‘No Deal – Nothing On The Table!’– Junior Doctors to strike from March 13
‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31
THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...
Manchester bus strikers huge victory!
‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...
Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!
EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...
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...
All tube lines out on March 1st and 3rd!
TRANSPORT union RMT announced strike action yesterday on all lines of the London Underground (LU). The announcement comes in the wake of a recent ballot...
‘NOW PUNISH THE GUILTY!’ – demands Palestine Red Crescent
THE Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) demanded an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 paramedics in Gaza last month, when it held a...
Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date
FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...
Million-man march today to expel all US troops from Iraq – ‘Banish Iraqi president’...
IRAQIS are joining a ‘million-man march’ against the US today as anger soars over a meeting between the president of Iraq Barham Salih and...
Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...
Staff at Blackstock Road campus on strike
STAFF at the Blackstock Road Finsbury Park campus of the Capital City College Group walked out yesterday for the third day of strike action,...
BBC spends £38m to enforce collection – Pensioners refusing to pay licence fee targeted
THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...
Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis
THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...
NAO TO PROBE GREENSILL! – and how it collapsed the UK steel industry
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...
Over 100 Palestinian prisoners killed since Gaza war began
ISRAELI occupation forces shot dead 21-year-old Qasim Shuqairat during a raid on his home in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel al-Mukaber on Wednesday,...
Israeli strike on Gaza City kills seven & wounds 20!
AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...
Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!
LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...
University pension strike looms after cuts
UNIVERSITY lecturers are gearing up for strike action against cuts to their pensions. Universities UK’s (UUK) announced yesterday that cuts to the pensions of university...
Labour Woos Democratic Unionists!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday to urge the Democratic Unionist Party to join Labour in...
Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...
‘The Police Have Tried To Silence US!’
OVER 3,000 people massed around the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday afternoon for a vigil in respect of Sarah Everard who was abducted and...
Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions announced
NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...
Demonstrate April 1 15% for all NHS staff
PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...
Red Cross issues dire warning over Israel’s siege & starvation
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...
Gaza ceasefire possible if Israel stops setting new conditions says Hamas
HAMAS said yesterday that ‘a Gaza ceasefire is possible if the occupation stops setting new conditions’, while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was reportedly heading...
‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall
‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
10% of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured or detained by Israel!
TEN per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained since Israel launched its genocidal war on 7 October 2023, according...
BAN ‘FIRE AND REHIRE’ – Manchester bus strikers demand of Mayor
A PROTEST of striking Manchester bus drivers took place outside the Mayor’s Office yesterday afternoon, demanding that Andy Burnham takes action to stop the...
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...
NATIONALISE BP NOW! – ‘stop tinkering at the edges’ demands Unite’s Graham
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...
Tuc Refusing To Smash Tories Anti-Union Law!
TIM SHARP, the TUC senior policy officer for employment rights, has published an article entitled ‘Fighting the Anti-Strike Law’. He states: ‘The government is attempting...
Palestinian families stranded in Jordan!
ELEVEN Palestinian families from the Gaza Strip remain stranded in Jordan after Israeli authorities obstructed the return of children who had undergone successful cochlear...
Truss rail class war!
THE TORY war on the railways and railway workers is to resume immediately, with reports yesterday of mass ticket office closures being ‘hardwired’ into...
BEIS indefinite strike!
OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...
80% parents kept their children at home!
MORE than 80% of parents have refused to put their children in harm’s way, scuppering the government’s plan to reopen schools yesterday, a poll...
Half A Million Are Starving In Gaza!
MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
Israeli tank fire kills scores of Gazans
THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...
No to two-tier Maternity! – demand Charter Schools strikers
‘NO TO TWO-TIER Maternity!’ declare striking teachers at the Charter Schools Multi-Academy Trust in Southwark, south-east London, who begin a further three-day strike this...
RMT Pledges ‘Fierce Resistance’ To Attempt To Reduce Rights!
‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...
Starmer Joins Hammond For Anti-Brexit Coup!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, yesterday welcomed Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s announcement on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he will resign on...
‘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...
Parliament reopens after Supreme Court ruling
‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...