Unions condemn Israel – over designating Palestinian organisations as ‘terrorists’

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TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...
One of the big picket lines out yesterday at Holloway Metroline bus garage

Metro – Hundreds Of Pickets Out

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THERE were over 100 pickets covering all the entrances to Willesden Bus Garage in north west London yesterday morning. Bus driver and TGWU member Christine...

3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!

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THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...

Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught

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Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...

A win for Palestine Action as an army contract is blocked

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THREE detained activists affiliated with Palestine Action have ended a prolonged hunger strike after the government blocked a major British Army contract for Elbit...

REINSTATE ENFIELD GP – Haringey BMA condemns surgery closure

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A MEETING of Enfield and Haringey Division of the BMA yesterday stated that it was appalled by the treatment of Dr...
Refugees camp in the port of Piraeus – another refugee has died after being seriously injured by a police vehicle

Greek journalists 48hr strike

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GREEK journalists employed in newspapers are on a national 48-hour strike this Thursday and Friday, while journalists on radio and television are staging their...

‘Hormuz closure a defensive necessity’ says Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf

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IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the threat of war against Iran and the region must be eliminated, and Tehran will...

Anti-tank missiles used against Palestinian home!

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MOHAMMED Faqih’s body came out of a Hebron house in an army bulldozer bucket on Tuesday night, after the Israeli Army killed him and...
Members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists with their placards marching against cuts in Nottingham

PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’

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‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...

Euro Crisis Crunch Time

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US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

Osborne knifes working families & slashes Welfare!

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IN a savage attack that will cost workers hundreds of pounds a week, Chancellor Osborne has said he will use Wednesday’s Budget to announce...
School students marching in Athens on the 6th anniversary of the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulis on 6th December 2008

Greek Government Is On The Way Out

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THE Greek coalition government has once again failed in a parliamentary vote to elect its candidate Stavros Dimas as the new President of the...
Workers marching in London last month to defend the welfare state

Cbi Calls For Two-Year Wage Freeze

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Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...

Rafah Warning – Israeli Attack Will Murder Thousands!

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THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred...

Israel threatens 14,000 people in Gaza’s Al Quds Hospital!

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ISRAEL is threatening Gaza’s Al-Quds Hospital and the 14,000 people who are sheltering there with bombardment. The Israeli occupation authorities issued their threat to completely...

HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless

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ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...

‘Failing Grayling’ must go says RMT leader Mick Cash

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RMT’s Mick Cash has repeated his call for ‘Failing Grayling’ to go as the scale of the probation service scandal emerges. Cash said: ‘The truly...

Enthusiastic BEIS strike solid

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PCS members at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) began their two-day strike for the London Living Wage at 3.00pm on...

‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told

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STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...

‘Distortion of reality!’ – Iran condemns Rubio threats

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PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasised that Iran makes no decision without the approval of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. Pezeshkian made...

Dead Bodies Are Piling Up Near To Aid Sites!

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ADDAMEER Human Rights Association has reported that 54 Palestinians are missing and unaccounted for after approaching Israeli-American aid distribution centres in Gaza, raising alarm...
Demonstrators in London defending the Iranian people against attempts by the US and UK to attack them

DON’T ATTACK IRAN! –warns Stop the War Coalition

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‘The announcement from Barack Obama’s administration that it is siting Patriot missiles in four Gulf states marks not a defensive but an aggressive act,’...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....
Teachers marching to protect education from Gove and the Tory vandals during their last strike on October 17

NUT to strike on March 26

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday announced a national strike across England and Wales on Wednesday 26 March. The NUT said the strike is...

TREATMENT BY TELECARE! – Brown’s alternative to District General Hospitals and elderly care

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Speaking yesterday to charities, NHS workers, trade unions and local government leaders, prime minister Brown announced the publication of a consultation document on ‘options...
A great turnout for the picket of Ealing hospital to demand that it remains open, led by WRP Parliamentary candidate ARJINDER THIARA who is getting a lot of support

Vote WRP Vote Arj campaign ‘going really well’

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I’M VOTING Arjinder Thiara, Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall,’ mental health nurse and Unison member Susan Griffiths said at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. ‘What...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...

Google handed private medical records

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PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers rallying in Southall in December 2005 with the support of the local community. They are still fighting for their rights

Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract

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Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
Campaigners took to the streets in London last November on the day Osborne announced permanent austerity in his Autumn Statement

Tory Cuts & Closures –A ‘Lethal Cocktail’

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‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...

END OCCUPATION! – Resolution goes before Security Council

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THE PLO on Wednesday presented a draft UN resolution laying out terms for a final peace deal with Israel but sought to avoid a...
Greek workers stage another mass demonstration in Athens as the struggle against the right-wing Karamanlis government and paramilitary police force continues

Second youth shot in Greece

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The Greek university students’ occupation committees have called for a mass demonstration next Tuesday in Athens. Marches are to be held in other cities...
Lobby of Waltham Forest council meeting last month to win support for the campaign against the closure of Whipps X Hospital A&E

DEFICITS NOT PATIENT CARE! – driving Blair’s NHS plans

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Shocked health unions yesterday warned against prime minister Blair’s plans to close a large number of District General Hospitals’ Accident & Emergency...
Unite members on strike over pay at the Bow garage of East London Bus group last November

Fight 40% Bus Cuts!

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LONDON Bus reps are meeting at the Unite union office at Woodberry, Manor Park, north London at 11am today, to plan coordinated action to...

Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!

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THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...
Unite lorry drivers on the last year’s March 26 TUC demonstration against the coalition cuts

Overwhelming Strike Vote

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Tanker drivers delivering fuel to petrol pumps across the UK have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over safety and growing instability...

‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May

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IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...

Dire warnings for Europe!

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BILLIONAIRE financial speculator George Soros warned yesterday that the German economy is going to totter in the Autumn, when the crisis will ‘come to...

Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...

Sixth Forms strike: ‘urgent funds now!’

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A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...
A scene from the military-police civil war exercise in Kilkis, Greece

Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!

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THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...

1,000 Barts workers voting to strike – no 2-tier NHS!

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Over 1,000 NHS workers at Barts Health NHS Trust in the City of London began voting for strike action yesterday in a fight against...

‘STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSION!’ – Abbas urges the UN

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...