Legal Action Against French Police State Violence

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THE family of a 73-year-old French woman injured in a police charge at a protest are taking legal action. Geneviève Legay fell and hit her...

G4S driven out of immigration!

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PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...
Immigrant workers marching in Athens during Thursday’s one-day strike

One Million Strike In Greece

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...
Southampton council workers demonstrating their determination to defeat the attempts to slash their wages

NO PAY CUTS! Southampton strike continues

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PUBLIC services staff in Southampton have rejected a revised pay proposal by the Tory city council and voted to continue their programme of rolling...

Israel launches major offensive!

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THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...

Death toll in Gaza continues to rise!

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THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...
Pickets at Heathrow during the 2010 cabin crew strike that brought in cut-price cabin crew

Cabin Crew Strike Over Poverty Pay!

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THOUSANDS of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Seventy-nine...

A ‘BEYOND SUBSTANTIAL’ PAY RISE FOR NHS IN 2021-22! – demand health trade unions

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THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...

Banbury Workers Battle ‘Fire & Rehire’

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WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...

No more talks until 620 prisoners released!

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IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...

Tory free school ‘lunacy!’

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THE Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition is cracking up, with the latest row breaking out over free schools and school places funding in England, with allies...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Stella Assange outside High Court

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‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...
Student nurses and midwives outside the Department of Health demanding that their bursaries are restored

Restore NHS bursaries – Student nurses & midwives lobby today

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STUDENT nurses and midwives are lobbying parliament today in opposition to Tory plans to end the student bursaries by August 2017. And a national march...

Korean trade unions call general strike to force President to quit!

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SOUTH Korea’s biggest umbrella labour group, the Confederation of Korean Trade Unions (KCTU), yesterday called an indefinite nationwide strike to continue until president Yoon...

Chinese fury over Tory plan to kick Huawei out of UK!

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‘WHETHER the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies is a litmus test for British markets after Brexit,...

Birmingham Bin Strikers Stand Firm Against Up To £8,000 A Year Pay Cuts!

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AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...

‘OPEN THE DOORS TO THE REFUGEES’ – urge 20,000 marchers in Athens

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‘OPEN the doors to the refugees,’ demanded 20,000 marchers in Athens on Thursday. Some 20,000 people marched through Athens on Thursday night calling for the...

A monumental victory! – Palestine Action High Court win

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THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...

Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley

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‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...

FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions

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FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...

B&B TO BE NATIONALISED – to head off run on the bank

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Mortgage bank Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised to prevent a run on the bank and its complete collapse, possibly spreading...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall on the first anniversary of their dismissal

Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department

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GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY was picketed by locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on May 1st

Woodley calls off cabin crew strike action

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At the last minute yesterday afternoon, the Transport and General Workers Union called off today’s 48-hour strike by British Airways cabin crew. The TGWU...
Workers and youth in the UK are fighting to lift the siege on Gaza and establish the state of Palestine

‘We have created a historic epic’ says Haniya

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ISMAIL Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, has saluted the Palestinian people for their steadfastness in the harsh battle. ‘They have become the...

6 children killed in water tanker massacre

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Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...
RCN London Board Chair CYNTHIA DAVIS addressing nurses protesting outside the Department of Health in Whitehall yesterday

Scrap the 1% cap! – 30 nurses” protests nationwide

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‘SCRAP the cap! Fair pay for nurses! Now!’ chanted over fifty nurses and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officials outside the Department of...

Brown’s Record Deficit!

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The UK government borrowed a record amount in September, in a bid to boost its finances, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published yesterday...
At a rally last Friday at the Department for Communities and Local Government a resident from north Kensington holds up a piece of charred cladding that had fallen from Grenfell Tower during the blaze

600 Combustible Cladded Towers!

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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

Deport 1.5m Palestinians to Egypt & Jordan urges Trump – Hamas insists ‘We will...

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  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

Another huge show of strength! – UCU strike rally, King’s Cross 1.00pm today

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‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...

BA Strike Ballot Proceeds!

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British Airways will face strike action by cabin crew and flight attendants at Christmas if it does not ‘pull back from the brink’, from...
Delegates at the BMA Annual meeting – they voted against privatisation of the NHS and condemned their leadership for not fighting it

PRIVATEERS OUT! – say BMA delegates in Belfast

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...

UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!

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PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...

UK Current Account disaster!

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THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...

Reeves launches vicious war on all benefit claimants!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...
Lively and determined London Underground workers picketing Mayor Johnson’s City Hall offices demanding their jobs back

Justice For The 33!

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‘WE ARE here to stand up for the hard working people, we are abused and refused, we have been roundly abused numerous times,’ Hared...
RMT president SEAN HOYLE, assistant general secretary STEVE HEDLEY and general secretary MICK CASH (all behind the banner from the front, left) on the union’s 300-strong protest opposite parliament against driver-only trains

RMT Calls For General Strike!

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RMT leaders yesterday responded defiantly to Southern rail’s threat that if guards strike and do not sign new contracts by Friday, they will be...
The daily picket at Chase Farm Hospital fighting to keep the hospital open is opposed to privatisation and the £20bn of cuts brought in by the Labour government

STOP NHS SPENDING CUTS – says BMA Council member Anna Athow

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...

NHS rationing hitting the elderly – warn surgeons

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RATIONING is denying many thousands of patients much-needed surgery, leaving them in excruciating, unnecessary pain as NHS trusts proscribe certain procedures in unofficial ‘local...
'NOT GUILTY' – court decides for Chase Farm occupier! Occupation not illegal!

‘NOT GUILTY’ – court decides for Chase Farm occupier! Occupation not illegal!

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JOSHUA OGUNLEYE was found not guilty of the charge ‘obstruct/resist a constable in the execution of duty’ in a trial held at Highbury...
The banners of the ADEDY and of the ERT workers at Thursday’s rally outside the Vouli in Athens

Greek Parliament Votes For Massive Austerity

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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...

‘A Leave Population And A Remain Parliament!’

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TORY International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to ‘in effect steal Brexit’. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show...
Doncaster carers during their 90 days of strike action last year against privateer Care UK

Cambridgeshire privatised care collapses! – service back to NHS

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THE PRIVATE company UnitingCare has collapsed after only eight months and pulled out of running care for the elderly in Cambridgeshire. The company won an...

‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!’ says Consultants Chair Vishal Sharma

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THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...