Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!
MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...
Youth Pay Price For Occupation
ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...
Hamas Rejects Israeli Gaza ‘Conquest’ Threat
‘HAMAS rejects Israel’s Gaza conquest threats’, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi declared yesterday after Israel announced plans for the ‘conquest’ and indefinite occupation of...
FIGHT MASS SACKINGS – 200,000 jobs to go in the next three months
THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS faces 430 jobs axe
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday announced plans to axe 430 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving £84m in the...
General Strike Overdue
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has said on the eve of the annual TUC Congress, that unions may come together in co-ordinated strike action...
‘NO SPARE CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS’ warns BMA
PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...
TPP pushed through!
THE HATED anti-working class, pro-privatisation ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ deal was pushed through yesterday, in the teeth of opposition. Leaders from a dozen countries agreed the trade...
Rbs And Criminal Activity!
ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Ross McEwan has been accused by MPs on the Treasury Select Committee of withholding information about an...
8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!
Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...
Bank Given 2008 Libor Rate Warning
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged UK Bank of England governor Mervyn King in 2008 to reform the London interbank offered rate (Libor) process...
TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...
WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...
MACRON OUT! – demands 287,000 workers
MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel...
MPs SLAM UNIVERSAL CREDIT!
Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...
Deeper Social Unrest Ahead
ALMOST 13% of young people worldwide are out of work, and their situation is unlikely to improve for four years, a report by the...
‘LOL’ Dave to Rebekah
Prime Minister Cameron ended several text messages to former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks with the letters LOL, she told...
One million workers march through London for Palestine
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched through central London in support of Palestine on Saturday, condemning 100 days of Israeli genocide during which...
Arrested for shouting ‘Intifada’
MOTHER and daughter Azza and Haya Adam, were arrested on Wednesday evening at a pro-Palestine protest, simply for saying the word ‘intifada’. They were arrested...
Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses
BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...
Dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Israeli genocidal regime
DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...
Grenfell Tower Fire Has Left Deep Scars!
THE Grenfell Tower Inquiry on Wednesday published its final report. Responding to the report, Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: ‘Today is a...
Sri Lankan Troops Caught In Tiger Booby Traps
COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that last weekend more than sixteen Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops lost their legs after being caught in...
Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...
Sussex uni marches against privatisation
ONE hundred Sussex students, UCU members and students from other universities marched through the campus of a snow-bound University of Sussex yesterday lunchtime. The ‘Fight...
PCS Stands Fast Against Tory Strike Sack Threat
THE Tories are threatening emergency action to either ban the official strike action next Thursday by Home Office PCS union members, including Border Agency...
‘DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD’ – GM Works Council leader fears for Luton plant
Negotiations over the future of GM sites in Luton and Antwerp would be ‘a hard nut’ to crack, Opel Works Council chief Klaus Franz...
‘SEIZE OUR SHIPS!’ – demand sacked P&O workers outside Parliament
OUTSIDE Parliament yesterday a two hundred-strong rally of P&O workers and their supporters shouted: ‘Seize our ships!’ and ‘P&O we say no!’ The rally was...
North Sea Oil Jobs Axe!
UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...
Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
RMT WALKS OUT! –as King heaps praise on TUC’s Barber
The RMT delegation walked out of the conference hall in Manchester yesterday as Bank of England governor Mervyn King stood up to warn the...
BMA’s Nagpaul opposes PM’s plan to ease the ‘lockdown!’
‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...
Burnham to cut welfare and boost military
LABOUR’S Andy Burnham, who is set to replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister in three weeks, pledged to cut welfare and boost military spending,...
Cancer Research workers rally
MORE than 200 Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) workers rallied outside South Kensington Tube station yesterday. Unite members across scientific research, laboratory support and site...
Local councils £3.5bn financial hole Tories are demanding savage cuts – Tories are demanding...
LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...
RCN Demands A 5% Above Inflation Pay Rise
FOLLOWING the ONS (Office of National Statistics) announcement yesterday that inflation in the 12 months to May soared to 11.7%, the RCN (Royal College...
‘WE ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE NHS’ – says BMA
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...
Support growing for National Gallery strikers
OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...
‘Occupation is unlawful!’ – Miliband sanctions Israeli settlers
FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband told the Commons yesterday that Israeli ‘settler terrorists’ are carrying out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank with the tacit...
New financial year hits families hard!
THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...
TURKEY CLOSE TO IRAQ INVASION! – after border clashes
TURKEY was very close to an invasion of northern Iraq yesterday after a number of Turkish troops were killed and wounded in PKK attacks. Kurdistan...
‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...
Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...
Defend Our NHS
NHS London has allocated £115 million to organise the closure of A&E and maternity services at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Emergencies are to be directed...
‘Turmoil Ahead’ Predicts Union Leaders
‘Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life’, say the...
‘WE SILENCE OUR GUNS – TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE’ say Tigers
SELVERASA Pathmanathan, head of the Tamil Tigers International Diplomatic Relations, issued an urgent statement on Sunday morning. He said: ‘Despite our plea to the...
Mark Duggan Inquest Opens
‘WE HAVE been provided with nothing but lies, misinformation and delay,’ Pam Duggan, the mother of Mark Duggan said yesterday, on the opening day...