‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka
THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...
London Postal Workers Out Today
ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...
Halt the Family Farm Tax!
‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across...
Junior Doctors Want A 35% Pay Rise!
PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...
Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...
Greek Students March Against Privatisation
TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...
Ealing Hospital mass picket
‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...
Defend Our Hospitals!
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...
‘I WOULD DO THE SAME AGAIN’ says Flt Lt Kendall-Smith
An RAF doctor found guilty yesterday of disobeying orders at a court martial after he refused to serve in Iraq, is to appeal against...
Greece mass rallies on Sunday!
THE Greek government’s spokesperson Gavriil Sakelarides stated yesterday morning that ‘he was optimistic of a deal’ with the European Commission by this Sunday. He said...
Brixton Custody Death Anger
‘All of us are shocked, numb, totally gutted,’ said an angry Samantha Rigg-David outside Brixton police station on Saturday following the death in custody...
Ukraine Ceasefire Agreed
KIEV officials and representatives of the People’s Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group...
Barnet Strike Action Today
UNISON’s Barnet branch members will be taking strike action on budget day, today, as part of their ongoing battle against the rampant privatisation of...
CWU National strike ballot –as 25,000 postal workers strike
Tens of thousands of postal workers will go on strike today, tomorrow and Monday as growing unrest has led to the Communication Workers...
‘THE STRIKES MUST GO AHEAD’ – CWU members tell News Line
Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...
Plan to evict council tenants
THE government is planning to end the right of council tenants to stay in their homes for life. An amendment to the Housing Bill,...
Patel approves Taser upgrades for police! – ‘Tasers kill’ warns Liberty
‘TASERS can kill, and they are disproportionately used against people of colour,’ Rosalind Comyn of campaign group Liberty said yesterday. She was responding to Tory...
3,000 Junior Doctors Jobless!
AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...
NO SHEIKH JARRAH EVICTIONS! – Settler shoots Palestinian outside High Court
MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...
UCU demand a pensions ballot
SEVENTY-ONE investment staff at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) shared bonus payments of £2.89m in the year to the end of March 2010. The...
Israel steps up its counter-revolutionary war on Hamas!
AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an...
‘WE ARE CONFIDENT WE WILL WIN THIS DISPUTE’ – CWU chair O’Hara tells News...
CWU MEMBERS working in Royal Mail have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action against Royal Mail’s attempts to cut pay, jobs and conditions. The...
Nuj Demands Open Debate On Spooks
THE NUJ has voiced its concerns at the erosion of civil liberties and attacks on press freedom, in a motion to the TUC Congress...
DARZI WORKING FOR PRIVATISATION – BMA told
DOCTORS and other health professionals participated in a conference organised by the British Medical Association in London yesterday to discuss the government’s ‘Healthcare for...
Five US Troops Killed In West Iraq
A force of up to 2,500 US troops, supported by puppet Iraqi troops, moved into Iraq’s western Al Anbar province yesterday in the biggest offensive...
CWU reps to decide on national strike ballot – as all 371 Crown Post...
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) reps from Royal Mail workplaces across the UK will meet next week to decide on actions to protect postal jobs...
Tory Forced Academies Plan Ditched
THE TORY government has been forced to make a fundamental retreat: their plans to force all of England’s schools to become academies have been...
West Thames College strike action
UCU (University and College Union) lecturers were on the picket line outside West Thames College in Isleworth, west London yesterday, demanding a 5% pay...
RAIL CHAOS AFTER NEW TIMETABLE IMPOSED – TSSA calls for renationalisation
RAIL CHAOS rapidly spread across the length and breadth of the UK as new train timetables coming into force yesterday hit serious problems, leaving...
US & Israel being defeated by Hamas fighters in Gaza!
US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the...
Lib Dems Dump Hs2 Policy To Win Tory Seat!
THE Lib Dems have pulled off another opportunist by-election victory, overturning a 16,000 Tory majority in a seat that has always voted Conservative. They did...
Osborne offers permanent cuts, benefit caps and poverty!
TORY Chancellor Osborne’s class war Budget yesterday had at its centre a Welfare Spending Cap of £119.5bn for 2015-16. The limit on total welfare spending...
GET THE ELDERLY OUT OF HOSPITALS! says NHS Confederation boss
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar yesterday launched an attack on NHS hospitals, saying that at least 25 per cent of hospital patients should...
1.82 MILLION OUT OF WORK – while Brown fawns on the bankers
Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION BACK ON AGENDA OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND – one-off payment of £1,000...
INDUSTRIAL action in English schools is back on the agenda after three education unions – the NEU, NAHT and ASCL – decisively rejected the...
Junior Doctors Defend Pay Band!
JUNIOR DOCTORS have defended their protected pay banding after a year-long struggle. The BMA supported 15 foundation doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS...
Anti-Brexit insurgents gather!
LIBERAL Democrat, Labour and SDLP MPs have said they are prepared to vote against triggering Article 50 which begins the process of leaving the...
‘Withdraw UK troops from Iraq immediately’ – PCS conference decides
‘Iraqi people do not want a foreign occupation of their country,’ Paula Kennedy, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester Branch, told the conference of the Public...
Sheffield workers fight sackings
THE 38 striking Sheffield recycling workers, alongside their supporters, lobbied the Labour Council at Sheffield Town Hall yesterday to demand the reversal of five...
Patient care must come first! –BMA & RCN slam ‘enforced competition’
DOCTORS and nurses’ leaders are calling on the government to amend controversial NHS regulations to make it absolutely clear that patient care will have...
Failure And We’Ll Quit Say Cameron And Miliband
PM Cameron, still seeking UKIP support, said yesterday that he will fall on his sword and refuse to lead a government that refuses to...
Labour calls to postpone Brexit
LABOUR shadow secretary for Brexit Keir Starmer, for the first time in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, urged the Brexit Secretary and the...
Strike till CPE is withdrawn
More than 2,000 students meeting outside the entrance of Jussieu university in the centre of Paris yesterday afternoon voted virtually unanimously to strike until...
Tories in crisis attack youth – bring them down!
THE Tory Party Conference opened in a massive crisis in Birmingham yesterday, after two top Tories resigned from their positions in the preceding two...