William Westwell (fourth from left, with witch-hunt placard) demonstrating outside the school before the first hearing

Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison

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ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...

TRUMP’S COUP FAILS – AFL-CIO must call a general strike

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ARMED supporters of US President Trump stormed the Capitol building and forced a lockdown on Wednesday evening. However, the attempted coup failed. A woman was...
Ealing midwives on the picket line outside the hospital during last year’s strike – The meeting tonight is called to plan next Wednesday’s march & occupation of maternity to stop the closure

Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!

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THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...

‘WE MUST GET ON WITH BREXIT’ – TUC delegates tell WRP-YS lobbyists

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LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...
The Tory benefit cap came into force yesterday, plunging tens of thousands of families into poverty

Benefit cap plunges families into poverty

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‘CUTTING social security even further and plunging more families into poverty is simply cruel, punishing the poorest in our society for the Tories’ economic failure,’ Public...

Birmingham bin strike escalates! – Unite condemns ‘disgraceful use of unlawful labour’

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NEARLY 400 Birmingham refuse workers began indefinite strike action yesterday over the scrapping of the waste collection and recycling officer role (WRCO), which has...

2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

Hamas, Fatah Gun Battles In Gaza

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Palestinian resistance movement Hamas yesterday accused Palestinian National Authority President Mahmud Abbas of attempting a military coup after Fatah forces sealed off two Hamas-led...
BMA delegates at their Annual Representative Meeting applaud BMA acting chairman Everington after his address yesterday

‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan

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The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...
Families and friends of those who have died in police custody – over 1,000 have died since 1990 – there are now 2,600 armed police on the streets of London alone

2,600 armed police on London streets

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SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...
Protest outside a court hearing for Babar Ahmad in London in May 2005

Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police

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The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
A lively mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanded the reopening of the maternity and children’s services

ANGRY EALING NHS PICKET – closed maternity department now a film set

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‘I HAVE never seen, in the whole world, a hospital, which is meant to save people’s lives, which is meant to treat pregnant women...

£1.90 AN HOUR ON CELTIC FERRIES – major unions lead protest

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LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...

Facilities Staff Battle On!

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OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...

Deficit heading for £100bn

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said, if elected, a Labour government would match the Tories cut for cut. He said that Labour would be...

Labour hits back after Panorama attack

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‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...

TORIES ON THE RUN! – get them out with a general strike

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THE TORY government yesterday dropped its attempt to defeat a House of Commons probe into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs about lockdown parties. With the...

Royal Mail ‘Hedge Fund’

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ROYAL Mail workers – whose jobs and pensions have been under sustained attack and are now threatened with privatisation – yesterday reacted with fury...
Teachers on the front line of the struggle against savage Tory cuts

Basic funding too low to allow schools to operate!

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EVERY school in England will see budget cuts before 2020, even after new funding plans are put into place, Education Policy Institute (EPI) research...
Nurses on the march against any pay cap – they are certain to make their point very forcibly at September’s EGM

Nurses fury over pay deal! – EGM called for September 28th

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THE RCN Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place on 28/09/18 at 11.00 am at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,...

Record Jobless Rise Of 46,000!

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THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate has risen by the biggest amount in almost five years, official figures showed yesterday. Some 1.47 million people were out of...

Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC

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MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...
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...

Corbyn Attacks ‘No Deal’ Brexit At Tuc Conference!

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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...

‘They flock us towards their fire’ – aid points are traps for mass killings

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The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre on Sunday morning in southern Gaza, killing at least 31 aid seekers and injuring 120 others...

79% vote for London post strike

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Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail...

Gm Threat To Close Ellesmere Port

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The Unite union, which represents the bulk of the 2,800 workforce at Vauxhall Ellesmere Port, yesterday responded to news that Business Secretary Vince Cable...

‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...

‘This war is America’s war against people of Palestine!’

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THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to...

Starmer aide McSweeney quits – who’s next?

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LABOUR leader and PM Keir Starmer’s position was further weakened yesterday as his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to quit amidst the...

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – TUC must call a general strike

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‘EVERY major union is supporting this march. We welcome this opportunity for people to take to the streets to protest at this government. ...

‘US is warmongering’ – President Maduro

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VENEZUELA President Nicolás Maduro called Donald Trump’s government a ‘gang of extremists’ and blamed the US for his country’s crisis in an interview with...

Plan to ‘Fire and Rehire’ 100 teachers at Richmond College

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STAFF are set to strike over a plan to ‘Fire & Rehire’ over 100 teachers at Richmond upon Thames College Staff at Richmond upon Thames...
Greek public sector workers rally in Salonika in support of striking teachers

Police Attack Greek Teachers

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POLICE brutally attacked the large teachers’ rallies which were held in all major Greek cities on Monday, as the primary schools teachers entered the...

‘WE ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE NHS’ – says BMA

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...

Maternity Services Struggling To Cope!

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THE government is responsible for maternity services being overworked, understaffed and struggling to cope, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Maternity unit closures,...

Tories agree C02 industry bailout! Unite wants to join talks with bosses

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WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...
BMA delegates to the 2009 Annual Representative Meeting launch their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign against privatisation

Doctors To Ballot For Pensions Action

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Doctors and medical students will be asked to vote on changes to their pensions at the conclusion of negotiations with the government, the British...

Labour split over Scottish Referendum!

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SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...

Bma Will Discuss Strike Action!

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The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...
Single parents outside the High Court protesting against the savage cuts in benefits

Huge Welfare cuts –Duncan Smith proposals condemned

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Unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s offer to raid the Welfare Budget by another £3 billion a year...

Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...

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THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
Teachers, pupils and parents are occupying Wembley partk Sports Ground to stop the building of a planned private City Academyround

Nut To Support Brent Occupation

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At the union’s annual conference in Harrogate today, the National Union of Teachers National Executive will propose an amendment ‘congratulating (area) divisions’, who have...
Lecturers during a strike at Lambeth College – they are among sixteen colleges on strike next week

UCU members to strike next week at 16 colleges

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STRIKING staff at Abingdon and Witney College will be on picket lines outside both the Abingdon and Witney campuses from 8am on Tuesday...
PCS General Secretary SERWOTKA with members demonstrating outside the Law Courts against Labour’s attempt to destroy their redundancy agreement

‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE’ – PCS, GMB, Unite condemn coalitions’ attack!

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‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...