CWU calls Nov 4th strike action

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POSTAL workers in Royal Mail yesterday voted by 4 to 1 (78%) in favour of strike action in a move to protect their jobs,...

16 Illegal Events Were Held In Downing St

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SENIOR civil servant Sue Gray’s anticipated report into illegal lockdown gatherings held in and around Downing Street by members of the government has been...

One million to strike

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OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...

MPs TO GET FINAL VOTE ON BREXIT DEAL!

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‘TO provide certainty,’ Tory PM Theresa May said yesterday, ‘I can confirm today that the government will put the final deal which is agreed...
A section of the 4,000-strong ‘Not Fair Not Safe’ demonstration of Junior Doctors outside Leeds City Art Gallery on Wednesday

Mass support for doctors!

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OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...
Demonstration against attacks on disabled people who are being hit hard by the new cuts to care

End 15 Minute Care Disgrace

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END 15-minute care visits, the Royal College of Nursing and Unison health unions demanded yesterday, after the scandal of the consequences of such rushed...

G4S driven out of immigration!

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PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...

‘SYSTEM RIGGED FOR RICH!’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better,’ Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...

Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!

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JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...
Hundreds of Chagossians rally outside the Foreign Office condemning the British government for preventing them from returning home to the Chagos Islands

Chagos Islanders Betrayed

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SOME 100 Chagossians demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday over their treatment by the British government. Frankie Bontemps told News Line: ‘We’re here following the decision...
ScotRail RMT members on the picket line at Glasgow Central Station on the second day of their strike over safety

Railworkers fighting for safety!

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ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

All Out For Gate Gourmet Demonstration

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‘WE want all trade unionists and everyone who supports the working class to come to our march next Saturday,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Raksha...

Reeves scraps Winter Fuel Allowance – Pensioners to freeze in their homes

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NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...

Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support

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TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...

Johnson Relying On Labour To See Him Through!

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WITH around 100 rebel Tory MPs expected to vote against the new three tier lockdown system in the House of Commons tomorrow, the government...
Mass picket by bus workers during strike action at Metroline bus company in west London last November

A Damning Indictment Of The Bus Industry

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A SURVEY published yesterday shows that bus workers believe that the privatised bus companies are far more interested in making big profits than providing...

New UCL rent strike –against rat and insect infestation

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INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...
Young Soialists demonstrating in Norwich demanding jobs for youth, free state education and an end to state repression of young people

Long-Term Youth Unemployment Up 41.9% In A Year

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THE number of young people in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, the latest unemployment figures from the...

GAMBLING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES – 700 Blood Service job cuts condemned

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Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...

SECRET JUSTICE AND SECRET HEARINGS – is now Coalition policy

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A SECRET Justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation, warned legal action charity Reprieve yesterday. Reprieve said: ‘The government this week confirmed that plans...

Pro-Palestine prisoners to go on hunger strike!

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A LETTER was delivered to the Home Office yesterday, informing it of a forthcoming hunger-strike by pro-Palestine prisoners held in British jails. The prisoners are...
Nurses rallying at Westminster last week demanded strike action to stop the job cuts

‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – UNISON slams NHS Direct job cuts

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THE sacking of nearly 800 staff was announced yesterday at NHS Direct – the NHS helpline created by the Blair government in 1997. The mass...

Large-Scale Screening Will Hit Sick

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Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that the government’s proposed screening programme for all those over 40 years of age lacked scientific evidence and could lead...
Living conditions could not be more primitive on the Eskdale estate with women cooking outside their one storey shacks next to an open drain

Fury At Gourmet Sell-Out Deal!

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the mass meeting of locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday afternoon that the sell out deal he has negotiated...

Forward to a workers government in Greece

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THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...

Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...
The NUT turned out in force in Norwich

Teachers ready for more action!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line over Christmas – confident of victory in 2006

WE WILL WIN IN NEW YEAR! – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to support their conference in London on January 29th. On the picket line...

UK unis ‘to be the most expensive in world’

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Academics, students and community groups are celebrating a victory after University College London (UCL), one of the country’s leading institutions, agreed at last to...
Firefighters defiantly lobbying the Fire Brigade HQ in Waterloo making clear they will not accept any cuts or sackings

FBU to strike – Oct 19

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FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday. The...
Five hundred students, youth and workers demonstrated outside Downing Street against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

‘Arrest war criminal Netanyahu’

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‘ARREST the war criminal now!’ shouted more than 500 Palestinians and their supporters outside 10 Downing Street yesterday, as they demonstrated against visiting Israeli...

FBU condemns strikebreakers!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...

‘Renationalise!’ Urges RMT

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AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies

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THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

Starmer urges EU war on Russia!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...

TGWU leaders still pushing ‘compromise agreement’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday when letters from the TGWU solicitor advising them...

JOHNSON ACCUSED OF LYING! – ‘has questions to answer’ – Corbyn

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TORY Foreign Secretary Johnson was yesterday accused of having ‘lied’ and of ‘misleading the British public’ by claiming that Porton Down had identified Russia...
Students from Patras University at the Athens march last Thursday

Greek Students March Against Education Cuts

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Greek university students staged a militant march last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill that will impose huge spending cuts in education. Over 4,000...
French youth at he head of the one miilion-strong march against the CPE in Paris on April 4 – after the withdrawal of the CPE yesterday French youth are now determined to take the struggle forward to a socialist society

2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month

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Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
London marchers made clear their contempt for the government’s 1% ‘pay offer’

‘We’re tired of annual pay cuts!’

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TWO million public sector workers took one-day strike action yesterday, against pay cuts and government attacks on pensions. There were rallies, and protests all...

Coffey Tells Nurses 3% Is All You Are Getting!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) responded with fury to Tory Health Secretary Therese Coffey’s declaration on TV yesterday morning that, regardless of whether...

Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’

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THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...

Sinn Féin win 37 seats in Irish election!

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SINN Féin was celebrating the results of the Irish elections yesterday which saw them as the second biggest party, winning 37 seats – an...