NHS Staffing Crisis!

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...

Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’

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Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...

Cameron won’t fire Hunt

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RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
West London Council of Action pickets – determined to keep the Maternity Department open

‘We have to stop Ealing Maternity closure!’

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TRADE union members working at Ealing Hospital yesterday bought their tickets for next Tuesday’s meeting and pledged to march and occupy to defend the...

‘The World Must Act Now Or Never For A Palestinian State’

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FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...
Youth are fighting for their rights everywhere. Over 500 students marched yesterday to the occupied Bramber House building, University of Sussex after a lunchtime rally against the privatisation of non-academic services affecting 235 staff, many of whom b

‘Claim Your Money Back’ – Workfare Benefit Stopping Ruled Illegal

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THE COALITION government’s slave labour ‘Back to Work’ programme was dealt a major blow yesterday when, in a unanimous decision, three judges from the...

Train companies ‘trouser £1.3bn’

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THE TORIES have allowed train companies to ‘play the system’ collecting more than £1.3bn from the taxpayer for delayed services and passing only a...
Immigrant workers show up to give their support at the cleaners’ camp outside the Finance Ministry in Athens

Threat To Conscript Greek Power Workers

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POWER workers and technicians trades union GENOP have been threatened with ‘conscription’ by the Greek government. They began ‘rolling’ 48-hour strikes from midnight last night...

Tsipras Calls General Election

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a general election for June 30 following the heavy defeat in last Sunday’s Euro elections of his...
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...

Return to election campaign needs PM May’s agreement!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday was unable to say when campaigning in the general election – which was suspended by PM May in the wake...
Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...

Assange Ecuador Protests

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ECUADORIANS have taken to the streets in the capital Quito against the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the country’s embassy in London. The...

27,000 NHS Jobs To Go

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that nearly 27,000 NHS jobs have been earmarked to be cut in the UK, 18,000 of...

Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year

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THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...

Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital Under Siege!

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AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...

General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...

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SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
Students and teachers join together in a Westminster demonstration last July against the coalition’s ‘Big School Fiasco’

School buildings axe challenged

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A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...
Tens of thousands marched to condemn Israel’s massacre of aid workers on the ‘Mavi Marmara’ ship in June. A new convoy has now departed from London

Convoy Leaves For Gaza!

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THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...
Confident CWU strikers on the picket line at Shepherd’s Bush during their strike action on June 19

STRIKE! – Royal Mail Court bid fails

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THE Royal Mail bid to get the three-day London CWU postal strikes declared illegal failed yesterday late afternoon. The London reps meeting taking place in...

Patel approves Taser upgrades for police! – ‘Tasers kill’ warns Liberty

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‘TASERS can kill, and they are disproportionately used against people of colour,’ Rosalind Comyn of campaign group Liberty said yesterday. She was responding to Tory...

‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker

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TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...

College strikes

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‘WE ARE taking action as part of national co-ordinated action for a pay rise of at least 5%,' Julia Roberts, Lambeth University and College...

Bromley Workers Defend Jobs

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COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...
Relatives who lost loved ones at the hands of the British army and Sinn Fein MEP, Bairbre de Brun, and West Belfast Assembly member Jennifer McCann at the press conference

‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter

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Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...

Israel escalates Gaza slaughter as the UN confirms GENOCIDE!

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AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...

Tankers Strike Troops Stand By

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Formal talks between Unite trade union officials and Shell suppliers are due to resume today, as hundreds of petrol stations have begun closing. Informal talks...

‘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...
Campaigners outside Epsom Hospital on Friday  morning demanding a halt to closure plans

Stop The NHS Cuts!

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THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...

Cambridge to remain in NUS

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THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...

GREECE–Government days are numbered

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ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....

Hague And Gove Have Gone!

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TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the policies enforced by the now ex-Tory Education Secretary Gove, and resisted by hundreds of thousands of teachers...

Starmer aide McSweeney quits – who’s next?

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LABOUR leader and PM Keir Starmer’s position was further weakened yesterday as his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to quit amidst the...

‘More Children Than Ever Are Homeless!’

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THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday were demanding union leaders fight for every job

Bosses keeping Gourmet locked-out workers waiting

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‘IF I’m told I’m to be made compulsorily redundant I will not accept. I’m fighting for reinstatement and will not give up my claim...

END OCCUPATION – demands the Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtay-yeh yesterday called for a serious track to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and establish the Palestinian...
London Tube workers on a picket of Downing Street during the recent struggle of collapsed privateer Metronet

Safety Fears Halt Tube Lines!

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EMERGENCY brake problems that led to the suspension of the Hammersmith and City, Circle and District lines were first raised on Tuesday, London Underground’s...

Crisis Pre-Budget

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Britain has had to face ‘the toughest and most challenging year for the economy’ in which it has seen predicted economic growth halved to...
Striking Metroline TGWU drivers and engineers on the picket line at Willesden bus garage last Tuesday

METROLINE PROVOCATION! – Boss advises workers to look for other jobs

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The arrogance of Metroline’s boss in talks with the Transport and General Workers Union, coupled with the failure to move sufficiently on pay, means...
Trade unionists in chains outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding support for the Trade Union Freedom Bill

Bbc Unions To Go For Strike Ballot

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BBC journalists, technicians and production staff and electricians will be balloted for strike action if the BBC proceeds to call for ‘voluntary redundancies’ today,...
Chagossians with their Community Association banner, demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia, outside parliament yesterday

WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA – say Chagos Islanders

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A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...

Mordaunt replaces Patel Johnson next for sack!

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THE BREXIT-supporting minister for disabled people, Penny Mordaunt, yesterday was promoted to International Development Secretary by PM May replacing Israeli backed Priti...

PUT BUSH AND BLAIR ON TRIAL – urges just-freed Binyam Mohamed

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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...
Striking Swindon hospital workers about to board the coach to take them to Wolverhampton to tell the bosses of Carillion exactly what they think of them

Swindon Hospital Workers Lobby Carillion

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OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...
Campaigners took to the streets in London last November on the day Osborne announced permanent austerity in his Autumn Statement

Tory Cuts & Closures –A ‘Lethal Cocktail’

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‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...