STRIKE ON! – Form public sector alliance demand postal workers
‘Everyone has to come out now, all the unions have to,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Hampstead Delivery Office deputy unit rep John Taylor told...
Gate Gourmet Tribunal Review
Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside the Reading Tribunal last Friday, where they were seeking a review of the tribunal judge’s decision that their 32...
Cameron won’t fire Hunt
RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
Boycott Hits 145 UK Universities!
A MARKING and assessment boycott yesterday hit 145 UK universities as university staff are refusing to mark and assess work. The UCU lecturers’ union has...
Reinstate Indro Sen!
‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...
Greek Marchers Defy Eu & Imf
TENS of thousands of workers and youth held strong anti-government marches and rallies in all Greek cities and towns on May Day. Seafarers, railway,...
Scores of constituencies will vote for my point of view says Galloway
SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...
Pfi Crisis Hits Bart’s & London
‘Direct government investment is by far the cheapest and best way to build new hospitals,’ said a UNISON spokeswoman yesterday, in response to the...
Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
‘CORE SERVICES’ ONLY IN AN ‘INDEPENDENTLY RUN NHS’! – BMA leaders’ recipe for NHS...
British Medical Association (BMA) leaders yesterday launched what they described as their ‘Green Paper’ for an NHS of ‘core services’ run by an independent...
Consumers facing huge oil & gas price rises!
THE TORY government claimed yesterday that there is no threat to the UK gas supplies, despite four energy privateers being widely tipped to go...
Barts & St Thomas’ solidarity action!
UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...
NHS preparing sweeping healthcare services cuts
THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...
70% of NHS contracts going private
THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...
Workers anger with Tata is growing! says MP Kinnock
THE sale of Tata’s UK steel business is being held up by the Indian parent company insisting any buyer has to take on a...
Junior Doctors Are Angry!
JUNIOR doctors and their union have responded angrily after 1,500 third year trainees were told they have to re-apply for their jobs as registrars...
Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire
THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...
HUGE US UNEMPLOYMENT RISE – as Obama meets his advisors
US president-elect Barack Obama discussed the financial crisis and other big problems with world leaders yesterday. He spoke by telephone with the...
Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!
THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...
9 fresh strike dates at BA after talks collapse
BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...
‘NAME THE DAY!’ – says RMT leader Crow
YOUNG SOCIALISTS and trade unionists lobbied the TUC General Council yesterday morning to demand it call a general strike. Young Socialists kept up chants of...
Assad Warns West
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...
UN votes: UK must go to The Hague over Chagos
THE UN General Assembly voted by 94 countries to 15 that Britain should go to the International Court of Justice (The Hague) over...
Barts To Cut Nurses!
Barts and London NHS Trust is planning to reduce the proportion of qualified nurses on its wards as part of a two-year programme of...
Government Refusing To Disclose Torture Evidence
A BRITISH Court yesterday ordered an expedited hearing on whether the British government can ignore the plea by London man Binyam Mohamed for evidence...
‘We Will Have The Last Word’ Say Greek Youth
THOUSANDS of school students in all Greek cities participated in militant mobilisations against the government’s austerity laws and police violence on Thursday, the fourth...
Striking Bus Workers To Top Up Their Claim!
BUS workers are to increase their Olympic Games payment claim against the bus privateers and Transport for London (TfL), Unite declared yesterday. London buses will...
Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...
THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...
NHS STRIKE IN IRELAND! –while fury in England over NHS sell-out
AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...
STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder
FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...
‘LAST CHANCE FOR GREECE!’ – Eurogroup President Juncker threatens Greeks
‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...
Cwu Marches To Defend Royal Mail
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) are hosting a march and rally in Corby, Northamptonshire, today against the privatisation of Royal Mail. The March will begin...
Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!
THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...
Gmm Profits Collapse!
The future of the General Motors plant in Luton, IBC Vehicles, and its 1,000 workforce, is looking ‘doubtful’, despite assurances from GM bosses. GM says...
One million workers march through London for Palestine
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched through central London in support of Palestine on Saturday, condemning 100 days of Israeli genocide during which...
Ealing Trade Unions Back Gate Gourmet March
A DELEGATION of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers leafletted at Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday and won more support for their demonstration through Hounslow...
Safety Before Profits!
SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...
DON’T LET MPs STEAL BREXIT! says senior Cabinet Minister Fox
THERE is a risk MPs will ‘steal Brexit from the British people’ if Theresa May’s proposed ‘backstop’ deal is rejected, senior cabinet minister Liam...
Anti-government fury at Greek pensioner’s funeral
The funeral of a Greek pensioner on Saturday turned into a mass anti-government protest. About 1,000 workers and youth attended the civil funeral in Athens,...
PM May assures Trump over trade deal with US
‘WE WANT to trade with the UK, and the UK wants to trade with us. We are by far their biggest trading partner and...
‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...
‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
‘a Smokescreen For Wholesale Privatisation’
Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...
Coffey Tells Nurses 3% Is All You Are Getting!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) responded with fury to Tory Health Secretary Therese Coffey’s declaration on TV yesterday morning that, regardless of whether...
Home Office Wants To Send Rose To Her Death
HER local Yorkshire community is defending Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian-born kidney-transplant patient, from deportation and death. The UK immigration authorities have hounded her, an ill...
Revolutionary General Strike in Greece!
ATHENS – Tens of thousands of workers and students marched in all main cities of Greece last Thursday in a 24-hour general strike against...