Agencies ripping off schools – NUT supply teachers conference today
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to take urgent action on supply teaching. Agencies have been ripping off schools for years and have no place in the...
Air Attack On Lugansk Is A War Crime
The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...
‘Corridor care seems to have become the norm’ says the RCN’s Patricia Marquis
‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...
Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless
Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...
Junior Doctors Ballot For Action
JUNIOR doctors across England are to be balloted by the BMA over industrial action in response to the government’s plans to impose a new,...
Gate Gourmet Workers Rally
Gate Gourmet locked out workers are campaigning every day up until their first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday, 20th...
The nail in ‘coffin UK!’ – Manufacturing output and Sterling falls
UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...
Fierce Clashes In Hebron!
ISRAELI forces opened fired with live ammunition on a protest in Hebron yesterday hitting at least ten Palestinians. The ‘rally of anger’ erupted into fierce...
‘ON OUR WAY TO VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday campaigning outside the Transport and General Workers Union regional office in Hillingdon, near Heathrow Airport. On Saturday the...
Gaza’s Children Going Back To School
EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...
SPEED UP DEPORTATIONS –May demands of EU!
HOME Secretary Theresa May has called for an overhaul in the EU asylum rules saying the bloc must speed up deportation of ‘economic migrants’...
BA Cabin Crews Vote For A 12-Day Strike
British Airways cabin crew have voted by a massive 92.5 per cent, in an over 80 per cent turnout, in favour of strike action...
STOP ARMING ISRAEL! RECOGNISE PALESTINIAN STATE NOW! – say 100,000 marchers
OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...
Tory-Tuc Pay & Jobs Deal!
‘CAN I put on record my thanks to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the CBI, and other business groups,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said...
Tories ‘blithely sailing NHS towards an iceberg!’
THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...
TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee
The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...
Limehouse ‘Save Our Surgeries’ protest
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...
Night Tube Strike Rock Solid! – RMT
STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...
Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...
Bectu Outsourcing Strike!
BECTU members outsourced to Capita are to strike because of the company’s refusal to allow them to continue working on the BBC contract. Members...
Bank of E fears Barclays exposure to EU debt
UK banks do not have enough capital to withstand an escalation in the eurozone crisis, the Bank of England’s risk regulator has warned. The minutes...
‘We fully support the junior doctors strike!’ say 2,500 doctors in letter to Cameron
MORE than 2,500 consultants, GPs and senior doctors have delivered a letter to Downing Street saying this week’s all-out strike by junior doctors will...
RMT Industrial Action Vote
RAIL union RMT confirmed today that it has declared a dispute and is preparing an industrial action ballot on Great Western services. This is after...
Cuts force refugee centre to close
A VITAL Refugee Centre in Sheffield is facing immediate closure, right at the time it is needed the most. Tory cuts have ravaged the ...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
Sajid Javid tells patients to ‘manage their own care!’
ON Thursday, Sajid Javid, the Tory Health Secretary, made a euphoric speech to the Health Service Journal Digital Transformation Summit. He praised the Covid pandemic...
952,000 18-24’s OUT OF WORK
‘AFTER falling for two successive months, today’s rise in youth unemployment is disappointing,’ said TUC leader Brendan Barber. Paul Kenny GMB General Secretary commented:...
Luton Angry Over Gm Threat To Jobs
General Motors yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, in a plan that seeks to allow the US auto giant to...
UN Cuts Aid To Palestinians!
HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...
Syrian forces seek to begin their withdrawal
FRESH clashes broke out in Syria yesterday as the Syrian army attempted to withdraw its heavy weaponry from around several cities, while the ‘opposition’...
UK-CIA Inquiry Boycott
NINE rights groups have said they will boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s torture and rendition programmes. Amnesty International, Reprieve,...
HEATHROW CLEANERS FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS says the Unite trade union
LOW PAID cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie at Heathrow Airport, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged...
Israel targeting the national & historical rights of Palestinians
THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...
Greek Workers Voting ‘No!’
SOME 3,000 mostly young people marched to the European Commission offices in Athens on Thursday evening calling for a ‘NO’-‘OXI’ vote in Sunday’s referendum. A...
Children’s doctors face burnout
EXTREMELY sick children will not receive the treatment they need if Scotland does not recruit over 100 extra consultants, the Royal College of Paediatrics...
‘CHARGES UNDERMINE THE NHS’ – urges consultant surgeon
Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...
WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers
RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...
TAKE ON ANTI-UNION LAWS – Rob Williams tells TGWU conference
THE leadership of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was shaken at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Brighton yesterday, when a substantial...
University fees & loan hikes rushed through!
LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...
4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!
THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...
Germany signs austerity ‘deal’ – as Greek workers riot
THE GERMAN parliament voted yesterday to extend the ‘bailout package’ to Greece by another four months, while in Greece workers erupted on the streets...
Self defence forces take action!
SELF DEFENCE forces have confirmed they attacked a Ukrainian military helicopter at an airfield in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A plume of smoke...
Emergency GP surgery appointments only!
SURGERIES are in such crisis that one in six GPs have cancelled all routine appointments at some point over the last year, seeing emergency...
TORTURE! – Iraqi puppet police are accused of killings at secret detention centr
The British Foreign Office said yesterday it was ‘aware of and deeply concerned’ by reports that Iraqi police commandos, the allies of British forces...