‘Angry At The Courts!’
Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...
Release Marwan Barghouti!
THE wife of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Fadwa Barghouti, has called on US President Donald Trump to work towards the release of her husband,...
Tuc To Lobby Tories!
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned that the coalition’s cuts ‘not only threaten services but risk economic recovery’. He was speaking ahead of the...
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...
CAMERON HUMILIATED! – Tories routed in Rochester
UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...
Personal budgets cutting care!
The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...
STPs preparing savage NHS cuts & hospital closures
‘TOP TIPS on making difficult decisions’ are being distributed to health bodies around the country to aid them in broaching the subject of hospital...
Terrorists firing on fleeing civilians!
THE UN human rights office has finally admitted that foreign-backed terrorist bands are blocking civilians from fleeing eastern parts of the Syrian...
‘Don’t use anti-strike laws against us!’ – FBU leader Matt Wrack urges fire chiefs
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...
‘WE WANT ANSWERS!’ say furious West Virginia mining families
US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...
Greek Riot Police Attack March
GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...
Seven children killed seeking water!
SEVEN Palestinian children were killed yesterday in an Israeli strike while attempting to find drinking water in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza – the area...
OCCUPY GM LUTON NOW! – to defend all workers’ jobs
WORKERS attending for the Monday night shift at the General Motors van plant in Luton were shocked to be informed that all production would...
BMA CONDEMNS SECOND CLASS PRIVATISED GPs!
Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...
‘We have to stop Ealing Maternity closure!’
TRADE union members working at Ealing Hospital yesterday bought their tickets for next Tuesday’s meeting and pledged to march and occupy to defend the...
Children’s lives in danger!
‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...
Israeli forces kill more than 71 Palestinians
ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...
‘Headcount reduction’ with no ‘unresolved surplus’ – under Royal Mail deal
THE leaders of the CWU are backing the deal ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication...
Walk-Out At Unison Health Conference
The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...
Israel bombards areas west of Gaza City – 40,334 killed so far
SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...
CIVIL SERVANTS TO STRIKE – 250,000 to come out for 48 hours
OVER quarter of a million civil and public servants will stage a 48-hour national strike on March 8-9. Up to 270,000 members of the PCS...
STOP THE THEATRE CLOSURES! – actors to march today from Piccadilly
ACTORS will demonstrate in the centre of London today against a wave of threatened theatre closures. Actors in white masks will take part in today’s...
Libyan forces strike NATO’s agents
AT 2109 gmt on Sunday, pro-Gadaffi Damascus-based Al-Ra’y TV reported that Bani Walid, 150km southeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli, had rejected negotiations...
Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!
THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
PUBLIC SECTOR IS ‘OVERPAID’ – Hammond tells Tory Cabinet
CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond yesterday refused to deny that he said at last Tuesday’s Tory Cabinet meeting that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’. Hammond was repeatedly...
NHS workers vote to strike
UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...
TORIES BREAKING APART! – Gove suspected of an anti-Johnson plot
SENIOR Tories sought to deny that the Tory government is breaking apart yesterday, with former Brexit Secretary David Davis congratulating PM Boris Johnson for...
Greek Workers Reject Austerity Government
Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...
‘We’re striking to defend the NHS!’ – Junior Doctors
‘WE’RE striking to defend the NHS,’ doctors said on the over 200-strong rally of junior doctors outside University College Hospital in central London yesterday. There...
Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!
DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...
‘What gives Israel rights to annex these lands?’ – Abbas addresses UNSC
‘WHAT GIVES you the right to annex these lands?’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded, referring to Israel’s plan to seize even more of Palestine...
Eurozone In Recession!
The economy of the 15-nations eurozone has slumped into recession for the first time ever, EU data released yesterday revealed, with GDP falling 0.2%...
LANSLEY MUST GO! – BMA SRM told
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...
Amsterdam Horror!
THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...
‘We desperately need more midwives’ says RCM
THE UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in Western Europe, according to new research published in The...
Wages Fell In Year To June
WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...
US forced to call an immediate Gaza ceasefire!
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...
ROYAL MAIL PENSIONS FURY –call for indefinite action as 24hour strikes due to start
ROYAL Mail workers are resuming their strike action tonight, furious at leaked Post Office plans to smash up their pensions. The massive Mail Centres employing...
HEATHROW – McDonnell suspended
‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...
‘We are stronger than ever and united like never before’ UCU leader Grady...
THE UCU (University and College Union) lecturers union held a national rally at the front of Kings Cross Station yesterday, completely taking over the...
Students March Against Fees And Cuts
OVER a thousand students marched from University of London Union in Malet Street, central London, to the Business, Innovation and Science Department in Victoria...
Garment workers force Rajapaksa retreat
THE Sri Lankan government has announced that it has temporarily suspended the implementation of the proposed private sector pension scheme which was opposed by...
Residents charged £3.5m to remove flammable cladding – plus £5.4m to pay for fire...
LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...
Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition
THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...
26 FE colleges to strike – recall TUC & call a general strike urges...
Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’,...