Amcu to march on British embassy!
THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...
‘FIGHT FOR EVERY JOB!’ say Gate Gourmet pickets
ANGRY Gate Gourmet strikers told News Line yesterday that Transport and General Workers’ Union head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, had visited them on...
Extreme torture inflicted on Palestinians
NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of...
Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!
PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...
DE MENEZES EVIDENCE ‘JUSTIFIES A PROSECUTION FOR MURDER–say lawers
‘We have to have a judicial review; you can see from the day he was shot, everything was wrong,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel
OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...
Paddy Hill condemned British & Irish governments!
ONE of the Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1975, branded the British legal system as unable ‘to spell the...
Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action
The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...
US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians
US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...
Tories unveil sweeping new police powers to ban protests
THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...
NHS must remain free! – says RCP
‘STOP reorganising the NHS, increase NHS funding, and commit to an NHS free at the point of delivery,’ demanded the Royal College of Physicians...
Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda
The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...
Unions Go For One-Day General Strike!
THE PCS trade union is having a consultative ballot asking members to back its ‘We all need a pay rise campaign.’ This calls for a...
HAMAS ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE! to end the war in Gaza and begin the withdrawal...
HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement...
NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital
THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...
POLICE KNOW BEST! – Blair’s message for House of Commons
Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked MPs for opposing the police demand for powers to hold people for 90 days without charge. Blair told his monthly...
£85bn cuts and tax rises in budget!
Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls yesterday accused the Tories of wanting to take Britain back to the conditions of the 1930s. Trade unions are bracing...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
‘SUSPEND YOUR IMPOSITION AND THE STRIKE WILL BE OFF’ – Woodley pledges to BA’s...
‘Suspend – not stop indefinitely – suspend your imposition. This strike will be off,’ Unite transport union leader Tony Woodley pledged yesterday. He was speaking...
‘I WILL NOT SET A DATE’ – Blair defies Brown and unions
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...
RCM, Unison strike ballot!
FOR the first time in history midwives are uniting with other health workers to ballot for strike action, in an escalating fight over...
Corona care homes horror – Tories were ‘negligent’
THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee released a damning report this morning which condemns the Tories’ ‘slow, inconsistent and at times negligent approach’ to the social...
‘Citizens Being Treated As Toxic Waste’
RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...
JAIL TIME FOR BANKERS – raised at parliamentary committee
EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...
Sharpest decline in retail sales in 40 years!
UK retailers have experienced the sharpest year-on-year decline in sales in over four decades, driven by the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. The Confederation...
Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned
YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...
‘Low paid student graduates deep in debt’ says NUS President
The National Union of Students (NUS) commented on figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency yesterday which show the average graduate salary to...
Six Palestinians killed overnight in Israeli drone strikes
AT LEAST six Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday in Israeli drone strikes on police posts in central and southern Gaza, as Israel continued...
Hands off fire service says Norfolk
THE Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) proposal to take control of Norfolk fire service will put ‘public safety at risk’, a councillor has said. Norfolk...
State Attack On Labour!
MET Police chief Cressida Dick said yesterday that her officers were assessing online material and allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the Labour...
‘Syrians Alone Have The Right To Choose The Government’
‘SEATED amongst us today in this room, are representatives of countries that have the blood of Syrians on their hands, countries that have exported...
Teachers’ pensions hit again
‘THIS is just the latest blow to hard-working teachers and other public sector employees already reeling from a raft of changes to their pensions,’...
Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out
Thousands of lecturers, supported by tens of thousands of students, were yesterday taking strike action against Labour government cuts and sackings at 11 colleges...
NO ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS AT McDonald’s
RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...
Workers support Occupation!
EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...
Obama Threatens China!
US President Obama has angered China over his plans to expand the American military presence in Australia. In an address to the Australian Parliament yesterday...
BROWN PROPS UP BLAIR! – while Byers warns against ‘forced removal’
Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday refused to call for prime minister Blair to set a date for his departure. Brown expressed his fears about the situation,...
Bank Warns Of Meltdown!
The deepening eurozone crisis is a threat to Britain’s just rescued banks, the Bank of England warns in its latest Financial Stability Report out...
AMBULANCE CRISIS – Handover delays put patients at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm
PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...
Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police
The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
Hezbollah – a strategic threat to Israel
NAIM Qassim, deputy secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, has underlined the continued resistance against the US and Israel will never surrender. ‘The only...
FBU Pensions Victory!
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has won a landmark ruling in its dispute with the government over changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015....
NUT rejects the ‘Prevent’ policy
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...
‘Get Out Of Iraq’ – US Abandons Citizens After Its Terror Attack
THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...
NHS WHITE PAPER – BMA leader writes to GPs and students
BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, wrote to doctors and medical students yesterday, following publication of the health White Paper for England, which proposes...