More than 125,000 skin infections in Gaza!
MORE than 125,000 cases of skin infections linked to rats and parasites have been recorded in Gaza in the first five months of 2026. United...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
Syriza Discussing Keeping Austerity Memorandum
THE Greek government’s proposals for a new agreement over the terms of the bail-out loan of 240bn euros were discussed at this week’s Eurogroup...
RMT pledges to fight cuts in oil workers’ jobs
FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...
One in ten in ‘insecure’ work!
THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...
Police clash with refugees in Greece & Calais
REFUGEES broke down the barbed wire fence on the Greek border with Macedonia yesterday, using a steel pole as a battering ram. The protesters shouted:...
Cancer research strikers join Maudsley picket
THERE was a lively picket, at the Maudsley hospital in Camberwell, south east London yesterday of over 50 estate maintainance workers. They were joined, by...
Woolwich Hospital two-day strike
WORKERS at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich in south east London were on strike yesterday and are striking again today in a bitter struggle...
US bank rule changes threaten a new crash
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...
ROYAL MAIL 20% JOB CUTS – ‘Conflict inevitable’ – CWU
The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...
Greek Students March Against Privatisation
TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...
Russia accuses the West of using sanctions to steal its gold and foreign exchange...
RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...
WALL STREET DIVES! – as Congress argues over Bush plan
THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...
Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire
‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
‘SECRET NHS CUTS WILL CAUSE UPROAR’ – says the BMA doctors union
DOCTORS have warned that new plans for savage NHS cuts are ‘shrouded in secrecy’ and will ‘cause uproar’, the BMA says in a...
‘OUR LEADERS MUST LEAD’ – demand London postal workers
LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...
SAS deployed on UK streets
HEAVILY ARMED special SAS forces were ordered onto the streets of the UK, yesterday and told to ‘shoot on sight’ suspected terrorists as the...
Iraqis March To Free Journalist!
Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets yesterday demanding the release of the al-Baghdadiya TV reporter who called Bush ‘you dog’ and threw his...
Israeli booby-traps kill 37 and wound 3,000!
LEBANON has accused Israel of committing war crimes after a series of deadly explosions involving booby-trapped communication devices killed at least 37 people and...
Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...
World-wide youth strike March 15th
TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...
UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!
A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...
‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian
‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...
Medical notes outsourced – threatening patients’ lives says Prentis
Thousands of patients’ lives may be put at risk because a growing number of hospitals are sending medical notes abroad for typing, UNISON is...
John Breen (1938-2010)
OVER 100 people packed out Hither Green Cremat-orium yesterday for the funeral of John Breen. His wife Doreen, their two daughters, family, friends and a...
Syrian army deals blows at US/UK stooges
THE Syrian Army killed tens of insurgents yesterday during clashes in the Syrian city of Aleppo in the northwest of the country. The government...
Nuneaton Hospital To Be Put On The Market
APPROVAL has been given for a second NHS District General Hospital to be put out to market to be privately run or taken over....
BUSH – NO DEAL! – as capitalism crashes
Bush made a two-minute statement on the White House Lawn yesterday following his failure to get agreement on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s massive $700...
Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call
ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...
Strike Until We Win! – Lecturers
OXFORD and Cambridge lecturers joined a three thousand-strong march in central London yesterday called by the London Region UCU on the 13th day of...
‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’
‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....
FBU to strike – Oct 19
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...
NI Nursing Strike Actions Continue
THE DIRECTOR of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says she has not had enough reassurance about safe staffing to propose an end to...
Marchers speak at Northampton College
The Young Socialists March for Jobs set out from Northampton for Bedford yesterday morning. The marchers sent out an advance team to recruit new members...
Rail Fares Rise – A 2.7% Hit
MILLIONS of rail passengers will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for tickets from 2nd January, in a fare rise announced last...
Jaguar workers–three day week until Xmas!
JAGUAR workers have been put on a three-day week until Christmas! This affects as many as half of the two thousand workers at its...
Reinstatement For US All Say Gourmet Workers
MOST of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have received compulsory redundancy letters by special delivery during the past few days went...
DE MENEZES FURY! – over police attempt to link Jean Charles to rape case
Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins yesterday said the family is furious at a Metropolitan Police attempt to connect their late relative with a rape...
North Shropshire Disaster For Tories – Pm Johnson Facing Sack!
THE Tory Party has lost the ‘farming country’ North Shropshire seat’ that it has held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats, in...
NUS gives full support for university strikes!
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...
20,000 wounded still trapped in Gaza Strip
OVER 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with ‘limited access to healthcare’, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite...
Balfour Beatty’s Sack Warning To 12,000
Construction giant Balfour Beatty has warned its 12,000 staff in the UK they could lose their jobs as a result of the slump in...
Harland & Wolff in administration
WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!
CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...
UK Did Torture Kenyans!
THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...