Savage Air Attacks On Libya!
‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...
Labour government planning over 100,000 NHS sackings
MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...
WOODLEY REJECTED – by angry BASSA members
yesterday afternoon the British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA) branch of the TGWU met in a hotel near Heathrow airport to discuss the...
Tortured Iraqis Seek Judicial Review!
FOLLOWING their previous threat of proceedings against the government, 34 Iraqi victims of hooding today issued judicial review proceedings against the government to challenge...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF THE LEBANON’ say Gate Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...
Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...
THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
Renationalise railways!
TRAIN staff were joined by angry commuters in protests at over forty stations across the UK as the 3.4% hikes in rail fares...
Free School–‘financial misconduct’
KINGS Science Academy in Bradford, one of the government’s flagship free schools, has been accused of serious financial mismanagement. An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report...
£30bn MORE NHS CUTS!
THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...
END GAZA BLOCKADE! – UK agencies urge UK, US, Russia and UN
UK agencies yesterday called on members of the Mid-East Quartet meeting in London (the US, EU, Russia and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) to put...
Parliament Square Occupied!
‘FREE Education Now!’ chanted over 10,000 students on a march through central London to Parliament yesterday. Demonstrators from all over Britain also shouted: ‘Workers and...
Mexican forces attack caravan
CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...
Derby schools 25% pay cut
UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...
Further Mersey FBU strike dates
MERSEYSIDE fire crews will be taking a further two four-day blocks of strike action. The first four days will start at 10.00am on 28...
Schoolchildren to be served smaller portions!
SCHOOL caterers will have to serve children smaller portions or use cheaper ingredients, they were warned yesterday. Andrew Selley, boss of Bidfood, one of the...
Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!
GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...
Net Closes In On Cameron
PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...
DEATHS WILL RESULT – from attacks on ambulance service
‘TINKERING with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths,’ the GMB union, which represents ambulance drivers, warned yesterday. The union added that the government’s...
No Forced Labour For Youth!
Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...
Galloway Persona Non Grata In Egypt
The leader of the Viva Palestina aid convoy for Gaza, British MP George Galloway, was yesterday deported and declared persona non grata by Egypt. Officials...
Rights Groups condemn Israel’s control of ‘Area C registration’
ISRAEL’S cabinet has approved a measure to assume full control of land registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which covers around...
Plan For Mayors To Run NHS Hospitals!
MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...
The occupation is starving us say Palestinian children
‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...
‘We Need Our Hardship Pay’
‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...
Egypt Masses Defiant
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptian workers and youth yesterday remained in control of the centre of Cairo, during a sixth day of protests...
May uses courts against prison officers!
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...
Hundreds Of ‘Failing’ Schools Face Closure
Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...
Cash for GPs to keep people out of hospitals!
A LEAKED memo has exposed a plan to slash the amount of patients referred by GPs to hospitals by 30%! After seeing the memo, Dr...
Nurses Angry Over Cuts!
With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...
BMA BOOSTS BROWN’S PLAN FOR ‘INDEPENDENT’ NHS – before BMA conference even discusses it
THE BMA yesterday, on the eve of its Annual Representative Meeting in Torquay, sought to impose Gordon Brown’s plan for an ‘independent board to...
Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts
STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...
Labour hits back after Panorama attack
‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...
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...
AUTO-ENROLMENT PENSIONS ROBBERY
MILLIONS of workers will see their take-home pay fall when contribution rates for those with auto-enrolment pensions are hiked in six weeks time. Since 2012,...
Hezbollah Battles Israel To A Standstill
HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...
BMA Council votes to call special conference
The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...
MARCH WITH US ON MARCH 25th
GATE GOURMET locked out workers were back on the hill yesterday after their successful mass picket on Sunday. Lakhinder Saran said: ‘Our mass picket was...
Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless
Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...
Israel Intensifies Its Assault On Gaza Strip
THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...
‘World Crisis Opening Up Socialist Revolution’
‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...
KERRY THREATENS RUSSIA says ‘you must disarm Separatists’
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to show ‘within hours’ that it is ‘working to disarm separatist militants’ in eastern...
Blair Opposes Right To Strike!
The Blair government has intervened in a European Court of Justice (EJC) test case to insist that the right to strike is not a...
GOOD ON THE GRANGEMOUTH WORKERS! – say Road Hauliers
‘I think, good on the striking workers at Grangemouth,’ said Simon Gough, from A E Gough and Sons in mid-Wales, as more than 100...
‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions
‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
Hunger Strikers Reject Offer Of Exile!
HUNGER striking Palestinian prisoners have rejected an Israeli proposal to ‘free’ them, on condition that they are expelled, the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees...