‘WE MUST RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ say Chagos islanders
‘We will return to our islands,’ chanted over 150 Chagos islanders, British trade unionists and youth outside the House of Lords yesterday. The mass picket...
CORBYN VISITS DUNKIRK – as Brit haulage boss urges ‘send in troops’
CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...
Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed
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...
Nurses pay cut plan a ‘death knell’ for Truss!
TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...
Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike
BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...
London/Manchester joint Grenfell march
THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...
Palestinians Drive Israeli Tanks Out Of Gaza
Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...
HEADS WILL BOYCOTT SATs
SATs tests are being used as a ‘big stick’ to beat state schools with, says the president of the National Association of Head Teachers...
IRAQ INVASION BROKE UN CHARTER – says Blix
‘WE visited 30 sites and found no Weapons of Mass Destruction’ in Iraq, but the United States was on a ‘military high’ and decided...
House price inflation reaches 8.4%
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...
Pensions Battle Ahead!
THE NUT and ATL teachers unions announced overwhelming votes for strike action yesterday, against the coalition government’s massive attacks on their pensions. In the...
Rcn Rejects NHS Charges!
NURSES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress in Liverpool voted by a massive 91% majority against NHS charging yesterday. Delegates at the...
UN convenes to discuss Israeli airstrikes
THE UNITED Nations (UN) Security Council is to convene today at the request of Iran to discuss Saturday’s Israeli strikes on the country. Iran says...
6.35 million need full-time jobs
UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose by 28,000 in the last three months, to 2.67 million. Youth joblessness soared by another 16,000, with the...
‘A DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS SITUATION!’ – Brown pledges to work on the side of...
‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...
Barnet Strike Action Today
UNISON’s Barnet branch members will be taking strike action on budget day, today, as part of their ongoing battle against the rampant privatisation of...
14,000 Junior Doctors Will Be Without Posts
the actual number of specialist doctor training posts available in the UK is 18,518 – not between 22,000 and 23,000 as the government had...
Greek Workers Want An Indefinite General Strike
WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...
BROWN – ‘We’re going to change the way we govern’
Prime Minister Brown, flanked by Chancellor Darling, told a press conference yesterday that, ‘the changes I have announced in the cabinet and in the...
PM HAS BROKEN PLEDGES! – says top QC Martin Howe
TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...
May Brings Back 11 Plus!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
Scrap Sky High Student Fees And Debts!
THE TORY coalition government has rejected demands that it hold an urgent review into the student loan system, despite the system reaching...
Cameron’s 7-day GPs & NHS provokes strike threat
HEALTH unions have threatened to strike over Cameron’s plans to create a seven-day-a-week health service, if it means cuts to the existing payments for...
UK turning a blind eye to refugees
THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...
Cameron Pledges More Cuts!
PM Cameron yesterday defended the government’s spending and welfare cuts, and pledged to continue them and to stop at nothing to defend British capitalism. However,...
‘Putting out forest fires with water pistols’
‘LIKE putting out forest fires with a water pistol,’ is the way the GMB union branded the Taylor Review released yesterday which looked into...
Grenfell fire ‘could have been put out with an extinguisher’ – Outrageous claim by...
CLADDING which burst into flames up the side of Grenfell Tower ‘could have been put out with a simple extinguisher’, cladding company Arconic has...
‘don’t Close Heart Units’
PARENTS yesterday spoke out in opposition to the closure of four specialist children’s heart units. The ‘Safe and Sustainable’ review of children’s heart surgery...
STRIKE ON! ‘WALSH LOOKING FOR A WAR’ – says Unite leader Woodley
British Airways cabin crew are taking three-days of strike action today, tomorrow and Monday and a further four-days strike action starting on March 27th. After...
STEP UP THE ACTION! – postal workers demand
OVER 1,000 striking postal workers converged on the headquarters of Royal Mail yesterday to demand management enter ‘meaningful talks with the CWU (Communication Workers...
‘Do not resuscitate’ care homes scandal – Professor Leary demands investigation
A STARTLING new report published by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) states that during the peak of the pandemic people in care homes were...
‘NHS Being privatised!’
NEW research produced by the NHS Support Federation shows a dramatic rise in the contracts won by private firms to deliver NHS care. Over the...
Greek Workers Reject Austerity Government
Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...
EMERGENCY SPECIALISTS NOT POLYCLINICS – urges College of Emergency Medicine
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...
Enthusiastic BEIS strike solid
PCS members at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) began their two-day strike for the London Living Wage at 3.00pm on...
Amnesty condemns the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip!
ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...
Greek farmers are staging mass motorway blockades – as well as blocking customs entry
GREEK farmers staged mass tractor motorway blockades on Thursday and Friday, while also blocking customs entry points into Greece from neighbouring Balkan countries, as...
Blair-Brown War On Single Parents
Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...
10% of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured or detained by Israel!
TEN per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained since Israel launched its genocidal war on 7 October 2023, according...
‘US is no longer able to dictate its policies’ says Iran
THE spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Defence says the United States is no longer in a position to dictate its policies to independent nations,...
Young Socialists Student Society
Public lectures – Trotskyism today
Tories Want Mass Sackings!
Liberal Democrat employment minister, Ed Davey, announced plans to change labour laws yesterday, to enable employers to sack large numbers of workers easily. The Tory-LibDem...
de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’
THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...
Thousands of patients sent home too soon!
THE NHS is so short staffed, with such a lack of beds that patients are being sent home too early, as a result...
Challenge To Labour’s Torture Policies
TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...