MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations
A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
Workers Demand ‘End Austerity!’
SURVATION – who accurately predicted the hung parliament – also now shows Labour storming to a 7 per cent lead over the Conservatives. ...
Big Support For Gate Gourmet Workers Meeting!
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...
Belfast Cwu – Still Out!
Striking Belfast postal workers yesterday told union representatives that they are not going back to work. Communications Workers Union spokesman, Owen Davey, said after...
Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report
THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...
21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...
Government Rushes To Placate Angry Generals
THE government has ruled that millions of pounds of compensation will be paid to British troops wounded in Iraq after May 2003, when the...
Private treatment centres harm NHS
TREATMENT Centres run by the private sector are much more likely to have an adverse effect on their surrounding NHS trusts, finds new...
Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison
ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...
TORTURE NOT OK! Law Lords defend Iraqis’ human rights
BRITISH troops were told to hood Iraqis and use banned ‘stressing’ techniques when interrogating them, human rights lawyer Phil Shiner claimed yesterday at...
100,000 Demand Smash Fees!
OVER 100,000 students, lecturers and college youth filled the streets of Westminster yesterday, in a massive demonstration against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s announcement of...
BA’S 2 YEAR PLAN – for £450m savings and up to 6,000 sackings
THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...
‘Chagos Two’ being held on rendition Island
‘We call on all trade unionists and anti-war campaigners to support this good cause, Chagos Islands Community Association chairwoman, Hengride Permal, said yesterday. ‘We need...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
‘Robbing the dead and the dying’
Relatives and widows of the thousands of men who died from asbestos-related cancer, yesterday expressed their determination to fight on after the Law Lords...
STEPHEN LAWRENCE – policeman and staff member arrested
A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice after claims that evidence...
Landlord seeking ‘Benefit Cap’ possession orders!
HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...
Save Fenlands Jobs
TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...
Blair Has Questions To Answer
THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...
14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!
THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
Stop Ark Take Over Of State Schools
ANTI-ACADEMY protestors demonstrated yesterday afternoon outside the central London headquarters of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), which is involved in the building of 12...
£1.90 AN HOUR ON CELTIC FERRIES – major unions lead protest
LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...
30% Wages ‘Sabbatical’ For Vauxhall Ellesmere Port
General Motors, the owner of Vauxhall, has put forward a plan for its Merseyside workforce to ‘take a break’ from two to nine-months from...
Blair To Deport People To Face Torture
CIVIL rights group Liberty yesterday warned that Prime Minister Blair is seeking to cross a ‘fundamental line in the sand’ by sending people to...
Mass Executions In Sirte
Fifty-three Muammar Gadaffi loyalists were executed by members of the counter-revolutionary NTC at a Sirte hotel last week, Human Rights Watch reported yesterday. Human...
‘Impossible to avoid long strike’ at Delphi
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker have issued this statement on Delphi’s announcement that it will file Section 1113 and Section...
CORUS SHUTDOWN OUTRAGE – 3,000 jobs threatened
Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...
UK TROOPS GO INTO MALI! – FO tells Brits to quit Lebanon, Tripoli, Palestine...
BRITAIN is to send 350 troops to Mali to be deployed as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’, Defence Secretary Hammond told an anxious House of Commons...
Darroch quits – ‘thrown under a bus by Johnson’ say ‘Remainers’
SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...
GOLDSMITH REFUSED TO BACK IRAQ WAR – in March 2008, 2002 letter to Hoon
THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...
Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer
FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...
‘WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TOGETHER’ – Gate Gourmet workers vow ‘no compromise’
THE GATE GOURMET pickets were in a lively mood yesterday, full of determination that they were all going to get their jobs back in...
Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure
‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
BLAIR PEACH – NO POLICE TO BE CHARGED! – after 31 years of cover-up
‘We always said that Blair had been killed by a policeman. I feel that we’ve really been vindicated,’ Celia Stubbs, the partner of Blair...
Defend Council Estates! Keep Homes Open!
SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...
Strike Shuts Dover Port
Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...
Troops Out Of Iraq By Christmas Says Unison Conference
Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference in Glasgow voted overwhelmingly yesterday to demand British and US troops are withdrawn from Iraq by the end...
BA sack BASSA branch secretary – Unite condemns bullying and intimidation
The Unite union yesterday condemned the sacking by British Airways of a senior Unite official, BASSA branch secretary Duncan Holley, as ‘another act of...
Hunt was Murdoch’s ‘cheerleader’
RUPERT Murdoch is to be questioned by the Leveson Inquiry today and tomorrow over the ‘appropriateness’ of his relationship with prime minister Cameron and...
No Army Strikebreaking!
Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...
‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men
,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...
‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU
IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...
THE POLICE ACTED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS – they will do it to another family...
THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...
Mass Picket At The National Gallery
THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...