370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!
370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...
Coulson In Custody!
Police investigating phone hacking and corruption allegations yesterday arrested former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. Former News of the World royal editor Clive...
Merkel Angers Greek Parties
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone call to the Greek President Karolos Papoulias last Friday, when she asked for a referendum to be held on...
Raab Outlines Brexit Crisis!
TORY Brexit secretary Dominic Raab yesterday set out what he called ‘practical and proportionate’ advice in case the UK leaves the EU with no...
Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
TAKE GOVIA INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP demands RMT
A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...
Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!
THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...
CHARITIES AND WAGE CUTS! – Civil Service strike likely says PCS leader Serwotka
In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...
Swindon Hospital Workers Lobby Carillion
OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...
No NHS Bed Cuts!
CALLS by NHS England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings to cut acute care beds and close District General Hospitals, were roundly condemned by a...
RBS & May knifed Carillion!
‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...
Hague Sued Over US Drone Attacks
Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...
ANGRY GPs SLAM CQC!
GP LEADERS in the doctors’ union, the BMA, yesterday backed a ‘no confidence’ vote in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief inspector Professor...
‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children
THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...
British Soldiers Die In Basra
Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded, by a roadside bomb in Basra last Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday. The...
‘Abysmal response’ to corona – experts warn antibody tests are ‘invalid’
EXPERTS have heavily criticised the Tories’ ‘ad hoc system’ for coronavirus tracking, testing and contact tracing, stating that the government’s ‘abysmal response’ means that...
Belgian General Strike
‘A nation has been brought to a stop by the will of its workers and unions, who have today decisively rejected one-sided austerity measures.’ An...
MANUFACTURING COLLAPSE – Nissan cuts production
Nissan announced a halt to production at its Sunderland plant for a fortnight and shorter working days for three weeks during October and November...
‘We Wont Let Students Be Deported’
MORE than 200 students, lecturers and other workers demonstrated angrily outside the Home Office yesterday afternoon, denouncing the plans to deport up to 3,000...
‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
Greek Vodafone strike ‘illegal’
AN Athens court declared ‘illegal’ the national strike called by Vodafone workers yesterday demanding a collective labour agreement. The Vodafone workers’ trade union refused to...
‘RATE RISE FEAR’ – Bank of England urges caution
‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...
Tories to sack 91,000 civil servants – National strike action certain say union leaders
THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...
‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...
IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro
A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...
‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men
,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...
NHS must run vaccinations! Unison warns of private firms using unqualified staff
CORONAVIRUS vaccinations must be managed entirely by the NHS and public bodies, and not allow the involvement of private firms and the use of unqualified staff,...
‘Don’t let the US drag you in!’ – Iran warns Europe
FOREIGN Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says Iran’s proposal for ending the recent war was reasonable, however, the United States continues to insist on ‘unreasonable demands’ shaped...
KICK TORIES OUT ON JUNE 8th
‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...
John Roan resists! – No Academisation!
‘JOHN Roan Resists!’ is the battle cry of 1,200 pupils, their parents and 60 teachers who are in an escalating struggle to stop their...
BBC unions to ‘trawl for volunteers’ for the sack
‘The BBC unions agreed ‘a trawl for voluntary redundancies’ during last Wednesday’s four-hour meeting with BBC Director General Mark Thompson. Thompson would give no guarantee...
Usa On The Brink! Of Economic And Financial Collapse
Both US President Barack Obama and the Republican leader in Congress John Boehner raised the spectre of a market crash today if the political...
Royal Mail Bosses’ Bonus Scandal
Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...
TUC will not be considering a general strike says Nowak!
NEW TUC leader Paul Nowak has insisted that tomorrow’s meeting of the TUC General Council in central London will not be considering calls for...
We Need A Public Sector Alliance
‘The strikes are strongly supported, our members are determined to continue the strike action until Royal Mail seriously negotiates,’ a Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...
Heygate Tenants Eviction Warning!
TENANTS on the Heygate estate in south London’s Elephant and Castle are being sent ‘take it now or face eviction later’ letters, as part...
V&A strikers fighting for their rights
THERE was another very well-attended picket line outside the Young V&A Museum in Bethnal Green on Saturday, with loud chants of: ‘What do we...
‘THE NIGHTMARE IS CONTINUING!’ –‘Inquiry’ angers survivors
‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...
NHS Staff Face Privatisation!
The coming clash between the trade unions and the Labour government over plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS was yesterday...
Israeli tank deliberately runs over an injured Palestinian mother!
A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...
Families going without food!
Families with disabled children are going without essentials such as food and heating. This is the norm, not a temporary crisis brought on by the...
Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...
Brown To ‘Give Away’ NHS!
GORDON Brown yesterday confirmed that a government run by him would hand over the running of the public sector to an independent committee, which...
May forced to accept all amendments
THE TORY government confirmed that it will accept all four amendments put by the Tory pro-Brexit MPs to the Chequers sell-out White Paper. Prime Minister...