Sacked cleaners occupy Ministry!
THE sacked cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry are continuing the occupation of a ministry building in central Athens since Thursday morning. They have barricade...
Record numbers of children rely on food banks
A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...
Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied
CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...
Wanted! An arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar!
AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...
May Brings Back 11 Plus!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
Sheltered accommodation contains Grenfell cyanide
THE insulation used at Grenfell Tower – which releases cyanide if burned – is installed at sheltered accommodation in east London, it was reported...
Large Scale Academy Cuts!
LARGE cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial...
‘REVERSE GP CUTS!’ – Dr Gerada warns coalition
PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...
MURDER IN IRAQ! – new inquiry into British Army
THE Secretary of State for Defence will today announce in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment and...
Living Wage Battle!
GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...
‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’
PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...
‘Treated appallingly by Home Office’ – had passport taken and threatened with forcible removal
A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...
£5.96bn TRADE GAP
The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 4.5 per cent yesterday, as latest official figures showed Britain suffered a new record...
ISRAEL TO INVADE GAZA!– Olmert gives final warning
Israeli officials have warned that the Israeli military is preparing to attack Gaza in the coming days. On Wednesday Israeli airstrikes and ground invasions...
NO CONFIDENCE IN HUNT! BMA votes for repeal of Health & Social Care Act
ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...
Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson
‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...
‘Scrap Universal Credit’ says GMB union
THE DISASTROUS Universal Credit scheme was rolled out in Hammersmith and Fulham yesterday, prompting the GMB union to demand that it ‘should be withdrawn’...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
BALPA FIGHTING BA’s WAGE CUT PLANS
BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association) is going to the High Court in London on Monday to fight a British Airways (BA’s) strike ban. BALPA...
‘Summary Powers!’
Prime Minister Blair yesterday unveiled his viciously anti-working class ‘Respect Action Plan’ at a press conference. Announcing his ‘ActionPlan’ Blair said: ‘Anti-Social Behaviour law imposed...
Royal Mail lands an anti-union blow at the High Court
ROYAL MAIL has won a legal battle against the CWU to prevent a postal strike over Xmas after the High Court backed its application...
No ceasefire – only permanent end to aggression! – tens of thousands march in...
IRAN will reject any call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insisted yesterday,...
Close down every immigration centre
ALL IMMIGRATION centres should be shut down because they are extremely damaging to the health of the refugee and asylum seekers who are incarcerated...
‘Doctors are already shouldering the burden of staff shortages’
THE BRITISH Medical Association has criticised the government’s latest Comprehensive Spending Review, warning that despite headline increases in NHS funding, the plans fall well...
BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT – say French youth
IT is Thursday afternoon in Paris and TENS of thousands of school and student youth have converged on the Place d’Italie. They are marching towards...
Four Day Strike At Maudsley And Bethlem Hospitals!
FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...
IMPOSSIBLE! – NUT condemns Kelly plan to close ‘failing’ schools after one year
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday accused Education Secretary Ruth Kelly of trying to impose ‘impossible’ targets on state schools that would lead...
RENATIONALISE STEEL – demand workers as 1,050 jobs go
‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...
MAJORITY DEMAND – Keep Chase Farm Hospital open!
The hugely expensive ‘consultation process’ meant to rubber stamp the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has backfired, after the majority of returnees...
‘Slippery slope to privatisation’
THE FIRST GP surgery in Maidstone Kent to charge patients for 15-minute face-to-face consultations is open for business! The GP surgery works through ‘Uber-style’...
No To West Hendon Evictions!
TENANTS and leaseholders are protesting in Tyrrel Way, West Hendon, north London from 7am today, against the eviction threat to 250 families...
Defend The Fire Service
ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...
‘UNACCEPTABLE ON EVERY LEVEL’ – Academies to employ unqualified ‘teachers’
unions have angrily condemned the news that Academies can now employ unqualified ‘teachers’. The change, announced late last Friday afternoon, is immediate. Until now, state-funded...
98.7% NO CONFIDENCE IN LANSLEY – frightened Miliband urges ‘junk the Bill’
NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...
TORIES ‘FORCING’ WEEKEND RAIL STRIKES – insist ASLEF’s Whelan and the RMT’s Lynch
ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...
Travel Safe workers take strike action
‘The bullying and intimidation of our members’ representatives by STM Security, is utterly deplorable,’ said Bob Crow yesterday. He added: ‘It is the issue at...
‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin
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...
‘A MOMENTOUS BREAKTHROUGH!’ – ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes
AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...
Labour supporting ‘Free Schools’ and benefit cuts!
LABOUR yesterday delivered another stab in the back to workers, when two of its newly promoted shadow ministers hit out at the working class. Shadow...
Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!
NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...
999 calls diverted – ‘Gambling with patients lives!’
‘AMBULANCE workers skills are being downgraded by schemes which suggest that a video call can be a substitute for an emergency service arriving at...
ROYAL MAIL PENSIONS FURY –call for indefinite action as 24hour strikes due to start
ROYAL Mail workers are resuming their strike action tonight, furious at leaked Post Office plans to smash up their pensions. The massive Mail Centres employing...
DISTRICT NURSES CRISIS – RCN warns 10,000 are needed
DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...
‘OPEN THE DOORS TO THE REFUGEES’ – urge 20,000 marchers in Athens
‘OPEN the doors to the refugees,’ demanded 20,000 marchers in Athens on Thursday. Some 20,000 people marched through Athens on Thursday night calling for the...
Hezbollah Uses Longer Range Missile!
Hezbollah fighters yesterday repulsed sporadic attempts by Israeli forces to control the town of Bint Jubayl two miles inside south Lebanon. A number of Israeli...