CWU CALLS NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION! – All out on Tuesday August 21
The Communica-tion Workers Union (CWU) has announ-ced a national demonstration in London in support of postal workers on Tuesday, 21 August 2007. A CWU spokeswoman...
MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m
FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...
70,000 jobless rise!
YOUTH unemployment has risen by another 20,000 to very nearly one million, according to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. The number...
TATA SACKING THOUSANDS – McCluskey praises Cameron and temporary nationalisation
TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...
‘SERIOUS DANGER TO PATIENT SAFETY’ –from Ambulance Service privatisation
Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...
More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...
Labour tinkers with capitalism – won’t break with EU & won’t scrap Universal Credit
LABOUR’S leaked General Election Manifesto starts with a declaration that ‘Labour understands that wealth creation is a collective endeavour – between investors, workers, public...
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Stella Assange outside High Court
‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...
Children’s lives in danger!
‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...
Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says FBU leader Matt...
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...
Left seeks to form Greek government
The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy party came top in last Sunday’s general election, winning just below 19 per...
FIREFIGHTERS PREPARED TO STRIKE – if Authority carries out mass sakings threat
FIREFIGHTERS are prepared to strike to defeat the Tory-controlled London Fire Authority if it carries out its threat to sack all 5,500 London firefighters...
Renegade Blair predicts a UK civil war!
THE Former and completely discredited prime minister Blair, who took the UK into a war with Iraq that was based on lies and brought...
Bma To March To Tuc Rally
LONDON’S doctors are to march through London to the TUC’s ‘Save Our NHS Rally’ at Central Halls Westminster on Wednesday March 7th. The London Regional...
Imf Orders More Irish ‘Repossessions’
THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...
SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m
The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...
Parents support Northolt teachers
TEACHERS on a second day of strike action at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London yesterday, were joined in support outside the...
Tories Starve The Disabled!
DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...
‘STORM OF MATERNITY CUTS!’ – warns RCM leader
‘There is no doubt that maternity care, like the rest of the NHS, is looking into a storm of possible cuts to services,’ said...
Sunak Won’t Stop Selling Arms To Israel!
TORY PM Rishi Sunak said he won’t stop selling arms to Israel yesterday, declaring that exports to the genocidal Zionist entity will continue as...
HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless
ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...
New Expenses Crisis!
THE Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir John Lyons, has opened an inquiry into expense claims by the Culture Secretary Maria Miller. This follows a complaint...
‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff
IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...
US ‘prosecutor, judge and executioner’ says Lavrov
‘WASHINGTON has openly declared its right to use military force unilaterally and wherever it sees fit in order to protect its own interests,’ Russian...
Burston marchers call for a general strike!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the contribution of refugees and overseas workers in the NHS when he addressed a 1,500-strong Burston Strike...
Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...
Hands Off Our Homes!
‘HANDS off our Homes!’ shouted over fifty trade unionists and youth at a lobby of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, in north west London...
NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham
The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...
‘NO DEAL’ WOULD BREAK UP THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM says Grieve
DOMINIC Grieve, the Beaconsfield Tory MP, has told BBC Newsnight that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Parliament would ‘assert its authority’. He told...
Reinstate The Strikes!
THERE is no deal so reinstate the strikes, frustrated Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials said yesterday. This came as yet another day of talks...
HEATHROW – McDonnell suspended
‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...
Taxpayers Robbed To Bail Out Banks!
The Bank of England yesterday mortgaged £11 billion more of taxpayers’ money to shore up the big UK banks, as bank bosses held talks...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
Nationalise Gm Vauxhall
Business Secretary Mandelson told the BBC yesterday that there will be ‘painful change’ resulting from the takeover of GM Europe. He said that whichever of...
‘Hour for Palestinian state has arrived’ – Abbas tells UN
IN HIS Friday night address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said that a return to direct negotiations...
TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers
THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...
Firefighters role under attack
A PROPOSAL by fire chiefs to expand a firefighter’s role at will and without boundaries has been overwhelming rejected by firefighters by 97%. The proposals...
Italy Hits The Rocks!
Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti was yesterday in talks with Jean-Claude Juncker, chair of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the 17 eurozone countries,...
Second referendum amendment defeated
AMENDMENT H calling for a second referendum was resoundingly defeated in parliament last night by 249 votes, with just 85 MPs voting for and...
PCS Stands Fast Against Tory Strike Sack Threat
THE Tories are threatening emergency action to either ban the official strike action next Thursday by Home Office PCS union members, including Border Agency...
LLOYDS HBOS MASS SACKINGS – as banks go for £17bn more bailout cash
The Unite trade union yesterday urged Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘to start thinking about the human consequences of this takeover’. It was responding to...
Gate Gourmet Sacked-Workers’ Lobby Tgwu Biennial Conference
A COACHLOAD of sacked Gate Gourmet workers is lobbying the TGWU’s Biennial Conference in Brighton this morning. They are currently taking forward a large...
‘WE ARE READY TO OCCUPY CHASE FARM’ says Bill Rogers – Secretary of the...
The North East London Council of Action is holding a picket of Chase Farm Hospital today as news emerged that huge cuts...
‘GET READY FOR WAR!’ –Trump demands UK & NATO support
IN A SPEECH to a military audience on Monday night, US President Donald Trump outlined his change of strategy on Afghanistan. He said: ‘A hasty...