FIGHT MASS SACKINGS – 200,000 jobs to go in the next three months
THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...
‘TERRORISTS’ WERE UK CREATED – ex-MI5 Head tells Chilcot
BLAIR’S invasion of Iraq ‘substantially’ increased the terrorist threat to the UK, the former MI5 Director General told the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq...
Labour to win by-elections – Tories in huge NHS crisis
VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...
Bin workers reject pay cut capitulation deal!
'THERE’S no mention of the massive £8,000 pay cut. If it’s not satisfactory we’re quite prepared to reject this deal and vote to stay...
Big Gains For Labour In Local Elections
THERE WERE big gains for Labour in Thursday’s English and Welsh local elections. Neither incumbent Boris Johnson nor Labour’s Ken Livingtone achieved 50 per cent...
Record-breaking overcrowding – in both council & privately rented homes
UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with...
Labour hits back after Panorama attack
‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...
‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...
‘PEOPLE WILL OCCUPY’ – to stop Chase Farm closure
‘People will not accept the loss of Chase Farm Hospital and will continue to fight to keep it open through occupation if necessary,’ north...
Putin Stabs Libya In The Back Again
RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...
Maternity cuts despite baby boom
HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...
World Climate Strike!
MILLIONS of youth supported by trade unionists walked out of their schools, colleges and universities yesterday, in one hundred and fifty countries across the...
Refugees March To Eu Offices Demanding ‘Freedom!’
OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...
Kent firefighters ready to strike against closures!
FIREFIGHTERS in Kent are considering strike action against threatened mass sackings of 76 firefighters and the closure of five fire stations by the newly-elected...
UK crisis can’t be contained!
THE CAPITALIST CRISIS is beyond control and moving according to its own laws, with the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) admitting that...
‘WE’RE LOBBYING TUC TODAY’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘WE want to know if the TUC agrees with what the T&G has done to us,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Sharanjit Grewal said...
March of the 4-year-olds demands no test
SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...
CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve
TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...
STOP THE AXE! DEFEND THE ARTS! – Norwich march today!
‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...
Wage Theft Rampant In Scotland!
MACDONALD Hotels stand accused by the trade union Unite of ‘wage theft’ in explosive evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs select committee’s...
Doctors – No Confidence In Blair
the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...
‘A KICK IN THE TEETH FOR PASSENGERS!’ – TSSA condemns above inflation fare...
TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...
UCU Fights Mass Sackings
The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...
Iran warns US-UK over Syria
THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...
‘LECTURERS ARE WINNING FIGHT’ – 15 Vice-Chancellors urge ‘peace talks’
THE UNIVERSITY lecturers’ strikes are having a a massive impact, and, with the overwhelming support of the vast majority of students, the Vice-Chancellors...
‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed
CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...
Slashing Winter Fuel Payment is a death sentence!
trade unions and charities yesterday slammed as a death sentence for millions of pensioners, government plans to slash the annual Winter Fuel Payment by...
University pickets call for a general strike!
Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...
UCU is in dispute with 88 English College employers – ready for biggest ever...
ENGLAND’S biggest-ever strike ballot is on the cards, confirmed the University and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after it entered into dispute with 88 English...
Chase Farm Judicial Review is told ‘We want a full A&E – 24 hrs...
THE Judicial Review into the closure of Chase Farm’s Hospital A&E began yesterday morning. Enfield council is seeking the quashing of...
‘We reject compulsory redundancies’ – say Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, determined to win their rights, having been told on Wednesday that British...
6th form teachers strike today!
TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in...
‘We’ll picket until we get our jobs back’
GATE Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, said their lobby of the TUC General Council on Wednesday had been...
Labour’s warm welcome for May!
THE ONLY MP in the House of Commons to call for Tory PM May to resign yesterday was a Tory. William Cash Tory MP for...
£5.96bn TRADE GAP
The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 4.5 per cent yesterday, as latest official figures showed Britain suffered a new record...
‘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...
US & UK Won’t Condemn Israeli Terrorism
The US and UK has blocked an emergency UN resolution condemning Israel and demanding it end its savage bombardment of Gaza. The UN Security Council...
Rebekah Brooks to stand trial
Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie, plus four others, were yesterday charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Charlie is a chum...
Right-Wing Mobs Take To Arms In Ukraine
As well as Lviv, the occupation of government buildings by anti-government activists and confrontations with police were reported yesterday in the western cities of...
‘YOU CAN’T THROW KIDS ONTO THE STREETS’ – say Heygate Estate tenants
MORE tenants and residents of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle yesterday expressed their anger at the news that Evelyn Amahian and her...
Plan to ‘Fire and Rehire’ 100 teachers at Richmond College
STAFF are set to strike over a plan to ‘Fire & Rehire’ over 100 teachers at Richmond upon Thames College Staff at Richmond upon Thames...
Hamas leader is certain that the Israeli regime will be removed from all of...
ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of...
France Paralysed!
France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...
‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers
YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...


















