Cameron admits to donor dinners
PRIME MINISTER Cameron admitted yesterday that major Tory Party donors have been invited to dinner in Downing Street on four occasions since 2010. He said:...
250,000 workers & youth march for Palestine!
MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place...
Fingerprinting At Over 280 Schools
‘Schools should hold off until there is proper guidance,’ NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates told News Line yesterday. The teachers union leader was responding to...
Platinum miners – murder charges
PLATINUM miners arrested at South Africa’s Marikana mine were yesterday charged with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police. The police shootings sparked...
PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH
‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...
Reverse Winter Fuel Allowance cut!
A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...
Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine
THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...
Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly
London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...
Olmert Resumes Strikes At Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered a resumption of military strikes against Palestinian militants, and was accused of breaking the truce...
Labour Party leadership ‘will never be forgiven for cuts’ – says FBU leader Steve...
THE LABOUR Party leadership will ‘never be forgiven’ if it goes ahead with its benefit cuts plans next Tuesday, the Fire Brigades Union leader...
150 Unis ballot for strike action!
THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...
Starmer beats war drums at Scottish Labour Party Conference!
LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...
RMT Strike Action Vote
TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...
GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!
GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...
Rescuing Banks Is Brown’s Policy
At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling stressed his support for the banks. In his keynote speech, moving the resolution ‘Prosperity...
‘They are liars–they want to destroy everything!’ – Nasser Hospital doctor reports on raid
‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...
‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch
‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...
‘we Are Marching Forward To Victory’
THE locked out Gate Gourmet workers held their mass picket of the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday, marking the deadline for signing the...
‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon
ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...
Greek 2-day general strike!
WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...
Corbyn calls emergency shadow cabinet meeting
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...
NHS staff ‘exhausted & on the brink!’ – BMA
A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...
ISRAEL STEPS UP RAFAH BOMBING! – ahead of ground invasion
AT LEAST 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on homes in Rafah overnight yesterday, including nine members of the Abu Taha family. It was...
51 refugee deaths in UK detention centres
THERE has been a sharp increase in the deaths of refugees in detention centres in the UK in the last 18 months. More than...
BofE & EU Central Bank are paralysed in face of crisis!
THE BANK of England and the European Central Bank were yesterday paralysed in the face of the rapidly deepening crisis of the world capitalist...
400 Exxonmobil workers sacked and locked out!
MORE than 400 workers were sacked and locked out of the Exxonmobil petrochemical site in Fife, Scotland yesterday, as the company announced a plan...
A LEADERSHIP VOTE ‘JUST IS’NT GOING TO HAPPEN’ says Unite’s Tony Woodley
CALLS for a Labour Party leadership election were condemned by UNITE union Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. ‘I’ll back the prime minister until we...
GLASGOW WALKS OUT! – unofficial CWU strike action spreads to Edinburgh and Liverpool
Around 5,400 postal workers walked out in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool yesterday in the face of management provocations. Glasgow Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) officials yesterday...
FBU welcomes Jobs March
SUPPORT for the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to the Liverpool TUC Congress grew on its second day, as Bedfordshire firefighters...
HALT RM PRIVATISATION! – industry making £900,000 a day profits
‘We have to be bold and honest in our fight to stop Royal Mail privatisation,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region Secretary Paul Moffat...
60,000 MARCH to commemorate 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising
AS a result of the huge austerity rocking the Greek economy, this year’s march to commemorate the Athens Polytechnic student uprising was the biggest...
3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB
‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...
‘Europe will pay the bill for the US supplying Ukraine with weapons!’
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...
‘Overthrow dictatorship!’ – say Greek workers and soldiers
THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...
TAKE GOVIA INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP demands RMT
A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...
Darzai Private Nursing Plans
The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
Powers Bill to be rushed in! –as Labour shifts ground over Syria attack
THE British state yesterday stepped up security measures in the wake of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris. Cameron held a Cobra emergency committee meeting...
‘CRUEL PUNISHMENT’ OF POOREST PEOPLE! – Xmas Universal Credit to be stopped
TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...
MPs QUESTION AIR STRIKES!’
PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...
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...
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...
Miliband condemns policy on Libya
LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday indicted Cameron’s foreign policy in an attempt to win the support of the British bourgeoisie. He said of PM Cameron’s foreign...
Labour calls to postpone Brexit
LABOUR shadow secretary for Brexit Keir Starmer, for the first time in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, urged the Brexit Secretary and the...
UCU Fights Mass Sackings
The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...













