Afghan war a ‘lost cause’ – Glenton hands back his medal
Most UK troops ‘thought it was a lost cause ten years ago’, ex-soldier Joe Glenton told a Westminster press conference yesterday before handing back...
OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire
German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
86,000 vacant nhs posts! –between January & March 2017
MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...
‘DROP THE HEALTH BILL!’ – demand 365 GPs
‘It is essential that the Health Bill is scrapped. Unison is completely opposed to the Health Bill. We are right behind the doctors who...
National Post Strike!
‘THOUSANDS of our Post Office members will strike next Thursday, against attacks on their job security and pensions and in defence of the Crown...
RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!
RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...
Embassy cuts Assange off!
ECUADOR has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s internet and stopped all visits after he tweeted about the arrest of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont....
‘Distortion of reality!’ – Iran condemns Rubio threats
PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasised that Iran makes no decision without the approval of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. Pezeshkian made...
Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi Freed
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...
Brexit vote on January 14 says May
TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...
STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder
FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...
Refugees left to freeze!
‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...
1800 YEARS OF JAIL! – for youth charged over Duggan assassination riots
PRISON sentences totalling more than 1,800 years have been handed to youth following the uprising after the police ‘assassination’ of Mark Duggan, in Tottenham,...
Palestinian prisoners – indefinite hunger strike
HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...
Increase of maternal deaths a tragic indictment of the lack of government investment!
THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...
Tory Party Chairman Resigns – As Johnson Skulks In Rwanda!
THE Tory party has been hit for six by its two by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and in Wakefield. Tiverton and Honiton Lib Dem; Richard...
Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke
The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...
‘We will mobilise unions and communities!’ says PCS leader Serwotka
GMB national officer Sharon Holder yesterday called for ‘a coordinated effort organised by the TUC to defend public services and jobs.’ She was responding to...
LABOUR, THE BANKERS FRIEND – turns on the unemployed
‘With the economy slowing down, and many commentators expecting unemployment to rise, now is not the time to start blaming the victim,’ said TUC...
‘WE SILENCE OUR GUNS – TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE’ say Tigers
SELVERASA Pathmanathan, head of the Tamil Tigers International Diplomatic Relations, issued an urgent statement on Sunday morning. He said: ‘Despite our plea to the...
DEFEND NHS GENERAL HOSPITALS! – demand BMA delegates
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose the government’s ‘local hospital model for London’. They voted instead...
RCN Opposes Health Bill
THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
Barber supports low pay! – Congress shaken by his ‘reservations’
BRENDAN Barber yesterday shook the TUC to its foundations when he told Congress that this was not the time to raise the minimum wage...
‘IRRESPONSIBLE AND RASH’ – Primary Academies plan slammed
TEACHERS and heads yesterday condemned Cameron’s announcement that 400 ‘failing’ state primary schools will be forced to become privately-run academies. National Union of Teachers General...
London Met Job Cuts Battle
UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...
‘CUTS WILL COST LIVES!’ – FBU leader Wrack warns
‘CUTS will cost lives,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack insisted yesterday. He was addressing a 500-strong rally in Westminster of FBU delegations...
Coordinated strike action motion for TUC
TRANSPORT union RMT has tabled a motion for the TUC Congress in Manchester next week which sets out a blueprint for a coordinated trade...
Athens Court Finds ‘No’ Protesters Guilty
AN Athens court has sentenced three marchers of the 15 July demonstration against austerity. They were accused of throwing petrol bombs at the riot...
Blood-Testing Workers Protest
THERE was a very lively demonstration of blood testing workers outside Colindale tube station yesterday morning. They were handing out post cards explaining their fight...
Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge
THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
‘Today we set out to transform Britain’ says Corbyn
AT THE party’s manifesto launch in Bradford yesterday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Today we set out a vision to transform Britain for the...
Don’t stop our hardship payments demand locked-out GG workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line in the open air at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They were angry that the leaders of...
KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture
THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...
HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed
The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...
GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils
GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT RESIGNS – Medvedev to be deputy head of Russian Security Council
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly yesterday. According to Putin, the birth rate in the...
Come to our conference on January 29TH
THERE was a determined picket of locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the Beacon Hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. It is now nearly five months...
Points-based immigration system launched!
TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...
‘We need mass industrial action!’ says McCluskey
OVER 10,000 workers, trades unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday on May Day. There were banners from trades unions, trades...
STOP HEATHROW JOBS BLOODBATH – Unite must call national strike action now!
‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...
Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest
A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...
Hague And Gove Have Gone!
TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the policies enforced by the now ex-Tory Education Secretary Gove, and resisted by hundreds of thousands of teachers...
Doctors prepare to strike – as Tories drive doctors out the NHS
AS junior doctors are preparing for strike action for three days next month, there is mounting fury at the Tory government’s attacks on...
JOHNSON STAYS AWAY FROM COMMONS – no Labour Party call for his resignation
LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...
Corona cases soar by 25% across UK!
CORONAVIRUS infections have risen by 25% across the UK, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, to more than 35,200...