Hundreds picket Zimbabwe embassy
UP TO 200 trade unionists from Britain, including leading officials of the TUC and its affiliated unions, including UNISON, the TGWU, Amicus, Prospect and...
Regional benefit cuts next!
UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...
Greek Youth Tv Takeover
Throughout Greece last Tuesday school and university students continued with demonstrations and occupations against the right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis. Virtually all schools and...
There are 10,000 medical vacancies
THE BMA doctors trade union has responded to data on NHS vacancies, GP workforce and GP appointments. Responding to the latest quarterly NHS vacancy data,...
‘FAILING TOO MANY PUPILS!’ – biggest Academy chain in England condemned
THE biggest academy chain in England has been accused by Ofsted of ‘failing too many pupils’. Inspectors say that almost half of pupils at secondary...
I’m Staying Put Says Brian Haw
‘I’M NOT going to be shut up. I want the whole people of Britain to raise their voice against this,’ said peace campaigner...
A million people facing repossession!
‘ALMOST a million people could have their homes repossessed because they have no way of paying off their interest-only mortgages,’ Citizens Advice warned yesterday. New...
Massive Cwu Day Of Action Friday!
THOUSANDS of postal workers across the UK will be striking and demonstrating on Friday, July 17 against continuing cuts and executive action by...
70,000 Car Jobs Threatened Says Unite’s Woodley
THE Unite trade union has renewed its call on the government to bail out UK car industry bosses, warning that 70,000 car jobs are...
Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full
JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...
Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners
THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...
‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS’ – UNISON leader Prentis pledges
‘WE will take strike action, across all our sectors, to defend our pensions,’ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis pledged at the union’s National Delegate...
Terrorists firing on fleeing civilians!
THE UN human rights office has finally admitted that foreign-backed terrorist bands are blocking civilians from fleeing eastern parts of the Syrian...
Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...
CRASH GOES INDUSTRY! – while A&L profits fall to £2m
A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...
UK unis ‘to be the most expensive in world’
Academics, students and community groups are celebrating a victory after University College London (UCL), one of the country’s leading institutions, agreed at last to...
NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union
ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...
Court of Appeal finds for Bell Hotel asylum seekers!
THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...
GENERAL STRIKE IN PALESTINE! – Day of Rage today
A GENERAL strike across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem was solid yesterday, with all Palestinian workers on strike and shops and businesses...
Brown To ‘Give Away’ NHS!
GORDON Brown yesterday confirmed that a government run by him would hand over the running of the public sector to an independent committee, which...
BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC
WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...
‘SET A SPEEDY UNILATERAL DATE FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ’ TUC demands of Blair government
THE Trades Union Congress yesterday voted unanimously to ‘call on the British government to set its own unilateral date for an early and speedy...
‘Greenland belongs to people of Greenland’ – that is a right says Starmer
‘THE UK and the US are close allies and close partners. That relationship matters profoundly – not just to our security, but to the...
OCCUPY TO DEFEND JOBS! says Vauxhall ex-convenor
‘I totally support the call to occupy GM Luton to defend jobs’, former Vauxhall Luton TGWU convenor, Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. He...
13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!
At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012
RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
Labour making plans to deal with run on pound – says John McDonnell
THE Labour Party is making detailed plans for government, including ‘war-game-type scenario-planning’ for events such as ‘a run on the pound,’ Shadow Chancellor John...
‘TAKE STRIKE ACTION IN OUR DEFENCE!’ – urge Vestas occupiers
‘we are calling for strike action in our defence,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith declared yesterday, after bailiffs turned up at the wind turbine...
Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike
‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...
MURDER IN IRAQ! – new inquiry into British Army
THE Secretary of State for Defence will today announce in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment and...
DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival
OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
LORRYLOADS OF PAPERS! – shredded by the Met Police
‘LORRYLOADS’ of documents were shredded by the Metropolitian police over the course of two days, including documents relating to the Stephen Lawrence case,...
Scottish lecturers 96.4% for strike
AN OVERWHELMING 96.4% of college lecturers in Scotland in the EIS union voted for strike action yesterday after promises of ‘fair play’ were broken...
Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!
NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...
PCS strike action
A QUARTER of a million civil and public servants are on strike today to put an end to cuts to their pay which their...
13,165 JAILED – 19 UNIONS SHUT – after ‘Sent from God’ Turkish coup attempt
A TOTAL of 13,165 people have been detained over the July 15th failed coup attempt, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday. A three-month state...
MANUFACTURING COLLAPSE – Nissan cuts production
Nissan announced a halt to production at its Sunderland plant for a fortnight and shorter working days for three weeks during October and November...
GMB condemns strike ban
DELEGATES at the GMB conference in Brighton booed and jeered Business Secretary Cable yesterday as he threatened to bring in new anti-union laws to...
‘CONFRONT ROYAL MAIL’ – Dave Ward tells CWU conference
EMERGENCY Motion E3 dealing with a ballot for national industrial action was passed unanimously at the CWU Postal Section Conference in Bournemouth yesterday. The Motion,...
Brown Denies Split With Bank Of England Head King
Prime minister Brown yesterday attempted to play down reports of rifts with the Bank of England, and between the EU and the US...
Murdoch targets unions & BBC
News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch yesterday made it clear that he had taken a decision to smash the print unions when he provoked the...
UK Did Torture Kenyans!
THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...
Serco Altered Data For Out Of Hours Gp Service
PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...
Shoddy Safety Measures
TOWER block tenants on Camden Council’s Chalcots estate in north London are angry at the ‘shoddy’ safety measures carried out since they were ordered...
Marchers speak at Northampton College
The Young Socialists March for Jobs set out from Northampton for Bedford yesterday morning. The marchers sent out an advance team to recruit new members...