Cabin Crew Determined To Win
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
‘TOTALLY INADEQUATE!’ – unions condemn £500 A&E ‘bail-out’
THE British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison yesterday dismissed as ‘papering over the cracks’, Cameron’s announcement of a £500m ‘bail-out’ over two years for...
BLAIR’S POLICE STATE POWERS – come in on Sunday January 1
‘These powers constitute a serious erosion of civil liberties in this country. They will change the relationship between the police and the individual fundamentally,’...
Barts strikers fighting for the NHS
WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing,...
Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!
DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...
BMA condemns private management consultants
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned the government for spending £171 million on private management consultants, who have been hired to advise NHS...
Labour Misses Targeted Councils
LABOUR failed to take targeted councils from the Tories in Thursday’s elections, including Wandsworth, Kensington & Chelsea, Swindon and Westminster. However it won back...
POLICE SPIES SCANDAL – undercover officers used dead children’s IDs
A secret police squad stole the identities of dead babies and children, using them to attempt to infiltrate political groups and parties, it was...
‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite
‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
‘NO TWO-TIER WORKING IN THE NHS!’ say Woolwich NHS strikers
QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...
TUC ‘stands ready to assist FBU’ – O’Grady tells FBU conference
THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday angrily condemned the government-commissioned Knight Review of the fire service. Ex-Chief Fire Officer Ken Knight recommends privatisation and mergers, suggesting...
RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!
RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...
Sacked cleaners occupy Ministry!
THE sacked cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry are continuing the occupation of a ministry building in central Athens since Thursday morning. They have barricade...
Amesbury and Salisbury – Russian involvement ludicrous
RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter...
7,000 NURSING POSTS GONE! – in just two years of the coalition
‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...
Greek Riot Police Storm Steel Plant
AT 5.30AM yesterday about 50 armed riot police stormed the striking steel workers’ pickets at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, about 25 km...
More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation
A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...
‘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,...
Classrooms bursting!
SCHOOL classrooms are at bursting point, with half a million pupils squeezed into classrooms with more than 40 in a class. Labour Party analysis highlighted...
Labour Hits Out At Welfare State!
LABOUR'S Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne yesterday attacked the Welfare State and those claiming benefits. Byrne’s piece, printed in the Guardian...
PCS Votes For National Strike Action
MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...
Houthis blockade the Red Sea
THE United States bombed Iran for a twelfth consecutive night early yesterday, and Iranian forces struck back across the Gulf, hitting American installations in...
‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility
Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...
HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed
The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...
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...
Gm Crisis Meeting Today
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said yesterday that the Merkel government was seeking clarity from General Motors on plans for Opel. This came on the...
Met chief faces questioning over destroyed evidence!
THE head of London’s police is going to be questioned today about the destruction of a ‘lorry-load’ of evidence of widespread police corruption...
Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights
Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...
Manchester indefinite bus strike!
MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...
Blair is to blame for Iraq war and occupation deaths
THE widow of Guardsman Anthony Wakefield, Ann Toward, is 100 per cent correct – Tony Blair is to blame for the death of her...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...
TUC delegates speak out in favour of an anti-Tory general strike!
DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...
Growing NHS Protests – New ‘Poll Tax’ Rebellion
Health campaigners yesterday warned that NHS privatisation and cuts will be ‘Labour’s poll tax’. The warning came as the number of protests mushroomed around the...
Scottish Water 2-Day Strike Action
WORKERS employed by Scottish Water are staging a two-day strike amid a continued dispute over pay. Members of the unions Unite, GMB and Unison are...
Bring Private Care Homes Back In-House
‘I STRONGLY believe that care homes should be taken back under local council control,’ GMB rep Dianne Wragg said yesterday. Wragg is the lead steward...
Hague And Gove Have Gone!
TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the policies enforced by the now ex-Tory Education Secretary Gove, and resisted by hundreds of thousands of teachers...
‘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...
ANNEXATION! – Israeli plan to carve up Palestine
‘WE ARE already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the...
‘Israel A Terrorist State’
UP TO ten thousand people demonstrated on Friday evening in front of the Israeli embassy in London to protest against Israel’s continued military assault...
SECRET JUSTICE AND SECRET HEARINGS – is now Coalition policy
A SECRET Justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation, warned legal action charity Reprieve yesterday. Reprieve said: ‘The government this week confirmed that plans...
GG– great support in Southall
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were out campaigning at the weekend for their mass picket next Sunday and their conference in London on Sunday January...
US terror raid on Libya!
US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...
PRIVATE CLINICENTA NHS CONTRACT SUSPENDED – after two patient deaths
‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...
Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians
ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....