TUC backs boycott & sanctions on Israel
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Brighton passed a composite motion on Palestine on the conference’s final day yesterday, alongside further motions on military...
Israeli Forces Intensify Repression In Palestine
ISRAELI forces intensified their campaign of repression across occupied Palestine on Thursday, carrying out violent raids and arbitrary arrests in the West Bank, while...
Virgin to axe 3,150 jobs! – and permanently leave Gatwick
VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...
Biden threatens to cut off military support for Israel
AFTER widespread outrage over the United States’ continued backing of Israel’s devastating year-long genocidal assault on Gaza, several media outlets reported on Tuesday that...
Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...
NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...
Staff On Terminal Covid Ward Were ‘Denied Ppe’
STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...
Scottish midwives industrial action vote!
MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...
GRENFELL – ‘PROSECUTE THE GUILTY!’ – Survivors still demanding justice
JUSTICE for Grenfell yesterday branded as ‘outrageous’ and ‘atrocious’ the demand by company officials called before the Grenfell Inquiry for immunity from prosecution. The Grenfell...
Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’
JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...
McDonnell wants secret talks!
YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...
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...
‘We will retaliate!’ – Iran warns the US
THE Iranian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the United States is not serious about negotiations, and asserted that Washington will face the Islamic Republic’s...
LEBANESE REVOLUTION! – masses opposed to all sectarianism
HUNDREDS of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying...
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...
PM Johnson refuses to resign despite damning Gray report!
TORY PRIME Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign yesterday despite calls to do so from MPs of all parties across the House of Commons,...
Labour crashes to historic defeat in Welsh election!
MORE than a century of Labour dominance in Wales ended yesterday as the party crashed to a historic defeat in the Senedd election, losing...
Daily Israeli ceasefire violations!
HAMAS says that since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, Israel ‘has not ceased its daily and continuous’ violations. According to the statement...
Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...
LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...
Nurses using bin bags as PPE test POSITIVE!
NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...
Israel aims to ban Oxfam and other UK charities!
BRITISH charities, Palestinian advocacy organisations and Palestine Action yesterday condemned an official Israeli letter maligning their representatives and recommending they be barred from entering...
Fresh Tory council cuts – Vital services axed
THE NEW financial year has kicked in, and with every council budget being cut to the bone the future of leisure centres, council run...
Britain must recognise state of Palestine!
THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...
YOU DID IT! – BMA congratulates resident doctors on 90% strike vote
‘YOU did It!’ the British Medical Association said in a message to resident doctor members yesterday. ‘A resounding majority of you voted in favour...
Insufficient government spending pushing medical students into hardship!
THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...
No joint press conference in Luxembourg – ‘We’re ready for no-deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel. After the meeting, Johnson...
EU publishes plans for ‘no-deal’ scenario
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) published yesterday its contingency plans for a ‘no deal scenario’ as post-Brexit trade deals with the UK remain deadlocked. The President...
Israel is conducting a fierce starvation campaign throughout the Gaza Strip
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...
Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool
STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...
Labour to launch war on disabled
THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...
Russia takes Kherson & surrounds Mariupol
YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from...
British Steel on the Brink – 4,500 jobs threatened
BRITISH Steel is seeking a further loan off the taxpayer of a whopping £75m as it teeters on the brink of collapse, with the...
Johnson Hands Power To Decide To Bosses
‘WE ARE going to give employers more discretion, and ask them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely,’ Tory PM Johnson...
NUS gives full support for university strikes!
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...
SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth
SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...
No Windfall Tax On Gas & Oil Companies
PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...
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...
Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...
‘More doctors needed, not less’
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s draft NHS England workforce plan, which embraces low staffing levels, and replaces doctors with...
Grenfell Tower survivors threatened with eviction
MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...
Israeli occupation forces launch West Bank raids
ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) yesterday launched a series of arrests and raids across various areas of the West Bank, primarily targeting the governorates of...
London Met Strike Action
LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers came out on strike yesterday, Wednesday 15th April, having warned the university they would do so, if the management refused to...
Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...
UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump
TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...
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...
Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC
MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...