Students Angry Over Soaring Rents
STUDENTS are up in arms at the soaring cost of their accommodation on top of £9,000 a year tuition fees and government plans to...
Nurses using bin bags as PPE test POSITIVE!
NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...
NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...
‘WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!’ – declare 4,000 Newham marchers
MORE than 4,000 people joined an angry demonstration through Newham yesterday against the huge police raid in Forest Gate on June 7. As they made...
Hamas won’t agree to Israeli maps!
HAMAS has not approved ‘insufficient’ new maps presented by the Israeli side as part of efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza...
Opportunist SNP! –would not vote against NHS privatisation in England
THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...
16-24 jobless rate 22.3% – get rid of coalition says ATUA’s Dave Wiltshire
unemployment rose 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.685 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. The unemployment rate rose from...
BA Cabin Crew Want Indefinite Strike Action!
‘I WANT an immediate ballot and indefinite strike action now. Let’s see them cope with that! I don’t want to wait until Christmas’, a...
Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!
SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...
3 Train Strikes
TRAIN workers at three Rail companies across the country, Northern, Southern and Merseyrail were on strike simultaneously yesterday. Northern rail staff were on the last...
Women denied treatment
MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...
Speaker rules out 3rd vote on May’s deal! – UK must leave EU March...
‘WHAT the government cannot legitimately do is to re-submit to the House the same proposition, or substantially the same proposition as that of last...
Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!
AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...
‘The Gaza Strip Has Turned Into A Huge Prison!’
AMID Palestinian ‘deep frustration’ with Israel’s ‘refusal to coordinate in good faith’, an EU delegation arrived on Saturday in Rafah to station security cameras...
RCM, Unison strike ballot!
FOR the first time in history midwives are uniting with other health workers to ballot for strike action, in an escalating fight over...
STOP ARMING ISRAEL! RECOGNISE PALESTINIAN STATE NOW! – say 100,000 marchers
OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...
98 GP PRACTICES FACING CLOSURE! – says BMA
AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...
LABOUR NOW ‘PARTY OF PATRIOTISM!’ – says witch-hunting Keir Starmer
SIR KEIR Starmer announced the institution of a witch-hunting regime in the Labour Party at a 30-minute press conference in East London yesterday. He insisted...
‘MARCH WITH US ON MAY DAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...
‘Only one in forty new jobs is full time’ – says TUC
ONLY one in every forty new jobs since the onset of the crash in 2008 is full-time, with the other 39 either part-time...
Johnson puts UK military at the disposal of Zelensky!
TORY PM Johnson visited the Ukrainian capital on Saturday and walked through the deserted streets of Kiev alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky, flanked by machine...
Corbyn will fight any bid to keep him off ballot paper!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC yesterday that he was ‘disappointed’ Angela Eagle had chosen to run against him and would fight any...
Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says FBU leader Matt...
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...
GM decision this week – says German Economy Minister
General Motors is expected to make a ‘fundamental decision’ this week about selling GM Europe, which includes Germany’s Opel and the UK’s Vauxhall, threatening...
Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
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...
Spending cut by £3,000 a year
AHEAD of the Budget, each household has reduced their spending by over £3,000 a year on average since 2007, revealing a devastating blow to...
Royal Mail Centres Out 3.00 Am Today
Postal workers at Mail Centres across the UK are taking 24-hour strike action from 3am this morning in the second week of rolling...
Tory War On Special Needs!
TEACHERS unions have condemned the onslaught on children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), launched by the coalition government yesterday. Legislation to slash the rights and...
UK a ‘bullying hypocrite!’ – says Bashar al-Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has accused the UK government of bullying and hypocrisy in its bid to militarise the conflict in his country. In an...
Israeli Occupation Forces Carry Out Four Massacres
ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over 24 hours yesterday, resulting in the tragic killing of 40 Palestinians...
Barnsley Nurses To Strike
GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...
‘LABOUR PUSHING POLYCLINICS’ – BMAs Buckman condemns government
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday rebutted the government’s attack on the BMA leadership over family doctors’ opening hours. Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s...
PFI ‘drives cuts and closures’ says BMA
The Private Finance Initiative ‘will burden local health economies for decades’ and drive forward cuts and closures, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned this...
Uber Eats, Deliveroo, TGI Friday’s Wetherspoons and McDonald’s STRIKE TOGETHER
UBER Eats and Deliveroo drivers are now joining McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons workers in a day of strike action tomorrow to demand a...
Sri Lankan governor and cabinet resign! – as masses defy curfew and protest
THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...
Imf Dictates NHS And Pension Cuts!
The IMF has warned the British government it must make savage cuts in NHS spending and carry out pension ‘reforms’ to cut its debt...
‘£31,000 For All Bus Drivers!’
‘WE are rock solid!’ Unite leader Len McCluskey declared yesterday during the 24-hour London-wide bus strike that brought the capital to a standstill. He was...
Disaster At Royal Free
ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...
MAY’S SPECIAL MEASURES! – including calling in the FBI
HOME SECRETARY May is set to bring in special measures to deal with British terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq, where they were allowed...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
‘STOP PANICKING’ – Ukrainian President Zelensky tells United States
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...
Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool
STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...
CAMPSFIELD DETAINEE BEATEN’ – and dragged from his cell
Detainees at Campsfield immigration detention and removal centre near Oxford rose up yesterday morning after an African detainee was beaten and dragged out of...