Cladding Lobby
TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
Israel’s Gaza Genocide Goes Over 25,000!
AT LEAST 25,105 people have now been killed and 62,681 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that as...
‘We Need A National Strike To Win This Now’
‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...
Tories are driven back over schools opening!
THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...
‘Biden must follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel!’
THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...
Managers Ignored Doctors Warnings!
THE BMA issued a powerful statement yesterday calling for ‘non-clinical managers in the NHS and other health service providers to be regulated, in line...
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...
Corbyn woos CBI bosses
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
South African variant spreading across UK
THE SOUTH African variant has begun to spread across the UK, the Tories confirmed yesterday. Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the 5.00pm briefing: ‘We...
Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught
Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...
‘We’re fighting a land grab of our conditions’ says Mick Whelan
‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...
‘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...
‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
PCS Heathrow strike ballot launched! – while TUC and Unite stress that they support...
THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...
BBC is urged to reinstate documentary on Palestine
FIVE hundred professionals from the film, television, and media industries, including Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson, and Miriam Margolyes, have urged the BBC...
Scunthorpe scaffolders step up strike
SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...
CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers
A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...
‘Disastrous’ contract changes GPs ready for industrial action
GPs HAVE voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action if ‘disastrous’ changes to their working contract, which they say threaten patient safety, are not...
‘STATE OF COMPLETE COLLAPSE’ – healthcare system in Gaza
THE HEALTHCARE system in Gaza is ‘completely out of service and in a state of complete collapse’, Palestinian health ministry spokesman, Dr Ashraf al-Qudra,...
RMT and Unite leaders pledge to defeat Tory attack on right to strike
THE LEADERS of the Unite and RMT unions warned yesterday that they will mobilise their full power to defeat Tory plans to ban the...
2,200-strong bus drivers strike solid – Bus drivers demand renationalisation
THE BUS strike by 2,200 Unite members employed by the privateer RATP at eight London garages was solid yesterday, with strikers demanding that the...
Tories Can Still Win Says Sunak
TORY PM SUNAK has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats. Labour and the Lib Dems...
Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’
‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak
MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...
Worldwide media protest against Zionist genocide
MORE than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest yesterday, highlighting the killing of more than 200 journalists in...
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...
Unite-Rolls Royce jobs deal – includes a 10% pay delay for 1 year
THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...
‘Intervene to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza!’– Hamas urges the Muslim nations
HAMAS has urged Arab and Muslim nations to intervene immediately to halt Israel’s resumed assault on Gaza, stressing that regional powers bear a ‘direct...
Israeli forces kill more than 71 Palestinians
ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...
Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients
THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...
Heathrow security guards OK 33 strike dates over 3 months!
OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...
‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab
ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...
Lift lockdown now and our members will refuse to work
‘THE GOVERNMENT is trying to say: “You take the risk to the staff, and you take the risk to the passengers, it is on...
Teachers fear schools still unsafe as millions return
‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...
Slum housing drove up Covid-19 deaths – new Public Health England report
POOR housing conditions contributed to the disproportionate amount of people who have died of Covid-19 in poverty-stricken communities, a new report released yesterday by...
Birmingham strikers lead 20,000-strong march on Downing Street!
STRIKING Birmingham bin workers led a 20,000-strong march of workers, students and youth on Downing Street on Saturday. The ‘Welfare not Warfare’ demonstration assembled outside...
NHS preparing sweeping healthcare services cuts
THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...
Israel targets medics and aid workers – new videos show
Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order to medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, one of the last remaining hospitals in the...
STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift
‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...
Johnson imposes local lockdowns!
TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...
Famine Spreads In Gaza!
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...
‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over
ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...
‘LEAVE NOW’ DEMAND MAY’S MPs – as Tory split widens
DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...
Teachers at breaking point – over Covid restrictions
THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...
Hamas celebrates ceasefire & pays tribute to ‘steadfastness’ of the Palestinian people
HAMAS has celebrated the ceasefire agreement ending the Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a testament to the resilience...