Emergency powers used against Greek Metro workers
AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...
‘We will not leave the patients alone: We will live and die together’ –...
HUNDREDS of Israeli soldiers are continuing their raid in all sections of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with bulldozers destroying buildings in the southern section...
‘STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSION!’ – Abbas urges the UN
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...
Farmers warn of ‘humanitarian crisis’– if Family Farm Tax not scrapped
ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...
‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets
NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...
‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member
EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...
General Strike in Ireland
OVER 100,000 workers turned out for a massive demonstration through Dublin yesterday, as the country was brought to a halt in a general strike...
Child benefit savage cuts
STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
BLIX WARNED BLAIR ON WMDs
HANS BLIX, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq told yesterday’s BBC Radio Today programme that he had warned Tony Blair the...
CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!
CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...
Infected blood scandal – 72 died from contaminated drug at single school
A PUBLIC inquiry yesterday heard from students and parents after more than 120 ex pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up...
STRIKE ON! – Form public sector alliance demand postal workers
‘Everyone has to come out now, all the unions have to,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Hampstead Delivery Office deputy unit rep John Taylor told...
HALT RM PRIVATISATION! – industry making £900,000 a day profits
‘We have to be bold and honest in our fight to stop Royal Mail privatisation,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region Secretary Paul Moffat...
Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!
RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...
Stockholm Youth Uprising
YOUTH in Stockholm have risen up in anger over the last three days and faced police attacks and racist abuse, following the police shooting...
Get the Tories out! Victory to Palestinian hunger strikers! say London May Day marchers
UP to 10,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched on May Day in London from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and...
No Safety Cuts Says RMT-Tssa
RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...
Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’
WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...
Elderly Health Care Is Not Good Enough!
Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...
CAMERON DEMANDS STRONG GOVERNMENT! – as pound sterling falls
URGENT talks began yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron demanded a ‘strong and stable government’ is formed ‘quickly’ to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’. This was after...
NHS HANDS OVER £26m TO PRIVATEERS
A NEW investigation carried out by the BMA has discovered that private consultancy firms have been paid at least £26m by the NHS as...
Maudsley strikers to march on Downing St! ‘– End all NHS outsourcing’ demands GMB
SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union...
Norwich City Council to strike!
WORKERS who carry out vital services for Norwich City Council have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action. In the Unite ballot 83% of the workers backed...
Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
UNIONS MAKE TERMINAL 5 DEAL – but refuse to reveal the details
Trade union officials were yesterday giving out mixed messages about a new staffing levels agreement with British Airways for the move to Terminal 5...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!
‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...
MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state
The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...
GUAIDO SETS THE SCENE FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION
VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...
Classrooms bursting!
SCHOOL classrooms are at bursting point, with half a million pupils squeezed into classrooms with more than 40 in a class. Labour Party analysis highlighted...
Bank Warns Of Meltdown!
The deepening eurozone crisis is a threat to Britain’s just rescued banks, the Bank of England warns in its latest Financial Stability Report out...
Kurds march on Downing Street
AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...
Tnt–2,000 Jobs Threat
WHISTL, formerly known as TNT, has suspended its door-to-door delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is threatening to sack 2,000 workers, it...
North Middlesex Mass Picket A Great Success
‘THE mass picket has gone very well,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, outside the North Middlesex Hospital...
Iran begins Zolfaqar-1400 military exercises
THE IRANIAN Army has started large-scale military exercises in an area stretching from the eastern sector of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the...
Lift Gaza Blockade!
ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...
NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis
‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
Manchester indefinite bus strike!
MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...
100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition
Teachers Slam New Tory Curriculum
FIVE-to-14-year-olds will be required to learn more ‘hard facts’ under the new National Curriculum announced by prime minister Cameron and Education Secretary Gove yesterday. The...
Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...
GATE GOURMET IS FACING HUGE FINE – lawyers plead it had to sack first...
GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...
Corbyn Calls For Pm May’s Resignation!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...
‘Workless’ families fall – child poverty soars!
THE PROPORTION of households in the UK where no-one is working is at its lowest point for over 20 years, the Office for National...














