CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration
HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
JOIN OUR MASS PICKET ON 10th FEBRUARY
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are inviting all their supporters to join them on their six-month anniversary picket on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout,...
Council executives in luxury while: WORKERS STRUGGLE!
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...
‘Keep going to win your demands’ – says UCU President
STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...
‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’
NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...
‘A fascist policy of collective punishment’ – Hamas accuses Israel’s PM!
HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his...
Stop Chase Farm Closure!
THE North East London Council of Action is organising a march through Enfield today starting from the war memorial at 1pm to Chase ...
Delegates At Tuc Congress Support Gate Gourmet Workers
DELEGATES attending the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday spoke out strongly in support of the Gate Gourmet sacked workers, and the postal workers. This was...
Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits – to fund tax...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...
Johnson gags the SAGE scientists!
TORY PM Johnson during the daily Downing Street press briefing yesterday, repeatedly blocked journalists from asking his scientific and medical advisors about the ongoing...
59 killed & 296 wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza
THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...
MILITARY OUT OF SCHOOLS! – says the NUT conference
THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...
NO CAP ON GPs PAY – Insist BMA doctors and RCN nurses
Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...
‘Unions will take to the streets’ – to defend N Ireland NHS
MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...
13m families will lose out due to Osborne’s Budget!
THIRTEEN million families will lose an average of £260 each year because of Osborne’s cuts to working-age benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)...
‘TAKE NO-ONE ALIVE!’ –Kiev junta’s order at Mariupol
AS RUSSIA celebrated Victory Day over the Nazis with massive parades all over the country, Ukrainian troops using heavy weaponry and tanks in the...
‘SACRIFICES NEEDED IN 2012’ – EU workers are told by leaders
German Chancellor Merkel, in her sombre New Year message yesterday, warned 2012 will be worse than 2011. Merkel said Europe was experiencing its ‘most...
90 Birmingham bin strikers rally outside Parliament – won’t accept any pay cuts
NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...
Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!
THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...
‘Our resolve is as strong as ever’
‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...
No fare rises – re-nationalise!
RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving
THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...
Manchester workers greet march!
‘Victory to Palestine!’ rang out through the streets of Central Manchester on Day 15 of the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC...
CWU pickets call for a general strike
‘I’m 100 per cent for a general strike,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Capital Branch Assistant Secretary and BT Tower rep Darren Weller said yesterday...
‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers
‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...
SPRINKLER SYSTEM NOT WORKING – in gutted warehouse
With three firefighters still missing presumed dead and one confirmed dead, it emerged yesterday that the sprinkler system was not working in the central...
MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations
A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry
US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...
97.3% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION! –at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital
porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...
Gate Gourmet mass picket Sunday
‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...
HALT ATTACK ON BURSARIES – RCN, BMA, Unison, Unite, RCM urge government
LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...
NO WATER, NO DOCTOR, NO SCHOOL, NO JOB!’ – IDPs leave Kandahar camp
Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas...
Willetts resign! Demand UEA students
Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages
University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...
Forced Labour For The Unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith yesterday revealed plans to force unemployed benefit claimants into slave labour. TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said...
Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go
GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...
SLEEPING ON THE STREETS! – treatment of asylum seekers condemned
REFUSED asylum-seekers are eating out of bins and sleeping in parks, public toilets and phone-boxes because of government policy New reports show government...
Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!
EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...
‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday
‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...
HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action
Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...
Release Marwan Barghouti!
THE wife of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Fadwa Barghouti, has called on US President Donald Trump to work towards the release of her husband,...
Five surgeons resign over £20bn NHS cuts!
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...
BRING OUT BA GROUND STAFF! – demand BA cabin crew
UNITE cabin crew members at British Airways yesterday called on their union to ballot BA ground staff on strike action. They also said BA’s ‘bullying’...
STRIKE! – Don’t allow Royal Mail privatisation!
POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...
‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes
‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...