UK unis ‘to be the most expensive in world’
Academics, students and community groups are celebrating a victory after University College London (UCL), one of the country’s leading institutions, agreed at last to...
DON’T PRIVATISE ROYAL MAIL – CWU tells Labour Party conference
Hundreds of angry postal workers are lobbying the Labour Party conference in Brighton today against government plans to privatise Royal Mail. Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...
Tories hammering poor!
LABOUR’S shadow communities minister Hilary Benn has accused the government of unfairness in a letter to council leaders that shows that cuts for richer...
White goods cause 60 fires a week Silent march for Grenfell today in London...
‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers throughout the world...
MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...
Come Out This Sunday To Stop NHS Logistics Privatisation
‘If the government doesn’t halt the transfer of NHS Logistics to DHL immediately, then action must be taken by the whole trade union movement...
‘THE GLOVES ARE OFF’ School staff support body is abolished
‘THE gloves are off on deregulation of staff pay and conditions,’ said teachers union NASUWT yesterday. NASUWT General Secretary Chris Keates slammed the announcement by...
‘WE HAVE PUNISHED THE AGGRESSOR’ – Medvedev tells Sarkozy
PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev said in Moscow yesterday that he had ordered an end to the ‘peace enforcement’ operation in Georgia, after five days of...
1,000 Southern trains a year: Driver Only!
SOUTHERN are running the equivalent of a 1,000 trains a year with just a driver and no other member of staff on board, RMT...
New financial year hits families hard!
THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...
DEFEND ROYAL MAIL – action needed not words
Postal workers called for action to defend their jobs and Royal Mail as a public service in response to yesterday’s publication of the...
‘Defeat Trump’s international banditry’
US ‘INTERNATIONAL banditry’ was condemned by Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian delegate, speaking at the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday afternoon. He went...
GMB strikers demand ‘meaningful negotiations’
On their picket line outside the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday, GMB members demanded the doctors association show respect for their own staff...
RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed
THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...
Payday Bloodsuckers!
A Which? survey has found that about one million households use high interest payday lenders every month to try to make ends meet and...
‘A Leave Population And A Remain Parliament!’
TORY International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to ‘in effect steal Brexit’. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show...
Nurses Angry Over Cuts!
With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...
Southern guards strike today
‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...
Chagos IslandS Community Association
MEETING & FILM – Saturday March 15, 5pm @ International Student House, 229 Great Portland Street, W1 (next Great Portland St tube) speakers include: John...
TsIpras rebuffs coalition call
Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...
‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx
LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...
Bma Condemns ‘Cruel And Vindictive’ Whorlton Hall
THE BMA has condemned the ‘cruel, vindictive and abusive’ behaviour exposed by Panorama at the private Whorlton Hall hospital. Responding to last night’s Panorama programme,...
Uproar After Uni Pensions Referendum Rejected
THERE was uproar throughout the Universities and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after the employers threw out the union’s proposal that huge pensions changes should...
DEFEND 4,000 REMPLOY JOBS! GMB demonstration in Sheffield today
The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...
Winter A&E Crisis Now All Year Round
THE Royal College of Emergency Medicine yesterday welcomed the findings of the report into the pressures facing emergency departments throughout the winter. The report finds...
GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA
GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...
Tories plan cap on GP visits!
THE Tories are considering capping visits to GPs, that is limiting the number of times in a year that a patient can see their...
NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation
Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...
War on workers & youth – National Insurance 1.25% hike, UC cut £20...
‘WE WILL FIX the long term problems of health and social care that have been so cruelly exposed by Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
‘Low paid student graduates deep in debt’ says NUS President
The National Union of Students (NUS) commented on figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency yesterday which show the average graduate salary to...
‘Hit squads’ being sent into seven NHS Trusts!
‘HIT SQUADS’ are being sent by the government into hospitals to identify and implement savage cuts, ‘savings’ and closures so that spiralling PFI debts...
70% of NHS contracts going private
THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...
Ys Marchers Arrive In Luton
MARCHERS on the Young Socialists March for Jobs were greeted as they set out from Bedford yesterday morning by former Luton IBC plant worker...
Israel to ban MSF lifeline this month
DOCTORS Without Borders (MSF) has warned that the Israeli regime’s ban on the agency puts at risk the medical relief lifeline provided by the...
Convoy Leaves For Gaza!
THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...
Five and a half million families skipping meals – ‘horrendous new normal’
MORE than five and a half million low-income households in the UK are cut ting down on or skipping meals, the Joseph Rountree Foundation...
Tube Strike 100% Success!
‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...
Greece under Franco- German occupation!
THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...
Unite – Significant Victory For The Lower Paid!
UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...
Tories slam door on child refugees
THE TORY government issued a written Home Office statement on Wednesday saying it is closing the door on child refugees at the end of...
Met Police take charge of regime change op!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
‘You Have Right To Refuse To Work!’ – Aslef Advises Members
As London Underground ramps up services today, ASLEF has advised members of their right to refuse to work in circumstances where they are at...
AUTO-ENROLMENT PENSIONS ROBBERY
MILLIONS of workers will see their take-home pay fall when contribution rates for those with auto-enrolment pensions are hiked in six weeks time. Since 2012,...
News Line-Atua Conference: Sunday June 19
The News Line-All Trades Union Alliance is organising this conference this Sunday, 19 June, to build a leadership to lead a struggle inside the...
‘The Bedroom Tax Is Causing Real Chaos!’
‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...