‘WE WILL DEFEND OUR MEMBERS AGAINST ALL ATTACKS!’ says Unite General Secretary Graham
‘WE WILL defend our members against any and all attacks,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham declared yesterday, in response to Tory Business Secretary Kwasi...
Iran Pledges Reprisals Against Sanctions
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...
Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...
Ambulance Service ‘breakdown’!
UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...
COVID-19 STAFF DEATHS – HSE Executive is urged to investigate
THE Health and Safety Executive is being urged to investigate hospitals and care homes over the widespread Covid-19 infections among staff, which led to...
Myanmar military ‘extrajudicial killings’
A PROTEST of over a hundred Burmese outside the Myanmar embassy in Mayfair, London yesterday demanded the release of their leaders arrested during the...
Call Inquiry into Orgreave police violence
A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...
‘ZERO CHANCE OF TRANSPORT DEAL’ – RMT warns Johnson government
RMT WARNS there is zero chance of agreement to government plans to increase transport services on 11th May in the current climate, as a...
Israeli occupation forces commit massacres against families! – Ben-Gvir urges shoot Palestinian prisoners
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed three main massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing...
GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi tells rally
Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...
Teachers 98% strike vote! – Nationwide strikes on 27th April & 2nd May
TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...
Miller sacked–now for the rest!
CULTURE Secretary Maria Miller was sacked by Prime Minister Cameron late on Tuesday night, after Tory MPs and local Tory parties threatened...
110,000 Single Parents To Be Forced Into Work!
‘Welfare changes starting today will see up to 111,000 single parents set up to fail as they are forced to seek work – or...
Crisis Pre-Budget
Britain has had to face ‘the toughest and most challenging year for the economy’ in which it has seen predicted economic growth halved to...
HOME OFFICE ACCUSED! – of alerting Berlusconi over Mills extradition
‘Will the present inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary examine whether or not the Home Office acted improperly in relation to an extradition request for...
YOU FACE DEFEAT – Hamas warns Israel
Nine more Israeli soldiers were injured in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, two of them seriously, as fierce fighting continued on the tenth day...
7,000 March With Merseyside Firefighters
Merseyside has the potential to become a national dispute,’ FBU President Ruth Winters told a mass rally at the end of a 7,000-strong demonstration...
GM HANDED TO MAGNA! – 10.000 to be sacked
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel was first to announce yesterday that General Motors (GM) has chosen Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna to buy Opel and...
NUT sixth form strike defiant!
NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...
MARCH FOR JUSTICE – called by TUC for May 1
‘Speakers from around the world will join the May Day March for Workplace Justice,’ said the TUC yesterday. Top trade unionists from South Africa...
DEFEND CHASE FARM – decision day on closure is July 31
THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...
ASLEF & FBU taking strike action
BOTH ASLEF train drivers union and the FBU firefighters’ union announced strike dates yesterday. ASLEF has called two 24-hour strikes on the TransPennine Express on...
GPs OPPOSE DISABLED WORK TESTS
GPs at their annual conference in Liverpool yesterday voted in favour of a motion calling for the end of the work capability assessment. The doctors,...
Iraq-Afghan Wars Costs Soar
The government’s forecasts for the costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in this financial year have ‘increased significantly over the last three...
Museums taking strike action
Strikes by workers at museums and galleries across the country today kick off a long weekend of action against government cuts. The Public and Commercial...
Israel Arrests Birzeit Students!
THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...
Bring May into contempt – Labour tells Speaker Bercow
‘I MAKE no bones about it I would have preferred to have seen a unilateral right of termination in this backstop,’ Tory Attorney General...
Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi Freed
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...
UN must end Israel’s illegal acts of violence – demands Hanan Ashrawi
Three of six Israelis held over the abduction and killing of 16-year-old Palestinian teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir last week have now confessed to his...
STPs DRIVING NHS PRIVATISATION
AN OUTSOURCING contractor, whose work for GPs was described by a minister as ‘entirely unacceptable’, and the UK arm of a private US healthcare...
GPs want action ballot!
ALMOST two thirds of GPs want the BMA to ballot the profession over industrial action, a GPonline survey has revealed, as the BMA’s Local...
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT! – ‘bring us back in-house’ demand ISS strikers
‘BRING us back in-house – people before profit!’ demanded striking NHS support staff on their picket line outside the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill,...
Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’
WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...
Mass picket to defend Chase Farm Hospital
PATIENTS and staff yesterday expressed their determination to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E, consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, and to reopen...
Corbyn woos CBI bosses
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
ERT workers fight on
OVER 1,500 workers and youth were present at a solidarity concert in Athens last Thursday evening for the sacked workers at ERT (Greek state...
Israel Plans To Execute Palestinian Prisoners!
THE Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) national security committee for approving a draft law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. In a...
General Practice brought to its knees by funding crisis!
MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...
POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster
Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...
Hezbollah Halts Israeli Advance
Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...
‘Don’t stand idly by!’ March on the 27th – Irish workers are urged
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is urging all workers and youth to take part in a national demonstration on November 27 in...
‘Robbing the dead and the dying’
Relatives and widows of the thousands of men who died from asbestos-related cancer, yesterday expressed their determination to fight on after the Law Lords...
‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides
DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...
3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!
THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...