EXPROPRIATE P&O – Shapps fails to stand up to the bandits

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MICK LYNCH, RMT General Secretary said yesterday ‘Despite all the bluster, Grant Shapps has failed to grasp the opportunity to adequately stand up to...
The front of the 20,000-strong march in January last year to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital

MILIBAND SUPPORTS US-LED BOMBING OF SYRIA – and pledges to repeal Health & Social...

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LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...

BUSH STOKES BALKANS WAR! – pledges independent Kosovo in Tirana

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US President George W Bush yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Russia, when he said ‘the time is now’ to grant independence to...

Public sector must unite to smash privatisation

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THOUSANDS of firefighters are marching on Westminster today against government cuts to the fire and rescue service and attacks on their pensions. Coachloads of firefighters...
Chagos Islanders demonstrating outside the House of Lords demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia

Labour’s Secret Detentions On Diego Garcia

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Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...

Lobby The Tgwu Biennial Conference

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ALMOST two years after over 700 Gate Gourmet, Heathrow workers were sacked and locked out by the Texas Pacific equity capitalist group, the...
PCS members say they are on the front line in fight against ‘union bashing’

Pickles ‘out to smash union’

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A LIVELY PCS lobby yesterday of the Royal Courts of Justice took place as the union took the Department for Communications and Local Government...

REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra

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THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
Marchers demanding the sacking of ATOS

GPES & ATOS slammed

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THE General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) IT system, designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs, is late,...

Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!

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The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...
GMB members on strike outside the BMA head office in Tavistock Place, central London, yesterday

GMB strikers demand ‘meaningful negotiations’

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On their picket line outside the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday, GMB members demanded the doctors association show respect for their own staff...

‘Unprecedented economic uncertainty in the UK’ BoE

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BANK of England (BoE) boss Andrew Bailey has said the UK faces ‘an unprecedented level of economic uncertainty.’ Britain’s economy shrank by 20% in the...
One of the big picket lines out yesterday at Holloway Metroline bus garage

Metro – Hundreds Of Pickets Out

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THERE were over 100 pickets covering all the entrances to Willesden Bus Garage in north west London yesterday morning. Bus driver and TGWU member Christine...

‘Call the entire airport out!’ – demand Heathrow workers

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Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are on picket lines today in the first of four days of strike action called to fight the savage...

£150bn MORE FOR BANKS – as B 0f E starts printing money

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...

NHS WHITE PAPER – BMA leader writes to GPs and students

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BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, wrote to doctors and medical students yesterday, following publication of the health White Paper for England, which proposes...

A STEP TOWARDS POLICE STATE! – Tory move against anti-war movement condemned

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The Stop the War Coalition yesterday condemned amendments tabled by Monmouth Tory MP David Davies to the Policing and Crime Bill, currently going through...

BANK SHARES COLLAPSE! – Brown and bankers meet at 10 Downing Street

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Billions more pounds were wiped off UK bank shares, yesterday, in the wake of Monday’s falls which saw £93bn wiped off the London Stock...

Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters block the street

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ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing despite the cold weather

‘We fight on till we win’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are furious that the TGWU’s head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, has gone back on his promise to provide...

Horrific Israeli massacre in Beit Lahia

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...
Last December’s march in Enfield demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

‘No return to Poor Law!’ –now is the time to rise up says Ashton

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Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...
Demonstrators expressing their anger as they passed the US embassy in London on the 30,000-strong march demanding an end to the Israeli attack on the Lebanon

Hezbollah Battles Israel To A Standstill

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HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...

Queen’s Hospital workers are striking for fair pay

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THERE was a lively well attended picket line at Queen’s Hospital Romford yesterday. A number of issues have brought the Unite union membership of the...

Israeli occupation forces commit massacres against families! – Ben-Gvir urges shoot Palestinian prisoners

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ISRAELI occupation forces have committed three main massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing...

House price inflation reaches 8.4%

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RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...
CWU pickets at the East London Mail Centre called for national strike action

‘WE NEED A NATIONAL STRIKE!’ – say striking London postal workers

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THE CWU Postal National Executive is meeting next Tuesday and is expected to carry a resolution for a national ballot for national strike action...

BLAIR THREATENS IRAN – as US battlegroups move into position

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PM BLAIR yesterday threatened that if the 15 Royal Navy personnel held by Iran for trespassing in Iranian waters are not released soon,...

STATE SPYING: Police launch facial recognition app – UN slams state spying on disabled!

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SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...

Imf Orders More Irish ‘Repossessions’

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THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against the privatisation of surgeries

BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!

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Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...

Teachers mount SATs challenge

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THOUSANDS of head teachers boycotted SATs tests yesterday on the grounds that the tests damage children’s education. Head teachers in the National Association of...

A NATIONAL SCANDAL – Help the Aged condemns winter death figure

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‘THESE figures are nothing short of a national scandal.  It’s obscene that in this day and age more than 25,000 people aged 65 and...

Disabled ‘fit for work’ assessments failure!

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THE privatised assessment tests which find sick and disabled people ‘fit for work’ are ‘failing claimants and taxpayers’ and must be ‘brought back in-house’,...

Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go

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GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...

Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed

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SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...

ACTION NEEDED: ‘NHS AT THE CROSSROADS’ says BMA leader

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THE leader of the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday that the health service is under unprecedented pressure, with many parts of the NHS...

NHS is in all-year crisis says BMA

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday warned that the NHS in England is unlikely to recover from the pressure it faces during the winter, with trends suggesting...
Workers marching on Parliament in July 2017 after Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell called for the Tories to go

‘We Have To Prepare For No Deal’ –Johnson

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‘We have to prepare for no deal... We have to prepare convincingly for no deal,’ former Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC’s...

Assad seeking ‘strategic response’ to Israeli attack

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PRESIDENT Bashar al Assad has outlined to Lebanese visitors that he is seeking a ‘strategic response’ to the recent Israeli air strike on the...

£850 million to pay for NHS sackings

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The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...

EMERGENCY SPECIALISTS NOT POLYCLINICS – urges College of Emergency Medicine

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THE College of Emergency Medicine yesterday urged the government to invest in more emergency medicine specialists rather than polyclinics. Dr John Heyworth, incoming President of...

Evacuate within 24 hours or else face Israeli invasion – US & Israel tell...

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ISRAEL has ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate the area within 24 hours, in what is viewed as a precursor of a ground...

Brighton & Hove Schools Are Staying Closed Says Council

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BRIGHTON and Hove primary schools in Sussex are staying closed today after the city council held an emergency meeting and ordered all primaries to...
Remploy workers and supporters campaigning in Brixton yesterday

HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up

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LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...