TEACHERS MASS STRIKE ACTI0N! – fighting for a 12% pay rise

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TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...

Unis strike action Dec 3rd

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UNIVERSITY staff across the UK will walk out for a second day of strike action on Tuesday December 3rd, trade unions representing university...

Miliband Hits Out At The Trade Unions

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THE MILIBAND leadership of the Labour Party is to invite non-party members to vote for the party leader in future elections, in an attempt...

Ucl Rent Strike

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OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...

UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps

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TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...
Amicus and TGWU members campaigning to defend jobs at Peugeot’s Ryton plant were joined by Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside the International Motor Show in east London

Call a Day of Action to defend jobs and services!

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GATE GOURMET locked out workers joined the Amicus and TGWU campaign to save Peugeot jobs at the International Motor Show in Docklands, east London...
Junior doctors midday rally in Hackney

‘No option but to escalate!’ says Doctor Malawana

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...

BA SUSPENSIONS ‘TEST OF THE UNION’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE GATE Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited by Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley and the union’s General...

Maudsley CEO joins strikers on the picket line!

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STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...

‘READY TO STRIKE’ –angry Wolverhampton NHS Trust workers reject over 300 job...

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UNISON yesterday backed ‘extremely angry’ members at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, who have voted in a consultative ballot for strike action in defence of...
Cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes and supporters arriving for the first day of the inquest on September 22nd

De Menezes Defiance

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Members of the Jean Charles de Menezes family refused to listen to the coroner’s summing up at the young Brazilian’s inquest yesterday, in protest...

No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas

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HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...
Defend the NHS demo at Barts Hospital in central London

Unison condemns A&E charges for migrants

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TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...
Junior doctors picketing North Middlesex Hospital during their strike on February 10th – they are fighting an imposed contract for a safer NHS

A&E patients told ‘go home!’

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MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...
CWU members and officials lobbying the Unite head office displayed their giant postcard to Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson

STOP THE STRIKEBREAKERS – CWU tells Unite

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Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday, to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...

Abbas welcomes 81 UK MPs condemnation of mass evictions

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JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has welcomed the letter by 81 British parliamentarians to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, calling...

Three new junior doctors strikes

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JUNIOR doctors in England have confirmed three further strike dates. In a BMA ballot of junior doctors last November, 98 per cent of those who...

‘They bang your head on a wall – then give you a hot meal’

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SHAKER Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, has spoken out about his treatment at detention centres in the US and Afghanistan,...
Marching in defence of the NHS on its 63rd anniversary last July

‘DROP THE HEALTH BILL!’ – demand 365 GPs

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‘It is essential that the Health Bill is scrapped. Unison is completely opposed to the Health Bill. We are right behind the doctors who...

Motor Bosses Threaten Thousands Of Jobs!

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‘We have made it clear that yesterday’s announcement was a good start but it will not in itself be quick enough to offset potentially...

Suspend Ofsted inspections demands teachers union NEU – Exams for 2021 cancelled in Wales...

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‘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...
2,500 march in Berne to support Gate Gourmet workers

‘parent Power’ To Defeat Trusts

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The leaders of Britain’s biggest teachers’ union, the National Union of Teachers, are appealing to ‘parent power’ to defeat the government’s ‘trust schools’...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...

CIA Waterboarded Suspect 83 Times

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INTERROGATION methods, including ‘dunking suspects in icy water’ and ‘smashing a prisoner’s head against a wall’ are included in a long-awaited US Senate report,...

123,000 Children Spent School Holiday Homeless

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MORE than 123,000 children and their families have spent their school holiday homeless, an increase of around 53,000 since the summer holidays of 2011,...
Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow outside their Employment Tribunal last week – the Irish SIPTU union is concerned over the company’s ‘profiling’ of its workforce in Dublin

‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin

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Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...
Doctors at the Local Medical Committees conference yesterday said exactly what they thought of Health Secretary Hunt

‘GPs – patients champions!’

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GPs at the BMA Local Medical Committees annual conference in London yesterday debated motions in relation to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his policies. They...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...
Students break through the locked gates at Senate House during their protest against police violence and management’s plan to close ULU

Students March Against Police Brutality

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OVER 2,000 students demonstrated outside the University of London Student Union yesterday to express their anger at the attack by the university management on...
Teachers lobbying the Department for Education earlier this month demanding a 5 per cent pay rise will be angry their 3.5 per cent pay rise is a pay cut

Tory pay rise is a pay cut!

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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

STAND TOGETHER!–RMT urges Southern rail staff

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THE RMT transport union yesterday called on Southern rail staff to stand together and reject a divisive and tainted company plan to destroy safety...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

Points-based immigration system launched!

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TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...

New Police Bill attacks right to protest! – Labour votes against

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‘THIS GOVERNMENT was elected a year ago on a manifesto to support the police and uphold law and order,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel...
Locked-out Vivergo workers from Hull marching in London last month for support for their struggle. One of their union officials has been arrested

GMB official arrested

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A GMB National Officer was arrested at the protest against the lockout of 430 workers at BP Saltend, in Hull yesterday morning. GMB national officer...

PA signs £80m Gaza reconstruction deal with UN

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WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine...

‘MORE PEOPLE SET TO DIE FROM FIRES’ – Letter to PM May warns

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THE TORY government has been slammed over lack of preventative action, with PM Theresa May being warned that more people are set to die...

Cwu ‘yes’ To Strike Action

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POSTAL workers in London have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in an attempt to protect jobs and services from arbitrary cuts. Martin Walsh,...

BANKS FACE WIPEOUT! – Labour hints at state takeover

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The first banks to get money under the UK government’s £500bn bank rescue plan are expected to do so this morning. Over the weekend, the...

Israeli massacres across Gaza and West Bank

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‘THE Israeli occupation army has committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing and injuring at...
Rochdale Unison members marching against the coalition cuts last March

UNISON ROCHDALE STRIKE VOTE! – In defence of pay and conditions

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UNISON members at Rochdale Council have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in defence of their terms and conditions of employment. The ballot was held after...

Driving the sick back to work! – private company to displace GP practices

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DOCTORS have slammed a new scheme to drive workers who are sick back to work. The extremely controversial proposal will see workers who are off...
Youth and workers marching through central London against the Coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in July

‘They are tearing the heart out of the NHS’ – says Kevin O’Brien Epsom...

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‘THEY are tearing the heart out of the hospital,’ said Epsom and St Helier NHS Unison branch secretary Kevin O’Brien yesterday. He was responding to...
Watford postal workers outside the CWU conference in Bournemouth on Friday

‘WE ARE READY FOR A FIGHT’ – CWU postal worker delegates speak to News...

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Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...

Fear of masses dominates EU talks

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BOTH the UK and the EU claimed yesterday that ‘progress’ is being made in the Brexit talks. Unresolved issues include intellectual property, data protection, the...