Only three towers re-clad out of 160!
ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...
US Expels Sixty Russian Diplomats
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that yesterday’s decision by western states to expel Russian diplomats was a mistake and a mirror response will be...
50,000 School Youth March In Paris
For the second time in a week 50,000 school youth demonstrated in Paris on Thursday against the cutting of teaching posts in colleges and...
We want action not words from TUC
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers, boosted by their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton on Monday, are calling for immediate reinstatement or action to...
No Surrender Says Sirte
THE Libyan government’s Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim has scornfully rejected a ‘rebel’ ultimatum to surrender or face an all-out military assault on the city...
Police Use Taser Gun In Midlands Raid
A MAN, claimed by the police to be Yasin Omar, was stunned with a high voltage taser during an armed police raid carried...
GM GAMBLING WITH WORKERS JOBS – say EU trade unions
A Joint statement by the European Employee Forum of General Motors (EEF), the European Metalworkers‚ Federation (EMF) and the European Unions was issued yesterday...
Iran’s new leader vows revenge for Minab school massacre
IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...
No admission at BP AGM!
BP yesterday faced angry protesters – including Louisiana fishermen, Canadian Indians opposed to Tar Sands, and locked out UK construction workers – at its...
Gordon Brown ‘You’Ve Let US Down!’
Hundreds of workers took part in the Manufacturing Lobby of Parliament yesterday with Rolls Royce workers marching to the House of Commons chanting...
‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened
THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...
BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’
The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...
5 days of Govia strike action
FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...
Shapps makes ‘disgraceful threats’ to rail workers jobs
TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps threatened rail workers’ jobs yesterday by saying: ‘Rail strikes will drive passengers away and threaten rather than protect rail workers’...
Steel Closure Is Devastating
THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning. Unite assistant...
RT’s Nikolov and TV-Novosti sanctioned by Tories
RUSSIA Today (RT) managing director, Alexey Nikolov, was sanctioned yesterday by the UK government. Sanctions have also been imposed on RT’s parent company, TV-Novosti. The...
CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! – as Royal Mail gets injunction declaring CWU strikes...
POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...
HALT ATTACK ON LIBYA – demands unite
Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...
Greenford Cwu To Join Gate Gourmet Lobby Of Tuc
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got good support yesterday as they campaigned for their lobby of the TUC annual conference in Brighton next Monday morning...
NO PRIVATE SECTOR IN NHS! – ‘Public don’t want it’ says Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...
All Cladding Samples Fail Safety Checks
THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...
GM MASS SACKINGS – IBC Luton in danger warns Dave Wiltshire
General Motors yesterday announced plans to close nine plants, cut shifts and axe 30,000 jobs across North America by 2008. GM Chairman and CEO Rick...
BMA predicts £54bn NHS shortfall!
THE Chair of the British Medical Association has warned of an increasing financial shortfall in NHS funding. In his New Year’s message to doctors, Dr...
‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses
THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
UCU – New Pensions Offer
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) branch representatives will meet at 11am on Wednesday 28 March to discuss members’ feedback on a new pensions offer...
A breach of human right
THE TORIES’ ‘right to rent’ checks are a breach of human rights, the High Court ruled yesterday. These are rules which force landlords to do...
More Leaving Than Joining Nursing
RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...
Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico
THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...
‘If the NHS is to survive we must get a new government’ – striking...
THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...
SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN – US Senate insists US military assistance illegal
THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution clearly stating that US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war against neighbouring...
Unite rejects cutting NHS ‘sick notes!’
GOVERNMENT proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors...
BA pilots strike!
BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...
US shoots down Syrian warplane
US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...
Hamas leader is certain that the Israeli regime will be removed from all of...
ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of...
Chinese workers taking action against major Western companies
THE Chinese Stalinist bureaucracy and its big business friends are under attack from the Chinese working class, which is insisting that the super-exploitation of...
Barber Warning!
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned of ‘widespread industrial action’ over public sector pensions. Speaking at a press conference in Congress House, central London,...
Not guilty verdict in secret state trial
LAW student Erol Incedal has been cleared at the Old Bailey of planning a terrorist attack in a secret prosecution, closed to the public. Turkish-born...
Tory advisor OK’d flammable cladding
THE TORY party official fire safety advisor Ken Knight rubber-stamped the use of the flammable cladding, responsible for the rapid spread of the Grenfell...
Grenfell Tower management sacked – after meeting between survivors and May
THE Tenant Management Organisation which manages Grenfell Tower is to be stripped of its responsibilities for the west London estate, Tory Prime Minister Theresa...
3,000 Welsh JDs strike after 98% vote
JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...
Unis already raising fees to £9,250
UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
GAGGED! – ex-soldier who exposed Labour’s lies on rendition
‘As of 1940hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of...
Bma Opposes NHS Cuts!
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted overwhelmingly in opposition to NHS privatisation and...
Germany signs austerity ‘deal’ – as Greek workers riot
THE GERMAN parliament voted yesterday to extend the ‘bailout package’ to Greece by another four months, while in Greece workers erupted on the streets...
CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping
ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...