Iran launches Wave 64 striking Israeli targets!

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IRAN launched Wave 64 of Operation True Promise at dawn yesterday, striking military and strategic targets across Israel while simultaneously hitting US naval assets...
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...

CROYDON BUST! Councils across the UK to make savage cuts

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CROYDON Council has gone bankrupt after racking up debts of £1.5bn. The council issued a rare Section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, on Wednesday...

1 In 5 Surgeries Face Closure

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ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...

Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters

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FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...
South-East London Council of Action members along with users of the ‘Peckham Spike’ community project  lobbying Southwark Town Hall on Wednesday evening

Mass Lobby Of Southwark Town Hall

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MORE than 100 people staged a mass lobby of Southwark Town Hall in south London on Wednesday night. The rain did not dampen their spirits,...

DICTATOR BERCOW! – ready to forcefully remove PM from office

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THE OUTGOING Speaker John Bercow, due to leave on October 31, has said that he will forcibly remove PM Johnson from office if he...
Thousands of protesters dressed in Panama hats & Hawaiian shirts in London on Saturday demanding ‘Cameron Must Go!’

‘UK is heart of tax avoidance’–Corbyn

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‘THE public no longer have the trust in him,’ Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said of PM Cameron after he attempted to justify his involvement...

Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike

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MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...

Milford Hospital Is Set To Close

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The Board of Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust (PCT) in Surrey held an ‘extraordinary meeting’ yesterday where it decided to close Milford Hospital...

GRENFELL – ‘PROSECUTE THE GUILTY!’ – Survivors still demanding justice

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JUSTICE for Grenfell yesterday branded as ‘outrageous’ and ‘atrocious’ the demand by company officials called before the Grenfell Inquiry for immunity from prosecution. The Grenfell...
Greek workers march during the General Strike against austerity measures – they are ready for revolution in 2012

‘SACRIFICES NEEDED IN 2012’ – EU workers are told by leaders

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German Chancellor Merkel, in her sombre New Year message yesterday, warned 2012 will be worse than 2011. Merkel said Europe was experiencing its ‘most...
Police trying to enforce an eviction on the Heygate estate yesterday but were unsuccessful due to the opposition of residents

Defend Council Estates! Keep Homes Open!

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SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...
The ‘Defend the Welfare State’ march in London on April 11 with the central issue to the fore of stopping the privatisation of the NHS

‘INTO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY WITH THE PFI’ says GP’s chairman Buckman

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THE BMA’s GP Chairman Dr Laurence Buckman yesterday outlined, at the GPs conference, areas of the NHS which should be cut or reviewed. With NHS...

Stop Gaza Massacre!

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THREE Palestinians were killed near midnight on Monday in an Israeli attack on a United Nations school that was housing people displaced by the...
Junior doctors marching last month through central London against the imposition of a new contract forcing them to work unsafe and unfair hours and a big cut in their pay

Junior doctors strike suspended

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AT THE eleventh hour, talks between the BMA on behalf of the junior doctors and the government at ACAS reached the following decision: ‘Following talks...

CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’

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THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...

Very Unconvincing Military Accuses Iran

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BRITISH military chiefs yesterday once again put their soldiers in the front line, this time to face the world’s media to try to explain...

‘End of Royal Mail as we know it!’ – Stand by your postie CWU...

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POSTAL workers are warning the public of the ‘end of Royal Mail as we know it’, as 115,000 employees strike today and Black Friday...

Israeli Tanks On Edge Of Damascus!

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ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...
Exiled Chagos Islanders began a five-day sit-in at Trafalgar Square yesterday morning, demanding the right to return to their homeland

Chagos Islanders occupy Trafalgar Square

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OVER 50 exiled Chagossians living in the UK camped out in Trafalgar Square yesterday, the first day of a five-day occupation. ‘Help us to go...

‘Shameful Police Spying’

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THE family of murdered young Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes and the bereaved mother of teenager Ricky Reel yesterday condemned undercover spying on their...
Students demonstrating at Sussex University yesterday will be coming up to the ULU demonstration this afternoon

Unison & UCU condemn ULU police violence

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UCU and Unison have condemned the police and management attacks on students and staff at the University of London Union (ULU) which is...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...
Two thousand BA cabin staff shout ‘Out with Walsh’ at the end of their mass meeting that decided on a series of three-day strike actions

96% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – By British Airways cabin crews

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A 96 per cent vote by British Airways cabin crew to strike over management by imposition and the breakdown of respect and industrial relations...

Four pro-Palestine hunger strikers continue into 54th day of strike action!

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FOUR pro-Palestine hunger strikers are continuing their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on her 54th day of hunger strike, Teuta Hoxha is on her 48th...

NHS staff facing £845 pay cut during 2021-22 – as a result of soaring...

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AN ANALYSIS by the Health Foundation shows that soaring inflation means NHS staff face an average pay cut of £845 during 2021-22 and will...

There are 10,000 medical vacancies

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THE BMA doctors trade union has responded to data on NHS vacancies, GP workforce and GP appointments. Responding to the latest quarterly NHS vacancy data,...
March to defend the NHS – NHS workers are one of those sections that the government wants to impose a three-year wage-cutting deal on, so it can carry on propping up the banks

Bank Will Accept Credit Card Debt As Collateral!

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The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...
Demonstrators outside Downing Street on May 31 demand an end to the siege of Gaza

New Freedom Flotilla Being Prepared

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A new flotilla to break the siege on Gaza is being prepared in Lebanon. It includes an all-woman vessel, named the Mariam, organised by Samar...

BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...

Picked On ‘Because He Is Black’

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A black tourist has been paid £7,500 for wrongful imprisonment and discrimination in Maghaberry jail, near Belfast. Frank Kakopa who is originally from Zimbabwe was...
Peugeot workers from Ryton taking part in the May Day march in London

FRENCH AND BRITISH WORKERS UNITE – to keep Peugeot Ryton open

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‘Save Peugot Jobs!’ demanded over 400 French and British workers in Paris yesterday. Peugot workers and a delegation of Renault workers from across France joined...
In Dusseldorf yesterday morning two locked-out Gate Gourmet workers from London were welcomed at a mass picket by striking local Gate Gourmet workers

‘SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!’ – Nurses reject Brown’s 2% pay offer

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Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...

East London victory! – GP surgeries to remain open

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EAST London GPs have won an ‘extraordinary victory’, securing a write-off of hundreds of thousands of pounds of Tory cuts. Seventeen GP surgeries in east...

CUTS AND FORCED LABOUR! – UNISON slams Tory and Labour reforms

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday slammed the latest Tory and Labour attacks on disabled people and the unemployed. Tory leader Cameron announced a ‘big bold’...
On November 30 workers made it clear they wanted their pensions defended – now some trade union leaders want to abandon that struggle

Stop Barber-Prentis Pensions Sell-Out

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AT last Thursday’s meeting of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group, TUC leader Brendan Barber urged trade unions to capitulate and sign up...

Back to Work regulations are ruled illegal!

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IN A LANDMARK decision yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal ruling of last February that the Regulations governing the government’s ‘Back...

‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference

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THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...

Tories Planning To Break ‘Trade Union Stranglehold’

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THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...
Labour  MP JOHN McDONNELL addressing locked out Gate Gourmet workers calls for both the TUC and the TGWU to take action to win the dispute

AIRPORT MUST COME OUT! – to win the struggle say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘TELL the BA workers and every worker on the airport, we need their help again,’ Gate Gourmet striker Mrs P Samara told News Line...
Student nurses demanding bursaries are restored – the number of applicants is down 10%

Student nurse numbers plummet again

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THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...
Junior doctors during their dispute warned that the Tories would put the NHS up for sale

GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA

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GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...

BLACKMAIL – Hamas condemns imperialist pressure to recognise Israel

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THE Arab League; the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia; Israel and the Palestinian Fatah movement are...
General Motors UAW members demonstrate against the attack on their conditions

Herts FBU – Two Eight Hour Strikes

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews have given seven day’s notice of two eight hour blocks of industrial action on 15 and 20 May. They said late proposals...