TUC denied seat at Tories trade table
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...
DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College
students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...
Blacklisters trial!
A HIGH Court hearing took place yesterday to seek compensation for 122 GMB members blacklisted by Carillion and other construction employers. GMB said: ‘The High...
‘They bang your head on a wall – then give you a hot meal’
SHAKER Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, has spoken out about his treatment at detention centres in the US and Afghanistan,...
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...
Doctors – No Confidence In Blair
the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...
Bma Row!
AT a stormy morning session of the BMA Annual Representative Meeting yesterday, Birmingham BMA demanded the resignation of the chairman and deputy chairman...
RML calls for Greek workers and small farmers government
THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...
‘General strike for Palestine!’ – urges London May Day march
OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...
‘take Action To Defend NHS’
Despite Tory leader Cameron’s protestations that he supports the NHS, it emerged yesterday that several leading Tory shadow cabinet members put their names to...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
PM May’s 10-year NHS plan a fraud!
YESTERDAY’S claim by Tory PM May that she will hand over an extra £20bn a year to the NHS was described by Labour’s Shadow...
Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf
‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...
POA urges TUC–‘Consider General Strike’
THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...
‘Stop NHS Mass Sackings!’
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that the NHS is heading for crisis point with 56,058 NHS positions across the UK due to...
March to save Chase Farm today!
YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...
CLAIMANTS GOING HUNGRY! – because of the axing of civil service jobs
Claimants are going hungry because of the government’s axing of thousands of civil service jobs, warned the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday. Further...
JOHNSON FACING REBELLION – 60 Tories preparing to vote against Plan B
THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...
FBU Agrees To Limit Pickets
The Fire Brigades Union yesterday gave an undertaking in the High Court not to hinder or intimidate emergency crews provided by private company AssetCo...
Trump declares National Emergency! – ‘US will never crush us’ says Huawei boss
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared a National Emergency to protect US computer networks from ‘foreign adversaries’. He signed an executive order which effectively bars US...
Fires burn across Kuwait’s largest refinery for 2nd day
FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...
‘CONSIGNING EDUCATION TO THE SCRAP HEAP!’ – Teacher training to be cut to six...
government proposals to cut teacher training to just six months were condemned by unions yesterday as consigning the ‘vision of a world class education...
‘Part-time low-wage economy’
THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...
Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks
A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!
A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...
GREEK BANK STRIKE – as coalition turns on immigrants
THOUSANDS of Greek bank workers are continuing their strike against privatisation and will be joined by Postal Bank workers who are holding a one-day...
PAY UP! – or face strike action warn NHS trade unions
THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over 1.1 million staff said yesterday. UNISON...
Ys Lobbies Tuc
THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...
Junior doctors strike suspended
AT THE eleventh hour, talks between the BMA on behalf of the junior doctors and the government at ACAS reached the following decision: ‘Following talks...
Coulson Leave To Appeal
PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...
Junior doctors considering more strike actions!
JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...
JOHNSON ACCUSED OF LYING! – ‘has questions to answer’ – Corbyn
TORY Foreign Secretary Johnson was yesterday accused of having ‘lied’ and of ‘misleading the British public’ by claiming that Porton Down had identified Russia...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...
‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker
TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...
GP surgeries to be closed!
THE government appointed watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will be able to use new powers from 2012 to close GP practices, British Medical...
Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers
‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...
NHS Multi-Billion Support Services Grab
A NEW list of approved suppliers to the NHS has heightened fears of a multi-billion pound land grab by a handful of corporations. Competition for...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
Police spy inquest: mass walkout in protest
‘NO justice, No peace’ and ‘Sack Judge Mitting now,’ were the cries from campaigners and victims of political policing as they blocked the main...
UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings
ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
Black cabs challenge Uber
‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...
Police tasering mentally ill!
TWO-THIRDS of all people Tasered by the police in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014 were identified as mentally ill. The figures were made...
Three More US Marines Killed
Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...
‘No two-tier workforce!’ 2,000 6th Form College lecturers strike
AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...