‘FANTASTIC SUPPORT’ for day one of work & pensions strike action
Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...
STOP ISRAELI AIR RAIDS – or Syria will retaliate!
SYRIA has warned that it may use its right to self defence after recent Israeli air raids against a civilian airport near Damascus...
Syria Is Winning!
THE Syrian army has scored ‘major victories’ against ‘rebels’ and now holds ‘the balance of power’ in the conflict, President Bashar al-Assad told a...
‘Ministers keen on kicking struggling youngsters when they are down!’
THE TUC said yesterday that young people not in full-time education are now less likely to be in work than people of other ages...
194,941 sign ‘Sack Hunt’ petition
PATIENTS and doctors still need answers on seven-day hospital services, Dr Mark Porter, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said yesterday. This follows...
BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%
THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...
UCU ‘No’ To Campus Spies
UNIVERSITY and college lecturers yesterday morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for ‘extremism’. The controversial proposals,...
We’Re Workers Not Slaves!
‘NO return to slavery, we are workers!’ chanted over 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters outside Parliament yesterday. The protest from 11am-1pm, Old Palace...
Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade
Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
BMA Demonstrates At Tory Party Conference
THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories...
Huge victory for Filton 24!
Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...
THOUSANDS OF YOUTH STORM PM’s OFFICE IN SRI LANKA
THOUSANDS of revolutionary youth and workers defied tear gas, bullets and Sri Lankan armed forces as they stormed the office of Prime Minister Ranil...
‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS
HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...
New Expenses Crisis!
THE Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir John Lyons, has opened an inquiry into expense claims by the Culture Secretary Maria Miller. This follows a complaint...
Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers
St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!
PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...
NO WARNING SHOUT! – De Menezes inquest told
The firearms police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead in a tube carriage at Stockwell ‘gave no warning’, a passenger on the train...
FBU to strike – Oct 19
FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday. The...
Demand for inquiry into Israeli war crimes!
THE United Nations human rights office has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that Israeli forces ‘summarily executed’ at least 11 Palestinian men...
HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown
ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...
Teachers vote to fight SATs!
Head teachers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott SATs tests, which unions condemned as ‘focusing on failure’. Teaching unions are also deeply opposed to the league...
3 YEARS WITHOUT BENEFIT –Labour supports coalition threat to unemployed
Unemployed workers face being refused benefits for up to three years if they don’t take up job offers, or ‘community placements’ under a new...
‘All military families have the right to hear Blair give evidence’ –Reg Keys...
TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...
Millions march in Iraq against occupation
Millions of Iraqis marched in towns and cities across the country against the US-led occupation yesterday, waving the nationalist Iraqi flag on the fourth...
Johnson To Close Rochdale< Salford< Trafford & Bury Maternity Units
Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...
NORTHERN ROCK JOBS SHOCK! – Unite pleges to fight compulsory redundancies
The Unite trade union yesterday told Northern Rock that they will oppose any plans for compulsory redundancies at the publicly owned bank. Following the announcement...
Social cleansing condemned – LONDON CLEARED OF 50,000 FAMILIES
CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...
REVERSE PLAN TO AXE GUARDS! – Tory minister admits they are vital
RMT is calling for an immediate halt and reversal of plans to axe guards from trains after a government minister admitted that they are...
PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week benefit cuts
THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...
London Tb Cases – 50% Rise
Tens of thousands of babies will be vaccinated as part of a strategy to fight the resurgence of the deadly respiratory disease Tuberculosis (TB)...
Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call
ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...
Hamas calls for popular uprising against settlers
THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...
Israel committing horrific Gaza massacres
IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...
THREAT TO STRIKE GAZA! –made by Israeli Premier Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned yesterday that Israel will strike ‘aggressively’ at Gaza in reaction to any fire from the territory. He said at...
The Israeli Regime Has Escalated Its Genocide!
THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing...
‘Walsh will never crush BASSA’
‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...
IRANIAN DISASTER – 140 killed as plane crashes into flats
140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...
TAKE ACTION – to defend the Public Sector
OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...
Duggan Family Will Fight Inquest Verdict
THE FAMILY of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in August 2011, said yesterday that the family will fight the inquest decision...
Russia Rejects Brown Attack
In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...
Powell Suffers Multiple Memory Failure!
WHEN Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1997-2007, Jonathan Powell, was questioned yesterday about the September 2002 dossier that took the UK to war...
Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition
THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...
Gate Gourmet workers campaign for anniversary march
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were interviewed by the Heathrow Airport free newspaper Skyport yesterday. Parmjit Bains told News Line: ‘All Heathrow Airport workers read it. ‘They...
ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...
ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...