Blair is to blame for Iraq war and occupation deaths
THE widow of Guardsman Anthony Wakefield, Ann Toward, is 100 per cent correct – Tony Blair is to blame for the death of her...
BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...
‘Call general strike’ UCU CONEL chair Anglin tells mass rally of striking college lecturers!
‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...
Tanker drivers being ‘driven into conflict’ – says Unite trade union leadership
TANKER drivers are being driven to strike action, the Unite trade union warned yesterday. The UK’s major oil companies, retailers and independents providing fuel for...
STATE SPYING: Police launch facial recognition app – UN slams state spying on disabled!
SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...
MASS PICKET OF HIGH COURT – as Chagos Islanders fight Blair Appeal
TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters descended on the Court of Appeal in London yesterday, demanding that the court upholds their right to...
UCU STRIKE BALLOT – to defend lecturers jobs
The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that higher education could be brought to a standstill as the union announced that it is...
One-day strikes are not enough! say striking postal workers
OUTSIDE Holloway Road Post Office yesterday pickets striking for the 13th time drew huge support from the public in opposition to the scandal of...
Global Markets Total Carnage!
THE GLOBAL economy nosedived as soon as markets opened yesterday morning with shares around the world haemorrhaging. Once more at the start of US trading,...
UNIONS MUST TAKE ‘JOINT INDUSTRIAL ACTION’ – PCS leader Serwotka tells press
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...
Gate Gourmet Workers Join Terminal 5 Picket
A DELEGATION of locked out Gate Gourmet workers joined the Terminal 5 building workers’ picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon. Parmjit Bains, one of...
FBU furious over dismissal threat!
‘SHOULD the chiefs take that ultimate decision, we will challenge that legally and will challenge it industrially,’ Barry Downey, regional FBU representative for...
Stop mass NHS closures!
MPs passed the Care Bill on Tuesday night, including the hospital closure Clause 119, giving Health Secretary Hunt power to begin a mass...
‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand
UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...
BA Sellout!
THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
DON’T ALLOW UKRAINE MISSILES TO STRIKE RUSSIA – President Putin warns the West
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has issued a stark warning to Western nations, cautioning them against allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory. Addressing...
Tories Savage Unemployed!
The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) yesterday slammed plans by new Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to force five million people...
NEW POWER JOBS OFFER – workers slam EU law
Striking power workers in Lincolnshire are this morning voting on a deal agreed by union leaders yesterday after marathon talks facilitated by ACAS. Union leaders...
Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets
LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...
Grenfell cladding ‘more flammable than petrol!’
THE REFURBISHMENT of Grenfell Tower ‘rendered it a death trap’ through the installation of cladding ‘more flammable than petrol,’ Stephanie Barwise QC told the...
GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation
BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...
‘We have to join with other unions’ say the firefighters
THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...
Fight 40% Bus Cuts!
LONDON Bus reps are meeting at the Unite union office at Woodberry, Manor Park, north London at 11am today, to plan coordinated action to...
May Being Urged To Risk Split And Sack Johnson!
AN UNDER siege Theresa May was fighting for her political life yesterday as she suggested she would not shy away from sacking foreign secretary...
KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture
THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...
Balls to means-test pensioners!
LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...
Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!
ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...
‘Lift Cap On Pay And Bring Back Student Funding’
THE LEADER of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday poured scorn on Tory government claims to be increasing the NHS workforce by 10,000 nurses...
Israel’s Gaza Genocide Goes Over 25,000!
AT LEAST 25,105 people have now been killed and 62,681 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that as...
85,000 deaths across UK this winter predicted
A LEAKED government report suggests a ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ of 85,000 deaths across the UK this winter due to Covid-19. The document also says...
Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court
TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...
‘THE STRIKE IS STRONG – PUBLIC ARE STILL BEHIND US!’ says RMT
‘The strike is strong, the public are still behind us and members are strong and want to continue,’ striking RMT London Area Council Rep...
TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE
CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...
Hundreds protest in Chicago against Israeli raids
HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...
Serco strikers want national demo!
‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...
Forced Labour For The Unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith yesterday revealed plans to force unemployed benefit claimants into slave labour. TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said...
ERT workers fight on
OVER 1,500 workers and youth were present at a solidarity concert in Athens last Thursday evening for the sacked workers at ERT (Greek state...
MARCH WITH US ON MARCH 25th
GATE GOURMET locked out workers were back on the hill yesterday after their successful mass picket on Sunday. Lakhinder Saran said: ‘Our mass picket was...
Heathrow boss threatens to sack third of workforce
THE BOSS of Heathrow airport has warned of making 25,000 job cuts as the Tories’ 14-day quarantine system came into force yesterday morning. Heathrow boss...
Greek Workers Clash With Riot Police
WORKERS in Greece staged the biggest march of recent years in Athens on Wednesday, against the government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou which carries...
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE! – Charities condemn Bush aid offer
Charities Oxfam, Action Aid and Christian Aid said yesterday that Bush’s pledge to double US aid to Africa was too little, too late. Action Aid...
41 Heathrow Airport Limited strikes
UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...
‘WE SEEK A PEACEFUL SOLUTION’ – Piraparahan tells the world
THE Tamil Tigers leader V Piraparahan yesterday addressed the Tamil people and the world on the occasion of ‘Great Heroes Day’. He said it was...
‘LAST CHANCE FOR GREECE!’ – Eurogroup President Juncker threatens Greeks
‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...
‘Hormuz closure a defensive necessity’ says Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the threat of war against Iran and the region must be eliminated, and Tehran will...