Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!
WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...
MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...
Post Strikers Determined To Win!
‘The mood is defiant,’ said striking postal workers in Cambridge yesterday. This came as the Communication Workers Union branded Royal Mail’s business approach ‘chaos management’. Thousands...
Greek School Pupils Rise Up
SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective. Last...
1.1m households can’t afford to pay for heating!
1.1 MILLION households who cannot afford to heat their home to a comfortable level are in work, according to a new report by the...
Spain held general strike against Israel’s genocide!
A day of protest was called on Friday, September 27, and a general strike took place across the whole of Spain in solidarity with...
Coulson Crisis Deepens
Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure after it was announced yesterday that MPs will hold an emergency debate in...
PCS Second Week Of Strike Action!
THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...
7 UK soldiers charged with war crimes
The family of Baha Mousa who was tortured to death and eight other torture victims yesterday welcomed the announcement that three British soldiers from...
‘WE WILL OCCUPY TO STOP CHASE FARM CLOSURE’ – say pickets
OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...
‘Down With Left Austerity’
TENS of thousands of workers, youth, students and professionals demonstrated on May Day in over 80 Greek cities and towns. In all marches, the...
CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...
EU crisis meetings over Greece
GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...
Junior Doctors To Act Over 20% Pay Cut
Angry delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in central London on Saturday voted for action to restore free accommodation for...
Israel intensifies its military presence around Rafah–fears of full-scale bloody intervention
ISRAEL HAS intensified its military presence around Rafah, deploying additional troops and destroying agricultural land in the district’s eastern areas. This escalation comes amid heightened...
14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza TODAY! – warns UN’s Tom Fletcher
FOURTEEN thousand babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them,’ United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs...
Ready To Picket Bridgend!
‘WE WILL be picketing Ford Bridgend once we get the go-ahead from Tony Woodley,’ Visteon Enfield Unite Convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
‘HALT TERRORIST ATTACKS AND AMBUSHES’ –Venezuelan President Maduro calls for dialogue
VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has calledfor dialogue to settle political differences and achieve national peace. ‘Let’s put all our cards on the table and halt the...
Al Sweedy witchhunt!
DEFENCE Minister Fallon yesterday announced that there would be an investigation into solicitors who represented Iraqi complainants at the Al Sweedy inquiry. He made...
700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
Eviction Proceedings Denied By Southwark Council
SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...
‘Low paid student graduates deep in debt’ says NUS President
The National Union of Students (NUS) commented on figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency yesterday which show the average graduate salary to...
Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...
47m medical records sold to insurance companies!
UNISON and the GMB yesterday reacted angrily to the revelation that the hospital records of 47 million NHS patients have been sold to insurance...
Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police
TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...
‘Our NHS is under siege!’
THERE was a lively and enthusiastic picket of over 50 striking NHS workers at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel east London, yesterday morning. Speaking...
‘PACKED LIKE SARDINES!’ – need for 250,000 pupil places says ATL
SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...
Corbyn announces ‘free vote’ on Syria
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn announced yesterday that he will give Labour MPs a ‘free vote’ on the crucial issue of whether the UK joins...
NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’
NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...
UK-TATA £1.2bn DEAL – 3,000 JOBS TO GO!
WELSH ministers and Tata bosses are due to continue talks this week about the future of the Port Talbot site. The UK government and Tata...
Thatcher Used Riots To Boost The State!
Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...
Mass Protest On First Day Of Assange Case
A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...
Bank of England votes 5-4 to keep interest rates at 5.25%
UK interest rates have been left unchanged after the Bank of England said price rises were slowing faster than expected. Interest rates were held at...
Down With Privatisation!
OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...
Palestine Action occupy Elbit factory in Oldham
PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...
Plans to double ambulance times condemned!
DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...
‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday
‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...
King Warns About Intensifying Crisis
In a paper submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday: ‘The recent turmoil...
Infected blood scandal – 72 died from contaminated drug at single school
A PUBLIC inquiry yesterday heard from students and parents after more than 120 ex pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up...
Strike At Terminal 5
Fifteen hundred construction workers employed by civil engineers Laing O’Rourke on the Heathrow Terminal 5 site, yesterday launched the first of two 24-hour strikes...
‘End These Cruel Detention Centres’
UP TO 500 protesters marched in Crawley on Saturday to demonstrate against the building of a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick Airport. The...
Arts Council To Decide On Cuts
A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...
THIRD OF A&Es SET TO CLOSE
A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...
‘NHS CHAOS!’ – Junior doctors warn
THERE will be total ‘chaos’ in the NHS by August – unless the government immediately scraps MTAS (the new Medical Training Application Service), a...