March in Enfield to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

Welfare State ‘Not For Sale!’

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thousands of workers, trade unionists, students and youth are marching through London this afternoon, against 13 years of Labour attacks on public services and...

University staff step up struggle

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MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery yesterday, determined to defend their pay and conditions

Mass Picket At The National Gallery

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THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...
Demonstrators outside the Pakistan embassy yesterday demanded a UN-led investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s murder

‘CATASTROPHE IN PAKISTAN’ – say 200 demonstrators

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‘THE average, common individual can’t get anything, there is no flour, no diesel, there are only a few hours of electricity – the whole...

RMT calls National Rail Strike!

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THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...

Over 800 doctors urge Justice Secretary Lammy to save hunger strikers!

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OVER 800 doctors, legal experts, and family members have signed an open letter urging Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet to save the pro-Palestine...

General strike needed to support hunger strikers!

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THE hunger strikers are ‘losing the ability to speak and stand’, according to Prisoners for Palestine, with the four remaining hunger strikers adding additional...

Universal Credit is ‘here to stay’ – says Hammond

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TORY Chancellor Hammond, yesterday in his budget claimed to jeers: ‘the era of austerity is finally coming to an end.’ This is...

Tories post-election cuts being planned!

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THE UK Treasury has told senior Whitehall officials that a post-2015 election government will have to make £25bn-£30bn worth of spending cuts. Cuts are being...

Wrack Condemns Backstabber Khan

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FIRE Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack yesterday responded to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to backstab Corbyn and urge Labour voters to ditch...
SHAHIDA BEGUM and children meet WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Vote Wrp Vote Leff In Hackney And Shoreditch

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‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN...
May Day march!

May Day march!

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TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!
Colonel Daoud Musa, father of Baha Musa (who was tortured to death by British troops)  outside the High Court with Public Interest lawyers in 2004

Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops

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Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite

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TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...

Budget cuts of up to £5bn a year are provoking a Labour rebellion!

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WORK AND PENSIONS Secretary Liz Kendall is making changes to her package of welfare reforms in a desperate attempt to reassure Labour MPs who...
The Popular Assembly in session on Sunday night in the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens

Greece: Call For A ‘Political General Strike’

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An enormous rally of youth and workers with their families at the Vouli (Greek parliament) square in Athens on Sunday demanded for the fifth...

Israel escalates ceasefire violations

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THE Israeli occupation army continued to violate the ceasefire agreement yesterday, while the impact of the massive wholesale destruction intersected with rainstorms that have...

Lebanon President Stands By Hezbollah

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Lebanese President Emile Lahud has vowed to stand by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. As Israeli jets continued their murderous air strikes on the...

‘SUSPEND YOUR IMPOSITION AND THE STRIKE WILL BE OFF’ – Woodley pledges to BA’s...

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‘Suspend – not stop indefinitely – suspend your imposition. This strike will be off,’ Unite transport union leader Tony Woodley pledged yesterday. He was speaking...

200,000 March For Victory To Palestine

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A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...

‘Impossible to avoid long strike’ at Delphi

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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker have issued this statement on Delphi’s announcement that it will file Section 1113 and Section...
RMT pickets at Victoria Station emphasising what the Southern rail strike is all about

Grayling wants to bust unions – RMT condemns Tory witch-hunt

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‘THIS is an industrial dispute about safety, we are not trying to bring the government down,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash insisted yesterday. He was...

NATIONALISE! – to save jobs says ATUA national secretary

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‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...

British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote

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Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

68 universities ballot for action

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PENSION cuts are prompting fears of two-tier pensions being imposed on academics Staff at some of the UK’s most selective universities will have pensions up...
Students demonstrate against bankers’ bailouts – a new crash and new rescue attempt impending, says Adam Smith Institute

‘WORSE THAN USELESS!’ –Bank of England stress tests

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‘STRESS testing’ by the Bank of England (BoE) is to disguise the ‘chronic weakness’ of the UK banking system, a new report from the...

China No! To North Korea Blockade!

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China has refused to search North Korean ships, throwing US attempts to enforce a blockade and sanctions into disarray. The United States is urging China...

202 Palestinians killed & 5,588 are injured by Israeli aggression

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THE Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) announced on Sunday afternoon that a total of 202 Palestinians have been killed and 5,588 others injured by...

LABOUR READY FOR EU SELL-OUT – as Watson prepares for EU elections

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TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...

Tories unveil sweeping new police powers to ban protests

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THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...
Junior doctors and BMA members demonstrate their support for the junior doctors’ struggle outside the meeting yesterday

Demand TUC take action! – Anna Athow tells BMA’s Representative Meeting

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BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

Public support for nurses rising!

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PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...

23 Russian diplomats expelled!

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‘MOSCOW had no motives for poisoning former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter, while those who are trying to push ahead with the...

GPs at breaking point! – While big pharma fleece the NHS

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THE ROYAL College of GPs (RCGP) has sounded the alarm over the crisis in general practice, calling yesterday for an urgent emergency rescue plan. Professor...

Greek Concentration Camps For Illegal Immigrants

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THE Greek Assistant Minister for Public Order M Othonas said on Wednesday morning that the first concentration camp for alleged ‘illegal immigrants’ could be...

‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E

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NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...

Leff team wins big Hoxton support

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A TEAM campaigning for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Jonty Leff, won big support on Saturday in Hoxton Market from...

‘Forced out by company greed’ – Unite condemns BA mass sackings and wage cuts

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A BLEAK day for staff ‘forced out by company greed’ will scar spiteful BA indefinitely the Unite union said yesterday, It added: ‘On the day...

US-UK spying scandal – Hague to make statement

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FOREIGN Secretary Hague yesterday refused to confirm or deny that GCHQ ‘circumvented the law’ to gather data on British citizens, only describing such claims...

Libyan militias hold and torture 7,000 – says UN report

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Some 7,000 people are being held and tortured in inhuman conditions in Libya, in detention centres controlled by militias, according to a leaked new...

Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Kidnapped

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The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...

£1,000 A Year Energy Bills!

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Consumer and pensioners organisations yesterday slammed massive inflation-busting gas and electricity price rises announced by energy giant Powergen. Watchdog Energywatch warned that consumers face...
A section of delegates at the TUC Congress greet Brown with their placards

BROWN PLAYS CHINA CARD – as delegates warn they will strike against pay cuts

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GORDON Brown gave his first speech as prime minister to the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. He told delegates: ‘All of us must prepare for...