Hundreds of medical students demonstrated on the steps of University College London Hospital yesterday, demanding their right to accommodation when they become junior doctors

A £5,000 PAY CUT – for first year junior doctors

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Over 200 medical students, with placards saying ‘No room for more student debt’ and ‘Junior doctors accommodation – going, going, gone’, demonstrated in central...
A section of the march celebrates reaching the outskirts of Bedford, expecting more of the great response they received in Luton

March gets big support for defence of NHS

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ON day three of the Young Socialists’ London to Liverpool March for Jobs, the 20 miles from Luton to Bedford received big support ‘en...

Israel still committing war crimes in Gaza

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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...

US Expels Sixty Russian Diplomats

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that yesterday’s decision by western states to expel Russian diplomats was a mistake and a mirror response will be...

Iran-US deal goes ahead

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ISRAEL has agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, a senior US official confirmed yesterday, after Iran refused to resume talks with Washington until the...

Kensington Election Campaign

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CAMPAIGNERS for WRP Kensington parliamentary candidate Scott Dore took to the streets yesterday. Ayan gave her support to the candidate. She said, ‘I think that...

BMA Wales 3-day February strike

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British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...

‘We refuse to become informants’ – Doctors, nurses and teachers oppose Police Bill

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DOCTORS, nurses and teachers have warned that the Police Bill will turn them into police informants. The Bill, to be debated in the House of...
Young Socialst marchers got a great welcome and a tremendous meal at Bedford Hospital

Ys Marchers Arrive In Luton

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MARCHERS on the Young Socialists March for Jobs were greeted as they set out from Bedford yesterday morning by former Luton IBC plant worker...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress last September when it carried a resolution to discuss the ‘practicalities of a general strike’

TUC to discuss general strike – At April 24 meeting

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THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...
A group of very determined BA Mixed Fleet cabin crew strikers at the House of Commons yesterday afternoon

150 STRIKING CABIN CREW LOBBY MPs

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OVER 150 striking British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew held a photo-call outside Parliament yesterday, where they were joined by a number of Labour...
Streatham Labour MP CHUKA UMUNNA, LISA LAWRENCE, LEE LAWRENCE, ROSEMARY SPENCER and CHARMAINE LAVILLE before handing the Groce family petition into No 10

Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!

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‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...

Tories Mount Jobs Assault

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Chancellor Osborne yesterday announced the first £6.2bn of savage cuts planned by the Tory coalition. At a press conference, Osborne confined himself to generalities, then...
BMA Junior Doctors – fighting Tory attempts to dictate contracts will be demonstrating outside the BMA GP conference on  Saturday at 5.15pm at the Mermaid Centre, Puddle Dock, EC1

‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!’ – GPs condemn the Care Quality Commission

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THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection regime aimed at GP practices is damaging patient care by diverting resources and GP time away from treating...

Iran declares ‘historic & crushing defeat’ for USA

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IRAN yesterday declared a ‘historic and crushing defeat’ of the United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war. It announced that Washington...

One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs

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Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...

PROSECUTE KILLER COMPANIES! – demands the GMB

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The GMB trade union says companies who kill employees will face private prosecutions if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ‘continues to fail workers’. The High...

FLYBE BUST! Tories to blame – BALPA

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‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...

Labour Defeats The Snp Nationalists!

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THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

BROWNE ACCEPTS BLAME – but admits Blair knew of decision to sell stories

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Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for decisions which allowed the fifteen UK sailors and marines held by the Iranians...
CWU Pickets at the Wood Green delivery office last Friday

Rolling Post Strikes Called

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After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...

NO NHS CUTS! – says UNISON Conference

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THE UNISON National Delegate Conference voted unanimously yesterday to oppose cuts to the National Health Service and against privatisation by the Labour government. The main...

STAND FIRM! Airport trades unionists urge Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers got great support yesterday as they campaigned at the TGWU office in Hillingdon to defeat the sell-out Compromise Agreement. Mohammed...
Dave Prentis, the leader of Unison (left), with students from Hackney BSix College outside Downing Street yesterday

Hackney BSix College students lobby 10 Downing Street

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Students from BSix College in Hackney lobbied 10 Downing Street Wednesday morning to protest against the cuts to the EMA, along with Unison General...
Suspended North West London College UCU branch secretary INDRO SEN (centre) on the picket line outside the college with students and lecturers yesterday morning

Reinstate Indro Sen!

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‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...

GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...

‘The unacceptable face of capitalism’ – Green warned to pay up

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‘IF PHILIP Green won’t do the right thing by the members of the BHS pension fund then he should have his knighthood removed. And...
Greek police marching against the cuts in Vouli square, opposite the parliament building

Greece – 10% Tax On Workers And The Poor

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FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

320,000 children face acute malnutrition

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ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...

Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’

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THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...

Impose arms embargo & sanctions on Israel! – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

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UNITED Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called on UN member states to impose an international arms embargo and sanctions on Israel yesterday afternoon. Speaking at...

Ambulance Workers Call For A General Strike!

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PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...
PCS contingent marching with health workers and their supporters in Leeds on Saturday

6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!

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MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
BMA delegates during a break at their Annual Representative Meeting

NHS CO-PAYMENTS DEFEATED – at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting

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THE BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Wednesday morning narrowly voted against part five of motion 269, which ‘demands that the government must permit...

Sunak attacks the sick, the disabled, refugees & youth

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LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums...

Coldest Night Of The Year In Gaza

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TUESDAY night was described by meteorologists in Palestine as the coldest of the year, laid bare the scale of suffering endured by hundreds of...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (right) holds a picture of her son Jean Charles de Menezes on the United  Friends and Families Campaign demonstration on October 25

Police Killers ‘Out Of Control’

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Firearms and surveillance officers hunting down Jean Charles de Menezes were ‘out of control’ when he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station, a...

‘Don’t Play Games With A&E!’

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‘NO more games with our A&Es,’ doctors demanded yesterday in the wake of the intense A&E crisis over the winter. Doctors union, the BMA, said...
GPs and patients march through Tower Hamlets in defence of GP surgeries – nationally there are 98 surgeries under threat from funding cuts

Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed

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NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...

Gaza – Red Cross insists that the lives of hospital workers must not be...

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...

Tories Can Still Win Says Sunak

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TORY PM SUNAK has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats. Labour and the Lib Dems...

Tories Launch Assault On Tata Pensions

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TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...

‘WEST PLAYING POLITICS WITH AID’ says Hamas as Bush threatens Iran war

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Hamas yesterday accused the West of playing politics with Palestinian aid after the US and EU resumed assistance to the Abbas appointed emergency government...

CAMPSFIELD REVOLT! – after ‘violent removal’ of Algerian detainee

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‘This will probably happen in other detention centres, the only time people listen is when there is a revolt,’ Bill MacKeith of Close Campsfield...

Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!

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The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...