‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader
‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...
MADNESS! – RCN condemns destruction of nurse training places
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...
Blood Cuts Will Harm Patient Care
Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...
Home Office ‘slave labour’ Asylum seekers working for £1 an hour
REFUGEES, asylum seekers and those that the Home Office are seeking to deport are being set to work in the detention centres, and paid...
Save Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit
BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...
‘keep The Privateers Out Of The NHS’
‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...
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...
NO PRIVATISATION! – Postal workers march on LP conference
MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...
NHS Being Driven Backwards
The Royal College of Nursing yesterday called for a halt to the closure of hospital beds until trusts can clearly demonstrate that alternative, tried...
Thousands of UK troops for Obama’s Afghan surge
Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...
Banking Storm Ahead!
The European debt crisis is a ‘key risk’ to the UK banking sector and banks should build up their cash reserves in response, the...
‘GREEN LIGHT TO TORTURE’ – Amnesty condemns Algerian’s deportation
Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...
DEFEND DISTRICT HOSPITALS! – NHS report says treat life-threatening conditions at home
The GMB trade union yesterday condemned as ‘dubious’ a leaked NHS report recommendation that patients with life-threatening complaints be kept out of hospital and...
Israel Requests US Cluster Bombs
Israel has asked the US government to speed delivery of short-range anti-personnel rockets armed with deadly cluster munitions, for use against the Hezbollah ...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC
MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...
Safe staffing dumped!
THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure. This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published. This change...
STUDENT LOAN RATES HIKE! –scrap all student debt, demands YS
Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...
NO! TO BAA BLANKET BAN – climate change camp going ahead
The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...
UK TRADE DEAL WITH ISRAEL MUST NOT BE A BETRAYAL OF PALESTINIANS – says...
AMNESTY International UK has warned that a new UK trade deal with Israel could allow Israel to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the...
UN Condemns Israeli Occupation
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing...
‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah
THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...
300,000 march on Downing St calling for Victory to Palestine!
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
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...
Ryanair Mass Sackings
RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...
UNARMED MAN SHOT IN CHEST – after 300 police raid east London home
‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...
‘We’Re Not Signing Compromise Agreement’
‘WE are not signing the Compromise Agreement. It’s one big con. It’s daylight robbery. There’s no other word for it.’ ‘I sent in my application...
£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...
Israeli occupation forces and colonists escalate attacks on the West Bank
Israeli occupation forces and colonists have escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying agricultural land, and intensifying efforts to...
General Strike For Palestine!
YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...
Romec Workers Strike
OVER 550 ROMEC engineers were out on strike on Friday and yesterday in their dispute over Royal Mail and other major companies breaking their...
Over 700 homeless have died
AS MANY AS 700 people died on the streets while homeless last year, official estimates show, and the number is in reality likely to...
‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference
THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...
No Army Strikebreaking!
Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...
No money for food, heating or electric
OVER a third of low paid workers have had to skip meals, sitting at home in the dark and cold because they have no...
‘£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...
150,000 Workers & Youth March Through London In Support Of Palestine!
THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...
Middlesex University Strike T0Day!
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...
McDonnell condemns the ‘Day One Rights’ sellout!
EDUCATION secretary Bridget Phillipson yesterday defended the decision over why the government had abandoned its promise to allow workers to claim protection from day...
Kenyan Torture Victims Testify Today
THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...
Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!
DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...
POLICE MUST NOT BE CENSORS – says Liberty
Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...
Gaza workers closure protest
HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...
Anti-terror units attack town!
SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...
Assange Must Be Freed!
ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...














