Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son’s murder
A distraught Maria Otone de Menezes visiting Stockwell tube station yesterday, the site of her son's murder. she called for her son, Jean Charles'...
Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico
THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...
Cameron hiding behind Hunt
PRESSURE mounted on prime minister Cameron yesterday over his refusal to refer the actions of Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Jeremy Hunt to...
Wildcat Strike Spreads!
Thousands of construction workers around the UK have walked out in support of 200 workers who began a wildcat strike on Tuesday at the...
Record Petrol Prices
Average petrol prices in the UK set a new record this week at 142.48p a litre, and 147.88p a litre for diesel. The AA Fuel...
Poa Backing Corbyn
The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...
Blair-Brown War On Single Parents
Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...
COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action
OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...
Power Workers Strike Extended
‘YOU have to stand up for what you think is right. It’s all about passenger safety. All the rules are being broken on a...
Strike Wave Mounts As Colonel Is Killed
According to the Greek police, a powerful ‘parcel bomb’ exploded at 8.20pm on Thursday on the seventh floor of the Greek Ministry for the...
Renationalise the railways –demand passengers after massive fare hikes
‘SOUTHERN Rail is an example of privatisation gone rogue, backed by the Department for Transport. Public ownership of the railways is long overdue,’ NOR4NOR...
Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’
IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...
A&E ‘special measures regime’ – A&Es threatened with closures across UK
‘WE SIMPLY don’t have enough doctors working in emergency departments,’ the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday adding that, ‘our emergency departments...
Labour Failing Homeless
Homelessness charity Crisis yesterday called on the government to make public services more accessible to homeless people. Crisis said: ‘Public services are failing homeless people. ‘Public...
Junior Doctors Defy Tory Slurs!
TENS of thousands of junior doctors begin a four-day strike over a 26% erosion in their real-terms pay over the past 15 years, at...
Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned
YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...
NO PRIVATE SECTOR IN NHS! – ‘Public don’t want it’ says Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...
Local councils £3.5bn financial hole Tories are demanding savage cuts – Tories are demanding...
LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...
BANK OF ENGLAND BUYS GOVERNMENT BONDS! – to try to restore orderly market conditions
THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...
France Paralysed!
France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...
Israel-Egyptian Military Seeking To Starve Gaza!
With shortages of electricity, water, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, a lack of economy and no infrastructure, the masses of Gaza are in a...
Figures expose NHS winter crisis
NEW FIGURES exposing the escalating winter crisis in the NHS were published yesterday morning by NHS England, forcing Tory PM May to apologise for...
Corbyn Attacks ‘No Deal’ Brexit At Tuc Conference!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...
150 NHS CONSULTANTS EARNING £8.5m TOTAL!
ONE hundred and fifty consultants employed to draw up the Tories Sustainability and Transformation plans (STPs) were paid combined annual salaries of at least...
Parliament reopens after Supreme Court ruling
‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...
G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge
‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...
UK Troops In Iraq Made Britain A Terror Target
There is ‘no doubt’ that support for the US-led war on Iraq ‘puts the UK more at risk’ of terrorist attack. This is one of...
‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes
‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...
Workers Fury Forces Brown Retreat!
Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...
Syrian Armed Gangs Reject Annan Plan
TURKEY scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria yesterday afternoon after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, but...
SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped
SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...
EUROZONE: unemployment soars, manufacturing collapses!
Unemployment in the eurozone soared to 11.1% in May, while the manufacturing collapse continued and is set to accelerate, according to official statistics produced...
Israel to annexe settlement!
ISRAEL’S education minister and leader of the far right, pro-settlement Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, said yesterday morning he would propose a bill by...
FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally
GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...
Unions at No 10 appeal to May
‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...
CORONER RULES OUT ‘UNLAWFUL KILLING’ VERDICT – in de Menezes inquest
Solicitors for the Jean Charles de Menezes family yesterday went to the High Court to seek a judicial review of the coroner’s ruling that...
Abolish ICE say US workers
CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...
‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’
LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...
‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters
THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...
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...
Heads Denounce Ofsted ‘Bully Boys’
Head teachers yesterday denounced Ofsted’s ‘bully boy tactics’ and sent a strong message to the chief inspector (HMCI) of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, in...
Students walkout today!
TENS of thousands of students are expected to participate in a national walkout today in campuses in every part of the UK against the...
3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid
PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...
Israel must stop bombing Gaza says Hamas
HAMAS has welcomed Trump’s statement that Israel should stop striking Gaza so that the second phase of the ceasefire can begin. This comes in response...
Hezbollah steps up attacks on Israeli troop positions
AN Israeli soldier was killed and four others wounded after a guided missile struck a Merkava tank in southern Lebanon, as Hezbollah stepped up...














