NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...
Russia takes Kherson & surrounds Mariupol
YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from...
Hammond pledges to bring down no-deal Tories!
Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...
Tory ambulance cuts kill – A&Es are in meltdown!
A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...
‘We are defending education’ from massive Tory cuts!
‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...
‘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...
Anti-government fury at Greek pensioner’s funeral
The funeral of a Greek pensioner on Saturday turned into a mass anti-government protest. About 1,000 workers and youth attended the civil funeral in Athens,...
Thatcher Used Riots To Boost The State!
Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...
‘We need a general strike’ – the Tories have to go!
‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...
Royal Mail ‘Hedge Fund’
ROYAL Mail workers – whose jobs and pensions have been under sustained attack and are now threatened with privatisation – yesterday reacted with fury...
TORTURE NO CRIME! – no action against MI5
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...
Gate Gourmet Sacked-Workers’ Lobby Tgwu Biennial Conference
A COACHLOAD of sacked Gate Gourmet workers is lobbying the TGWU’s Biennial Conference in Brighton this morning. They are currently taking forward a large...
Tortured To Death! By The British Army
BAHA MOUSA died as a result of ‘appalling and gratuitous violence’ by members of the British Army, the year-long Public Inquiry into his death...
GM MASS SACKINGS – IBC Luton in danger warns Dave Wiltshire
General Motors yesterday announced plans to close nine plants, cut shifts and axe 30,000 jobs across North America by 2008. GM Chairman and CEO Rick...
Academy Expenses Scandal!
AN INVESTIGATION into academy schools has revealed that huge sums of public money are being spent on expenses claims for academy bosses. The investigation, which...
Nursing shortage shuts cancer units
CHILDREN’S wards and cancer units are closing hand over fist across the entire country with the nurses union RCN warning that ‘skeleton staffing’ means...
ONSLAUGHT ON BASIC RIGHTS – Human Rights Act to be ammended
Prime Minister Blair yesterday outlined new draconian measures to deport or jail people judged to be ‘glorifying terrorism’. He said ‘intensive meetings across government’ had...
33 INSURGENTS FREED – in daring raid near Baquba
Iraqi insurgents freed 33 of their comrades in a daring pre-dawn raid on a puppet authority jail north of Baghdad yesterday. At least 18 puppet...
‘We will stop these cuts!’ – Welsh FBU defending firefighters’ jobs
MORE than 220 firefighters’ jobs in north Wales are threatened with being axed if £3.3m is not found over the next five years, the...
Jean Charles de Menezes – HELD DOWN AND SHOT SEVEN TIMES!
Harrowing video clips of Jean Charles de Menezes’ body in a pool of blood, after being shot seven times in the head at point...
TORY MILK SNATCHING CRISIS! – Cameron forced to change line!
The government was plunged into crisis yesterday after Downing Street was forced to correct a Health Minister who had sent out letters proposing the...
Tories to hike up National Insurance – Youth will be hit hardest says Intergeneration...
THE TORIES are pushing for a rise in the National Insurance rate, affecting over 25 million workers to pay for social care. For someone on...
FRENCH YOUTH ERUPT! – against deportations
TENS of thousands of French youth walked out of their classes and lectures and joined marches on Thursday protesting over the removal of two...
RCN: ‘Not a single unoccupied bed!’
‘ON EVERY day except Friday last week, several hospitals across England didn’t have a single unoccupied bed,’ Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing, Policy and...
POLICE TERROR RAID CONDEMNED – Derbyshire witch-hunt for illegals
Border and Immigration Agency mass raids to round up alleged illegal immigrants were yesterday condemned as a publicity-seeking ‘cynical approach by government’ by GMB...
We will leave EU ‘deal or no deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...
Brown’s Record Deficit!
The UK government borrowed a record amount in September, in a bid to boost its finances, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published yesterday...
FBU Angry Over Cuts
FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...
‘I WILL NOT SET A DATE’ – Blair defies Brown and unions
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...
Families face debt crisis!
2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...
Strikebreakers are being organised for the teachers strike!
NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) representatives yesterday condemned the government’s drive to organise strike-breaking during their national strike on March 26.
In revised ‘advice on...
80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!
MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...
Israel steps up its Gaza genocide campaign!
SCORES of Palestinian civilians were murdered and many others injured on Friday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza continued for the 42nd day...
No private ambulances!
THE local community, backed by Unison, has launched a campaign to stop the privatisation of the patient transport service (PTS) within Greater Manchester. At a...
Unions condemn Israel – over designating Palestinian organisations as ‘terrorists’
TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...
Midwives plan more strikes over pay
HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...
Greek Union Leaders Threatened With Jail
ATHENS – For the fifth consecutive day last Thursday, the Athens city centre remained closed to traffic as riot police sealed it off to...
Three Raf Airmen Killed In Iraq
Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...
Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department
GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...
BANK OF ENGLAND BUYS GOVERNMENT BONDS! – to try to restore orderly market conditions
THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...
Failed Labour leaders quit!
APOLOGISING to his party, Labour leader Miliband resigned yesterday mid-day following his party’s wipe-out in Scotland compounded by losses in England. He told supporters: ‘Earlier...
‘WE CAN’T GET JUSTICE!’ – Jean de Menezes’ cousin
‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...
20% cuts and a pay freeze
‘Raiding public service pay and pensions is a fundamentally flawed strategy,’ said the NASUWT teachers union yesterday. It was responding to calls for pay freezes...
CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers
A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...


















