No Impunity For Blair Says Reg Keys
OVER 100 bereaved relatives whose loved ones have been killed in the illegal war and occupation of Iraq were joined by MPs, peace campaigners...
50 GP surgeries taken over
New private health company ‘The Practice’ has taken over ChilversMcCrea Ltd to form a group that now runs 50 GP practices in England and...
More than 60,000 junior doctors taking strike action!
AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...
Brown Beefs Up Secret State
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...
Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure
‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’
OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...
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...
Tories launch war on ‘all extremism’
‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...
FREE PALESTINE! – TUC Congress votes for boycott of Israeli goods
THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...
Labour MPs lose no confidence votes!
TWO Labour MPs who lost no-confidence votes among local party members have told constituents they will not quit. Former minister, and chair of Labour...
5,000-strong London Al-Quds Day rally!
A POWERFUL Al-Quds Day 5,000-strong rally took place on the Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames yesterday afternoon from 1pm-3pm. The...
Stop W London A&E closures! – MP Slaughter appeals
THE government plans to close Hammersmith and Charing Cross A&Es, warns Labour MP Andy Slaughter, who is calling on everyone to demonstrate in Westminster...
Israel launches ‘war of extermination!’ – 274 killed in first few hours yesterday
THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...
Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!
UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...
Threat to sack firefighters!
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has condemned the commissioner of the London Fire Brigade after he threatened the entire workforce with the sack if...
SPECIALIST NURSES FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS – as the NHS heads for a £1.8...
VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...
Ealing Children’s Ward Must Be Re-Opened Urges Xmas Picket
THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...
Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...
MARCH WITH THE LOCKED-OUT GATE GOURMET WORKERS – through Southall on August 20
THE Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a warning that one year after 800 workers were sacked at Gate Gourmet the ‘dispute could...
‘WE WANT ACTION FOR JOBS’ says YS leader ’
OFFICIAL unemployment figures released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday, revealed that nearly two-and-a-half million people remain unemployed, one million of them youth. The...
‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’
Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers picket TGWU office
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Hillingdon Regional Office of the Transport and General Workers Union yesterday. They told fellow union members that their employment...
HEARTLESS EVICTION! – GMB hires a lawyer for sacked school caretaker and family
The GMB trade union yesterday revealed its fears that many more ex-Southwark council school caretakers could face the same frightening threats of eviction as...
Tory free school ‘lunacy!’
THE Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition is cracking up, with the latest row breaking out over free schools and school places funding in England, with allies...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
500 universities & colleges strike! – to defend pensions and fight pay cuts
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...
DEFEND MAIL CENTRES – with strike action across the country
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders yesterday condemned Royal Mail’s announcement of major automated sorting centre closures affecting Liverpool, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport and Crewe...
Teachers Will March On Tory Party Conference!
TEACHERS will march on the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in early October, with all teaching unions on strike together at the time, to...
BHUTTO KILLED BY THE MILITARY – Revolution erupts throughout Pakistan
Yesterday, at 6.16pm local time (13.16 GMT), Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi General Hospital after being shot in the neck...
Schools facing financial cliff edge! – warning from IFS
THE GOVERNMENT’S new National Funding Formula will see schools facing a ‘financial cliff edge’, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned yesterday. It warned that...
Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!
JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...
Greek Concentration Camps For Illegal Immigrants
THE Greek Assistant Minister for Public Order M Othonas said on Wednesday morning that the first concentration camp for alleged ‘illegal immigrants’ could be...
‘Axe The Bedroom Tax!’
‘AXE, axe the Bedroom Tax!’ chanted protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning, before the opening of an appeal against the hated...
Wages being slashed!
PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...
BRING DOWN COALITION! –to defend jobs, benefits, the NHS & rights
‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...
TATA SACKING THOUSANDS – McCluskey praises Cameron and temporary nationalisation
TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...
‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite
‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
Short Shoots Down Blair
NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...
‘CATASTROPHE IN PAKISTAN’ – say 200 demonstrators
‘THE average, common individual can’t get anything, there is no flour, no diesel, there are only a few hours of electricity – the whole...
GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today
A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...
Come to our conference on January 29TH
THERE was a determined picket of locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the Beacon Hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. It is now nearly five months...
NO ‘COMPROMISE AGREEMENT!’ say Gate Gourmet workers
SHOP Stewards representing the 670 locked out Gate Gourmet workers are meeting Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley at the union’s...
‘Regime Change At Bbc’
THE BBC must undergo a radical overhaul said chairman of the BBC Trust Chris Patten yesterday. Speaking in the wake of Saturday evening’s resignation by...
MPs SLAM UNIVERSAL CREDIT!
Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...