50,000 NHS POSTS FOR AXE! – ‘NHS not safe in Tory hands’
FALSE ECONOMY, the anti-cuts campaign website revealed today that more than 50,000 NHS staff posts are set for the axe, destroying government claims...
Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!
THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...
Childrens’ speech and language services slashed
SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...
Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!
THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...
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...
‘Crude, expensive and dangerous’ – scrap referral management centres
‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...
Nationalise Vestas Now!
Workers who have been occupying Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight since 20th July, against its closure and...
HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action
Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...
Foreign doctors witness a dire situation & war crimes in Gaza!
FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...
FBU Agrees To Limit Pickets
The Fire Brigades Union yesterday gave an undertaking in the High Court not to hinder or intimidate emergency crews provided by private company AssetCo...
BRING OUT BA GROUND STAFF! – demand BA cabin crew
UNITE cabin crew members at British Airways yesterday called on their union to ballot BA ground staff on strike action. They also said BA’s ‘bullying’...
Nurses furious over pay cut!
NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...
Israel Steps Up Jabalia Genocide
QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...
‘I THOUGHT POLICE WERE FANATICS’ – tube driver tells Menezes inquest
A Tube driver risked getting electrocuted and fled into a tunnel at Stockwell station because he was terrified that ‘fanatics’ had shot dead Jean...
Locked-out US steel workers lobby UK AGM
REPRESENTATIVES of United Steel Workers (USW) trade union members who are locked out in Massachusetts, USA, by National Grid, lobbied the parent company’s AGM...
TEF ‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE’
THE DEEPLY unpopular Teaching Excellence Frame (Tef) work is failing students, hated by lecturers and not fit for purpose concludes a report released today...
Facilities Staff Battle On!
OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...
Leaseholders to still pay cladding removal costs!
CLADDING campaigners have vowed to fight on after MPs rejected attempts to shield leaseholders from fire safety costs. It follows a long-running parliamentary battle over...
SAFETY RULES BROKEN says RMT leader Bob Crow
‘There was chaos on the Underground this morning,’ rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Commenting on the 24-hour strike by 4,000 RMT...
Tuc Calls For Inquiry Into ‘Back To Work’ Regime
THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...
‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey
‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
‘Occupation is unlawful!’ – Miliband sanctions Israeli settlers
FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband told the Commons yesterday that Israeli ‘settler terrorists’ are carrying out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank with the tacit...
RMT, FBU Battling For Jobs And Pensions
FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...
‘Keep Our Libraries Open’
OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...
COOL RECEPTION FOR BROWN – at the TUC Congress
GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...
French pupil protesters to be joined by trade unions today!
HUNDREDS of thousands of striking French secondary school pupils are joined by the CGT French trade union umbrella organisation today as the schools movement...
Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
‘Closures Being Cynically Fast-Tracked’ Says Unite!
THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...
BUDGET DAY STRIKE VOTE! – PCS votes 61% in favour
CIVIL Servants have voted by a massive 61% majority in favour of strike action in their fight for a pay rise of £1,200, or...
‘We Will March On Postal Executive’
‘We walked out at 9am today as we said we would,’ Hampstead Delivery Office Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Unit rep John Cotier said on...
‘DAZED CHILDREN NEXT TO DEAD MOTHERS’ – UNRWA suspends Gaza operation
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday accused Israel of failing to assist wounded Palestinians after finding four small children next to...
Barber Opposes Boycott Of Israel
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday opposed a boycott of Israel and did not answer a question about why there were no motions to...
BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged
A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...
Bus Workers Support General Strike
‘WE HAVE to do 12-hour split shifts here and it really affects our family life,’ Unite bus driver Andreas Almeida said yesterday while giving...
Elderly Health Care Is Not Good Enough!
Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...
‘Great support for march’
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...
Military prepare for war over Syria
‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...
Salonica Teachers Clash With Police
ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...
‘The biggest war in Europe since 1945’ – predicts PM Boris Johnson
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that Russia is on the brink of ‘invading’ Ukraine and threatened that what would ensue would be...
‘We will conclude this matter on the streets!’ say South African workers
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in Ekurhuleni is shocked and agitated that out of the blue, the City has provoked municipal workers...
Tories hammering poor!
LABOUR’S shadow communities minister Hilary Benn has accused the government of unfairness in a letter to council leaders that shows that cuts for richer...
GPs ‘to be paid to keep patients out of hospital’
GPs in England will no longer have to offer appointments lasting at least 10 minutes under changes agreed with the government. It is one of...
Police Arrest 523 Palestine Supporters
THE METROPOLITAN Police arrested 523 supporters of Palestine in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, claiming they were showing support for a ‘proscribed...
Netanyahu orders 800 new settlement units!
ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved 800 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, determined to drive through the mass expansion while Trump...
Get the Tories out! Victory to Palestinian hunger strikers! say London May Day marchers
UP to 10,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched on May Day in London from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and...