No To Cheap Labour Teachers!
TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...
RCN calls 48-hour national strike
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...
‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’
‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...
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...
Russia issues defence warning!
RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...
Harland & Wolff in administration
WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
Israel steps up genocidal war on Gaza and West Bank!
AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...
Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa
‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...
3 More Mass Graves Found At Nasser Hospital!
MORE tragedy keeps unfolding in the city of Khan Younis, with more mass graves found inside the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. Medical staff and international...
‘Big Four’ supermarkets pay back £1.7bn in Covid funds
SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...
The TUC must call a general strike! say Barts Hospital strikers
STRIKING Royal London Hospital ancillary workers rallying outside Barts Hospital in their fight for pay and improved conditions yesterday demanded that the TUC Special...
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...
Right to attend your A&E being ended!
NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...
Hamas condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza! Strip
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...
Johnson puts Navy in charge of repelling refugee dinghies
THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...
NO TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES! say 20,000 Greek students and teachers
TWENTY thousand university and school students, primary and secondary school teachers and universities staff marched through Athens last Thursday in a determined and enthusiastic...
Chancellor Reeves in crisis as government borrowing soars!
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...
Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!
JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan 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...
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...
Labour targets disabled with £5bn cuts
LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...
Palestinian Red Crescent wants to know what happened to Hind Rajab!
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the Gaza Strip has called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to...
World Bank Halts All Its Funding For Afghanistan!
THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...
BA Boss Cruz Sacked
ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...
Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!
STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...
ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot
RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...
PC Couzens will die behind bars – MP Harriet Harman calls for Met Commissioner...
PC WAYNE Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard was sentenced yesterday to a ‘whole life order’, which means he will never be...
20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis
THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...
Transport workers’ lives at risk – ‘Come into work’ TfL tells workers in S...
TRANSPORT union RMT has blasted Transport for London (TfL) for calling on staff in South African variant postcodes to ‘come into work as normal’...
Birmingham bin strike escalates! – Unite condemns ‘disgraceful use of unlawful labour’
NEARLY 400 Birmingham refuse workers began indefinite strike action yesterday over the scrapping of the waste collection and recycling officer role (WRCO), which has...
Israel escalates Gaza slaughter as the UN confirms GENOCIDE!
AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...
Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS
Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
Trump to chair Gaza Board of Peace!
THE GAZA ‘Board of Peace’ has been announced, with US President Donald Trump as its veto-wielding chairman, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
Labour scraps 4-hour A&E waiting time target
THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...
More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...
Teachers battling ‘fire and rehire’ tactic to slash their pensions!
THE NEU National Education Union’s 2021 Annual Conference yesterday debated calls from members working in the independent sector for a national campaign to protect...
‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’
NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...
Workers block South Korea coup!
‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...
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...
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...
RAIL CHAOS AFTER NEW TIMETABLE IMPOSED – TSSA calls for renationalisation
RAIL CHAOS rapidly spread across the length and breadth of the UK as new train timetables coming into force yesterday hit serious problems, leaving...
‘We need to escalate the action’ say striking bin workers
‘WE NEED to escalate the action,' striking Birmingham bin workers at their Perry Bar picket line told News Line early yesterday morning. The 370 striking...
‘Obscenely inflated prices paid for unusable PPE’ by the Tories
£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...
Junior doctors begin 72hr strike
THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...