Trump retreats from attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure
US President Donald Trump backed away from his 48-hour ultimatum to strike Iran’s power plants yesterday, after the Islamic Republic warned that all energy...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
Thousands of teachers march on Downing Street! – ‘TUC will defend right to strike’...
THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...
‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced
MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...
Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!
SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...
Security Council warns Israel ‘Don’t dare diminish UNRWA’s operations!’
THE Members of the Security Council emphasised the vital role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in providing...
‘Forced out by company greed’ – Unite condemns BA mass sackings and wage cuts
A BLEAK day for staff ‘forced out by company greed’ will scar spiteful BA indefinitely the Unite union said yesterday, It added: ‘On the day...
Students packed in like sardines–used as cash cows
REPORTS have emerged of students, despite paying thousands of pounds in fees a year for their tuition, are forced to sit on the floor...
National action launched to end ‘fire and rehire’ – while Unite suspends RATP...
THE UNITE union yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to ‘end the growing practice of fire and rehire’ through a programme of strike action alongside...
Islamic Republic defending its territory
THE Islamic Republic’s first and foremost priority is a ‘decisive and firm’ battle to defend its territory against the ongoing unprovoked US-Israeli war of...
GREEK RIOT POLICE ATTACK PROTEST! – thousands march against Police State Bill
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...
Gaza air raid was response to jail break – Hamas
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...
‘Unite the West Bank & Gaza’ demand masses of Palestine
THE Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr Khalil al-Hayya, arrived in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations on the mechanism for a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation...
UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’
THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...
13-year-old Palestinian boy killed for letting off fireworks!
THE ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday. In...
Hunt Reveals A Bankrupt Britain
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...
Opposition Parties Run Away From A General Election!
THE LABOUR, SNP, and Lib Dem parties agreed yesterday not to take up Tory PM Boris Johnson’s challenge and back his motion on Monday...
Young Socialists lobby calls for general strike to bring down Starmer and bring in...
‘WE HAVE to call action here this week at the TUC Congress to support Palestine and stop the genocide,’ Susan Cook, a delegate from...
Hammond pledges to bring down no-deal Tories!
Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...
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...
‘THEY ARE WORKING TO PRIVATISE THE NHS!’ – Unite’s Graham condemns Tories
‘GENUINELY I believe that they are looking that this is the moment that they can privatise the NHS,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said...
Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!
THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...
1-metre rule abandoned when schools re-open! – parents to be fined if they keep...
THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...
Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!
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,...
Sunak Is Silent Over Procurement Scandal
AT PRIME Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday PM Sunak sought to divert questions away from the developing Tory PPE procurement...
TUC National Day of Action on March 15!
There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
The BMA has never been as strong as today for full pay restoration!
OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...
US-Israeli Gaza ‘aid’ chief quits
THE ‘GAZA Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), created by the United States and Israel to manage the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, said it will start...
Top Bosses Earn 120 Times A Worker’s Wage!
THE HIGH Pay Centre’s ‘High Pay Day’ research, published Wednesday, is evidence that the government must rebalance the economy after Covid-19 to make it...
‘Victory to Palestine!’ demand hundreds of thousands on huge London march
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...
Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!
MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW! – demands High Court protest
THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon...
Points-based immigration system launched!
TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...
North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!
FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...
Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing
PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...
A Fifth Of Small Businesses Are Going Under
A FIFTH of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four...
SCRAP SATS – Teachers better than tests at predicting grades
CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...
STOP UK’s ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL DEMAND 100+ MPS
OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request...
‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’
ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
NAHT industrial action ballot after 90% reject pay offer!
THE NAHT school head teachers union executive has announced that it will move to a formal industrial action ballot after a 90% membership vote...
Super-exploitation in Covid-infected meat factories!
THE LINK between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts...
RMT Strike Action!
TUBE UNION RMT went ahead with strike action by tube drivers on Friday night. The action is over the ripping up of existing agreements and...
US WEBSITE SEIZURES CONDEMNED! – Biden continues from where Trump left off
THE US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said...
Johnson under pressure to sack Raab!
PM JOHNSON is facing growing pressure to sack his Foreign Secretary Raab, or if he won’t to resign himself. It has now emerged that neither...
There are 10,000 medical vacancies
THE BMA doctors trade union has responded to data on NHS vacancies, GP workforce and GP appointments. Responding to the latest quarterly NHS vacancy data,...