GMB members employed by private company Medirest are organising to join tomorrow’s march from Southall Broadway to Ealing Hospital

Defend Ealing Maternity!

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EALING Hospital workers and other workers throughout Ealing and Southall are stopping work for two hours tomorrow and joining the march to keep the...

Starmer unveils his ‘Plan for Change’!

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PRIME Minister Keir Starmer yesterday unveiled a ‘Plan for Change’, setting out a series of ‘milestones’ his government pledged to achieve over the course...
Fenland Foods workers picketing Marks & Spencer in the struggle to keep their jobs

BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead

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‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...

Teachers slam Tories free school expansion

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‘WE DO not want Free Schools, we want all Free Schools to be taken back under local authority,’ Tom Davies past president of Ealing...

Iran retains control of Strait of Hormuz

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THE Iranian nation and armed forces have imposed new realities on the battlefield that Washington and its allies must now accept,’ the Islamic Revolutionary...
Greek workers remain defiant in the face of a Syriza regime that is now a puppet government for the Troika

Athens Court Finds ‘No’ Protesters Guilty

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AN Athens court has sentenced three marchers of the 15 July demonstration against austerity. They were accused of throwing petrol bombs at the riot...
Palestinian youth prepare to set fire to piles of tyres on yesterday’s massive ‘Great March of Return’ on the Gaza border

Lethal force used against Palestinians

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LETHAL force was used again yesterday against unarmed Palestinians demonstrating on the Gaza border as Israeli forces open fired, killing two Palestinians. Thousands of protesters...
Demonstration in Lambeth highlighting the poverty that the Coalition has plunged the country into

January trade deficit at £10bn

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ANY talk of ‘recovery’ has been well and truly scotched by the revelation that Britain’s trade deficit widened more than expected in January,...

London/Manchester joint Grenfell march

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THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...

Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!

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THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...
London Met demonstration fighting against cuts – it now faces closure with over 2,000 of its foreign students under 60 days notice of deportation

Don’t Deport Students

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THE NUS, UCU and Unison yesterday condemned the Home Office attack on London Metropolitan University and its international students, and demanded that not a...

Reinstatement For US All Say Gourmet Workers

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MOST of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have received compulsory redundancy letters by special delivery during the past few days went...

Tens of thousands forced into private ‘healthcare’ as Tories set out to torpedo the...

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GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...
Firefighters on a national FBU demonstration in London on October 16 – they are determined to defend their pension rights

Firefighters taking action!

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FIREFIGHTERS across England and Wales took strike action last night from 6.30pm to 11.00pm and will strike again from 6.00am to 8.00am on Monday...

‘WE WON’T BE BULLIED’ –say Glasgow City Council strikers

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AS Primary schools and nurseries across Glasgow stayed closed on the second day of the massive 8,000-strong 48-hour equal pay strike yesterday, the SNP-run...
A section of the mass picket outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

Occupy Chase Farm To Stop It Closing

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Patients, staff and Enfield and district residents yesterday welcomed the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital by the North East London Council of...
RMT security workers lobbied the Mayor of London against the bullying of its members on Monday

Travel Safe workers take strike action

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‘The bullying and intimidation of our members’ representatives by STM Security, is utterly deplorable,’ said Bob Crow yesterday. He added: ‘It is the issue at...

FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’

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Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...

Steelworkers demonstrate in Westminster

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FIFTY steelworkers and their supporters demonstrated outside Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday morning as negotiations between their Unite union leaders, the Tata Steel privateers...

BA steps up industrial thuggery

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FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...

DON’T ALLOW UKRAINE MISSILES TO STRIKE RUSSIA – President Putin warns the West

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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...
National Union of Journalists protest in March against Murdoch domination of the media

Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer

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FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...
Marchers in London in April demanding an end to privatisation in the NHS

PFI ‘drives cuts and closures’ says BMA

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The Private Finance Initiative ‘will burden local health economies for decades’ and drive forward cuts and closures, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned this...

‘Smiling Assassin’ Sacks 800 At Grangemouth

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GRANGEMOUTH’S owner Ineos announced yesterday the closure of its petrochemical plant, while also keeping the oil refinery closed and perhaps re-opening it if a...

University of Maryland students denounce Gaza genocide & demonstrate for Palestine!

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STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients

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THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...

People dying because of staff cuts

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THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...

TORIES HAVE NO PLAN! – Marr asks if Labour would accept Bercow as PM

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BREXIT Secretary Stephen Barclay made clear to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the Johnson Tory government has no ‘cunning plan’ to avoid...

30% CUTS ON WAY – Consultants conference warns

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HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...

400,000 March On Downing Street For Victory To Palestine!

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Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...

300 GP surgeries are facing closure

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ALMOST 300 GP practices are facing closure, a new BMA survey released today has warned. The crisis in general practice is set to worsen according...

DWP staff to get police powers! – to investigate the poorest people on Universal...

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DWP STAFF are to get police powers, the Tory government announced yesterday to investigate the poorest people on Universal Credit. The DWP (Department for Work...
North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

ONE IN THREE A&Es TO CLOSE

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One in three NHS accident and emergency departments could close across London, documents seen by the BBC have revealed. Eleven A&E units are under threat...
CAROL DUGGAN (centre) with MARCIA RIGG (right) marching in Tottenham

‘ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE!’ – Duggan family slams cover-up

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‘ANOTHER slap in the face!’ was the verdict of Pam Duggan in response to Tuesday’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report which cleared ...

£300m more arms for Ukraine – nothing for struggling households

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TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...

NHS hospital managers must be accountable! say BMA consultants

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THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

Stella Assange denounces the US case as ‘pathetic, founded on lies’

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ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...

JERUSALEM NOT NEGOTIABLE – says Haniya

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‘No negotiator who would give up Jerusalem has a national mandate,’ Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has warned. Addressing guests at an iftar, a fast-breaking...

Heathrow Conflict Is Set To Widen

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New British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who takes up his post this weekend, plans to sack 6,000 out of BA’s 46,000-strong workforce, starting...

No fire cover at night in Surrey!

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SURREY County Council has announced shocking plans to shut three fire stations at night, axe 70 firefighters’ jobs and halve the fire cover at...

Air Attack On Lugansk Is A War Crime

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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...

‘Trump is behind drive to extradite Assange’ – says US lawyer alleging Trump wants...

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US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...
Demonstration in defence of the Welfare State and public services

UK back to Victorian times

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OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...

Unite union claims partial BA U-turn – draft agreement to be put to ballot

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UNITE union said yesterday that it welcomes what it has called British Airway’s ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’ but warns issues are ‘not...