Patel: More Police Powers – Despite Sarah Everard’s Murder!
‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...
Disabled cutting back on food and heating
THOUSANDS of disabled people are cutting back on food and heating as a result of the Bedroom Tax, says a group of leading charities. The...
Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job
PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...
ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues
JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...
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...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no water or electricity
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state
The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...
‘GP collapse’ in North of Ireland! – put the Tories out on June 8th...
GENERAL Practice in the North of Ireland is close to collapse with the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) seeking to collect enough undated resignations to...
Pathology Staff Strike
PATHOLOGY staff at King’s College and Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals are today striking against privatisation at all three hospitals between 9am and 5pm. Pathology...
RE-OPEN EPSOM A&E – demands GMB trade union
‘GMB are calling on the government and the minister of health to reinstate the A&E services to Epsom,’ Paul Maloney, Senior Officer of the GMB...
‘WE ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE NHS’ – says BMA
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...
BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it
IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...
Gate Gourmet Tribunals Are Completed
THE Reading Employment Tribunal has dealt with the last 23 claims for unfair dismissal against Gate Gourmet London arising out of the mass sackings...
Refugees Attacked By Riot Police
Refugee families at the Athens Railway Station and at the Diavata refugee camp outside Thessaloniki, northern Greece, were ferociously attacked by riot police last...
Nut Reject Three-Year Pay Cutting Deal
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday rejected a proposed three-year pay deal for teachers as a pay cut and warned there will be...
Vote Wrp Vote Jonty Leff In Hackney & Shoreditch!
‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff because I am angry about the lack of jobs for young people and the amount that they are...
Forced Labour Challenged!
Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) have begun a legal action challenging the coalition government’s ‘Mandatory Work Scheme’ which it argues amounts to unlawful forced labour....
‘WE HAVE TO KEEP THIS HOSPITAL OPEN!’ – says Chase Farm mass picket
‘We have to keep this hospital open,’ said workers and youth taking part in a fifty-strong picket of Chase Farm Hospital, yesterday, organised...
Woodley announces strike ballot for BA cabin crew
The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...
PALESTINE ERUPTS! As US opens embassy in Jerusalem
PALESTINE erupted yesterday into furious protests throughout Gaza and the West Bank as the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem. While the embassy opened,...
KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER
KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...
Call a General Strike for Palestine!
THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...
‘Stop state-sponsored racism!’ – Take ‘hate vans’ off the streets
DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...
PARIS ERUPTS – as Macron’s pension attack goes to French Parliament
FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...
EU Withdrawal Bill proceeds Lords amendment rejected
THE GOVERNMENT saw off an attempt by Remainers to adopt the Lords amendment which would have allowed a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit...
Mobilise unions to save Ealing Hospital – says WRP’s Arjinder Thiara
THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following...
Israel steps up its Gaza genocide campaign!
SCORES of Palestinian civilians were murdered and many others injured on Friday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza continued for the 42nd day...
One million to strike
OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...
Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...
Revolution In France
IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...
CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions for the bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...
Re-open maternity & children’s wards – demands Ealing mass picket
DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...
‘WITHDRAW THE HEALTH BILL’ – GPs will not be in charge says the GPs...
Dr Laurence Buckman, Chairman of the BMA’s GPs Committee, wrote to all GPs in England yesterday setting out why the Committee wants the Health...
RCN urges safety review of winter nurse numbers!
HEALTH and care providers must examine whether they have enough nursing staff to provide safe patient care this winter, the Royal College of Nursing...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
‘TIME TO GET RID OF CAPITALISM’ – News Line Anniversary Rally is urged
JOSHUA Ogunleye, the WRP General Secretary, told the over 100-strong News Line 49th Anniversary rally yesterday: ‘Workers and young people hate capitalism! ‘This is...
‘don’t Close Heart Units’
PARENTS yesterday spoke out in opposition to the closure of four specialist children’s heart units. The ‘Safe and Sustainable’ review of children’s heart surgery...
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers
Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...
Britain Handing Detainees Over To Afghan Torturers
Two judges will today hear allegations that the British government has been knowingly complicit, for a number of years, in the torture of British-arrested...
US CRISIS DEEPENS – Porsche warns – ‘Serious slump’ in world motor car industry
US consumer spending fell by one per cent in October, the largest decline since September 2001, in a further sign of the deepening slump,...
End PFI at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, is ‘costing £18 million a year too much’ and is due to cost more than £800 million...
TORIES BREAKING APART! – Gove suspected of an anti-Johnson plot
SENIOR Tories sought to deny that the Tory government is breaking apart yesterday, with former Brexit Secretary David Davis congratulating PM Boris Johnson for...
RCN slams Health Bill
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...
Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa
‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...
ISRAEL KILLS 28 FARMERS – close to the Syrian border
Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...