Defeat Tory onslaught on rail workers!

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‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...

A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians

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NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...

Hancock ‘lying over PPE’ alleges GMB – Probed by committees over 127,000 deaths!

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was ‘lying through his teeth to MPs when he claimed there was no Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortage during...
Postal workers and pensioners demonstrating together in Mill Hill

‘THERE WILL BE NATIONAL ACTION!’ – over Royal Mail sack threats and Post Office...

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‘There will be national action on Royal Mail and I would think Counters will be involved. The whole country will come out now,’ Greenford...

‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...

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‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
Last November 30 saw a massive pensions strike against the coalition government

Pensions strike March 28th!

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MARITIME and transport union RMT confirmed yesterday that its members in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ‘will strike alongside public sector colleagues on the 28th...

Death toll in Gaza continues to rise!

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THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...
Health workers show their opposition to the privatisation outside parliament yesterday

‘NHS Not For Sale’

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‘NHS not for sale,’ angry health workers chanted outside parliament yesterday, as the Health and Social Care Bill got its second reading. ‘This bill is...
Teachers on strike in Norwich last year – the NUT is opposed to Free Schools and Academies and demands properly funded conncil-run state schools

Schools in poorest areas starved of funds

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COUNCIL-run schools in the poorest areas of the country are being starved of funds by the Tory-led coalition, which is pumping money into privately...

Save Lewisham Shopping Centre! – demand hundreds on local march

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MORE than 200 Lewisham residents turned out on Sunday afternoon to march and protest against the collaboration of the south east London Labour Council...
A section of the 200-strong News Line All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday

BRING DOWN BROWN – GO FORWARD TO SOCIALISM! – demands News Line-All Trades Unions...

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Two hundred trade unionists and youth attended the News Line & All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) conference in central London, yesterday. They discussed a resolution...

UK-UKRAINE ALLIANCE – ‘We are strategic partners’ – UK Defence Secretary

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THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...

Parliament to forcibly evict Westminster rough sleepers

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HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...

Cameron boasts unions accept ‘thresholds’ are right!

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PM CAMERON told the Andrew Marr Show yesterday that what was interesting about Unite leader McCluskey’s proposals on the new anti-trade union bill...

BA Merger–Jobs To Go!

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There will be more job losses at British Airways as a result of the airline’s agreed merger with Iberia, BA chief executive Willie Walsh...
TGWU region No 1 banner  on the march against the war on the Lebanon last Saturday

Hezbollah Uses Longer Range Missile!

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Hezbollah fighters yesterday repulsed sporadic attempts by Israeli forces to control the town of Bint Jubayl two miles inside south Lebanon. A number of Israeli...
Palestinian youth confront Israeli troops in the West Bank

Multiple Israeli raids on the West Bank – as UN announces food cuts

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ISRAELI forces on Wednesday conducted multiple overnight raids across the West Bank and detained at least 28 Palestinians, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS)....
With 100,000 children in temporary accommodation, the right to a home is the big issue of the day

100,000 Children Are In Temporary Accommodation

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HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

Ambulance crisis! – caused by bed shortages

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HOSPITAL bed and staff shortages are causing suffering for patients in the West Midlands as ambulances cannot deliver patents for treatment, the area’s senior...

Nurses driven out of the profession

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NURSES are working in ‘intolerable situations’ and feel ‘unsupported and undervalued’, with many thinking about leaving the profession, according to new RCN research published...
North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’

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Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...
The families of Rover workers demanding that the Longbridge plant stay open. It was closed after the May 2005 general election and most of the workforce are now working in very low paid jobs

SACKED! – one hour’s notice at BMW Oxford while Unite trade union just looks...

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Agency workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford erupted in fury yesterday after 850 of them, a third of the Cowley plant workforce, were...
PCS delegates at TUC last month warn Brown ‘No Cuts’

BROWN SELL-OFF CONDEMNED! – ‘paying for the failures of the city’

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...

STAND TOGETHER!–RMT urges Southern rail staff

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THE RMT transport union yesterday called on Southern rail staff to stand together and reject a divisive and tainted company plan to destroy safety...

14 US soldiers killed in Iraq – as US General says British army must...

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Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...
Head teachers marching on Downing Street demanding more funding – teachers have been offered a ‘derisory’ 2% ‘pay rise’

2% austerity ‘pay rise’ for teachers!

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TEACHERS unions reacted angrily to the news yesterday that the Tories are once again to hold their wage ‘increase’ at just 2%, well below...
Determined CWU picket line at Crawley Delivery Office on July 13th

ROYAL MAIL PENSIONS FURY –call for indefinite action as 24hour strikes due to start

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ROYAL Mail workers are resuming their strike action tonight, furious at leaked Post Office plans to smash up their pensions. The massive Mail Centres employing...
TSSA and RMT strikers on the picket line at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning – determined to defend jobs on the Tube

TOTAL SHUTDOWN! – Tube strike solid

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‘LONDON is on an almost total shutdown,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday during the 24-hour tube strike. Pickets were out in force at...

SCHOOLCHILDREN WALK OUT! – against Edinburgh closures

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Children at two Edinburgh schools yesterday staged a walkout of classes as part of a campaign against the planned closure of 22 schools and...

Mortgage holders and public sector workers to be hit and hit again – say...

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PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...

BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07

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Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
TUC General Secretary FRANCES O’GRADY (centre) yesterday welcoming six emergency workers to Congress who had been involved in the Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury Park attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire

Grenfell–Never Again!

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THE TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady yesterday welcomed six emergency workers to Congress who had been involved in the Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury...

GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets

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OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...

Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine

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THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...
Hamas members campaigning in the election which established a National Unity government

TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee

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The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...

Labour Stabs Iraq In The Back

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LABOUR leader Corbyn absented himself from the vote on Wednesday night when Labour and Tory MPs voted down an SNP motion condemning the ...

Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government

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RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...

MOSUL OFFENSIVE BEGINS – ‘The hour of our victory has come’ says Iraqi PM

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THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...
Marchers in London on July 22 condemn the Israeli crimes in Lebanon and Palestine

HEZBOLLAH HITS BACK – 300 rockets into north Israel

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The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One...

Junior Doctors fighting for NHS!

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‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...

Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates

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JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...

BMA leader lashes private treatment centres

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YESTERDAY Paul Miller, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Consultants Committee launched an unprecedented attack on the government over the introduction of private...

‘Chagos Two’ being held on rendition Island

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‘We call on all trade unionists and anti-war campaigners to support this good cause, Chagos Islands Community Association chairwoman, Hengride Permal, said yesterday. ‘We need...

Coldest Night Of The Year In Gaza

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TUESDAY night was described by meteorologists in Palestine as the coldest of the year, laid bare the scale of suffering endured by hundreds of...

Council executives in luxury while: WORKERS STRUGGLE!

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PLAID Cymru Assembly Members have accused the Labour-led Welsh government of supporting the huge salaries of council chief executives. The chief executive of Wales’s biggest...