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Greek Students Stage A Huge National March!

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GREEK students staged a huge national march in Athens last Thursday against a government Bill to establish private universities while shutting down or merging...

Sixth Day Of Strike Action Against £2,500 Pay Cuts Per Annum!

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UNITE members at RATP London United yesterday held their sixth day of strike action against £2,500 per annum pay cuts being imposed by French...

‘We’re in this for the long haul’ – insist NHS consultants as they announce...

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CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...

‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff

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THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...

FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE! – Zionists seen off in Amsterdam

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SUPPORTERS of Palestine confronted Israelis in Amsterdam who tore down the Palestinian flag. The scene began with chants of ‘Death to Arabs’ and ended with...

LABOUR READY FOR EU SELL-OUT – as Watson prepares for EU elections

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TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...

Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote

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LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...

Sunak Escalates Military Action

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...

Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa

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‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...

NHS – 15% Rise Now!

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PROTESTS took place outside hospitals yesterday morning after the call by unions to turn April 1st into a day of action for NHS staff...

FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them from ‘pay award’

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THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

NHS hospital managers must be accountable! say BMA consultants

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THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...

Israel is conducting a fierce starvation campaign throughout the Gaza Strip

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THE EURO-Med Human Rights Monitor has issued a stark warning that Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, compounded by a total blockade and acute shortages...

‘I refuse to accept that I live in a country where child poverty ...

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‘I REFUSE to accept that I live in a country that accepts that child poverty is normal,’ Apsana Begum, suspended Labour MP for Tower...

No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers

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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...

Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change

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NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...

Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

13 universities are on verge of bankruptcy!

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THIRTEEN universities face ‘a very real prospect’ of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a new report by the...

160,000 CWU members take action & government collapses – A great day!

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SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...

DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!

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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...

Coronavirus ripping through Belmarsh!

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BELMARSH High Security prison is suffering from an outbreak of coronavirus to such an extent that it is ‘barely functioning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has...

PCS Heathrow strike ballot launched! – while TUC and Unite stress that they support...

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THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...

Postal Workers Will Not Accept Their Livelihoods Being Destroyed!

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THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...

‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’ – say defiant...

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‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...

600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...

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NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

Mass Pickets Of Striking Junior Doctors Today!

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MASS PICKETS of striking junior doctors take place today from 8am-11am outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament in central London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in...

Famine Spreads In Gaza!

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AT LEAST 15 people, including four children, died from famine and malnutrition in Gaza yesterday, the Health Ministry reports. Israeli forces also killed at least...

Tories Are Opening ‘Virtual Wards’ To Shut Down NHS!

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THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...

Youth Rise Up Against Capitalism

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A THOUSAND school youth walked out of classes yesterday to join the mass protest in Parliament Square, furious at how capitalism is destroying the...

Murder of Sarah Everard: PC Couzens pleads guilty – Commissioner Dick refuses questions

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METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...

Biggest NHS strike in history! – bring down the Tories now

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THE BIGGEST strike in the history of the NHS takes place today with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) escalating its action, as members...

Tens of thousands forced into private ‘healthcare’ as Tories set out to torpedo the...

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GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...

‘We are on the verge of a conflict involving the whole continent’ says...

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‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...

South Western guards strike is rock solid!

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THE SOUTH Western Railway workers’ strike was rock solid yesterday morning in their escalating battle to keep the guards on the train. They are...

TORIES CONDEMN NHS WORKERS PAY CLAIMS – ‘unreasonable’ says Cabinet Secretary Dowden

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THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...

LABOUR NOW ‘PARTY OF PATRIOTISM!’ – says witch-hunting Keir Starmer

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SIR KEIR Starmer announced the institution of a witch-hunting regime in the Labour Party at a 30-minute press conference in East London yesterday. He insisted...

‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!

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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...

Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!

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SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...

Assad gives orders for a peaceful transition in Syria

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad left office in Syria yesterday after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, as ISIS terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al...

‘We can’t go on like this – government has lost control!’ Sir Keir Starmer...

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Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...

21 tear-gassed and killed in stampede at GHF Gaza aid site!

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AT least 21 people have been killed, including 15 from a stampede and suffocation due to tear gas being fired at Palestinians seeking food,...

PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan

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TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...

UN condemns Tories

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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...

Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway

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THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...