‘SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UK!’ – demand 30 top trade union leaders
REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...
No sprinklers in car park inferno
‘CLEARLY the fact that there were no sprinklers had its affect,’ Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Dan Stephens said yesterday. He...
GMB condemns strike ban
DELEGATES at the GMB conference in Brighton booed and jeered Business Secretary Cable yesterday as he threatened to bring in new anti-union laws to...
CWU LEADERS REFUSE TO FIGHT – hoping for sell-out deal
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday shocked its members when it wrote to Royal Mail offering to cancel the 76 per cent vote of...
Vodafone workers win their strike
THE President of the Greek Vodafone workers’ trade union Jaklin Gorou said that Tuesday’s national strike, demanding wage rises, the end of flexible working...
Reintroduce Covid restrictions now! NHS Confederation warns of looming winter crisis
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...
Rattled Labour Bails Out 28 NHS Trusts
HEALTH unions yesterday welcomed a forced government retreat on the notorious ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting system whereby trusts have their funding cut twice if...
Maudsley Hospital strike
AS MANY as 200 cleaners and domestic workers at four south London hospitals took strike action yesterday demanding their wages are increased to £10...
Dr Bawa-Garba wins her appeal!
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck of the medical register, and not allowed to treat patients ever again, has won her appeal, reversing the...
Gaza and West Bank deaths surge to 3,866!
IN the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has surged to...
Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!
SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...
Irish Workers March Against Austerity
The President and the General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have urged people to join today’s national demonstration in Dublin,...
TORY REFUSAL TO TALK ON PAY ‘BEYOND BELIEF’ says BMA
TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s refusal to join today’s meeting between doctors’ leaders and the Department of Health is ‘beyond belief when the stakes...
Manchester indefinite bus strike!
MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...
Tube Strike 100% Success!
‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...
‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...
‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
‘SCANDALOUS’ 10.4% NPOWER HIKE – unions slam energy price rises
UNISON yesterday slammed Npower’s ‘scandalous’ 10.4% energy hike that will ‘bring misery to millions of households this winter’. While the TUC said that energy prices...
Putin Peace Plan
PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...
Military prepare for war over Syria
‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...
NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut
Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson
NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...
UNIONS MUST TAKE ‘JOINT INDUSTRIAL ACTION’ – PCS leader Serwotka tells press
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...
Islamic Republic defending its territory
THE Islamic Republic’s first and foremost priority is a ‘decisive and firm’ battle to defend its territory against the ongoing unprovoked US-Israeli war of...
Don’t let West London Hospitals close!
EALING Council is going to go to court today, 9 October in a bid to secure a full judicial review (JR) of plans...
GMB ASDA DEAL – Wal-Mart backs away from 5-day strike
The GMB trade union yesterday confirmed it has accepted an agreement offered by Wal-Mart owned Asda supermarkets and called off a planned five-day national...
Honda Swindon Plant Axed – 3,500 Car Workers’ Jobs To Go
THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...
NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...
SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...
KERRY THREATENS RUSSIA says ‘you must disarm Separatists’
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to show ‘within hours’ that it is ‘working to disarm separatist militants’ in eastern...
‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance
HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers throughout the world...
MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...
Striking Doctors Besiege Tories In Manchester
STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...
Student Fees Anger!
the National Union of Students (NUS) is lobbying Parliament today against a threatened unlimited hike in university top up fees. The NUS has called the...
PAY PROTECTION NOW! – demand Queen’s Hospital Romford strikers
THERE was a well attended picket line of pathology department workers outside the Queen’s Hospital Romford (BHRT) yesterday. Red Unite flags were waving and there...
Lgv Drivers Halt Oxford Mini
PRODUCTION of the MINI at Oxford could be severely disrupted after drivers delivering components voted to go on strike for six days in a...
PUT BUSH AND BLAIR ON TRIAL – urges just-freed Binyam Mohamed
UK resident Binyam Mohamed, recently freed from Guantanamo Bay, has called for ex-US President Bush to be put on trial over his rendition and...
DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs at stake
Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...
‘We are all tax avoiders’ says Tory Lord Fink
‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...
BRITISH SOLDIERS LED THE ‘REBEL’ ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI – says Labour MP Gardiner
A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...
Mad Dog Israel Told To Ceasefire For 21 Days!
THE USA, France and several Arab and European countries yesterday called for an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border. ‘We call on all parties,...
HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’
Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...
Amnesty Condemns Bush
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has hit back at US president George W Bush’s criticism of its annual report which said the USA was...
Keep a guard on every train! – RMT leader Mick Cash tells News Line
RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...
Restore student nurses bursaries
NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...