DON’T PRIVATISE ROYAL MAIL – CWU tells Labour Party conference

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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)...
Tunisian demonstration against mass poverty

‘TODAY I START A REVOLUTION!’ ‘for those who have no means of subsistence’

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CLASHES have erupted between protesters and security forces in Kasserine city in Tunisia following the funeral of a journalist who had set himself on...

‘NO-FAULT EVICTIONS’ WILL BE MADE ILLEGAL – pledges Corbyn

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LABOUR’S next manifesto will include a pledge to reduce eviction powers for landlords and tip housing rules back in favour of renters, party leader...
Northern Ireland midwives are insisting that many more are required. Above, they take the first strike action in the union’s history

RECRUIT MORE MIDWIVES – NO AGENCY STAFF! says Royal College of Midwives

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‘WE need an effective and sustainable solution, not a sticking plaster,’ said Jon Skewes, of the Royal College of Midwives, yesterday. Responding to Monitor, the...
London lecturers marching against savage cuts in jobs and attacks on their terms and conditions in May this year

Uproar After Uni Pensions Referendum Rejected

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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...

PM HAS BROKEN PLEDGES! – says top QC Martin Howe

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TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...

Warmongers meet in Wales!

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WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...
The NUT on the march through central London during their strike last year

Teachers Out Today!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...

‘The Tories have left us with a black hole of £22bn this year’ Labour’s...

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LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...

Tories Ignore RCN Offer To Talk!

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TORY Foreign Secretary James Cleverley yesterday rejected talks with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), whose members are coming out on strike this Thursday...

‘DOING THE DIRTY WORK FOR DICTATORS’ – Blair and Clarke accused

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‘Is it our intention to do the dirty work for dictatorships all over the world?’ Labour MP John Denham challenged Home Secretary Clarke yesterday. Denham...
Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow outside their Employment Tribunal last week – the Irish SIPTU union is concerned over the company’s ‘profiling’ of its workforce in Dublin

‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin

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Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...
The privateer Carillion was in a permanent war with its workforce to increase its profit margins

RBS & May knifed Carillion!

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‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...
Medical students demonstrating in June last year against the loss of accommodation allowance for first year junior doctors

COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader

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‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...
Young Socialists march demanding kick the privateers out of the NHS

‘NHS Being privatised!’

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NEW research produced by the NHS Support Federation shows a dramatic rise in the contracts won by private firms to deliver NHS care. Over the...

Grim prospects for capitalism warns IMF

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is projecting a deep recession in 2020, with global growth projected to be -4.4% in its latest update to the...

Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!

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CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...
Thousands of health workers and their supporters marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding the defence of the NHS. They called to stop the privatisation of NHS Logistics

‘A PRIVATISATION TOO FAR’ – UNISON leader Prentis urges suspend NHS Logistics sell-off

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UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...
Junior doctors marching in London against the government’s NHS ‘reforms

‘A FAILURE OF DUTY’ – Surgeons president Ribeiro quits junior doctors talks

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Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...
Thousands marched fromn the BMA headquarters to Westminster demanding that the NHS Health Bill be smashed – it is now law and workers are determined to fight it

SACK THE COALITION! – to keep our hospitals open

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THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...

Labour MPs rebelling against Starmer’s brutal austerity cuts programme

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LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...
Students on the march – looking to Labour to write off all student debt

Labour wants to write off all student debt!

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SHADOW education secretary, Angela Rayner, said yesterday that the Labour Party’s ‘ambition’ is to write off all student debt at a cost of £100bn. But...

Starmer announces militarisation of UK economy

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‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...

‘Any movement of NATO to the East is unacceptable’ says President Putin

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‘OUR actions will not depend on negotiations they will depend on the unconditional compliance with the Russian security demands in a historic context. ‘We have...

Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...

DEFEAT UNION BUSTING! says Unite

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Cabin crew resumed their determined strike against British Airways’ attempted union-busting at Heathrow, Gatwick and the other airports at midnight last night. They are taking...

The More You Sack – The Bigger The Bonus

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Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...
Protesters outside the US embassy in London yesterday calling for Guantanamo Bay prison to be closed down

Shut Down Guantanamo Call

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THE London Guantanamo Campaign staged a protest yesterday outside the American embassy on the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the infamous Guantanamo Bay...

STRIKE ACTION SPREADS TO 68 UNIS – more than 50,000 staff mandated to strike

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STRIKE action at UK universities spreads to 68 institutions today as more than 50,000 staff are mandated to strike and well over a million...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10

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A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...
RMT members emphasising cuts cost lives

RMT STRIKE BANNED! –Ruling class justice at work

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THE High Court yesterday followed up its decision to ban strike action at British Airways at Christmas by banning strike action at Network Rail...

Action Is Needed To Defend Royal Mail Jobs And Pensions

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CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...

Picket Grenfell Inquiry

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TODAY!

Starmer delivers his anti-working class programme!

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STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

‘keep The Privateers Out Of The NHS’

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‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...

Israeli occupation forces launch West Bank raids

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ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) yesterday launched a series of arrests and raids across various areas of the West Bank, primarily targeting the governorates of...

‘PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME’ – Scottish BMA condemns coalition

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The leader of Scotland’s doctors has yesterday warned that a series of direct attacks on the medical workforce is testing the goodwill of the...

GPs SLAM ‘RISKY’ TORY PLANS – including floating GP practices on stock market

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THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...
Part of the delegation of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC yesterday morning. The whole delegation was angry at the TGWU leaders  who would not allow them to have visitors credentials

BIG SUPPORT FOR GG LOBBY – But TGWU leaders refuse locked-out workers visitors credentials

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TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...

Whipps X Strike

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Ancillary workers at Whipps Cross Hospital north London were yesterday organising for three days of strike action from today in a dispute over equal...

Mass Picket Of Striking Doctors

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) confirmed yesterday that a mass picket of striking Resident Doctors will be held tomorrow morning from 8-11am outside St...

Vicious Tory Onslaught On Asylum Seekers Condemned

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HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...

Bandit capitalism goes bust

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THE UNITE trade union is demanding an urgent meeting with Ernst & Young, Interserve’s administrators, after Friday’s announcement that the company is being forced...
Banner with a clear message on the 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against government spending cuts on March 26 this year

‘SHOW NHS NO MERCY’ – says Cameron advisor

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Prime minister Cameron’s adviser Mark Britnell has urged that the NHS be ‘shown no mercy’, adding that the government’s planned health ‘reform’ is a...