Greek Students Clash With Police
THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students staged protest marches in Athens and 20 cities throughout the country last Thursday on the 10th anniversary...
‘Renationalise!’ Urges RMT
AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...
End Taxpayer Bailouts Of Private Railways!
WITH services collapsing into chaos the RMT has demanded publication of contract documentation which shows that Northern Rail get paid whether they run services...
Stop arming Israel US workers demand!
AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president...
Memorial to Mau Mau freedom fighters
A MEMORIAL will be unveiled at 07:30am (GMT) on Saturday 12th September 2015, at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi to remember the many...
Picturehouse 9 days of strike action
PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...
Hamas Rejects Israeli Gaza ‘Conquest’ Threat
‘HAMAS rejects Israel’s Gaza conquest threats’, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi declared yesterday after Israel announced plans for the ‘conquest’ and indefinite occupation of...
Pay cuts or the sack doctors and nurses to be told
THOUSANDS of doctors and nurses face being sacked unless they agree to drastic changes to their pay and conditions as hospitals tackle an escalating...
Tata To Sack 1500
Yesterday’s announcement of 1,500 job cuts by Tata Steel in mills in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Hartlepool, is a ‘devastating blow’, the GMB union said. Keith...
Hard-Pressed Schools Face Savage Cuts
‘THE government plans the biggest real-term cuts in school funding since at least the late 1970s,’ warns the National Union of Teachers. The NUT has...
Patel approves Taser upgrades for police! – ‘Tasers kill’ warns Liberty
‘TASERS can kill, and they are disproportionately used against people of colour,’ Rosalind Comyn of campaign group Liberty said yesterday. She was responding to Tory...
Essex 999 Operators Strike!
ESSEX emergency 999 control operators began eight days of strike action yesterday morning against imposed changes to their shifts which makes family...
25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!
TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...
LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton
Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron
LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...
Osborne to make more cuts today!
Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...
All restrictions to be lifted a month early! – announces Johnson despite Covid deaths...
‘IT IS MY expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test...
Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...
A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...
£2,000 A Year Price Rise For Meals-On-Wheels!
HARROW Unison local government branch has launched a campaign against Harrow Council’s plans to increase its charges for its Meals on Wheels service by...
Child benefit savage cuts
STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
‘WITHDRAW HEALTH BILL’ say 92% of GPs
Over 92 per cent of respondents to a poll carried out by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) think that it is appropriate...
Huge food price rises!
ALREADY soaring food prices are set to rocket as winter approaches, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) warned yesterday, saying wheat yields in England are...
Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed
NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...
South African Strike Wave Spreads
THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...
‘We will reopen Ealing Maternity!’
OVER 500 workers and youth marched to Ealing Hospital yesterday on the day that its Maternity Unit was closed, pledging that they would battle...
5th day of Haitian protests rage
A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...
Powerful May Day March Calls Kick The Tories Out! Forward To Socialism!
THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...
LABOUR COULD VOTE WITH MAY SAYS THORNBERRY – who helped draw up Universal Credit
LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...
BROWN – ‘We’re going to change the way we govern’
Prime Minister Brown, flanked by Chancellor Darling, told a press conference yesterday that, ‘the changes I have announced in the cabinet and in the...
Picturehouse Cinemas Strike Action Today!
IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers
Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...
GM GAMBLING WITH WORKERS JOBS – say EU trade unions
A Joint statement by the European Employee Forum of General Motors (EEF), the European Metalworkers‚ Federation (EMF) and the European Unions was issued yesterday...
Funeral procession of Musaab al-Tamimi attacked
A NUMBER of Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces, including a critical injury, during clashes in the Ramallah-district village of Deir Nitham...
TUC National Day of Action on March 15!
There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
Greek Students March Against Education Cuts
Greek university students staged a militant march last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill that will impose huge spending cuts in education. Over 4,000...
YOUTH FOR REVOLUTION! – in Paris and Athens
FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...
WE WILL WIN! say CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary Billy Hayes told striking postal workers on the picket line at Mandela...
‘PLAYING WITH CHILDREN’S LIVES’ – 700 school fires in England annually
THE LONDON Fire Brigade has accused the Tory government of ‘playing with children’s lives,’ by barring the installation of sprinklers in schools. There are about...
MAYHEM THIS WEEKEND Winter flu epidemic creating hospital chaos–SAM
AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...
MET POLICE SPYING BREACHED HUMAN RIGHTS! – says Investigatory Powers Tribunal
AN activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover, spying police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human...
Haiti Rises Up!
PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Rene Preval, has condemned the ‘gigantic fraud’ during last week’s elections in Haiti, where an insurrection is taking place by his poverty-stricken...
GM defer Open Vauxhall choice – as GM Luton workers are kept in dark
With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...
‘IT’S TIME TO MAKE A STAND!’ – Unison’s Prentis tells TUC Congress
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 7 on Public Sector Pay and Living Standards. This includes the call on the...
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...
Universities strike ballot opens today!
STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...





















