Oxford Cwu Out To Defend Rep
Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in Oxford, who walked out on strike in defence of a senior rep, have voted to continue their unofficial...
Greek Finance Ministry occupied
WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...
Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
Stop NHS Cuts And Closures
Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...
Israel steps up genocidal war on Gaza and West Bank!
AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...
POLICE RAID ON NOTTING HILL – stun grenades used by armed police
Yesterday, police said that two more of the alleged 21 July would-be London bombers were now in custody after a series of armed raids...
OUR HOSPITALS MUST NOT CLOSE! – Voters tell Enfield WRP candidate Anna Athow
Enfield North WRP election candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team received a big response on the High Street yesterday. Anna, a consultant surgeon, has...
Police attempt to silence journalists
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland yesterday condemned an attempt by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Durham...
1.5 Million Take Strike Action
YESTERDAY’s massive one-day strike stopped whole regions of the UK, but is only the start of the campaign, local government workers warned. Striking local government...
Italy Hits The Rocks!
Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti was yesterday in talks with Jean-Claude Juncker, chair of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the 17 eurozone countries,...
‘World Crisis Opening Up Socialist Revolution’
‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...
NO TO CREEPING PRIVATISATION! – UCU tells government
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday wrote to the University and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA) to ask the employers to act to...
Defend Our Hospitals!
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...
320,000 children face acute malnutrition
ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
Postal Workers Strike Hardening Up
THERE was a hardened determination on the striking postal workers picket lines yesterday morning, as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members defiantly rebutted the Royal...
UN condemns ‘deadly trap’!
Top UN and Palestinian health officials are warning that the new Israeli-controlled aid distribution system in Gaza is being used as a ‘deadly trap’,...
Deputy leader Watson condemns Labour EU policy
LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...
Labour to scrap Universal Credit! – John McDonnell makes a pledge
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...
UK leaders back US war drive!
BRITISH Tory and Labour leaders fell in with their US masters’ drive to war yesterday. US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in...
‘Disgusting plans’ to close Remploy factories
The GMB and Unite, the unions for Remploy workers, held a demonstration in Norwich town centre on Saturday against the government’s plan to shut...
GMB legal win over Lidl!
GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...
Families going without food!
Families with disabled children are going without essentials such as food and heating. This is the norm, not a temporary crisis brought on by the...
Vote for the deal or we leave with no deal – Johnson tells MPs
THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...
Grenfell Inquiry – No Prosecutions
THE Attorney General ruled yesterday that contractors can give evidence to the Grenfell inquiry without fear of prosecution over the 72 deaths. Grenfell United, the...
‘It is now Tory government policy to create recession!’ says Hunt advisor
INTEREST rates are expected to be hiked by 0.25% to 4.75% today, but with yesterday’s inflation rate remaining at 8.7% in the year to...
RMT Protest At Rail Rip-Off Fares
REGULATED rail fares will increase by 3.6% from January 2018 it was announced yesterday, as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) figure for July was...
Coordinated strike action motion for TUC
TRANSPORT union RMT has tabled a motion for the TUC Congress in Manchester next week which sets out a blueprint for a coordinated trade...
GG– great support in Southall
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were out campaigning at the weekend for their mass picket next Sunday and their conference in London on Sunday January...
‘WE SILENCE OUR GUNS – TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE’ say Tigers
SELVERASA Pathmanathan, head of the Tamil Tigers International Diplomatic Relations, issued an urgent statement on Sunday morning. He said: ‘Despite our plea to the...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
Careworkers asked to do registered nurses’ jobs
THE safety of elderly and disabled people who rely on homecare is being put at risk because staff are receiving inadequate training, according to...
Striking Consultants & Junior Doctors Picket
STRIKING consultants and junior doctors held mass pickets outside hospitals around the country yesterday in a show of strength in defence of the NHS...
Return all academies to council control!
‘SCHOOLS must be returned to their local authority family of schools,’ Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said, responding...
LOTHIAN PAYING £1.4m A MONTH FOR HOSPITAL IT CANNOT USE!
A health board is paying over a million pounds a month to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use. The new children’s hospital...
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...
Call for nationwide student rent strikes
THE National Union of Students (NUS) joined the calls for nationwide student rent strikes yesterday. This September (16/17/18th), activists from UCL Cut the Rent (UCL-CTR),...
London/Manchester joint Grenfell march
THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review
THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled
Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...
CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration
HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
Don’t Extradite Babar Ahmad
‘FREE Babar Ahmad,’ Babar’s father Ashfaq Ahmad told supporters outside the High Court in central London yesterday, ‘if Babar is extradited to America then...
Over 250,000 workers and youth march for Palestine!
More than a quarter of a million workers, students and youth participated in the National March for Palestine through central London on Saturday. Palestine flag-waving...
NHS PAY OFFER – Looks to divide and rule
‘I will be recommending members reject the new pay offer,’ UNISON Oxfordshire health branch chairman Mark Ladbrooke told News Line yesterday. He was commenting on...
Nuneaton Hospital To Be Put On The Market
APPROVAL has been given for a second NHS District General Hospital to be put out to market to be privately run or taken over....
















