Resident doctors in England will strike for six days from April 7th

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RESIDENT doctors in England will strike for six days from 7th April after rejecting a government pay offer that would spread already inadequate increases...

Turkey Buys Isis Oil – Says Yaalon

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ISRAEL''S defence minister has accused Turkey of buying oil from IS, thereby funding its activities. Speaking in Athens, Moshe Yaalon said IS had ‘enjoyed Turkish...
Palestinian youth battle with Israeli troops and settlers on the West Bank

Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move

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HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...
Angry residents demonstrate against the Forest Gate police raid

Second Forest Gate Inquiry

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced yesterday it is to conduct a second inquiry into last month’s armed police raid in Forest Gate. The...
OUTSIDE Holloway Road Post Office yesterday pickets striking for the 13th time drew huge support from the public in opposition to the scandal of the privatisation of 70 Crown Post Offices.

One-day strikes are not enough! say striking postal workers

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OUTSIDE Holloway Road Post Office yesterday pickets striking for the 13th time drew huge support from the public in opposition to the scandal of...
Marchers in London last October demanding no bombing of Syria

Stop Tories’ Syria War Drive!

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‘PUBLIC opinion and anti-war mobilisation stopped Cameron’s last push to war on Syria and we need to stop the Tories again,’ a Stop the...

Dutch To Follow French Example

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Dutch workers are ready to deal another blow to the bosses and bankers’ EU by following the example of the French and voting ‘NO’...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....

‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths

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‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
The RMT urged voters to vote ‘Leave’ in the EU referendum. Labour’s Manifesto refuses to break with the EU

Labour tinkers with capitalism – won’t break with EU & won’t scrap Universal Credit

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LABOUR’S leaked General Election Manifesto starts with a declaration that ‘Labour understands that wealth creation is a collective endeavour – between investors, workers, public...
Police stop and search young people near to the Climate Change camp at Heathrow Airport

ELEVEN ARRESTED! – in climate change protest

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ON the third day of the Climate Change camp, on the northern perimeter of Heathrow Airport, 1800 police were on duty, searching, monitoring and...

Greek Students Mobilise!

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REPRESENTATIVES of Greek students’ unions along with hundreds of university students carried out mobilisations last Thursday in Athens and Thessaloniki. The three main demands of...

Warsi Resignation Rocks The Tories

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TORY Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has quit the government, saying its policy on Gaza is ‘morally indefensible’. In her resignation letter, Warsi spoke of...
March around Sussex University Campus during the occupation on 25th March 2013 – they have now resumed their occupation

Birmingham Occupation Spreads To Sussex

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THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...

Ministers pledge measures to control cost of living

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YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...
Tenant Joan Elsby and her son Kevin with Crown Properties executive Nick Wood, BBC cameras looking on.

Haringey Tenants Evicted!

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FURIOUS tenants remaining at Connaught House in Muswell Hill vented their anger at bailiffs yesterday at 12 noon as evictions took place of families,...

Abu Ghraib Contractor Producing Drones For Usa

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THE defence contractor which reached a settlement with alleged victims of torture in the notorious prison of Abu Ghraib is now again at the...

No ceasefire – only permanent end to aggression! – tens of thousands march in...

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IRAN will reject any call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insisted yesterday,...

Truss To Lift Cap On Bankers’ Bonuses!

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PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...
Students joined lecturers on the picket line at Aberdeen University yesterday morning demanding the UCU does not capitulate – by 4pm the deal had been rejected

NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!

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A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY was reminded by Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on May1st that their struggle was very much ongoing

MARCH WITH THE LOCKED-OUT GATE GOURMET WORKERS – through Southall on August 20

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THE Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a warning that one year after 800 workers were sacked at Gate Gourmet the ‘dispute could...

SAVE OUR POST OFFICES – CWU announces week of actions

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...

Smash The Health Bill!

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‘HEALTH unions must now do what their members want and organise industrial action to defeat this bill,’ leading BMA member Anna Athow demanded yesterday. She...
Nurses demonstrate against the end of bursaries and the introduction of tuition fees

Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!

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SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...

‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference

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THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...

Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters

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FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...

LABOUR READY FOR EU SELL-OUT – as Watson prepares for EU elections

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TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...
Greek workers defending their pensions and jobs

GREEK WORKERS DEMAND ALL-OUT GENERAL STRIKE – to halt attack on pensions and defeat...

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LAST Wednesday’s general strike in Greece, against the government’s reactionary Pensions Bill, marks a most critical turning point in the fast developing revolutionary situation....

KEEP NHS A&Es OPEN!

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The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...
Patients, GPs and staff marching through Tower Hamlets to defend 21 east London GP surgeries threatened with closure

Cameron’s 7-day GPs & NHS provokes strike threat

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HEALTH unions have threatened to strike over Cameron’s plans to create a seven-day-a-week health service, if it means cuts to the existing payments for...

Sajid Javid tells patients to ‘manage their own care!’

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ON Thursday, Sajid Javid, the Tory Health Secretary, made a euphoric speech to the Health Service Journal Digital Transformation Summit. He praised the Covid pandemic...

Labour launches savage attack on unemployed!

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LABOUR launched a new extreme attack on the unemployed yesterday, announcing that if they do not find a job within a year they will...
A section of the 220,000-strong crowd assembling for the march in Marseille yesterday

French General Strike

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PARIS – French workers are on strike again today and staging rallies to protest the government’s bid to raise the retirement age from 60...
May Day march!

May Day march!

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TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!
GMB Acting General Secretary PAUL KENNY speaking to a delegation of Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on November  2nd

Unison Condemns NHS ‘Health Rationing’

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Britain’s biggest public sector union, UNISON yesterday condemned the decision of three Suffolk Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to deny operations to overweight patients. ‘It’s against...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10

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A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...
Our West Hendon campaigners determined to defend their homes and their rights

No To West Hendon Evictions!

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TENANTS and leaseholders are protesting in Tyrrel Way, West Hendon, north London from 7am today, against the eviction threat to 250 families...
Mothers demonstrate outside the House of Commons against government benefit cuts

Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack

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FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability

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THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...

Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...
A group of nursery school teachers protesting on Monday night

‘Special measures’ against NHS

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ELEVEN NHS hospitals are being placed under special measures because of major failings, Health Secretary Hunt announced yesterday. Hunt said the trusts,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning on Southall High Street with KIRAN GILL (extreme left) and THOMAS MURPHY

Big Support For Gate Gourmet Workers Meeting!

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were campaigning yesterday on Southall Broadway near Heathrow Airport for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. The meeting is being...

Brown Attacks The Public Sector

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday outlined plans to slash government employees’ jobs and pay. He said public sector workers earning an ‘over-generous’ salary would be ‘named...
TUC march to defend the Welfare State in April last year

BENEFITS BLITZ! – Tory coalition to make 33% cuts

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Campaigners have slammed government plans to proceed with moving people off incapacity benefit and onto the dole. The government plans to move all incapacity benefit...