DELIGHTED! – with caravan say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are delighted at last to have a shelter for their picketing. The TGWU ceased sending a tent as shelter for the...

Ni NHS In Crisis!

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THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...
Teachers lobbying the Department for Education earlier this month demanding a 5 per cent pay rise will be angry their 3.5 per cent pay rise is a pay cut

Tory pay rise is a pay cut!

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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

Trust Boss Quits Over Dangerous Targets

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The British Medical Association yesterday repeated concerns about government targets that ‘compromise patient safety’, in the wake of the resignation of United Lincolnshire Hospitals...
Junior doctors marching in defence of the NHS in November last year  – face more sackings under Brown’s Blairite plan

Pm Brown Unveils ‘Self-Treatment’ By ‘Expert Patients’!

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Patients should ask ‘not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS,’ prime minister Brown warned yesterday. In...

‘Defeat Trump’s international banditry’

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US ‘INTERNATIONAL banditry’ was condemned by Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian delegate, speaking at the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday afternoon. He went...
Civil sevants, teachers and lecturers at a rally in Norwich during their national strike over pay on April 24th

INFLATION RIPS! – unions slam calls for pay ‘restraint’

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Soaring food and energy prices could push the government’s preferred consumer price index (CPI) inflation above 4% this year, the governor of the Bank...

Tories Want Mass Sackings!

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Liberal Democrat employment minister, Ed Davey, announced plans to change labour laws yesterday, to enable employers to sack large numbers of workers easily. The Tory-LibDem...

Post Office third day of strikes!

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POST Office staff in the country’s network of 373 Crown Post Offices are taking a third round of strike action today in a dispute...

Venture Capitalists Are Targeting Sainsbury!

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Venture capitalists Texas Pacific and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are this week expected to bid for the supermarket group, J Sainsbury. Their take-over will mean sackings,...

‘100,000 PCS MEMBERS TO STRIKE IN JANUARY!’ says Union leader Serwotka

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‘COORDINATED’ public sector strike action will escalate significantly in January and continue right up until May, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned yesterday in...
Greek riot police squads and buses block the road to demonstrating teachers last Thursday

Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators

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SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...

Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...

Israeli tanks, copters and drones fire on thousands–21 killed 150 wounded

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AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza...

£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000

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Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...
Firefighters at Studley road fire station in Luton, Bedfordshire, welcome the Young Socialists London-to-Liverpool March for Jobs. Jamie Newell, brigade secretary, said their station is also facing cuts

Cornish Firefighters Slam Dangerous Cuts!

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FIREFIGHTERS in Cornwall have slammed ‘dangerous’ plans to cut frontline cover which ‘will seriously affect public safety’ and demand that they are immediately withdrawn....

Smash The Health Bill!

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‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...

‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday

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‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...

Israeli attacks disable Gaza Eye Hospital

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GAZA’S Eye Hospital warned yesterday that it is now unable to provide full services amid ongoing war and shortages. Dr Hussam Dawoud, director of Gaza’s...

No Action Against The Police Over The Chris Kaba Killing

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THE Independent Office for Police Conduct announced yesterday that it has dropped gross misconduct proceedings against Martyn Blake, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who...

80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!

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MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...

TUC must respond to Tory ‘insult’ by calling a General Strike!

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TRADE union leaders are meeting at the TUC in central London today to discuss their response to meetings held yesterday with Tory ministers where...

Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote

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THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...

Israeli forces violate ceasefire and kill seven Palestinians!

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ISRAELI forces have killed at least seven Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since Sunday in continued violation of the October ceasefire. Five were killed yesterday...
Mothers demonstrate outside the House of Commons against government benefit cuts

Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack

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FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

Poa Backing Corbyn

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...
Teaching unions on the march. Teachers do a very large amount of unpaid overtime, they are very angry and there are  discussions taking place to form one very powerful teachers union

5.4m workers doing unpaid overtime says TUC

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EMPLOYEES across the UK worked a record amount of unpaid overtime last year, with over 5.4 million workers putting in around £640m worth of...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line – demanding a national demonstration to highlight their fight

DEEPCUT INQUIRY ‘A FARCE’ says father of dead soldier

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The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of recruits at the Deepcut army barracks ‘was a farce’ Private Geoff Gray’s father, also named Geoff,...

‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS

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HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...

‘US jobs haemorrhaging’ 26m now unemployed

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‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...
Part of the large contingent of midwives on Saturday’s TUC demonstration in London

Maternity Crisis

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‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...

Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’

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‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...

‘WE ARE HEADING FOR SERIOUS CONFLICT’ – over the NHS says UNISON

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‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...
The raising of the pension age hits the most needy says the TUC

‘DON’T RAISE PENSION AGE’ – urges TUC leader O’Grady

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‘THE government should abandon its plan to raise the state pension age in light of the new evidence on projected life expectancies,’ TUC General...

RMT calls new round of strikes – Rail bosses cancelled talks ‘at one hour’s...

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THE RMT rail union will hold a series of 48-hour strikes in December and January after industry bosses failed to offer any new deals...

Leff team wins big Hoxton support

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A TEAM campaigning for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Jonty Leff, won big support on Saturday in Hoxton Market from...
RMT along with the TSSA and the National Pensioners Convention insist outside Parliament ‘We need guards on trains’

Sunday’s Tube strike in London will have ‘massive impact’

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RUTHLESS cuts on London Underground made by former mayor Boris Johnson ‘seriously threaten the safety of Londoners’, the RMT said on the eve of...

Umunna ready for new party

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THE Independent Group of eight ex-Labourites and three ex-Tories is in talks with the Electoral Commission about becoming a fully-fledged political party, group spokesman...

CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers

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A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
Thousands marched through Stafford to demand their A&E is open 24 hours seven days a week

‘REINSTATE OUR FULL A&E!’ demand Support Stafford Hospital campaigners

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‘IT IS absolutely outrageous! We demand that they reinstate our full A&E, not only the children’s, to 24-hour A&E,’ Julian Porter told News Line...
Up and down the country parents, teachers and pupils are marching to defend state education against the coalition’s ‘Free School’ bonanza for the rich, and the big business dominated academies

£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils

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THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...

NHS crisis rattles coalition!

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THE government plan to set up a £3.8bn a year fund to amalgamate health and social care, has collapsed and has been ‘postponed’. The...

‘GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER’ – Private security firms in Iraq condemned

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War on Want has condemned the UK private military and security companies (PMSCs), ‘operating with impunity in Iraq’. The charity issued a briefing paper...

HAMAS ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE! to end the war in Gaza and begin the withdrawal...

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HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement...