers strikes begin
STRIKING UCU union university lecturers and students set up picket lines at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) yesterday morning at the...
Tories Refuse Additional Help To Gp Practices! – BMA
GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...
Tory programme of attacks on working class!
THE TORY programme of 38 pieces of anti-working class legislation which the government plans during the current parliamentary session was outlined in the Queen’s...
Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members
UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
RAAB GRILLED BY MPs
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...
‘Treated appallingly by Home Office’ – had passport taken and threatened with forcible removal
A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...
Royal London SERCO strike rally
DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...
Victory to the Crown Post Office strikers!
‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
VICTORY as pregnant Palestinian released!
ANHAR AL-DEEK, the Palestinian woman who was set to give birth in an Israeli prison, has been released to house arrest in a victory...
Goldsmiths launch 3-week strike
LECTURERS and staff took on Goldsmiths College higher management yesterday launching a bold and powerful three week strike against redundancies and the axing of...
‘Save The Children’ Condemn Israeli Army Child Killers!
SAVE the Children has condemned the excessive use of force by Israeli forces against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE! – bring down Tories – bring in a workers...
THE railways will be shut down for 3 days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, when workers from Network Rail and 13 train operating companies...
Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’
THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...
Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th
THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...
UK-UKRAINE ALLIANCE – ‘We are strategic partners’ – UK Defence Secretary
THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...
‘SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UK!’ – demand 30 top trade union leaders
REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...
JOHNSON URGES MPs TO SUPPORT HIS WAR ON RUSSIA!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...
Labour Shadow Ministers Prepared To Join Nurses On The Picket Line!
WITH THE Royal College of Nursing launching a £35 million strike fund to defeat the Tory government’s 1% NHS pay insult at the weekend,...
UN condemns Tories
THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...