£400 Energy Rise On Way!

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HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...

HS2 ‘rats’ on construction workers

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THE HIGH Speed 2 (HS2) contractor has ‘ratted on overtime agreements’ the Unite union alleged yesterday. Unite, which represents construction workers building the line, expressed...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...

26 FE colleges to strike – recall TUC & call a general strike urges...

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Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’,...
Striking bus workers fighting for fair pay outside Alperton bus garage yesterday morning

BUS DRIVERS STRIKE! – for £30,000 a year & 38-hour week

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METROBUS and First Centrewest Buses stopped throughout London yesterday. Metrobus is out for 24 hours while First Centrewest Buses are stopped for 48...

NHS 111 ‘an abject failure’

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THE Coalition’s privately-run flagship ‘NHS 111’ service was thrown into disarray yesterday, when NHS Direct announced it is to pull out. NHS 111 is run...
A section of Friday evening’s 10,000-strong demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London against Israel’s attacks on Palestinians

‘Israel A Terrorist State’

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UP TO ten thousand people demonstrated on Friday evening in front of the Israeli embassy in London to protest against Israel’s continued military assault...

Liverpool Dockers Begin 2-Week Strike!

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FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...

May ‘Flexible’ On Brexit Leaving Date

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DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...
Birmingham University students demonstrating on their campus against fees

Student loans privatised! – Birmingham University occupied!

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BIRMINGHAM students have occupied their university, pre-empting yesterday’s announcement that Student Loans are to be sold off by the Tory coalition government...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

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Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...

‘Hormuz closure a defensive necessity’ says Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf

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IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the threat of war against Iran and the region must be eliminated, and Tehran will...

RMT calls National Rail Strike!

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THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...

Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...
Palestinian homes in Al Zutan destroyed by the Israeli army

SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair

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‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...

45 Police To Have Anonymity At de Menezes Inquest

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ALL 45 police officers’ applications for anonymity at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes have been approved, it was announced...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  attending yesterday’s Tribunal hearing

Ex-Military Used Against Gate Gourmet Workers

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YESTERDAY was the second day of the Employment tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers where they are bringing their claim for unfair dismissal. Kay Collins,...

‘You Have Right To Refuse To Work!’ – Aslef Advises Members

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As London Underground ramps up services today, ASLEF has advised members of their right to refuse to work in circumstances where they are at...
A section of yesterday’s lunchtime rally of striking staff and students outside London Metropolitan University yesterday

London Met University Strike Action

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OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

Israel F-16 planes bomb houses close to Kamal Adwan hospital

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DIRECTOR of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said that Christmas Eve was one of the most difficult nights in Kamal Adwan Hospital...
Last April’s mass march calling for the defence of the Welfare State and all public services

Labour Hits Out At Welfare State!

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LABOUR'S Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne yesterday attacked the Welfare State and those claiming benefits. Byrne’s piece, printed in the Guardian...

PM HAS BROKEN PLEDGES! – says top QC Martin Howe

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TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...

3,700 Palestinians killed in 60 days

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THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the...
Picket line at Birmingham University on Tuesday morning

Massive Uni staff strike!

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TUESDAY’S strikes by staff in colleges and universities closed institutions and key learning facilities with hundreds of classes cancelled, the UCU said yesterday. The action,...
CWU pickets at Hornsey Lane Delivery Office on Friday morning

‘This Is A Fight We Cannot Afford To Lose’

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Postal workers yesterday called for public sector unions to come out on strike with them on the eve of the second of two 48-hour...

Tens of thousands forced into private ‘healthcare’ as Tories set out to torpedo the...

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GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...

GUAIDO SETS THE SCENE FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION

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VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...

Lively picket lines outside Imperial College campuses

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THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...
Workers marching through Athens as anger erupted across Greece at the weekend when police shot dead a teenager in the country’s capital

Greek Workers March Against Police

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Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...

‘Distortion of reality!’ – Iran condemns Rubio threats

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PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasised that Iran makes no decision without the approval of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. Pezeshkian made...

Job Centre Strike!

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Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...
CAM STOCKS (far right in hat) joins junior doctors, nurses and supporters on the picket line outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London during last Tuesday’s strike

Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA

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THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...
Firefighters gather outside the Central Hall, Westminster after their rally to begin lobbying their MPs

FBU Will Fight Cuts & Sackings

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters from all over Britain, lobbied Parliament yesterday, to give notice that they and their union would not accept a 25 per...
Limehouse surgery practice nurse JUNE GRAY addressing yesterday’s protest against cuts to east London GP surgeries

Limehouse ‘Save Our Surgeries’ protest

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EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...

Second referendum amendment defeated

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AMENDMENT H calling for a second referendum was resoundingly defeated in parliament last night by 249 votes, with just 85 MPs voting for and...

Labour scraps 4-hour A&E waiting time target

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THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

STRIKE! – Don’t allow Royal Mail privatisation!

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POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...

Public Health Time Bomb!

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DOCTORS’ leaders warned yesterday that the UK is facing a ticking time bomb in public health, with a lack of leadership on improving...
Syrians in London show their support for President Assad

MPs QUESTION AIR STRIKES!’

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...

RBS ‘brutal sackings’ condemned – while ‘Turning point’ want to sack 2,600

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THE Unite trade union has condemned RBS for ‘brutal and irresponsible’ behaviour by announcing 1,400 job cuts just one day after figures were released...

Strike Shuts Dover Port

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Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...

RMT ‘Will Fight Pay Cap!’

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RMT General Secretary Mick Cash yesterday warned Transport Secretary Grayling against trying to impose a ‘pay cap’ on railworkers. Transport Secretary...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF is getting great support for the party’s policies from young people

Vote WRP Vote Leff in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff Workers Revolutionary Party because I want the Tories out and I want a party which is going to...
French trade unionists, members of the CGT, joined RMT picket lines to show their support. Trade unionists across the world are watching very closely the developments in the British rail industry

TUBE STATION STAFF TO STRIKE ON JAN 8th & 9th

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FOLLOWING last month’s ballot result in favour of taking industrial action, RMT’s National Executive Committee has taken the decision to call action and...

34 Tories quit government positions

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BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...