US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review

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THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...

HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action

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Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – TUC must call a general strike

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‘EVERY major union is supporting this march. We welcome this opportunity for people to take to the streets to protest at this government. ...

Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally

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Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...
Junior doctors demonstrating in Westminster on September 28th. They intend to march on Parliament on Saturday October 17th

Junior doctors to march!

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JUNIOR Doctors are to hold a mass demonstration in central London on Saturday October 17th against the imposition of new contracts cutting their pay...

Rashford forces Tory U-turn over free school meals

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OVER a million children suffering in dire poverty in the UK will now get free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a successful...
Students on the NUS and UCU joint demonstration last November – they oppose the Tory move to charge different fees at each and every university dependent on the ‘quality of education’

Parents remortgage to pay uni fees

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PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...
Lively picket at Westminster Kingsway College in north London yesterday morning on the first day of their three-day strike

Eleven colleges launch strikes!

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ELEVEN colleges launched three days of strike action yesterday morning after rejecting a 1% pay offer which, when inflation is taken into account, is...

Over 8,500 GPs vote to strike!

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OVER 8,500 General Practitioners (GPs) across England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking collective action, including strike action, in response to mounting challenges...

Riot police attack Spanish Miners

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RIOT police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at Spanish coal miners protesting in the streets of Madrid, along with tens of thousands of other workers. Hundreds...
Midwives demand ‘No cuts’ to the NHS

Cameron Breaks His NHS Spending Pledge

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Prime minister Cameron has broken the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the NHS, both Labour and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have warned. Labour’s...
Camden GPs marching against NHS privatisation. Meanwhile the Tory-led coalition says that under-5s don’t need anti-flu jabs

FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school

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worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...

The return of the racketeer landlord! – over one million tenants are suffering says...

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NEW research released today has revealed that in the last year alone over a million – or one in eight – private renters across...

No more wage cuts, pay up now! – demand striking resident doctors

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TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

Great support for Southall WRP candidate!

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THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

Grenfell – survivors and firefighters under attack

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‘WE HAVE been appalled about the way in which the numbers of those who have died have been publicised all the way along,’ Yvette...

Hamas slams Trump’s racist vision for Gaza

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Hamas yesterday expressed total rejection of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza relocation plans which ‘represent a continuation of the settlement plans aimed at liquidating...

‘Grenfell Tower was a death trap before any firefighter arrived!’ – says Matt Wrack...

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MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...

30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General Gromov

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THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...

DISGRACEFUL! Cornwall council to continue fire service cuts

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THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ Cornwall Council’s proposals to downgrade Falmouth and Camborne fire stations, just one week after the Newquay...
Student nurses demanding their bursaries be maintained demonstrated outside Richmond House on December 2nd

Tory Cuts Have Caused NHS Nursing Crisis!

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THE Royal College of Nursing yesterday slammed government cuts over the NHS staffing crisis. Janet Davies, RCN Chief Executive and General Secretary said: ‘The RCN...
Police arresting a man during earlier protests outside the Israeli embassy against the bombing of Gaza

YOU FACE DEFEAT – Hamas warns Israel

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Nine more Israeli soldiers were injured in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, two of them seriously, as fierce fighting continued on the tenth day...

US unions split – as class struggle erupts in USA

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The leaders of five of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO – the Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers’, and SEIU – held a ‘Change to...

HEALTHCARE FOR THE RICH! – being provided by the Tory coalition

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Labour has accused the government of cutting NHS spending in England in poorer areas and moving funds towards richer parts of the country, citing...
Demonstrators stage a protest in Trafalgar Square demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay

TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General

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Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...
Locked-out US National Grid workers are due to lobby the AGM of the privatised UK parent company on Monday 30th July in Birmingham

US Steelworkers To Protest At National Grid Agm

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MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...
US troops humiliate a prisoner in Iraq

LONDON ALERT! – Police ordered to shoot to kill

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Yesterday, London was living off its nerves after reports of four explosions, three at underground stations and one on a bus. Police were given orders...

DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival

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OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
A section of yesterday’s 100-strong demonstration outside the offices of Maximus, the company taking over the work capability assessment from ATOS

‘Welfare Reform Kills!’

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UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...

‘A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ – poll finds ‘we are all suspects’

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday called for stronger privacy protection as a YouGov poll revealed that a majority of UK citizens believe Britain is...
Sacked Finance Ministry cleaners marching in Athens

Athens Clashes!

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IN THE early hours of Thursday the Vouli (Greek parliament) voted by 229 to 64 with six abstentions on the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government’s Bill...

Tory Split Deepens!

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THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
A thousand angry local residents marched through Haringey demanding that the HDV – the scheme to privatise housing is scrapped

Green light to privatise Haringey

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THE HIGH Court has given the council the go-ahead to privatise Haringey’s housing, allowing huge private developers to embark on a £2bn private housing...

VITAL SKILLED JOBS TO GO! – Government cuts aid to Sheffield Forgemasters

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the Tory-led government announced the cancellation of 12 funding projects worth £2 billion yesterday, as well as the suspension of a further 12 projects...

LLOYDS HBOS MASS SACKINGS – as banks go for £17bn more bailout cash

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The Unite trade union yesterday urged Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘to start thinking about the human consequences of this takeover’. It was responding to...
Local residents join forces with firefighters to demand ‘No Justice No Peace’ on a march last June – the North Kensington Law Centre claims that Grenfell survivors are being pressurised into accepting sub-standard housing, 150 families are still without h

Grenfell survivors pressured to take sub-standard homes – alleges North Kensington Law Centre

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...

‘Underhand’ plan to fire 50 Kent dockers

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‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...
Demonstrators in London last May against Labour’s immigration controls

Byrne Announces Immigration Crackdown!

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Immigration minister Liam Byrne yesterday announced that all visitors to Britain requiring a visa are now having their fingerprints taken in their home country. Byrne...
Bodies of some of the large numbers of Palestinians slain in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangists who were allowed into the camp by Israeli soldiers, the same year as an Israeli submarine sank a Lebanese refugee ship

Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship

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ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...

54,000 youth DNA tested!

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POLICE take a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes in England and Wales, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform...

Teachers 98% strike vote! – Nationwide strikes on 27th April & 2nd May

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TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...

Derby schools 25% pay cut

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UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...

Article 50 Showdown Postponed

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ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...
Pickets outside the Science Museum, South Kensington yesterday striking to defend their pay

NO TO PAY CUT – say Science Museum strikers

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Pickets were out in force at the Science Museum in west London yesterday. Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members joined colleagues from the Prospect trade...

Israeli Army Tanks Move Into Khan Younis

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ISRAELI army tanks moved into the centre of Khan Younis city yesterday, targeting housing blocks and public buildings, after a night of non-stop artillery...