Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!

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THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...

Brexit vote Friday

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THE NEW Tory government with its majority of 80, plans to ask MPs to vote on PM Johnson’s Brexit bill as early as this...

860,000 jobseekers are sanctioned in 2013

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A HIGHLY critical report, published by a committee of MPs yesterday, suggests that Jobcentre staff are given targets for kicking people off benefits. The...
Horton Hospital campaigners from Banbury at the NHS Together lobby of Parliament on November 1st

Campaigners Reject Ippr Insult

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NHS DEFENCE campaigners were outraged yesterday at the comments by the Blairite Institute for Public Policy Research that their campaigns to defend District General...

Cameron Is Facing A ‘Bare-Knuckle Fight’ – Over Privatisation Plan

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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to prime minister Cameron’s declaration of war on the public sector. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cameron said the...
Refugees are not criminals – say demonstrators protesting against plans to build a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick

Asylum System ‘Shame On UK’

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The most comprehensive examination of the UK’s asylum system ever conducted has found it ‘marred by inhumanity’ and ‘not yet fit for purpose’. An interim...

NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!

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A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...

‘We are going to win this fight’

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‘The union is not paying us hardship money, we can’t get Jobseekers Allowance and we can’t get another job. What does the union think...

Private Sharks Circling The NHS!

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LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday.   The union is calling on the government to...
ANNA ATHOW, WRP candidate, with supporters, had a great day campaigning on Thursday and won lots of support

Vote WRP & Athow in Hornsey & Wood Green

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HORNSEY and Wood Green WRP candidate Anna Athow was campaigning with her team at Haringey Sixth Form College yesterday. Amongst the youth who signed up...

Palestinian leaders condemn Trump-Netanyahu Gaza plan!

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HAMAS is studying the 20-point plan for Gaza which US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu published on Monday evening. Trump claimed yesterday that...

‘Save The Children’ Condemn Israeli Army Child Killers!

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SAVE the Children has condemned the excessive use of force by Israeli forces against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at the Beacon roundabout at Heathrow yesterday

Tigers Reject Talks

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have rejected Sri Lankan government proposed peace talks in Geneva, following reports of abductions of pro-Tiger aid...

Zimbabwe – Talks Break Up

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Talks in South Africa on Zimbabwe’s political crisis broke up yesterday with no power-sharing deal achieved between President Robert Mugabe and the ...

Brunel University lecturers’ strike

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STRIKING Brunel University lecturers manning the picket lines in Uxbridge, west London yesterday, called for their UCU union to call national strike action to...
Greek riot police on Sunday night attacked protesters, who fought back with petrol bombs in scenes which resembled a war zone. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

Police attack Greek pension cuts protest

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FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...

Remainers attempts to reverse Brexit defeated

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REMAINER MPs were defeated in their attempts to reverse Brexit yesterday after the majority voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 on a ‘meaningful...
Unite members on strike over pay at the Bow garage of East London Bus group last November

Fight 40% Bus Cuts!

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LONDON Bus reps are meeting at the Unite union office at Woodberry, Manor Park, north London at 11am today, to plan coordinated action to...
Tower Hamlets doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrate against the privatisation of GP surgeries in the borough

Privatisation drive stepped up! – Competition panel formed for NHS

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In a new attack on the NHS, the government is driving Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement so-called ‘World Class Commissioning’, which involves selling...

86,000 vacant nhs posts! –between January & March 2017

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MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...
The NUT turned out in force in Norwich

Teachers ready for more action!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...
Lewisham BMA on the last big march on January 26 against the plans to close the hospital – their contracts are now under attack by the government

GP contract changes will harm patient care!

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THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
SHAHIDA BEGUM and children meet WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Vote Wrp Vote Leff In Hackney And Shoreditch

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‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN...
Ambulance workers joined the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to stop the closure of the A&E and demand the maternity and children’s wards be re-opened

‘BRING DOWN TORIES!’ – says Ealing Hospital mass picket

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‘IF THEY get rid of 600 beds and so many staff, 8,000 jobs in all – what a disaster! That would be the...

Parliamentary Democracy RIP! – Stewart wants a ‘Citizens Assembly’

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BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...

NHS satisfaction down! – – since Tories took office in 2010

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A KING’S Fund survey shows public satisfaction with the way the NHS is run fell from 70% in 2010 (the year that Tory...

‘WAR ON SCHOOLS’ says teachers & lecturers union

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TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...

CORBYN CONDEMNS LABOUR APOLOGY! – and payment of 6-figure damages

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EX-LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Labour’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and award damages to party whistleblowers who took part in...

Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...
Protest outside the  High Court in London on Monday opposing the attempt to jail the Enfield occupation leaders

Visteon Fun Day Success In Belfast

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‘The Visteon sit-in at Belfast is continuing,’ Unite regional industrial organiser Davy McMurray told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘The convenor John McGuire and six...

BBC Asian Network 24hr strike

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BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...
GPs and their supporters with their main banner showing that they are determined to fight to maintain and defend the NHS

‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’

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OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

Hamas celebrates ceasefire & pays tribute to ‘steadfastness’ of the Palestinian people

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HAMAS has celebrated the ceasefire agreement ending the Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a testament to the resilience...
Striking French transport workers marching in Lourdes yesterday

French Rail Strike Action Continues

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French transport unions yesterday extended their nationwide strike for another 24 hours, after bringing the train, bus and metro services to a halt on...

GM mass meeting demand

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WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...

Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled

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Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...

‘COMPLETE DEADLOCK!’ – Barnier will not recommend further progress

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‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...

‘A TOTAL DECLARATION OF WAR’ – Nigerian unions slam doubling of fuel price

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THE Nigerian trade unions have called for a mass mobilisation of ‘strikes, street demonstrations and mass protests across the country’ in response...
International Sorting office strikers at Langley near Heathrow on 27th July

NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members

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Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...

Fears Of Eu Debt Meltdown

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CITY regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has stepped up scrutiny of UK banks’ exposures to foreign government debt after fears of a European...