STOP £3bn of education cuts!
TEACHERS’ and heads’ unions, the NUT, ATL and NAHT, are asking every candidate in every constituency in England and Wales to promise that they...
Social Care In Crisis!
DRAMATIC cuts to district nursing have left older people without care at home and turning to A&E, an independent report has found. Research by Christie...
Vote Mike Driver
CAMPAIGNING in Firth Park, Sheffield, yesterday morning, the Mike Driver Vote WRP campaign said, ‘We got great support from everyone, with many agreeing with...
‘Prosecute those who murdered my son’ says Colonel Mousa
BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...
BUNCEFIELD INQUIRY – prohibition notices served on oil companies
THE Health and Safety Commission (HSC) yesterday announced the official inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire. HSC chairman Bill Callaghan told a press conference...
BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...
BA workers coming to Gate Gourmet rally
BRITISH Airways workers are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday. Buying his ticket for the...
Pensions Strike!
‘UNISON is having a special local government pensions conference in February. The branches have forced our leaders to concede this so we can...
Sussex uni marches against privatisation
ONE hundred Sussex students, UCU members and students from other universities marched through the campus of a snow-bound University of Sussex yesterday lunchtime. The ‘Fight...
VOTE TO ‘LEAVE’! – and to kick Cameron out
MILLIONS of workers today will be following the lead of the RMT, ASLEF and the Bakers’ trade unions in voting to leave the European...
ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...
ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...
Rcn Alarmed At The Understaffing In NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is ‘alarmed at the NHS England Staff Survey 2016 which shows the immense pressure they are under, particularly...
‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak
MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...
‘NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ – Blair-Goldsmith indicted by judgement
‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...
GPs GIVEN AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE! – BMA condemns Labour dictatorship
The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...
APOLOGISE! Forest Gate residents condemn raid
Hundreds of youth and workers demonstrated outside Forest Gate police station denouncing the capitalist state and declaring that ‘Tony Blair is the terrorist!’ They were...
Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed
NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...
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...
Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!
AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...
CROYDON BUST! Councils across the UK to make savage cuts
CROYDON Council has gone bankrupt after racking up debts of £1.5bn. The council issued a rare Section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, on Wednesday...
‘THROW OUT THE GOVERNMENT’ – demand Greek workers and students
OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...
BUDGET DAY STRIKE VOTE! – PCS votes 61% in favour
CIVIL Servants have voted by a massive 61% majority in favour of strike action in their fight for a pay rise of £1,200, or...
Greek Parliament Votes For Massive Austerity
THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved on Friday morning by 222 to 64 votes, the new EC-IMF-dictated third austerity bailout accords, proposed by the SYRIZA-ANEL...
Home Office Wants To Send Rose To Her Death
HER local Yorkshire community is defending Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian-born kidney-transplant patient, from deportation and death. The UK immigration authorities have hounded her, an ill...
COMPLY OR ELSE! – US, UK, France warn Iran
‘COMPLY or face the consequences,’ was the message delivered by President Obama and his puppets Brown and Sarkozy to the Iranian government yesterday morning. Iran...
NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Enfield Residents Will Stop Chase Farm Closure
ENFIELD residents yesterday made it clear that they are more determined than ever to keep Chase Farm Hospital and all its departments open. They were...
May’s project fear – ‘Reject my deal and the only certainty will be uncertainty!’
SPEAKING in Grimsby last Friday May peddled her own ‘project fear’ line before the new vote on her deal with the EU tomorrow in...
Met chief faces questioning over destroyed evidence!
THE head of London’s police is going to be questioned today about the destruction of a ‘lorry-load’ of evidence of widespread police corruption...
Hezbollah – a strategic threat to Israel
NAIM Qassim, deputy secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, has underlined the continued resistance against the US and Israel will never surrender. ‘The only...
50,000 NHS Patients Being Left In Pain And Misery!
IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...
School Youth Climate Change Demo
HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...
Tories slam door on child refugees
THE TORY government issued a written Home Office statement on Wednesday saying it is closing the door on child refugees at the end of...
HOME OFFICE ACCUSED! – of alerting Berlusconi over Mills extradition
‘Will the present inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary examine whether or not the Home Office acted improperly in relation to an extradition request for...
Gate Gourmet ‘Blacklist’
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that they are being told by the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) to hold on and...
Russia issues defence warning!
RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...
Record Petrol Prices
Average petrol prices in the UK set a new record this week at 142.48p a litre, and 147.88p a litre for diesel. The AA Fuel...
New Tent Camp Massacre!
ISRAELI air attacks targeted displaced Palestinians in tent camps in al-Mawasi refugee camp in western Rafah again yesterday, killing 21, including 13 women and...
Darzai Private Nursing Plans
The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...
London Met University Strike Action
OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...
MASSACRE! – US bombers kill 47 near to Syrian Border
FORTY-SEVEN people were massacred in two bombing raids by American warplanes in occupied Iraq early yesterday morning, close to the Syrian border. The air strikes...
Inflation Surge!
inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...
NHS logistics votes overwhelmingly for strike action
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday announced that NHS Logistics staff have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action to defend their service from privatisation. Prentis...
Starmer unveils his ‘Plan for Change’!
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer yesterday unveiled a ‘Plan for Change’, setting out a series of ‘milestones’ his government pledged to achieve over the course...
Raid Police Broke Into Neighbour’s Home
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...