‘Revoke Israel’s mass displacement order for Gaza City’ – demands Amnesty

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AMNESTY International has demanded that Israel immediately revoke its mass displacement order for residents of Gaza City, issued on 9th September, denouncing it as...

NHS WORK FOR NOTHING MEMO CONDEMNED! – by BMA and UNISON

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‘It’s outrageous – asking workers to work more hours for nothing and hand back a day’s pay,’ Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust UNISON...
Nurses on the march against the pay cap – they are now very angry at their leaders’ sell-out of their pay claim

Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!

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NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...

Branson ‘Sweetheart’ Deal Denied By Brown

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THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was yesterday forced to deny that he was directly negotiating a ‘sweetheart’ deal with Virgin’s Richard Branson to allow...
Ealing mothers, residents and trade unionists lobbying the CCG meeting yesterday demanding to occupy Ealing Hospital to stop the closure of the Maternity Department

Occupy Ealing Hospital! – Clinical Commissioning Group sets July 1st Maternity closure

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‘EALING Hospital maternity department is to close by July 1st’, Pippa Nightingale Maternity Lead for ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ told a meeting of Ealing...

Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians

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ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....
Manchester ambulance workers came to London yesterday determined to defeat plans to privatise the service

Stop privatisation of ambulance service! – demand Manchester ambulance workers

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ONE HUNDRED ambulance workers and supporters from Manchester descended on parliament yesterday to demonstrate against the transfer of the patient transport service (PTS) from...

‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers urge TGWU executive

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‘WE are lobbying the TGWU national executive today to demand that it immediately restore our hardship pay, which has been stopped by Tony Woodley,...
Demonstration outside Hammersmith Hospital in west London on July 31. The A&E was closed on September 10, one of the reasons given by the Trust was that there was no full time A&E consultant cover

Emergency Consultants Quit Over Cuts Policies

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SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...

‘WE WON’T BE BULLIED’ –say Glasgow City Council strikers

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AS Primary schools and nurseries across Glasgow stayed closed on the second day of the massive 8,000-strong 48-hour equal pay strike yesterday, the SNP-run...

RMT calls a march on Downing Street

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RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...

UK-TATA £1.2bn DEAL – 3,000 JOBS TO GO!

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WELSH ministers and Tata bosses are due to continue talks this week about the future of the Port Talbot site. The UK government and Tata...
Postal workers on the picket line at Nine Elms mail centre during the 2007 pay strike

London’s Postal Workers Out Tomorrow

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More than ten thousand postal workers in all areas of deliveries, collections and processing across London will take industrial action for 24 hours starting...

Largest School Cuts For A Generation!

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TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: ...

Unite – Significant Victory For The Lower Paid!

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UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...

Met Police accused of ‘institutional corruption’ – over murder of Daniel Morgan

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AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...
Ritzy cinema strikers were joined yesterday afternoon by TUC general Secretary FRANCES O’GRADY who also welcomed the Young Socialists March for Jobs starting on August 19th to the TUC Congress in Liverpool

‘Ministers keen on kicking struggling youngsters when they are down!’

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THE TUC said yesterday that young people not in full-time education are now less likely to be in work than people of other ages...

Stop Starving Gaza!

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), through deliberate actions fostering chaos and starvation, have exacerbated the...

BILLIONS WIPED OFF SHARES – after Japan stock market collapse

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Billions of dollars, pounds and euros were wiped off worldwide share prices yesterday as investors took fright at the abrupt collapse and closure of...

Snaresbrook Crown Court protest

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MORE than 50 supporters of Waseem Yousaf demonstrated outside Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London yesterday morning as he faced the first day of...

Israeli Tanks Mass On Border Fence!

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AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday...

Global support for Palestine is splitting the Tories!

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THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing...

BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite

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TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...
Midwives, nurses and other health workers marched in their thousands against the privatisation of the NHS last November

Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting

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The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
Labour leader CORBYN marching with steel workers in defence of jobs

Labour To Abolish Zero-Hours Contracts

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JEREMY Corbyn speaking in Swindon yesterday confirmed that Labour will abolish zero-hours contracts. He said that, ‘Some one million people are on zero-hours contracts’ and...
Libyan workers and youth gather outside Buckingham Palace to demand of the Queen and Obama that their forces quit Libya

Sas Are In Misratah!

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WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...
SARAH and BEN NORRIS with their triplets EVE, LOLA and DYLAN took part In the march to defend Lewisham Hospital on November 26

Defend Our Hospitals!

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OVER 400 people lobbied Lewisham hospital on Thursday evening in response to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the hospital’s A&E is to be...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying TGWU Executive Committee members demanding that their hardship payments be maintained while they are fighting for their reinstatement

Save Our Babies!

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‘Who will deliver our babies?’ asked an alarmed Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) yesterday. It issued three stark warnings: ‘Unless recruitment improves there...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...

General Strike Overdue

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TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has said on the eve of the annual TUC Congress, that unions may come together in co-ordinated strike action...

‘UNCOVER POLICE LIES’ – demands the de Menezes family

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‘JEAN Charles did not run from the police. He was unjustly assassinated on the London metro,’ the brother of Jean Charles de Menezes said...

Irish actors and writers rally in Dublin to support Hollywood strike!

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Hundreds of actors, writers and entertainment workers gathered by the statue of Wolfe Tone at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin on Saturday, to demonstrate...
Demonstrators outside Downing Street on Wednesday night condemned Blair’s silence over the Israeli bombardment of Gaza

Israel Threatens To Bomb Beirut

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Israel yesterday threatened to target Lebanese airports, other than Beirut’s international airport, and attack areas of Beirut where Hezbollah leaders live and where it...
Ex-British SAS soldier Ben Griffin addressing a ‘Troops Home’ rally in March 2006. He said UK special forces still operate in Iraq, at a London press conference hosted by the Stop the War Coalition which has called another demonstration for March 15

THOUSANDS HANDED OVER TO THE US FOR TORTURE – by the British armed forces

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THOUSANDS of people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been secretly detained by British armed forces and handed over to the United States for torture,...
A police officer threatened to arrest the small picket outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday morning. The demonstrators were urging those coming into the conference to keep their hands off Iraq’s oil and that it must not be privati

Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!

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‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the TGWU office in Hillingdon yesterday demanding that they get their promised hardship pay. On the right mrs Mundy is forced to struggle into the office on crutches following a knee operation in order to register

Pay Up Hardship Money

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MORE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the Hillingdon Transport and General Workers Union Region One office yesterday to register their claim for February’s...
Nurses on the TUC demonstration against the coalition cuts in March 2011

RCN slams attacks on nurses

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making nurses work as Health Care Assistants for a year before they can start to train as a nurse is ‘a stupid idea’, Royal...
Students joined lecturers on the picket line at Aberdeen University yesterday morning demanding the UCU does not capitulate – by 4pm the deal had been rejected

NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!

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A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...

Rubio-Netanyahu joint press conference!

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Israel yesterday, in which they threatened...

Coronavirus–10,000 troops on the streets!

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‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...
Royal College of Nurses rally against cuts to keep patients safe

No mandatory safe staffing levels for the NHS!

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THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

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‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

Reject ‘John Lewis’ NHS!

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‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...