Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
Hamas agrees 60-day ceasefire!
HAMAS negotiators in Cairo have agreed a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which calls for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release...
A&Es being slashed all over the country!
THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...
Let child refugees in to UK! – Demands damning MPs committee report
‘SIGNIFICANT numbers’ of child refugees must be ‘promptly taken in by the UK and cared for’ a Parliamentary committee has demanded. The UK’s European Union...
FBU Condemns Strike- Breaking Force!
‘London Fire Authority are paying £12m over five years for what is in effect a strike-breaking force. ‘We are unequivocally opposed to it, it’s a...
50,000 South African bankworkers to strike! – as miners vow to occupy mines to...
Bankworkers union Sasbo (South African Society of Bank Officials) said South Africans should brace themselves for a complete standstill in the financial services sector...
GRENFELL INQUIRY: May forced to retreat!
‘WE ARE extremely pleased, we are relieved, but we are disappointed that we had to go through all of this to get the Prime...
LOCKED IN FLOODED CELLS! – Harmondsworth inquiry demand
On Monday, 23 June, the High Court will respond to a Liberty demand for an independent investigation into the treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth...
Fire safety checks cut by 42%!
IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...
‘SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!’ – Nurses reject Brown’s 2% pay offer
Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...
Greek Workers Vow To Bring Down Government
250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill and demanding...
MIDWIFERY CRISIS! – ‘Reverse diploma cut decision’ – RCM urges
The Royal College of Nursing yesterday accused the government of exacerbating an already serious midwifery crisis. Student midwives’ leaders expressed alarm over the government’s decision...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...
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...
‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand
UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...
Surge in privatisation threatens NHS – warn health unions
‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
‘WE WILL WIN OUR FIGHT’ say Gate Gourmet workers
PASSING cars hooted in support as locked out Gate Gourmet workers picketed on the hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. Avtar told News Line: ‘We will...
GOLDSMITH REFUSED TO BACK IRAQ WAR – in March 2008, 2002 letter to Hoon
THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...
Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!
PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...
‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail workers
‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...
Generals Demand Immunity From Prosecution
THE generals who demanded a ruling from the Labour government’s Attorney General that war with Iraq was legal before they would send their troops...
‘SMOKESCREEN FOR HUGE CUTS’ – Unions condemn ‘Localism Bill’
‘The Localism Bill, promoting the “Big Society” concept, is a smokescreen, so that thousands of local government jobs can be axed’, the Unite union...
Tuc Congress Must Call General Strike!
‘TODAY’S huge strike of public sector workers expresses the great anger felt throughout the working class at the huge austerity cuts, including pay cuts,...
£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR
The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...
‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...
RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...
‘International community must make a stand’
IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...
St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars
TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
‘Prosecute now’ demand Grenfell campaigners
MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...
‘Complete denuclearisation’ – Trump signs agreement with Kim Jong-un
US PRESIDENT Trump announced he has agreed to suspend ‘war games’ with South Korea in return for a commitment to the ‘complete denuclearisation of...
‘We are all very angry with BP!’
OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...
Corbyn backs a general election – while Labour MPs voice opposition
YESTERDAY in Parliament Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke in favour of a general election and said this is now Labour’s position. He said: ‘Labour backs...
Prentis Warns Labour
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...
UN Condemns Israeli Occupation
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing...
CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...
No Deal Brexit Is Only Way Forward
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday displayed ‘unredacted documents’ about secret US-UK government trade talks putting the NHS on the table in any future post...
3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!
THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...
SOCA SECRET AGENCY FORMED! – links former spies, police, customs and immigration services
‘Britain’s FBI’, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) – which combines former MI5 and MI6 spies with former ‘specialists’ from the police, customs and...
‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne
NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...
£300m more arms for Ukraine – nothing for struggling households
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...
PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite
‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
Syriza Surrenders To Troika!
THE GREEK government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a treacherous U-turn has turned the landslide ‘NO’ to austerity vote in last Sunday’s referendum,...
Remain permanently in customs union – says Corbyn
‘LABOUR’S plan is for Britain and the European Union (EU) to negotiate a permanent customs union to protect jobs and manufacturing,’ Labour leader Jeremy...
Amesbury and Salisbury – Russian involvement ludicrous
RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter...