Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...
Aslef drivers on the picket line during a previous strike – they are out for 48 hours in an escalating struggle over safety

Aslef strike today!

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SOUTHERN rail yesterday lost its appeal to attempt to ban the Southern rail drivers’ strike, so the two day strike has gone ahead. The strike...

MI5 chief urges war on liberty! – ‘blank cheque for unlimited surveillance’

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FOR the first time ever, the serving director of MI5, Andrew Parker, yesterday gave a live BBC interview in a bid to push MPs...

UK committed ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over Chagossians return

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THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...

Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support

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TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...
Bob Crow, RMT members and commuters rally at Waterloo Station yesterday to denounce double inflation rise in rail fares and call for re-nationalisation

No fare rises – re-nationalise!

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RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
Demonstrators on last Saturday’s 100,000-strong demonstration through central London characterise the leaders of the imperialist alliance

Hezbollah Halts Israeli Advance

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Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...
Saturday’s demonstration in London which demanded all attacks on Syria must halt immediately

British crisis frightens Obama

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US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

DOCTORS ‘FEEL LIKE CANNON FODDER’ says Chair of Doctors’ Association UK

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Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...
NUJ protest against the BSkyB takeover outside the Culture Ministry last year

Cameron hiding behind Hunt

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PRESSURE mounted on prime minister Cameron yesterday over his refusal to refer the actions of Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Jeremy Hunt to...

FBU condemns strikebreakers!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...

Blair-Brown War On Single Parents

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Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...

CAMPSFIELD DETAINEE BEATEN’ – and dragged from his cell

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Detainees at Campsfield immigration detention and removal centre near Oxford rose up yesterday morning after an African detainee was beaten and dragged out of...

Scottish lecturers 96.4% for strike

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AN OVERWHELMING 96.4% of college lecturers in Scotland in the EIS union voted for strike action yesterday after promises of ‘fair play’ were broken...

Directors Declare War On Workers

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TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...
Youth marching in London insist that the NHS is not for sale

Big Business To Access Medical Records

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PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...

Heads Heckle Education Secretary Greening

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ANGRY head teachers heckled Education Secretary Justine Greening yesterday as she told the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) conference about government plans...
A  strong picket line at the Elephant and Castle Tube during the first 48-hour strike by the RMT and TSSA

Tube Strike Suspended

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THE 48-hour London Underground strike was suspended yesterday afternoon by both unions, the TSSA and RMT. The strike, due to start last night...

PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank

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Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...

National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel University picket line

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‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...

‘Europe will pay the bill for the US supplying Ukraine with weapons!’

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...

Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!

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WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

Labour government ‘willing to let hunger strikers die’!

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THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...
RMT members and supporters demonstrating outside the Department for Transport yesterday morning – later on in the afternoon the government conceded there would be talks at Acas

EUROSTAR 7 DAY STRIKE! –as government agrees to ACAS talks over Southern dispute

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EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...
Parkside estate tenant CAROL SWORDS (second from left) with supporters outside the High Court yesterday morning

Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court

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TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...

MoJ presiding over a bloodbath

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‘THE Ministry of Justice is presiding over a bloodbath of assaults, suicides and self-injury in prisons,’ Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League...

‘Boycott General Motors’ Demands Unifor’s Dias

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UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

Farmers warn of ‘humanitarian crisis’– if Family Farm Tax not scrapped

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ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...

Gadaffi ‘Alive And Well’

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Fierce fighting continued in the Libya capital yesterday as government forces remained in control of large areas of Tripoli, holding off SAS-led mercenaries and...
With 100,000 children in temporary accommodation, the right to a home is the big issue of the day

100,000 Children Are In Temporary Accommodation

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HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

‘NO DEAL WITH EU’ –demand Greek workers & youth

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THOUSANDS of workers and students took part in marches held in several Greek cities last Thursday evening against any agreement which will continue the...

Police Drag Assange Out Of Embassy

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WIKILEAKS co-founder Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday. In an unprecedented move the embassy allowed...

NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters

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A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...

South Africa slams Israel over genocide against Palestinians!

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IN A historical development at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, South Africa presented its detailed case against Israel committing genocide...

‘A TOTAL DECLARATION OF WAR’ – Nigerian unions slam doubling of fuel price

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THE Nigerian trade unions have called for a mass mobilisation of ‘strikes, street demonstrations and mass protests across the country’ in response...

‘Next Seven Days Are Critical’–May

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PM MAY yesterday warned Tory rebels pushing for a leadership contest that a new Conservative Party leader would not make negotiations with...
Mau Mau supporters outside the High Court demanding that the British government be held to account for mass murder in Kenya

UK Did Torture Kenyans!

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THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...

WE’LL STRIKE ON PENSIONS! say the rail trade unions

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TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...
Health workers marching to defend the NHS last March

Publish Health Bill Risk Register!

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‘Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is deceiving the public about the true adverse impact of his health bill,’ Unite leader Len McCluskey insisted yesterday, as...
Lecturers and students marching from Kings College in central London last May against job cuts and tuition fees

Graduate Tax Robbery!

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The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...

Johnson Faces Calls To Resign

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‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...