14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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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...

Grangemouth Pensions Fight Is On!

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Sunday’s two-day strike by 1,200 workers at Grangemouth oil refinery will go ahead, said Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. Speaking before addressing a...

Greenspan Lashes Bush

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Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...
Workers listening to a classical music concert at the ERT grounds last Friday night

Occupiers won’t quit ERT

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‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...

Stop Israel’s starvation of 2.4 million Palestinians!

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THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) began five days of hearings against Israel’s illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestine...

Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing

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FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...

Coalition opposed Assange bail

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was finally released from prison yesterday, to loud cheers from a crowd who had gathered to show their support for...
Libyan students demonstrate against the NATO bombing of Tripoli during US President Obama’s visit to Buckingham Palace in May

A SHATTERING BLOW TO NATO – Crowds cheer Saif al-Islam

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BRITISH soldiers are set to be sent to Libya it has emerged, with Downing Street repeatedly refusing to rule out deploying ground troops...

‘We as Palestinians are ready to fight!’ – WEST BANK AND GAZA ERUPT

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‘WE as Palestinians are ready to fight!’ Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil said as both the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip erupted ...

Sri Lankan Masses Getting Ready To Complete Their Revolution!

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SRI LANKA’S revolutionary anti-government demonstrators said yesterday they were ending their occupation of official buildings, but vowed to press on with their revolution to...

Don’t carry out Tory NHS cuts! – Unison urges Northern Ireland NHS Trusts

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UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

Ambulance crisis! – caused by bed shortages

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HOSPITAL bed and staff shortages are causing suffering for patients in the West Midlands as ambulances cannot deliver patents for treatment, the area’s senior...
Health workers show their angry opposition to the Tory coalition’s privatisation of the NHS

REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution

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OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...

North Shropshire Disaster For Tories – Pm Johnson Facing Sack!

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THE Tory Party has lost the ‘farming country’ North Shropshire seat’ that it has held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats, in...

BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC

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WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...

‘PAINFUL CONSEQUENCES’ – warns Bush

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President Bush yesterday warned Americans that the economic damage to the US will be ‘painful and lasting’ if Congress fails to pass his $700...

Mass mega picket support for Birmingham bin workers

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‘There must be 300 here today easily and that is replicated at the other four sites. There are no wagons going out at all...
Junior doctors join with student nurses to fight Health secretary Hunt’s attacks on the NHS

Junior Doctors Win £800,000 Back Pay!

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JUNIOR doctors have received back pay of £800,000 after a hard-fought battle against their trust regarding a contract breach. Their union, the British Medical Association...

French General Strike!

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A NATIONWIDE general strike took place yesterday, as Air France workers joined striking railworkers, civil servants, power workers and rubbish collectors in a...

TUC stands with Palestine – TUC statement declaring solidarity with Palestine

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THE TUC stands in solidarity with all Palestinian workers and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) who on Tuesday took part in...

Abolish ICE say US workers

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CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...
Chagossians angrily demonstrating outside the House of Lords that voted against their right to return

Chagossians Are Furious At Miliband Stab In The Back

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‘IT’S UNACCEPTABLE. All they are doing is making their own decisions and taking away our rights,’ the chair of the Chagos Islands Community Association...

LOCKED IN FLOODED CELLS! – Harmondsworth inquiry demand

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On Monday, 23 June, the High Court will respond to a Liberty demand for an independent investigation into the treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth...

Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years

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A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...
BMA junior doctors set up a tent outside their conference yesterday to warn about junior doctors being made homeless by the taking away of their free hospital accommodation support

NHS Bosses Won’t Talk To Bma!

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THE British Medical Association yesterday criticised NHS employers for refusing to enter into talks over the loss of hospital accommodation support. From August 2008, junior...

Truss announces crackdown on the rail trade unions

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TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

Greek doctors & nurses protest!

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DOCTORS, nurses, trades unionists, workers and youth took part in protests at the entrances of many hospitals throughout Greece yesterday morning against the government’s...

UNIONS MUST TAKE ‘JOINT INDUSTRIAL ACTION’ – PCS leader Serwotka tells press

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...

‘Sack The Coalition!’

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UNEMPLOYMENT rose by 114,000 between June and August to 2.57 million, a 17-year high, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...
During the last Wednesday ‘s General Strike the Deimitra factory banner read ‘Permanent struggle - our answer to  the troika, government, and plutocracy’

Greek Finance Ministry occupied

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WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...

Palestinians Form Unity Government

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Palestinian leaders unveiled a new unity government yesterday that they hope will stop months of deadly factional violence and end a crippling international aid...
GMB exposes venture capitalist

GMB exposes venture capitalist

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The GMB trade union yesterday launched a campaign outside Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common, south London, to stop venture capitalists asset-stripping the AA. The...
Youth marching to Parliament Square on June 20th to demand that the Tories scrap their austerity programme

Tuc-Nus Joint Campaign Against Privatisation!

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THE TUC and the NUS signed an agreement yesterday for joint campaigning by the trade union and student movements for the coming year. The partnership...
The mass meeting of postal workers at Mount Pleasant heard CWU leader Ward condemn the Labour Party for its treachery

Strike ballot vote will be a ‘game changer’

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward yesterday pledged that the union will defend the terms and conditions of postal workers following...
PAUL KING, stepson of Ian Tomlinson, addressing the press outside the office of the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday

G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge

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‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...

Watson rebukes non-social democrat Corbyn

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THE DEPUTY leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson spoke to Andrew Marr’s BBC show on Sunday about diverting the party away from its...
In this period of vicious attacks on the NHS every hospital is fighting for survival

Critical Stroke Surgery Is Being Denied!

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THOUSANDS of patients are being put at risk of major strokes because the NHS is failing to give them critical surgery in time, a...

Amazon ‘work till you drop!’

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AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...

Tuc Looking For Tory Allies

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DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton voted unanimously yesterday to defend the right to strike and political protest. They voted for Composite Motion...
Special needs pupils and supporters march against the lack of places in state schools due to government cuts to resources

Tory War On Special Needs!

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TEACHERS unions have condemned the onslaught on children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), launched by the coalition government yesterday. Legislation to slash the rights and...

Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits – to fund tax...

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...

Worldwide media protest against Zionist genocide

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MORE than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest yesterday, highlighting the killing of more than 200 journalists in...
Picket line of parents, teachers and pupils at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, during their strike over bullying and harassment

‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told

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EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
Sacked 2 Sisters workers demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer’s ‘flagship’ store in Oxford Street. Unite assistant general secretary JACK DROMEY (centre) pledged ‘We will win the jobs back of these 59 workers’

‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S

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FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...