NO TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES! say 20,000 Greek students and teachers
TWENTY thousand university and school students, primary and secondary school teachers and universities staff marched through Athens last Thursday in a determined and enthusiastic...
Entire families being evicted!
BARNET tenants are holding a ‘Fun Day’ tomorrow to highlight the community they are at risk of losing if Annington Homes continue to evict...
More aid seekers slaughtered in Rafah
ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...
Hackney School Cleaners Holiday Rates Victory
HACKNEY school cleaners have hailed victory in a dispute over the failure to pay proper holiday rates. The settlement of the dispute at the six...
NATO massacres Afghan civilians
TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...
Defend Public Sector Jobs!
Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...
ISS hospital workers demand Living Wage
OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...
‘DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD’ – GM Works Council leader fears for Luton plant
Negotiations over the future of GM sites in Luton and Antwerp would be ‘a hard nut’ to crack, Opel Works Council chief Klaus Franz...
‘Charge sheet against Hancock grows by the hour!’ says Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...
NHS Bosses Using Election To Gag Staff – Gmb
NHS bosses are trying to ‘gag’ staff during the general election, GMB Union revealed yesterday, warning that health service workers are being told they...
20,000 Civil Servants On Strike Today!
Approximately 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Identity and Passports Service (IPS)...
JOHNSON URGES MPs TO SUPPORT HIS WAR ON RUSSIA!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...
‘We will win’ say BA strikers
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...
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...
‘Liberation of the people from France’s dictatorship’ – welcomed by the Niger trade unions
THE UNION of Workers’ Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) has condemned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary...
Net Closes In On Cameron
PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...
March to TUC begins!
‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...
Carers must be paid travel time, rules EU
IN A LANDMARK judgement the European Court of Justice has ruled that care workers in the UK must be paid for their travel...
Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!
THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...
Barnsley Nurses Strike!
Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...
UNARMED VICTIMS SHOT DEAD ON BLOODY SUNDAY – finds Saville
‘The immediate responsibility for the deaths and injuries on Bloody Sunday lies with those members of Support Company whose unjustifiable firing was the cause...
‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
KICK TORIES OUT ON JUNE 8th
‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...
Heathrow workers support WRP’s Zulkifal
HEATHROW Airport workers signed up to support the campaign to elect Hassan Zulkifal, WRP Ealing Southall general election candidate, yesterday. Unite member Ram Sheemar said:...
‘We need to reassure the markets’ says Truss as she sacks Chancellor Kwarteng
THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...
Guards strike is on! – as Southern says it will sack every guard!
THE BATTLE is on! RMT confirmed yesterday that the Southern guards’ strike is going ahead. Meanwhile Southern Rail confirmed it will carry...
General Strike in Ireland
OVER 100,000 workers turned out for a massive demonstration through Dublin yesterday, as the country was brought to a halt in a general strike...
Support growing for National Gallery strikers
OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...
Reserve Major General describes current events as a great disgrace to Israel!
A RESERVE Major General in the Israeli occupation army, Yitzhak Brik, yesterday spoke out about the dire situation in the Gaza Strip. Brik described the...
Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS
VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...
£900m PFI COLLAPSE!
‘WE absolutely call for pfi to be abandoned, it is a failed system which is costing the nhs billions,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told ...
NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door
THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...
‘PATIENTS TORTURED’ – at a charge of £3,500 a week
A STORM of anger has erupted following the broadcast of Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama programme, which revealed terrible abuse of vulnerable adults at a...
BA steps up industrial thuggery
FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...
NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut
Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...
‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate
HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...
Syriza to impose austerity – with support from the right-wing
IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between...
Carry out the peace deal! – Iran demands of US
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Esmaeil Baghaei says talks with Oman on ensuring safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz are ‘purely bilateral, between the two...
NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts
ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...
‘CALL A PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE’ – says London CWU rep
FIVE thousand Royal Mail workers in north, east and south-east London are striking today, after voting overwhelmingly in ballots to fight ‘executive actions’ by...
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...
BMA doctors demand a tangible and acceptable pay offer!
BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...
Blood-Testing Workers Protest
THERE was a very lively demonstration of blood testing workers outside Colindale tube station yesterday morning. They were handing out post cards explaining their fight...
Private company dumps half a million NHS patient letters
‘LET’S be under no illusions this is a catastrophic breach of data protection,’ Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for health told Parliament...