NO PAY RISE IN 5 YEARS! – ASLEF strike expands
ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...
West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened
FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992
Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...
‘WE WON’T ACCEPT PAY CUTS’ – say PCS strikers
There was widespread disruption across Jobcentres, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) yesterday. Staff working for the Department for Work and...
Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’
AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...
‘Leave our people in Aghanistan’ Taliban warn US while G7 meets – No extension...
IF THE Americans ask for an extension on the withdrawal from Afghanistan the answer is ‘No’ Taliban spokesperson Dr Suhail Shaheen reconfirmed yesterday at...
McCLUSKEY AND CROW MISS CAMERON MEETING
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber led a delegation of union leaders to meet with Tory-LibDem coalition prime minister Cameron yesterday midday....
‘Smash Fees Restore Free State Education!’
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education set off early yesterday for the latest leg from Stoke to Stafford. Hitting the road...
‘If the doctors strikes are banned the TUC must call a general strike and...
‘IF THEY ban the doctors strikes the British Medical Association must call on the other unions to come out with them. If doctors strikes...
£32 million cuts planned at NW London NHS – 400 jobs threatened
The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...
BROOKS RESIGNS! – Murdoch disarray continues
NEWS International chief executive Rebekah Brooks resigned yesterday morning, thrown overboard by Murdoch as he sought to get a grip on News International’s runaway...
Brooks, Coulson & others to face 19 charges
REBEKAH Brooks and Andy Coulson, plus six others, face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service announced yesterday. The...
Hamas protecting aid convoys
GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...
HAMAS ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE! to end the war in Gaza and begin the withdrawal...
HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement...
Banfield slams 2.8% pay offer
HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...
DISASTER! – more British troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
Two British soldiers were killed and another two injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, yesterday. Their patrol was...
Corbyn limits his call to Rudd’s resignation
‘WE ARE talking about the environment created by her (PM Theresa May) as Home Secretary for six years when she knew full well of...
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Remainers launch a legal challenge!
‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...
‘Disband Iraq’s Puppet Police Force’
The puppet Iraqi police force is infiltrated by sectarian militias and should be disbanded and reorganised, a panel of retired US generals led by...
‘GREEDY PRIVATEERS’ – slammed by RMT’s Bob Crow
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow yesterday responded to the McNulty review of the UK privatised railway system by pointing the finger at privatisation as...
Greece In Revolution!
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...
Dump NHS early discharge plan!
FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...
Another Unfair Tax!
Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...
Stop Israel’s starvation of 2.4 million Palestinians!
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) began five days of hearings against Israel’s illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestine...
UK committed ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over Chagossians return
THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...
‘FRESH BLOW TO CAR INDUSTRY’! – over 10% job losses at JLR Halewood
THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...
PCS & Prospect take action at the British Museum
‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...
‘Popular uprising’ against anti-union laws urges Prentis!
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has called on the labour movement to organise a ‘popular uprising’ against the Trade Union Bill. He delivered his call...
RICKWOOD INQUEST TO OPEN –youngest child ever to die in penal custody
THE inquest into the death of 14-year-old Adam Rickwood in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre on 8th August 2004 will open on Monday 10 January...
Chase Farm Mass Picket
SUPPORT for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital is growing as more and more residents and staff support the picket against its closure. Passing motorists...
‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn
‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...
‘Avanti West Coast Want Drivers To Work With A Real Terms Wage Cut!’
AHEAD of the powerful one-day strike at nine major train privateers this Saturday, Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan has accused one of them, Avanti...
‘I will not stop’ fighting for justice for Rashan!
‘I WILL not stop with this case while I’m still breathing,’ Rod Charles vowed yesterday. Rod Charles is the great uncle of Rashan Charles...
Thousands March For Palestine
‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...
General strike sparked by demolitions in Palestine!
A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...
‘This Battle Is To Be Fought To A Finish!’
THERE were three really lively picket lines of striking British Airways cabin crew around Heathrow Airport yesterday, with music, flags, horns and whistles, responding...
70% of medical students can’t afford necessities!
SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...
Prentis ‘Call To Arms!’
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...
TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers
THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...
Reopen Ealing Maternity!
‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...
Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS
TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...
This Is A War Crime! Israel Fires Missiles At Ambulances!
‘EVERYONE should stand up and say this is a war crime, genocide, the ambulances were just trying to evacuate the patients,’ Al Shifa Hospital...
Palestinians battle on!
FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...