Bring May into contempt – Labour tells Speaker Bercow
‘I MAKE no bones about it I would have preferred to have seen a unilateral right of termination in this backstop,’ Tory Attorney General...
Syria Goes To The Polls
SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...
PRIVATISATION MENACE – a threat to road safety says Prospect
PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...
Police Killers ‘Out Of Control’
Firearms and surveillance officers hunting down Jean Charles de Menezes were ‘out of control’ when he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station, a...
Rolling Strikes To Continue Say Cwu Leaders
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive announced yesterday afternoon it has agreed a further round of rolling strike action. A CWU statement ...
Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...
‘WE WILL WIN’ – insist striking CWU members
‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
PM HELD ILLEGAL DRINKS PARTY – while millions were under lockdown
PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...
Southern Rail strike ‘rock solid’!
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash joined the Southern Rail picket line in Eastbourne yesterday morning, declaring the strike ‘rock solid’. ‘Our members on Southern are...
Bectu Outsourcing Strike!
BECTU members outsourced to Capita are to strike because of the company’s refusal to allow them to continue working on the BBC contract. Members...
GM BOSS SACKED! – restructuring to be speeded up
General Motors Board of Directors Chairman, Ed Whitacre, known for his asset stripping and merger programme at telecoms empire AT&T, has taken the helm...
Life Terms Like ‘confetti’
THE Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust yesterday expressed concern over mandatory life sentences being extended to crimes other than...
UN Condemns The Israeli Genocide Of Palestinians
A UNITED Nations special committee has declared that Israel’s warfare methods in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide, citing the regime’s deliberate use of...
FBU fighting pension cuts!
FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...
DROP IMPOSED CONTRACT – Royal College urges Secretary Hunt
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s decision to impose the new contract onto junior doctors must be reversed since the premise behind the contract’s...
RENATIONALISE RAIL – only answer to huge fare hikes
RAIL ticket price hikes of up to 5.1% came into force yesterday with the RMT, Unite and campaign groups calling for the re-nationalisation of...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm
St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
ENERGY PRICE RISE CONDEMNED – UNISON demands profits inquiry
Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...
Labour NEC gives in to witch-hunt
THE LABOUR Party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), yesterday adopted all of the examples of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the international definition, in addition...
Investors Dump Stocks As Capitalism Crashes!
INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...
Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Crime!
ISRAEL is carrying out ‘the crime of apartheid against Palestinians’ and must be held accountable for treating them as ‘an inferior racial group’, Amnesty...
NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...
Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says Gove
COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...
‘They won’t tell us if our block will be demolished’ – Tangmere resident
‘THEY haven’t told us how long we are moving temporarily. They haven’t even told us whether they will demolish the block,’ Cisem Staines from...
January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – Tuesday October 21st
Tuesday’s 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the government’s policies takes place in an explosive period. The world economic collapse has...
‘We will resist Met Uni cuts!’
‘UCU and Unison staff will resist all cuts to courses, jobs and provision at London Met by whatever means, including industrial action.’ University and College...
STOP THE STRIKEBREAKERS – CWU tells Unite
Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday, to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...
From Gaza to Buenos Aires workers demand justice on May Day!
WORKERS took to the streets in cities across the world yesterday to mark International Workers Day, with trade unions warning that the US-Israeli war...
‘Enough is enough!’ say striking PCS members
PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...
‘Slippery slope to privatisation’
THE FIRST GP surgery in Maidstone Kent to charge patients for 15-minute face-to-face consultations is open for business! The GP surgery works through ‘Uber-style’...
Unions Reject More ‘Reforms’
Health and education unions yesterday responded angrily to Prime Minister Blair’s policy review that signals a stepping up of Blair and Brown’s privatisation drive...
Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories
THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
Rbs Thumbs Nose At Jobless!
The Royal Bank of Scotland, which received a £20bn bail-out with taxpayers’ money, is to proceed with a £1bn payout in annual bonuses. This is...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
4.8m WORKERS EARN LESS THAN LIVING WAGE
THERE are 4.8 million workers earning below the so-called living wage, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation. The figure, equivalent to 20% of...
Women will give birth in A&E!
‘I WORK in A&E and I have the feeling that we will actually get women coming into A&E to have their babies and it’s...
IMF – British banks warning!
THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...
Israel aims to ban Oxfam and other UK charities!
BRITISH charities, Palestinian advocacy organisations and Palestine Action yesterday condemned an official Israeli letter maligning their representatives and recommending they be barred from entering...
PATIENT CARE AT RISK – from private treatment centres
Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...
Brexit Turncoats Rally Behind May
ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said...
Doctors reject Streeting attacks
RESIDENT doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted that the government’s proposed offer on jobs is not good enough for them to call off proposed...
Scrap Hinkley Point deal!
THE City of London and the government were shaken yesterday after PM May postponed a decision to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear...