DISGRACEFUL! Cornwall council to continue fire service cuts
THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ Cornwall Council’s proposals to downgrade Falmouth and Camborne fire stations, just one week after the Newquay...
Palestinian teen severely beaten!
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Palestinian minor has told his lawyer that he was severely beaten while detained by Israeli occupation soldiers last week and that he...
EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away
Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...
DECENT OFFER NOW! – say 5,000 marching NATFHE and AUT members
‘UCEA employers should be sacked for causing disruption in our colleges,’ declared Dennis Hayes, president of the newly formed Universities and Colleges Union, following...
The occupation is starving us say Palestinian children
‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...
REMOVE THESE LEADERS! Postal – workers react to ‘Interim Agreement’
Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily when details of the ‘interim agreement’ reached between the Communication Workers Union (CWU ) leadership and the Royal Mail...
‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!’ – GPs condemn the Care Quality Commission
THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection regime aimed at GP practices is damaging patient care by diverting resources and GP time away from treating...
Trade unionists to join junior doctors picket lines
TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...
NHS PORTERS AT RISK – transporting the dead in sheets as body bags...
NHS PORTERS at Epsom and St Helier Trust, not only have very ‘flimsy’ Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) but they are being forced to transport...
Call for nationwide student rent strikes
THE National Union of Students (NUS) joined the calls for nationwide student rent strikes yesterday. This September (16/17/18th), activists from UCL Cut the Rent (UCL-CTR),...
Israel Escalates Violence Across West Bank & Gaza!
ISRAELI forces carried out a series of demolitions and violent raids across occupied Palestinian territories yesterday, further escalating the ethnic cleansing in the West...
GPs pensions action!
DOCTORS have made an overwhelming call to their leaders to reject the government’s proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme and shown a willingness...
Call A General Strike Says Poa
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth yesterday, to calls from the Young Socialists lobby and delegates for a General Strike, to bring...
Enforced debt collection thousands of complaints
ENFORCED debt collection, aggressive bailiffs, aggressive customer service tactics, breaches of confidentiality and hiking the size of the debt are just some of thousands...
Ukraine’s bombardment of nuclear plant is ‘suicidal’ – warns Russia
THE Ukrainian army’s continued bombardment of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is destructive, dangerous and even suicidal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...
British Troops In Syria!
THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...
NO BANKERS OCCUPATION! – Greek workers condemn government ‘traitors’
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS TRULY unprecedented spontaneous mass demonstrations of thousands of furious workers and students have forced the cancellation of the official military...
RISE UP! – shout Greek workers!
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...
Greek seafarers win historic victory
THE Greek seafarers’ trade union PENEN declared on Wednesday the victory of the 10-day solid strike on the ferries of the Italy-Greece line at...
UCU votes to mount national fight for jobs
DELEGATES at the UCU (University and College Union) Conference in Harrogate last week, backed an important step forward in the fight against the escalating...
MISSILE ATTACK IS ‘ACT OF AGGRESSION’ – ‘Reminiscent of 2003 attack on Iraq’
THE US missile attack on a Syrian airbase is an act of aggression under a far-fetched pretext and is reminiscent of the situation in...
A Damning Indictment Of The Bus Industry
A SURVEY published yesterday shows that bus workers believe that the privatised bus companies are far more interested in making big profits than providing...
Action Needed To Defeat The Health Bill
‘the BILL remains fundamentally flawed and should be withdrawn,’ the BMA doctors’ union said yesterday. ‘Amendments amounting to little more than minor tweaking have not...
FBU fighting pension cuts!
FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...
Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon
A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...
The TUC calls to tax the rich – refuses to call General Strike
On the eve of its Congress, the TUC has called on the government to equalise capital gains tax with income tax which could raise...
Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date
FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...
‘Down With The Junta Of The Banks’
ATHENS – Greek workers delivered a powerful first blow to the government’s counter-revolutionary Stability Plan last Wednesday with a magnificent national all public...
Big Gains For Labour In Local Elections
THERE WERE big gains for Labour in Thursday’s English and Welsh local elections. Neither incumbent Boris Johnson nor Labour’s Ken Livingtone achieved 50 per cent...
Scrap The Bill!
Public sector union Unison said yesterday that the NHS Future Forum’s report shows a Health Bill beyond repair and that it should be scrapped. The...
‘RENATIONALISE’ SAYS CROW – the only answer to runaway fare rises
‘2013 will be the year that the fight to re-nationalise the railways goes into overdrive,’ said RMT General Secretary Bob Crow yesterday. Train fare increases...
Murder in Syria was for ‘self-defence of Iraq’–claims ambassador
FOLLOWING the uproar questioning the legality of the UK drone assassination of a British citizen in Syria, a letter to the UN casts doubt...
Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members
UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat
The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...
‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December...
‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December strikes ‘WHILE billions of pounds is being spent on temporary measures...
Royal Mail 97% YES for strike
OVER 97% of members of the CWU (Communication Workers Union) working for Royal Mail, voted ‘YES’ for strike action, it was announced yesterday. Hundreds of...
EU publishes plans for ‘no-deal’ scenario
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) published yesterday its contingency plans for a ‘no deal scenario’ as post-Brexit trade deals with the UK remain deadlocked. The President...
Industrial action not ruled out – over pensions says Scottish BMA leader
A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...
DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students
TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!
TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...
‘No immunity for Grenfell companies’ – demands FBU member Lucy Masoud
‘NO ONE should be immune from prosecution. The firefighters certainly weren’t and the manufacturers of the cladding definitely should not be,’ Lucy Masoud FBU...
Hungry and Homeless!
‘EMERGENCY support schemes’, used by vulnerable families threatened with homelessness or who are struggling to put food on the table, are to be...
AN ‘OUTRAGEOUS PAY CUT’! – UNISON & RCN reject pay board threats
Trade unions representing nurses, midwives and health workers covered by the ‘independent’ Pay Review Body (PRB), yesterday reacted angrily to a government-proposed huge ‘pay...
Prisons Handed Over To Privateers Says Poa
THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...
‘WE NEED SERIOUS ACTION’ – nurses tell News Line
‘Keep nurses working – keep patients safe,’ Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Beverley Malone told 1,000 cheering nurses at Westminster Central Hall yesterday. ‘As...