Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport
‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
Tanker Drivers Offer: 14% Over 2 Years
Shell tanker drivers working for contracted suppliers Hoyer UK and Suckling are being balloted on a 14% rise over two years pay deal reached...
Serco strikers want national demo!
‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...
Staffs NHS Crisis Continues
The staffing crisis is continuing at Stafford Hospital, senior consultant Dr Pradip Singh has alleged. This is three months after the publication of a damning...
NHS registration fee – 18% hike opposed
A 38,000-STRONG petition was handed in to the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) in Kennington, south London at midday yesterday, protesting at the...
‘CRUEL PUNISHMENT’ OF POOREST PEOPLE! – Xmas Universal Credit to be stopped
TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...
Barristers strike gains support
‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...
Nuj Defends Bbc Jobs!
The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...
Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’
THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...
Israeli bulldozers demolishing the homes of Palestinians is a war crime!
ISRAELI bulldozers yesterday demolished Palestinian homes in Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas city. Mu’taz Besharat, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement activities in Tubas,...
Carillion crash hits NHS hospitals hard
THE LIQUIDATION of Carillion has created such a crisis in the NHS that 14 hospital Trusts have had to trigger their emergency ‘contingency...
Greek Workers March For Jobs
Greek public sector workers on short contracts staged a successful 24-hour national strike last Thursday demanding permanent jobs and full labour rights. Their struggle was...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
Don’t stop our hardship payments demand locked-out GG workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line in the open air at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They were angry that the leaders of...
Turkish workers strike – as deputy PM Arinc apologises
The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...
RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!
RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...
Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!
THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...
MAY SUSPENDS ELECTION! – after Manchester terror attack
THE main political parties all suspended general election campaigning yesterday in line with PM May’s edict after Monday evening’s suicide terror bombing...
Syriza Victory!
SYRIZA swept to power yesterday in the Greek elections winning 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority. After the final results came in...
Doctor forces Tories to publish Cygnus in full!
A SIX-MONTH campaign led by an NHS doctor to have the full report into a pandemic preparation exercise published has successfully forced the Health...
BBC spends £38m to enforce collection – Pensioners refusing to pay licence fee targeted
THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...
Tories step up war on the unemployed – new callous sanctions regime
JOHNSON’S Tory government have stepped up their war on the unemployed ratcheting up the sanctions regime, which leaves some of the most vulnerable people...
Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours
Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...
‘REJECT THIS DEAL! – THEY ARE TRYING TO BREAK OUR UNITY’ – Gate Gourmet...
‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal,’ Gate Gourmet picket Mrs Gill said yesterday. She was responding to proposals brought forward...
‘AN XMAS KICK IN THE TEETH FOR STUDENTS!’ – UCU & NUS condemn Brown...
A ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ for both staff and students is how the University and College Union (UCU) described yesterday’s slashing £398m...
‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...
Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown
In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...
Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...
TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...
Bradford Youth ‘Uprising’ Wins For Galloway
THE workers and youth of Bradford West have dealt a body blow at the Labour Party reformist leadership by unprecedently throwing out their Labour...
Huge sussex education cuts!
HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...
Platinum Miners Strike Spreads
MINERS at Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) in South Africa came out on strike yesterday, alongside the striking Marikana miners, in a sign that the strike...
Tens of thousands of Greek workers march against privatisation!
TENS OF thousands of workers and students participated in mass and militant rallies and marches throughout Greece on Wednesday, during a 24-hour national strike...
7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens
SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...
‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson
SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...
Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround
FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...
‘BACK TO THE DAYS BEFORE THE NHS’ – Consultants leader slams the Health Bill
‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...
A Victory For Workers’ Rights
THE GMB union yesterday hailed ‘a landmark victory for workers’ rights’ after the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a ruling that Uber drivers should be...
Appalling Rough Sleeping Rise Says Crisis
ROUGH sleeping is rising at ‘an appalling rate,’ said the homelessness charity Crisis yesterday, as it emerged that more than 4,000 people a night...
£1,000 a year pay cuts! – threat to Cambridgeshire FBU
CamBridgeshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) warned yesterday that firefighters are ready to strike following a pay row which will see their wages being slashed...
Fallon Wants Lawless Army!
UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...
‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference
‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...
903 NHS COMPULSORY SACKINGS! – Trade unions must act
‘We will be consulting our members on what action should be taken to defend these NHS jobs’, GMB trade union national officer Sharon...
Brown outlines police state proposals
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced his ‘four options’ for extending the period that police can hold ‘terror suspects’ without charging them. He is ‘considering’...
British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...
64% Say End Afghan War
A total of 64 per cent want all British forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘as quickly as possible’, with 33 per cent in...