‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change
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...
Over 10,000 workers and youth join Al Quds-Jerusalem Day!
OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...
Grenfell Inquiry – No Prosecutions
THE Attorney General ruled yesterday that contractors can give evidence to the Grenfell inquiry without fear of prosecution over the 72 deaths. Grenfell United, the...
Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...
Striking NHS Workers March
STRIKING NHS workers from south London’s psychiatric hospitals marched yesterday from Camberwell Green to the headquarters of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust...
‘Inciting support for Hamas’ – Doctor pleads not guilty!
NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, pleaded not guilty yesterday at Westminster Magistrates Court to charges of ‘inciting support for Hamas’ and ‘publishing material intended...
Parliament taking control from government!
‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom 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),...
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...
‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over Nightingale facilities
THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...
SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
Starmer announces militarisation of UK economy
‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...
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...
‘Something rotten at the heart of Labour’ – Labour disaffiliation: Bakers to consult members
THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...
GMB warn of furlough cliff edge
‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...
Julian Assange Must Be Freed!
JOE BRACK from the Julian Assange Defence Committee spoke to News Line yesterday after the Westminster Magistrates Court gave Home Secretary Patel the go-ahead...
CORBYN CONDEMNS LABOUR APOLOGY! – and payment of 6-figure damages
EX-LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Labour’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and award damages to party whistleblowers who took part in...
Russia took action to defend Donbass – says Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vasily...
RUSSIA’S ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke at the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, defending...
Stella Assange denounces the US case as ‘pathetic, founded on lies’
ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...
Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support
TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...
Kent firefighters ready to strike against closures!
FIREFIGHTERS in Kent are considering strike action against threatened mass sackings of 76 firefighters and the closure of five fire stations by the newly-elected...
TUC condemns Trump’s attack on Venezuela
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...
College lecturers – ten more days of strike!
NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...
Thames Water ‘drowning in debt’ – nationalise without compensation demand GMB and FBU
‘THAMES WATER is drowning under a mountain of debt,’ GMB union National Officer Gary Carter said yesterday, in response to the privateer’s announcement of...
Tories Moving To Dump Truss!
YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...
‘Immense’ London-wide Tube station staff strike today!
‘MONDAY’S action will be immense and there will be more of the same if London Underground (LU) continues its attacks,’ leading RMT officer Carlos...
SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation
HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...
Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...
Removing 2-metre rule risks second wave warn unions
DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...
Johnson Relying On Labour To See Him Through!
WITH around 100 rebel Tory MPs expected to vote against the new three tier lockdown system in the House of Commons tomorrow, the government...
Arrest of 2,000 Palestine Action supporters challenged in Court!
THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...
Another huge show of strength! – UCU strike rally, King’s Cross 1.00pm today
‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...
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...
Renationalise Harland & Wolff!
AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...
Tories forced to U-turn on downgraded results
‘WE REALISE that we had taken the wrong road and that we needed to change course,’ Roger Taylor, chair of The Office of Qualifications...
‘PALESTINIAN STATE NOW’! – demands Ambassador to UK Husam Zomlot
‘WE need the recognition of the State of Palestine immediately, Mr Starmer, don’t wait one more day,’ Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador the UK said...
‘Prosecute now’ demand Grenfell campaigners
MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...
Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah
‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...
Children and civilians deliberately targeted by Israeli drone attacks!
A RETIRED British surgeon recently returned from Gaza, testified to British MPs that he treated children and civilians who appeared to have been deliberately...
Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!
‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...
‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff
THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...
South Africa warns Israel over genocide
SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The...
Abbas holds US responsible for the bloodshed in Gaza!
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has held the US administration fully responsible for the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, the latest of which was the horrific...
Striking Doctors Besiege Tories In Manchester
STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...