25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm
St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Ritzy Cinema 92% Strike Vote
CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...
‘Keep guards on trains’ demands RMT
AS CHINESE state-owned MTR takes over the South West Trains (SWT) contract, the RMT rail union has called on the new owner to honour...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
Stock Market Falls Continue
FRIDAY saw stock markets around the world collapse further, following on from the dramatic slump in shares on Thursday, triggered by fears that the...
Anger Over Doctors For Export!
Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...
BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war
Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...
Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers
St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
Swinson – New Attack On Corbyn!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...
Childrens’ speech and language services slashed
SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...
500 Killed In Israeli Bombing Of Gaza!
ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...
Israel still committing war crimes in Gaza
HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...
£400 Energy Rise On Way!
HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...
‘Be ready for action this Autumn’ says NEU
‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...
‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower
‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...
‘WE’RE READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND’ say BA cabin crew
THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...
‘I would agree with a general strike’ says RMT’s Dempsey!
THE RMT Deputy General Secretary Eddie Dempsey made the call for a general strike when he spoke out on the picket line at Euston...
Scunthorpe scaffolders step up strike
SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...
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...
100,000 Children Are In Temporary Accommodation
HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...
NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...
Strike Declared Illegal!
The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...
‘The Israeli regime’s security myth has been shattered! Hezbollah is stronger than ever!’
THE SPEAKER for the Iranian parliament has praised Iran’s retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II against the occupied territories on Tuesday night, stating...
Tories in a crisis over state attack on Corbyn
THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to...
US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians
US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...
Somerset pay battle
PRODUCTION workers at Somerset firm Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Bridgwater are to strike for three days over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. The Unite union said its...
STOP STRIKEBREAKING – postal workers tell Unite leaders
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) is lobbying the Unite head office in Holborn, central London, at 11.30 this morning to demand it stops its...
Parliament erupts over Brexit on 1st day back
PARLIAMENT erupted yesterday on the burning issue of Brexit, on the first day back after the Xmas break. Moving an Urgent Question Labour Leader...
SHOT WITHOUT WARNING BY POLICE! – press rumours about Forest Gate raid ‘absolute nonsense’
ABDUL Kahar was shot without warning by police, not his brother, during last Friday’s 4am raid on his home in Forest Gate, east London,...
2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!
APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
Teachers Strike!
TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...
Fierce Fighting In Sirte
FIERCE fighting continued on the outskirts of Sirte yesterday, with Gadaffi loyalists dealing deadly blows against the counter-revolutionary ‘NTC’ mercenaries, while NATO warplanes pounded...
£2,000 A Year Price Rise For Meals-On-Wheels!
HARROW Unison local government branch has launched a campaign against Harrow Council’s plans to increase its charges for its Meals on Wheels service by...
‘UNAFFORDABLE!’ £718–average monthly rent in England & Wales
‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....
Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres
ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...
HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up
LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...
Power Workers Call For National Jobs Action
Over fifty power industry construction workers demonstrating outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning demanded national action to defend jobs...
Steel Crisis Meeting At The Tuc
STEELWORKERS’ representatives from the Community, Unite and GMB trade unions met at the TUC yesterday to demand action to save their jobs and industry. They...
Millions strike against Coalition
huge marches and demonstrations were held in towns and cities all over the UK yesterday. More than two million nurses, other health workers, teachers,...
Occupation turning regime troops into animals says Kotler
AN ISRAELI news anchor Oshrat Kotler has blamed the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands for turning regime troops into ‘animals’. She has defended her...
Living Wage Battle!
GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...
Nurses Marching Today
A SURVEY of over 17,000 nursing staff has raised concerns that government plans to scrap student nurse bursaries will lead to even greater staff...
UNIVERSITIES GOING BUST! – UCU condemns barbaric plans
More universities risk going bust under the government’s proposals to axe teaching budgets and replace the money with higher student fees, according to a...
MILITARY OUT OF SCHOOLS! – says the NUT conference
THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...