Armed police arrest and handcuff one of the peace protesters as they search his bag in Parliament Square yesterday morning

Armed Police Arrest Brian Haw

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The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police with dogs at 8am yesterday morning and its leaders were arrested and...
North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’

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Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...
RCN London Board Chair CYNTHIA DAVIS addressing nurses protesting outside the Department of Health in Whitehall yesterday

Scrap the 1% cap! – 30 nurses” protests nationwide

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‘SCRAP the cap! Fair pay for nurses! Now!’ chanted over fifty nurses and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officials outside the Department of...
Marchers demand arrests and corporate murder charges over the Grenfell Tower inferno that killed large numbers of men, women and children

Grenfell Mass Protest Tonight

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ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...
Young Socialist marchers for jobs and for free university education at Keele University where they received a great response. Keele NUS is sending 6 coachloads of students down to London for Wednesday’s historic demonstration

March Reaches Stoke

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education campaigned at Keele University yesterday, where students bought tickets for the Meet the March...
A section of the 25,000-strong march on London’s Embankment yesterday

RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students

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‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...

UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling

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UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...

Bma To March To Tuc Rally

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LONDON’S doctors are to march through London to the TUC’s ‘Save Our NHS Rally’ at Central Halls Westminster on Wednesday March 7th. The London Regional...
Fenland Foods workers and their families demonstrate outside Marks and Spencer Oxford Street store demanding their jobs be saved

1.82 MILLION OUT OF WORK – while Brown fawns on the bankers

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Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...
An earlier demonstration against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Tower Hamlets – now they are to be closed

17 SURGERIES UNDER THREAT! – in Hackney and Tower Hamlets

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SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...

NAO TO PROBE GREENSILL! – and how it collapsed the UK steel industry

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...

30% CUTS ON WAY – Consultants conference warns

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HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...

Blair Calls For Intervenion In Somalia And Sudan

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday said UK forces had to be ready for action in Sudan and Somalia as part of a policy of foreign...

Israeli government committing genocide

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A GROUP of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that...

Sweden to re-open Assange investigation

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YESTERDAY Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, announced that an investigation into a rape allegation made against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange in...

No direct talks with US insists Iran

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‘IRAN has not held any direct talks with the United States, but has only received messages through some mediators regarding the US’ desire for...
Junior doctors fighting Hunt’s contract imposition – now all NHS unions face the same threat and treatment

Hunt to ‘reform’ all NHS contracts!

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt, after attempting to impose an unsafe and unfair contract on junior doctors, now wants new contracts for one million...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers marching during their Xmas picket at Heathrow last Sunday

BUNCEFIELD INQUIRY – prohibition notices served on oil companies

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THE Health and Safety Commission (HSC) yesterday announced the official inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire. HSC chairman Bill Callaghan told a press conference...

UK To Cut And Run From Kabul

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PM Cameron has announced that 3,800 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan next year. Troop numbers are being cut from 9,500 to 9,000...

Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...
Chagos Islanders picketing Downing Street demanding their right to return to their homes

Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...

Hamas condemns Biden for rushing arms to Israeli state

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HAMAS has slammed the US Biden administration’s announcement that it is rushing another $20 billion worth of arms to Israel to escalate its genocide...
Striking postal workers at Bromley-by-Bow, E16, in a confident mood after refusing to be bullied by Royal Mail management

PROVOCATION! – Management bullies force Royal Mail workers out

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ROYAL Mail’s bullying management, backed to the hilt by the Brown government, yesterday sought to impose extreme flexibility onto the country’s postal workers, ...
Sister students union to Coventry, Warwick, on the march for free education – Coventry SU President Francis Ahanonu said: ‘Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action’

Prosecute companies who exploit graduates

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‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...
Palestinians march defiantly as part of the Great March of Return

56 envoys boycott US embassy opening

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ONE Palestinian was killed and 167 others injured by Israeli forces on Friday as hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of the...

MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot

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ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
Tata steel workers march through London in defence of their jobs

Tata Steel – pension cuts and no jobs guarantees!

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THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...

‘FURTHER ACTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE’ – pledges Matt Smith of Scottish UNISON

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‘If there is no movement then we will have to look to further action in the near future,’ UNISON Scottish Secretary Matt Smith told...

Labour will renationalise water, power & Royal Mail ‘and we’re ready to win election’...

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‘WE WILL be bringing water, energy, Royal Mail, rail back into public ownership again,’ shadow chancellor John McDonnell said to cheers during his speech...

Kolja’s Long Walk for Assange

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KOLJA’S Long Walk for Assange is heading for London and will join the weekly Saturday Vigil at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday from 12pm-2pm to...

‘Corridor care seems to have become the norm’ says the RCN’s Patricia Marquis

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‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...

Biggest NHS strike in history! – bring down the Tories now

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THE BIGGEST strike in the history of the NHS takes place today with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) escalating its action, as members...

Police Kept Quiet Over Mobile Phone Hacking

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The Metropolitan Police yesterday were investigating why the police had not told high-profile figures that their mobile phones were being hacked into, and why...
Part of the march through Stratford called by the Focus E15 campaign to demand social housing as a right

Social Housing ‘No Go Areas’

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One in three councils in England has not replaced a single home sold through the Right to Buy scheme since 2012, according to the...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...

A breach of human right

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THE TORIES’ ‘right to rent’ checks are a breach of human rights, the High Court ruled yesterday. These are rules which force landlords to do...

NHS ‘more than 10,000 doctors needed!’

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THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...
Masses of firefighters took part in yesterday’s demonstration and showed their determination to beat this reactionary Tory-led government

‘We rescue people not banks’ say 4,000 firefighters marching in London

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OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...
‘Defend Lewisham Bridge School’ campaigners joined by students from Goldsmiths College demonstrating against Brown yesterday

HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown

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ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...
RMT and TSSA strikers on the picket line at Harrow on-the-Hill yesterday morning

No Safety Cuts Says RMT-Tssa

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RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...

MPs SPLIT ON BREXIT BILL!

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OPENING the debate in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill, Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said the bill was ‘the next step...

Labour Party staff vote 75% for strike – if redundancies go ahead

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STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...
Campaigners on a demonstration against the closure of two community hospitals in Lowestoft

Community hospitals are shut – patients sent to private care homes

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THE meeting of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (Health East) last Friday was met by angry protesters organised by Lowestoft Against...