‘we Are Fighting Union-Busting’
STRIKING British airways cabin crew are completing their latest five-day strike at midnight tonight and will be resuming their next five days action at...
£30bn MORE NHS CUTS!
THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...
Super-exploitation in Covid-infected meat factories!
THE LINK between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts...
General Strike Overdue
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has said on the eve of the annual TUC Congress, that unions may come together in co-ordinated strike action...
SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth
SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...
‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises
THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
Brown Threatens Universal Entitlement To NHS Care
PREMIER Brown’s plans for the NHS to refuse to treat patients whose lifestyles are judged to be responsible for their illnesses...
High Court blocks Academy
FOR the first time, the High Court has blocked an attempt to force a comprehensive school to become an academy. Teachers union NASUWT said yesterday...
Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally
Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...
GPs angry at 24-hour 7-day working
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech to delegates at the annual Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference in Liverpool yesterday morning was angrily...
Hands Off Child Benefits!
TEACHERS’ unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned government plans to raid the Child Benefits of families whose children have unauthorised absences from school. Tory-LibDem coalition...
A&E Visits Halved By Virus Outbreak
A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...
School funding cuts devastate a generation of children
AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...
‘We need more GPs’ says BMA chairman Nagpaul
DISINVESTMENT in general practice by successive governments has drastically hampered doctors’ ability to provide safe care, BMA GPs committee chair Chaand Nagpaul has warned...
Unilever Pensions Strike
UNILEVER workers are standing firm despite strong-arm tactics by the employer designed to destroy their resistance to plans to end their final salary pension...
‘Inflation hangs around like a bad smell!’ says BofE!
THE BANK of England has raised interest rates to their highest levels in almost 15 years. The base rate has risen from 4.25% to 4.5%...
SA government says that ‘austerity is a necessary pain for the good of SA’s...
IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...
THORNBERRY FAVOURS ‘PEOPLE’S VOTE’ – unless May agrees to ‘Six Tests’
LABOUR’S SHADOW foreign secretary Emily Thornberry joined hands yesterday with resigned Tory Transport Minister Jo Johnson in declaring for a second referendum to reverse...
98 GP PRACTICES FACING CLOSURE! – says BMA
AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...
PRIVATISATION HAS TO STOP – Serwotka & prentis pledge to fight the government
‘If the government don’t give us what we want we will take this campaign further,’ PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka pledged to a packed...
Tgwu Officials Refuse To Pay Out Xmas Hardship Money
THIRTY locked-out Gate Gourmet workers gathered at the TGWU union office in Hillingdon yesterday, angry that they were not being given their hardship money...
Sparks halt St Paul’s traffic
HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...
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 ...
Buy A University Place Fury!
THERE was massive anger yesterday after the Tory-led coalition announced its plan to enable the rich to purchase a university place for...
END ‘RAIL FRANCHISE RIP-OFF!’ says RMT
RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government for ‘presiding over a culture of private waste’ on the railways, calling for an end to the...
Carillion Strikebreaking Condemned!
THE GMB is to make a formal complaint that a Bath employment agency is illegally supplying staff to Swindon hospital during Carillion strike days. GMB...
NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members
Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
Greek Teachers Strike Continues
THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...
IRAQ INVASION BROKE UN CHARTER – says Blix
‘WE visited 30 sites and found no Weapons of Mass Destruction’ in Iraq, but the United States was on a ‘military high’ and decided...
Trade unions must draw up their own cost of living index
YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...
Greek Riot Police Attack March
GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...
Syria hands Russia proof ‘rebels’ behind chemical attack
SYRIA has handed over ‘material evidence’ to Russia proving that foreign-backed terrorists were behind a recent chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus. The...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...
‘NOT GUILTY’ – court decides for Chase Farm occupier! Occupation not illegal!
JOSHUA OGUNLEYE was found not guilty of the charge ‘obstruct/resist a constable in the execution of duty’ in a trial held at Highbury...
‘CUTS WILL COST LIVES!’ – FBU leader Wrack warns
‘CUTS will cost lives,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack insisted yesterday. He was addressing a 500-strong rally in Westminster of FBU delegations...
Starmer urges EU war on Russia!
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...
Israel escalates ceasefire violations
THE Israeli occupation army continued to violate the ceasefire agreement yesterday, while the impact of the massive wholesale destruction intersected with rainstorms that have...
TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned
THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...
Haringey Binmen Fight Strikebreaking
STRIKING Haringey bin men are into the second week of their action against private contractors, Haringey Accord, which plans to cut two dust crews,...
Big Response For Wrp’s Scott Dore
A LARGE Vote WRP, Vote Scott Dore campaign was out in Ealing Central and Acton yesterday. Many local people joined the WRP and promised...
‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’
Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...
Vicious Tory Onslaught On Asylum Seekers Condemned
HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...
Get The Tories Out!
‘WE WANT the Tories Out!’ They are planning billions more savage cuts in benefits and services’ said Scott Dore, Workers Revolutionary Party general election...
ROYAL MAIL PENSIONS FURY –call for indefinite action as 24hour strikes due to start
ROYAL Mail workers are resuming their strike action tonight, furious at leaked Post Office plans to smash up their pensions. The massive Mail Centres employing...
Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing
PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...