RMT demonstration yesterday morning at Waterloo Station demanding South West Trains keeps their guards on trains in the interest of passenger safety

‘Keep guards on trains’ demands RMT

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AS CHINESE state-owned MTR takes over the South West Trains (SWT) contract, the RMT rail union has called on the new owner to honour...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....
Unite leaders WOODLEY and SIMPSON (left of picture), on the London May Day march, were yesterday unable to give a

Jaguar – 1300 Jobs To Go!

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The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...
Carillion strikers at Swindon Hospital allege very bad treatment from their employer

Police-MI5 worked to blacklist trade unionists!

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It has emerged that the police, MI5 and other security services supplied information to a blacklist compiled for and funded by Carillion and...
Rose Gentle at the Military Families Against the War Camp opposite Downing Street, yesterday with a letter demanding Blair meet the families

Mothers Camp Outside Downing Street

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The mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, along with mothers of serving soldiers, are camping outside Downing Street this weekend. Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son...

ICC defends arrest warrants for leading Israeli officials!

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THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has staunchly defended his decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials over war crimes in Gaza,...
A delegation of nurses and representatives of patient charities outside Downing Street yesterday

Rcn Demands ‘A Pause’

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A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...
Postal workers and pensioners demonstrating together in Mill Hill

‘THERE WILL BE NATIONAL ACTION!’ – over Royal Mail sack threats and Post Office...

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‘There will be national action on Royal Mail and I would think Counters will be involved. The whole country will come out now,’ Greenford...

Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force

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DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
Maternity nurses marching in Enfield to save Chase Farm Hospital where the Maternity Department is currently ‘under review’

Maternity and A&E departments being cut and closed

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‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...

WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers

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RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

£8,000 pay cuts imposed on Heathrow’s workforce!

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HORRIFIC pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of...
GMB Carillion members on strike at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – unions are calling for all contracts to be brought back in-house

INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT

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‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...
London firefighters lobbying against cuts. They are now taking action against attacks on their working conditions

8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!

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Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are aiming for a New Year victory!

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‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...

Capitalist debt transferred to the poor – McDonnell indicts Spring Statement

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‘I AM pleased to report to the House on a UK economy that has grown in every year since 2010,’ Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond...

Labour targets disabled with £5bn cuts

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LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...
Saturday’s demonstration in London which demanded all attacks on Syria must halt immediately

British crisis frightens Obama

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US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

Imf Orders More Irish ‘Repossessions’

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THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...

40,000 NHS Staff Off Work Sick – In A Single Day

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YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...
Metronet workers lobbying 10 Downing Street last month demanding an end to the public/ private partnership on the tube

‘Guarantee our jobs by Wednesday or we strike’

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If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...
The front banners set the tone for the demonstration – solidarity with the Palestinians and Revolution is the Solution!

‘The Solution–Revolution’

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MORE THAN 25,000 students marched through London yesterday against the Tory led Coalition’s £9000 tuition fees and its plans to privatise education. Marchers proudly...

Fight Barking NHS Jobs Massacre!

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THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

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...
Marchers in central London last Saturday demanding ‘End the siege of Gaza’ cheered the resignation of Foreign Office Minister Warsi

SECOND MINISTER QUITS – Another considering his position

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A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...

UK lawyers for Israel demand to shut down Palestinian camp

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UK Lawyers for Israel have written to Wandsworth Labour council’s interim chief executive to demand the closure of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal)...

General Strike For Palestine!

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YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...

Israeli military continues to pound eastern Rafah!

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OVERNIGHT and throughout yesterday morning, the Israeli military continued to pound parts of eastern Rafah city. The majority of residential homes and farmland have been...
Indian NHS doctors demonstrating against the Labour Government’s policy that is taking away their jobs

D of H wants to establish 1280 Private GP practices

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Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that GP healthcare is in danger of being taken over and monopolised by private companies. Meanwhile, the doctors’ magazine Pulse...

Hunt rationing healthcare!

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The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...
London Overground Travel Safe officers in the RMT are fighting for sick pay, job security and proper contracts

RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!

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RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...
Protesters campaigning against the notorious claiuse 118/119 that allows Health Secretary Hunt to close hospitals at will

Fury Over Pay For NHS Plan!

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PATIENTS, and trade unions have all strongly rejected South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) suggestion that NHS patients should pay for their own walking...

UK To Cut And Run From Kabul

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PM Cameron has announced that 3,800 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan next year. Troop numbers are being cut from 9,500 to 9,000...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil

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THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...

British Troops In Syria!

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THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...

‘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...
CAROL DUGGAN (centre) with MARCIA RIGG (right) marching in Tottenham

‘ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE!’ – Duggan family slams cover-up

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‘ANOTHER slap in the face!’ was the verdict of Pam Duggan in response to Tuesday’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report which cleared ...
South London Mail Centre and Delivery Office CWU members picketing last Friday in their unofficial action against management imposed changes

Liverpool Stays Out – No To Imposed Flexibility

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MORE than 800 Liverpool postal workers remain on strike today against the imposition of ‘flexibility’ by Royal Mail. The action continues while the CWU Executive...

Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!

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WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

‘People’s Convoy’ to rescue refugees! – 69,000 to march in London

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REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...

The prince and the oligarch

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AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

JOIN OUR MASS PICKET ON 10th FEBRUARY

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are inviting all their supporters to join them on their six-month anniversary picket on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout,...

‘US jobs haemorrhaging’ 26m now unemployed

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‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...

Parliament has no veto right over British people says Davis

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TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis yesterday urged MPs to reject the two House of Lords amendments to the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill....