50,000 RMT members take strike action!
OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...
Welfare Fraud At The Top! – No System To Root Out Contractors’ Fraud
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday warned of the dangers of widespread fraud in the £1bn ‘Welfare to Work’ programme. Margaret Hodge...
Firefighters taking action!
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...
All Cladding Samples Fail Safety Checks
THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...
DELEGATES CHALLENGE TUC LEADERS – as POA demands action
THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...
Parents demand judge-led inquiry
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...
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...
160,000 CWU members take action & government collapses – A great day!
SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...
Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...
£ falls against dollar! – as UK growth prospects sink
STERLING posted significant declines against the US dollar and euro yesterday as UK growth prospects sank. The pound was 1.5030 against the US dollar and...
‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’
DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...
120,000 children homeless this Xmas
ONE hundred and twenty thousand children will wake up homeless this Christmas across Britain, Shelter warned yesterday. Shelter has launched an urgent appeal after...
UK faces further tax increases within months
BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...
194,941 sign ‘Sack Hunt’ petition
PATIENTS and doctors still need answers on seven-day hospital services, Dr Mark Porter, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said yesterday. This follows...
Israeli Settlers Force Way Into Al-Aqsa Mosque
200 Israeli settlers forced their way into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning under police escort while Israeli forces restricted Muslim worshippers’ entry to...
NO DEAL! – says PCS
THE pcs civil servants union yesterday rejected the government’s pensions plan to force public servants to pay more and work longer for less in...
14,000 Junior Doctors Will Be Without Posts
the actual number of specialist doctor training posts available in the UK is 18,518 – not between 22,000 and 23,000 as the government had...
£32 million cuts planned at NW London NHS – 400 jobs threatened
The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...
1 In 5 Surgeries Face Closure
ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...
HALT WEST LONDON A&E CLOSURES! says RCN
THE Royal College of Nursing is concerned that a lack of focus on out-of-hospital care while A&Es are closing will result in an even...
‘Fast Track’ deportations illegal
The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling declaring the ‘Detained Fast Track’ system for asylum seekers to be unlawful and ‘potentially disastrous’. In...
Energy bills will rise by 50% average family to pay £2,000 – Pensioners risk...
BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...
Thames Water must be nationalised!
THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This...
Ambulance crisis! – caused by bed shortages
HOSPITAL bed and staff shortages are causing suffering for patients in the West Midlands as ambulances cannot deliver patents for treatment, the area’s senior...
Police Spies – Met’s Unreserved Apology!
THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...
Hunt attacks the BMA
FOLLOWING Saturday’s brilliant march on Downing Street by more than 7,000 junior doctors (see pages 6 & 7), and ahead of Wednesday’s 24-hour strike,...
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...
5th day of Haitian protests rage
A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...
Refugees left to freeze!
‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...
‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of capitalism’ – says...
‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...
‘When we start you will know’ – says Nasrallah
THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...
Hezbollah Uses Longer Range Missile!
Hezbollah fighters yesterday repulsed sporadic attempts by Israeli forces to control the town of Bint Jubayl two miles inside south Lebanon. A number of Israeli...
WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran
United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
‘Lots of workers agree with us’ – says Deon
‘PEOPLE are coming up to us in the street and telling us that they will vote WRP’, said Deon Gayle, WRP candidate for Streatham,...
Out With Slave Labour!
UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...
CORBYN VISITS DUNKIRK – as Brit haulage boss urges ‘send in troops’
CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...
Starmer’s Labour Brings Forward Anti-Working Class King’s Speech
THE STARMER Labour government brought forward an anti-working class King’s Speech in Parliament yesterday morning. It announced 40 pieces of legislation, starting with a Budget...
Rough Sleeping Doubles!
HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...
No Jobs For 80% Of Nurse Graduates!
‘Student nurses are frustrated, angry and disillusioned because of the difficulties they face finding jobs as deficits bite,’ said UNISON, the UK’s largest health...
‘No Deal – Nothing On The Table!’– Junior Doctors to strike from March 13
‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...
FREE PALESTINE! – TUC Congress votes for boycott of Israeli goods
THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...
LOW PAY NO WAY! – 400,000 workers out on strike!
OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...
STRIKE-BREAKERS!– being organised for Thursday’s NHS strike
WITH talks between the NHS trade unions and health secretary Hunt due at 2pm today, in a bid to avert Thursday’s NHS strike, efforts...
40,716 children held in cells overnight
‘KEEPING a child in a cell overnight is not only inappropriate and distressing for the child concerned, but is a breach of their fundamental...