Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution
President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...
STOP CHASE FARM CLOSING! – says picket
THERE was a lively picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning by the North-East London Council of Action, demonstrating to stop...
Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians
NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...
GP surgeries to be closed!
THE government appointed watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will be able to use new powers from 2012 to close GP practices, British Medical...
‘We will conclude this matter on the streets!’ say South African workers
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in Ekurhuleni is shocked and agitated that out of the blue, the City has provoked municipal workers...
‘Shut down Harmondsworth’
‘SHUT down Harmondsworth immigration centre!’ demanded the Movement for Justice yesterday, in response to a damning report which exposed the centre as being...
34 NHS TRUSTS IN DEFICIT – while NHS made £2 billion surplus
IN A devastating report published yesterday on the NHS crisis, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs revealed that 34 NHS trusts are broke. The report...
No Forced Labour For Youth!
Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...
Tsipras Pleads With Eu Bankers
THE Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke at the European Parliament on Wednesday morning stating that he was seeking an ‘honourable compromise’ with the...
£850 million to pay for NHS sackings
The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...
Three Raf Airmen Killed In Iraq
Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...
Junior Doctors fighting for NHS!
‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...
MADNESS! – RCN condemns destruction of nurse training places
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...
Samaras Puts Up ‘Greece For Sale’ Sign
GREEK Prime Minister elect Antonis Samaras has declared a massive privatisation plan for the entire transport and energy sectors as well as dozens of...
Suspend Ofsted inspections demands teachers union NEU – Exams for 2021 cancelled in Wales...
‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...
Police Mass Arrests!
Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...
Occupy to save steel jobs!
TATA Steel could close down its remaining UK operations as soon as 28 May if a viable deal to sell the assets is not...
WHITEWASH! – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow
JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...
Flawed Intelligence Being Used In Secret No Jury Courts
Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...
5,500 Children killed in Gaza! – World Children’s Day November 20th
ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...
Campbell Defends All Of The ‘dodgy Dossier’
ALASTAIR Campbell yesterday defended ‘every single word’ of the notorious ‘sexed up’ dodgy dossier of September 2002, that was used by a desperate Blair...
FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school
worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...
Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...
ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...
MAKE THE DISPUTE OFFICIAL!– call out the airport! – Locked out Gate Gourmet work
Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...
No Grenfell criminal charges until 2021!
CAMPAIGNERS have reacted with fury at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021. Scotland Yard will not...
BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’
PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
‘Work with whoever is elected’ urges Harman
LABOUR MPs must ‘work with’ whoever is elected leader later this week, Harriet Harman has said pleading with Labour’s right wing not to split...
KICK TORIES OUT ON JUNE 8th
‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...
Israeli forces storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital!
ISRAELI forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday morning setting it alight. This was after airstrikes on a nearby building killed 53...
Hounslow march on March 25th
‘OUR march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March is very important, not just for us but for all trade union members.’ Locked-out Gate Gourmet...
450 jobs axed at BBC
FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...
Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31
THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...
Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!
‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...
Hauliers Have Had Enough!
Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....
LEBANON ‘WAS OUR BREAKING POINT’ say Labour Party members in Beckett’s constituency
Thirty-seven Labour Party members in Foreign Secretary Beckett’s Derby South constituency yesterday announced their defection to the Liberal Democrats at a press conference at...
Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters
FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...
Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank
THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move...
80,000 Civil Servants Out!
Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...
‘Spending cuts, job losses and pension attacks must end!’ – RMT leader Mick Lynch...
SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...
Inquiry into undercover police spies opens!
THE Public inquiry launched yesterday into the Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) ‘will expose both creditable and discreditable conduct, practice and management’, Justice Pitchford...
‘I’M EXCITED BUT CAUTIOUS!’ –sister of Omar Deghayes tells News Line
‘I’m excited but cautious,’ Amani Deghayes, the sister of Libyan-born Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, told News Line yesterday. She was responding to news that UK...
270,000 Civil Servants Out
OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...
Israel kills 45 women and children in Rafah tent camp massacre
ISRAELI forces bombed a camp housing displaced people in a designated ‘safe zone’ in Rafah on Sunday night, killing at least 45 Palestinians, most...
‘Kill off no deal, kill off May’s deal forward to 2nd referendum’ – John...
‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...


















