ULU students march
AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...
Summary Powers!
Civil rights groups yesterday slammed calls from police chiefs for summary powers to dish out ‘instant justice’. Surrey Police chiefs went on television and gave...
STEP UP THE ACTION! – postal workers demand
OVER 1,000 striking postal workers converged on the headquarters of Royal Mail yesterday to demand management enter ‘meaningful talks with the CWU (Communication Workers...
BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...
NHS BUDGET CUTS PLAN – condemned by UNISON trade union
Public sector union Unison yesterday condemned government plans to incorporate donations from charities into NHS budgets. It is estimated the move will deprive cash-strapped NHS...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
CEASEFIRE! – or face Middle East war says Saudi King Abdullah
Yesterday fighting in the Lebanon was continuing in Bint Jebayl with Israeli tanks and troops in the town. However, the Israeli Army admitted it...
UN votes in favour of Palestinian statehood
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed resolution on Palestine statehood on Tuesday, with 172 countries voting in favour of the resolution. The resolution affirmed...
Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack
PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...
Athens Workers March & Defy Eu-Greek Junta
OVER 1,500 workers, militants, trade-unionists and youth marched through the Athens city centre to the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday evening against the visit...
‘NO TIME FOR NATIONALISM!’ – 5,000 car workers march to Antwerp plant
5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...
Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government
RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...
PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH
‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...
Corbyn for second referendum!
THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...
Xmas Mass Picket At Ealing Hospital
THE WEST London Council of Action has called a 7am-9am Xmas Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital on Friday 20th December to step up the...
‘They are tearing the heart out of the NHS’ – says Kevin O’Brien Epsom...
‘THEY are tearing the heart out of the hospital,’ said Epsom and St Helier NHS Unison branch secretary Kevin O’Brien yesterday. He was responding to...
Stop Casualising Workers –Tesco Told
‘Tesco is putting more and more pressure on meat suppliers to cut their prices and this is leading to a shocking exploitation of workers...
Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration
THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...
RATP busworkers reject ‘fire and rehire’ deal
THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
Bank admits undercover EU exit probe
THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...
GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals
Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...
Nationalisation To Defend Gm Jobs!
GENERAL MOTORS, owned by the US government, is falling out with the German government about who is going to buy GM Europe. The...
Korean trade unions call general strike to force President to quit!
SOUTH Korea’s biggest umbrella labour group, the Confederation of Korean Trade Unions (KCTU), yesterday called an indefinite nationwide strike to continue until president Yoon...
Police Attack Tamils
Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...
SEVEN US TROOPS KILLED – despite Iraq crackdown
Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...
3,300 STAFF & 1,500 BEDS CUT SINCE 2010! – in the mental health service
MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...
Osborne hammers poor!
CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...
Carillion liquidated! – Re-nationalise all services demand unions
THE BOMBSHELL announcement yesterday morning that Carillion had gone into liquidation had immediate and devastating consequences for the 20,000 workers employed by the private...
Lu Strikers Standing Firm
TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...
TUC shows Qatar red card – and supports the workers of Gaza & Ukraine
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday, voted unanimously for Motion 75 Qatar to strip Qatar of the World Cup. The motion ‘Calls on...
SAFETY RULES BROKEN says RMT leader Bob Crow
‘There was chaos on the Underground this morning,’ rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Commenting on the 24-hour strike by 4,000 RMT...
66% Of Students Refused Grants
Two-thirds of university entrants in England and Wales who applied for maintenance grants – designed to assist poorer students – were turned down, according...
Pct Lobbied Over Bush Hill Park Closure
‘BUSH Hill Park medical practice – reopen now!’ shouted members of a lively picket of the Enfield Primary Care Trust yesterday afternoon. The picket organised...
BANKERS PANIC! – It’s the survival of the fittest as bankers call in debts
There is a real panic setting in in the capitalist world’s financial system with the main world banks beginning to act to secure themselves...
Leaseholders’ cladding nightmare is continuing – Tory extra £3.5 billion is too little too...
‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...
Miliband won’t restore £3,000 fees cap – Balls volunteers for a coalition
LABOUR Party leader Ed Miliband pledged yesterday to cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 a year if returned to government, as the party’s...
‘NHS being collapsed by coalition!’
THE very minimum number of nurses required for A&Es to function safely was published yesterday in an attempt to address the acute staff shortage...
Tories Escalate War On NHS!
AS THE junior doctors ended their latest four-day strike at 7.00am yesterday morning, Tory Health Minister Will Quince kicked out at them and NHS...
Officers admit guilt in taking dead girls pictures
TWO Metropolitan Police officers yesterday admitted taking and sharing photographs of the bodies of two sisters found murdered in north-west London. PC Deniz Jaffer, 47,...
7th week on strike for Greek admin workers
ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...
149,000 at risk of eviction in the last year!
EVERY 90 seconds a renter in England is put at risk of losing their home, warns Shelter. Research by the housing and homelessness charity has...
Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!
MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...
BMA BOOSTS BROWN’S PLAN FOR ‘INDEPENDENT’ NHS – before BMA conference even discusses it
THE BMA yesterday, on the eve of its Annual Representative Meeting in Torquay, sought to impose Gordon Brown’s plan for an ‘independent board to...