‘WE ARE HEADING FOR SERIOUS CONFLICT’ – over the NHS says UNISON

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‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...
Young Syrians on a march called by Stop the War – UK special forces are now ‘illegally’ fighting on the front line in Syria

UK forces fighting in Syria ‘illegal’ – warns Stop the War

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UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...

Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis

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A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...
Doctors on the NHS 70th Anniversary march rightly insist they will refuse to check the immigration status of their patients

Stop charging non-UK citizens for NHS – demands new report from Maternity Action

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‘THE GOVERNMENT should immediately suspend charging for NHS maternity care,’ for non-UK residents, concludes a new report released yesterday from Maternity Action. The report, called...
Hampstead CWU pickets on Saturday morning were confident of winning

NATIONAL STRIKE IS VITAL – say CWU pickets

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Post workers were out on strike again on Saturday in defence of their jobs, working conditions, pensions and pay. The Communication Workers Union branded Royal...

Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’

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‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
UNISON General Secretary DAVE PRENTIS (second from left) alongside Unite co-leaders SIMPSON and WOODLEY backed by delegates. The three leaders of the two biggest unions in the country are refusing to call for bringing down the coalition government

TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition

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DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...

French General Strike!

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A NATIONWIDE general strike took place yesterday, as Air France workers joined striking railworkers, civil servants, power workers and rubbish collectors in a...

THE NHS STAFFING CRISIS: ‘A NATIONAL SCANDAL’ says House of Commons Health & Social...

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THE HOUSE of Commons Health and Social Care Committee is publishing a report this morning which calls the NHS staffing crisis a ‘national scandal’. The...

UK Martial Law plan

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A REPORT published in error on National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) website and quickly taken down, has revealed a secret plan for the deployment...

UK MUST DO WHAT IT IS TOLD! – or no deal say the EU...

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EU LEADERS France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel – have been told the EU is unlikely to get a trade deal with the...

Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...
Striking bus workers fighting for fair pay outside Alperton bus garage yesterday morning

BUS DRIVERS STRIKE! – for £30,000 a year & 38-hour week

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METROBUS and First Centrewest Buses stopped throughout London yesterday. Metrobus is out for 24 hours while First Centrewest Buses are stopped for 48...
Cabin crew rejoice at the good news that the judiciary had dumped the strike ban

Law Lords Retreat!

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British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...

STOPPED 25 TIMES! –Stuart Lawrence accuses police of racism

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STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...

Busworkers launch a national health & safety campaign

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A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well...

DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!

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‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...
Demonstrators condemn Israel outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday evening

HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release

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ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...

Barristers To Take Indefinite Action!

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BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the TUC

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’

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TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...
Manchester students gave their full support to ‘the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth’

Manchester SU supports YS March

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‘MANCHESTER University Students Union (SU) supports the march because we support the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth,’ said Charlie Cook, the SU...

PALESTINIANS PAYING THE ULTIMATE PRICE! – seeing their children die of hunger

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UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern over the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the so-called relief organisation created by Israel and backed by the...
On July 1st 300,000 marched on Parliament after McDonnell urged them to do so – since then Labour has refused to call for the Tories to go

Banks ‘racing to the bottom!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell

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THE BANK of England has revealed that banks extended new mortgage commitments to borrowers worth £69.6bn in the three months to the end of...

‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...

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RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...
Youth from Forest Gate demonstrating outside New Scotland Yard yesterday afternoon

‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men

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,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...

Down with the US-Israeli aggressors! – chant tens of thousands in Tehran

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THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...

Tories unleash savage cuts on South Western Railway – RMT launches week of action...

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TRANSPORT union the RMT is stepping up its campaign today against ‘swingeing cuts’ on South Western Railway which will unleash an attack on rail...
A section of the huge TUC march on October 20 through London against the Coalition’s attacks

NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working

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The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...

ASLEF calls July 8 Tube strike

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ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...

Junior Doctors Ready To Strike

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TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...

Almost 1m killed by US-led wars globally

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THE US ‘war on terror’ has taken almost one million lives across the globe and has cost the country $8 trillion over the past two...
Lecturers marching to defend their jobs – they will step up their fight after this general election

CAMERON DEMANDS STRONG GOVERNMENT! – as pound sterling falls

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URGENT talks began yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron demanded a ‘strong and stable government’ is formed ‘quickly’ to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’. This was after...
Prison officers outside Brixton prison forced to take strike action for health and safety reasons

May uses courts against prison officers!

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THE government was in the High Court yesterday where it won an injunction against striking prison staff. The court ordered prison staff to return to...

Seven children killed seeking water!

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SEVEN Palestinian children were killed yesterday in an Israeli strike while attempting to find drinking water in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza – the area...

Johnson surrenders – kneels before ‘Surrender Act’

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A SCOTTISH judge was to be asked yesterday to consider whether Boris Johnson could be jailed if he takes the UK out of the...

Decanted families warehoused in office blocks

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FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...
There were a number of lobbies of parliament on Wednesday demanding the end to attacks on the NHS and the Welfare State. Workers are demanding that the trade unions take action to rid the country of the coalition government. Photo credit: Beta Luciano

Miliband attacks unions! – after McCluskey warns of ‘dustbin of history’

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey has been denounced as ‘reprehensible’ and ‘divisive’ by Labour leader Ed Miliband and his shadow cabinet. McCluskey’s crime was to...

Hammond pledges to bring down no-deal Tories!

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Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against private polyclinics

Bma Slams Profits Before Patients

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...

Court case against Johnson dismissed!

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YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...

3 Years Of Guards Strikes

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HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
Half a million public sector workers demonstrated in London against the Tory-LibDem coalition on 26th March 2011

No Fault Dismissals ‘a Bad Bosses Charter!’

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‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...

‘PROSECUTE THOSE INVOLVED IN LOOTING AND CORRUPTION!’ – SAFTU hails police raid on Guptas

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) yesterday welcomed ‘the long overdue recall of Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa’. The ANC...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...