‘NO CUT PRICE SACKINGS’ – PCS massive strike action
‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...
RCN raises the alarm!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...
A WAR ON CHILDREN! – says Save the Children
ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid...
GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory
THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...
Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire
THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...
Fury At No Inquiry Into Orgreave
‘I HAVE concluded that there is no case for either a statutory inquiry or an independent review,’ into the battle of Orgreave, home secretary...
‘INFLATION CAUSING HUGE DISTRESS!’ – no government can solve every problem – says Sunak
‘HIGH inflation is causing acute distress to the people of this country,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday. Making a statement to MPs in the...
EIGHT UNIONS SUPPORT VESTAS OCCUPATION! – as police crack down
Workers staging the third day of a sit-in protest at the Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory in Newport Isle of Wight, yesterday said...
HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law
Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...
Five US Marines Killed
Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday. Their armoured...
PUT BUSH AND BLAIR ON TRIAL – urges just-freed Binyam Mohamed
UK resident Binyam Mohamed, recently freed from Guantanamo Bay, has called for ex-US President Bush to be put on trial over his rendition and...
Plans to double ambulance times condemned!
DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers throughout the world...
MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...
A Fifth Of Small Businesses Are Going Under
A FIFTH of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four...
TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee
The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...
No Deal And We’Ll Strike – Say Caretakers
‘Not a step back’, Bert Schouwenburg, GMB National Officer, told a meeting of up to 100 caretakers, working on the Council Estates run by...
Blood Cuts Will Harm Patient Care
Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...
436 Killed In Gaza Yesterday – Half Of Them Children!
THE NUMBER of people killed in Gaza since 7th October rose to 5,087 yesterday – an increase of 436 since Sunday, the Health Ministry...
‘ONE WEEK TO GET OUT’ – Hamas tells Israel
Palestinian resistance movements yesterday announced a ceasefire giving Israeli troops one week to get out of Gaza. This came after Israel declared a ‘unilateral ceasefire’...
‘Scrap NHS Hit Squads’
Health campaigners, the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of...
1.82 MILLION OUT OF WORK – while Brown fawns on the bankers
Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...
Bovingdon Battle!
HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews are appalled at the way two community action groups in Bovingdon and Radlett are being treated by local politicians over the...
‘We won’t accept poverty pay’ say striking mixed fleet cabin crew
‘WE WANT support from the whole airport and wider,’ striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew member and Unite rep Charly Bacon said yesterday. She was...
999 Ambulance Crisis
‘Paramedics don’t have referral skills. ‘Andy Burnham is not redefining the health service and Patricia Hewitt got her facts wrong last year when she...
Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...
A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...
Unite Refuses To Represent Belfast Visteon Occupiers
THE legal attempt to remove sacked workers occupying the Visteon factory in west Belfast has been adjourned until Friday. ‘Whatever happens on Friday we won’t...
Unite and fight this brutal assault says RMT
‘THIS Tory government is coming after the one group of people – the trade unions – who are able to stand up for ordinary...
STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift
‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...
KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER
KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...
Wanted! An arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar!
AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...
‘PM accountable to Parliament not U.S.’ says Labour leader Corbyn
‘THIS STATEMENT serves as a reminder that this Prime Minister is accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the US President,’ Labour...
Court finds against Labour Party democracy
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...
Police confront students
OVER 200 students from London universities and supporters from other universities demonstrating yesterday against police violence, were themselves confronted by Police. They marched from ULU...
‘Overthrow Junta!’ Greek Workers Ready To Act
OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...
Food Costs & Energy Bills Soaring!
FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...
‘UNLIMITED NHS PRIVATISATION’ – health unions must act, says consultant
Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...
Police attack Greek pension cuts protest
FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...
Nurses Work For Free!
‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...
UK accused of drone war crimes
THE UK could well be ‘complicit’ in US War Crimes committed using drones, and could face prosecution, a new report released yesterday after...
Refurbishment to blame for fire deaths – Fire expert tells Inquiry
FIREFIGHTERS were not to blame for the stay-put strategy in the Grenfell Tower, fire expert Dr Barbara Lane told the Inquiry, it is...
‘Slippery Slope To NHS Privatisation’
‘THIS SORT of service is the slippery slope towards the privatisation of the NHS,’ Dr Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee warned...
Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!
ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
Medical students ‘deep in debt’
Parents are facing a hidden £15,000 bill to send their children to medical school, says a new BMA report. Many families are being forced to...
Ireland being robbed by EU
DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...
Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...