Serco strikers want national demo!
‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...
IRANIAN DISASTER – 140 killed as plane crashes into flats
140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...
‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress
TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...
Go Forward To The State Of Palestine!
THE UN Security Council committee has not reached a consensus on Palestine’s latest application for full United Nations membership, despite substantial support. Meeting in New...
May uses courts against prison officers!
THE government was in the High Court yesterday where it won an injunction against striking prison staff. The court ordered prison staff to return to...
‘All military families have the right to hear Blair give evidence’ –Reg Keys...
TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...
Hamas demands that US must support the state of Palestine
THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans...
‘SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!’ – Nurses reject Brown’s 2% pay offer
Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...
TWO 24hr TUBE STRIKES
RMT pickets were out at all key locations yesterday morning as the strike action over the threat to jobs, safety and services was solidly...
‘GET OUT OF HERE!’ – Athens Vouli Popular Assembly tells Papandreou
FOR the fourth successive night, tens of thousands of youth and workers congregated in the main square of Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament)...
‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama
American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
Working class families being driven out of London!
‘FROM CAMERON downward there is policy coming from the top to deliberately drive working class families out of London and kettle them into certain...
Fox-Gove Brexit Surrender
THE TORY Brexiteers are starting to split with a number moving to support PM May and a Customs Union with the EU. The UK...
Putin launches ‘Special Military Operation’ in Donbass
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine’s Donbass region early yesterday morning to ‘defend people there against government forces’, stressing...
NHS Staffing Crisis!
THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...
‘Resist forced Academy status’
‘The NUT will support all those school communities – heads, teachers, parents and governors – who resist forced Academy status’, pledged NUT General Secretary...
CIVIL SERVANTS STRIKE LOOMS! – London lecturers out on June 9
Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...
‘SKATING ON THIN ICE!’ – RCN warns Blair on NHS while UNISON will back...
Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...
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...
Drownings–Greece Accused!
THE shocking truth is slowly emerging of last Monday’s ‘several’ drownings of refugees off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi, close to the Turkish coast. The...
MOAT FAMILY TO PAY FOR 2nd POST-MORTEM
The family of Raoul Moat are to pay for a second post mortem, after the first investigation failed to record taser injuries. They say...
Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians
ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....
Close down Gaza ‘killing fields’ say 169 charities
‘THE KILLINGS near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating, considering how much Palestinians are in need of...
DIRE CONSEQUENCES! – Moscow warns against Syria intervention
‘ANY military interference in Syria conducted under far-fetched or fabricated pretexts’ would be ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and could lead to ‘dire consequences,’ warned Russia yesterday....
ZERO WAGE RISES! – Millions in Public Sector plunged into poverty
UNISON yesterday called on the government to end the public sector pay freeze, set to stretch for another two years for local government workers...
Uber Eats, Deliveroo, TGI Friday’s Wetherspoons and McDonald’s STRIKE TOGETHER
UBER Eats and Deliveroo drivers are now joining McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons workers in a day of strike action tomorrow to demand a...
Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport
‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th
THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...
‘We’re heading for a general strike’
‘WE’RE heading for a general strike,’ striking Royal Mail postal workers, members of the CWU told News Line yesterday. At the Fulham Delivery Office CWU...
PUT BLAIR ON TRIAL! – say parents of UK soldiers killed in Iraq
Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...
‘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,...
‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court
‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...
50,000 School Youth March In Paris
For the second time in a week 50,000 school youth demonstrated in Paris on Thursday against the cutting of teaching posts in colleges and...
Tube Jobs Strike!
London Tube workers began walking out at 6.30pm last night at the start of a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to cut ticket...
‘A despicable act of bad faith’ – PCS condemns government
THE Public and Commercial Services union has described the government’s imposition of further cuts to redundancy terms as a ‘despicable act of bad faith’...
Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!
OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling
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...
Tories Move To Knife May!
PM MAY, who had previously described her leadership as ‘strong and stable’, was yesterday struggling to keep her head above water as the Tory...
BANKS QUARTER PER CENT RATE CUT – Bosses warn ‘economic climate is worsening’
Yesterday’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision to cut interest rates from 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent, provoked worried reactions. The...
Bailiffs invade Brent occupation
THIRTY policemen and 20 bailiffs invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground anti-academy occupation at 6.30am Friday morning and used grinding equipment to remove Hank...
MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat
The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...
Alive! Rescue By Xmas
‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...
TUC National Day of Action on March 15!
There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
HEAVY CASUALTIES! – Thirteen Israeli soldiers killed and twelve wounded in Bint Jubayl
Hezbollah fighters yesterday inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli forces in fierce fighting in the town of Bint Jubayl two miles north of the...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...