MORE GAZA MASSACRES! – as Israel intensifies bombardment
Israel early yesterday ignored a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an ‘immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal...
Bring us back ‘in-house’ – demand Barts SERCO strikers
BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...
Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!
CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...
‘We will strike for as long as it takes!’ – says BMA chair of...
‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...
RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!
RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
‘TRUST ME!’ – May pleads with Cabinet
UNDER HEAVY FIRE, PM May yesterday was reduced to pleading with fellow ministers and MPs to ‘trust me to deliver’ over Brexit. Writing in...
HUNGER STRIKE – against Guantanamo Bay’s new isolation units
A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...
Tories launch war on ‘all extremism’
‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...
Junior Doctors Want Their Pay Restored!
‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...
Balls to means-test pensioners!
LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...
Brexit Turncoats Rally Behind May
ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said...
Banfield slams 2.8% pay offer
HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...
Tsipras sacks ”lefts” as prices soar
THE Greek government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is presenting to the Vouli (Greek parliament) another austerity measures Bill. The vote is to be...
Al-Araqib Village Stormed By Israeli Police
Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...
3 YEARS WITHOUT BENEFIT –Labour supports coalition threat to unemployed
Unemployed workers face being refused benefits for up to three years if they don’t take up job offers, or ‘community placements’ under a new...
Iran calls for an ‘inclusive regional framework’
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says any new security arrangement in the West Asia region that disregards the Islamic Republic is bound to fail,...
HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...
17.8m out of work in eurozone
FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...
Netanyahu’s ‘reshaping of Asia has been shattered’ – Hamas
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...
END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs
Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...
Kingsbury Teachers Strike
STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...
BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’
PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
50,000 NHS POSTS FOR AXE! – ‘NHS not safe in Tory hands’
FALSE ECONOMY, the anti-cuts campaign website revealed today that more than 50,000 NHS staff posts are set for the axe, destroying government claims...
BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!
DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...
GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...
Teachers ready for more action!
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...
Ireland-Germany fear ‘no-deal’ Brexit
IRELAND and Germany have issued warnings about the consequences of a ‘no deal’ Brexit. To ‘prepare for no deal’ the Irish deputy prime minister Simon...
Food Prices Causing Widespread Stress!
ONE-THIRD of the UK population struggles to pay for food, with almost a quarter saying that growing food prices remain one of the main...
LONMIN SHARES CRASH – as it announces 6,000 job cuts
SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...
SLUMP DEEPENS –Coalition vows to continue permanent austerity
THE SLUMP deepened dramatically in the UK in the year’s second quarter. Official figures showed yesterday that output fell by a startling 0.7% between...
Appalling Rough Sleeping Rise Says Crisis
ROUGH sleeping is rising at ‘an appalling rate,’ said the homelessness charity Crisis yesterday, as it emerged that more than 4,000 people a night...
‘We Will March On Postal Executive’
‘We walked out at 9am today as we said we would,’ Hampstead Delivery Office Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Unit rep John Cotier said on...
International support for UK rail workers!
STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...
‘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...
Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally
Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition
143 UK Universities Being Balloted For Strike Action
AROUND 70,000 members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 143 UK universities are being balloted for strike action in a row over...
DON’T ALLOW UKRAINE MISSILES TO STRIKE RUSSIA – President Putin warns the West
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has issued a stark warning to Western nations, cautioning them against allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory. Addressing...
7,000 March With Merseyside Firefighters
Merseyside has the potential to become a national dispute,’ FBU President Ruth Winters told a mass rally at the end of a 7,000-strong demonstration...
Emergency summit called as Israel steps up West Bank expansion
The OrganiSation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will convene an emergency session of its foreign ministers this week over Israel’s latest push to expand illegal...
Stop Israel’s Crimes Against The Palestinians Says PM!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the world should take a clear stand and do what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes...
Strike-Breaking Regulations Ruled Illegal By High Court
MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...
Rise Up! No To US Missiles In The UK
‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...
‘We want our pensions’ – Visteon workers tell Downing Street
‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...
NO OUTSOURCING! – BMA slams NHS privatisation
DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...

















