Inflation to soar–King

0
‘INFLATION is likely to rise further in the near future,’ Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King warned yesterday, describing it as ‘stubbornly above...

BRING ARMY INTO SCHOOLS! – urges Chief of Defence Staff Guthrie

0
Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

Emi – 2,000 Jobs To Go

0
EMI is to announce tomorrow that 2,000 jobs are to go as part of a major restructuring plan. Jobs will go throughout the company,...

Cameron Beats War Drums

0
PRIME Minister Cameron is to set out his strategy on Syria and tackling the Islamic State group in the region before MPs this week. He...

Tribunal Fees Challenge

0
UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...

Launch Of Work Till You Drop Pension Plan

0
Yesterday’s pensions announcement went down like a lead balloon with pensioners who were expecting immediate action to index link the state pension with average...

NHS rationing hitting the elderly – warn surgeons

0
RATIONING is denying many thousands of patients much-needed surgery, leaving them in excruciating, unnecessary pain as NHS trusts proscribe certain procedures in unofficial ‘local...

Russian trucks cross border!

0
RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...

END PFI NOW! – demands Unison as mass hospital closures threaten

0
THREE London hospitals face the threat of immediate closure as a result of PFI-induced bankruptcy, it emerged yesterday. In the first case of its kind,...

NO NHS CUTS! – says UNISON Conference

0
THE UNISON National Delegate Conference voted unanimously yesterday to oppose cuts to the National Health Service and against privatisation by the Labour government. The main...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

0
DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!

0
MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...

Iran dismisses claims that a deal with the US is imminent

0
IRAN has dismissed claims that an agreement with the US is imminent or that the nuclear file and management of the Strait of Hormuz...
Steelworkers from Port Talbot, Teesside, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire lobbied parliament on October 28th. Many of them called for occupations and a national strike to secure the nationalisation of the steel industry

NATIONALISE TATA! –Occupy to defend jobs and stop the sackings

0
THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...

Foreign doctors witness a dire situation & war crimes in Gaza!

0
FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...

Tanker drivers being ‘driven into conflict’ – says Unite trade union leadership

0
TANKER drivers are being driven to strike action, the Unite trade union warned yesterday. The UK’s major oil companies, retailers and independents providing fuel for...

‘Schools can only remain open where it is safe for them to do so!’...

0
Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers union, has called on the government to take further action on school safety in light...
Doctors in Rugby demanding out with polyclinics

NHS – CLOSE AND PRIVATISE SAYS CBI – as government welcomes report

0
Public sector union UNISON yesterday rejected a call from the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) for ‘failing’ hospitals to be closed and replaced...

Israel massacres Palestinians in Nablus – 3 killed, 40 wounded

0
A NEW massacre of Palestinians, which left three people dead and more than 40 wounded, was committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the...

Israeli Tanks Mass On Border Fence!

0
AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday...
RMT general secretary MICK CASH and his assistant STEVE HEDLEY were adamant that in the interests of its passengers the rail industry must be renationalised

RMT Protest At Rail Rip-Off Fares

0
REGULATED rail fares will increase by 3.6% from January 2018 it was announced yesterday, as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) figure for July was...

AMAZON ACCUSED OF DIRTY TRICKS – as GMB withdraws bid for recognition

0
AMAZON was yesterday accused of ‘dirty tricks’ as the GMB withdrew its recognition bid. Amazon refuses to pay workers a decent wage, but are paying...
Bailiffs cutting their way through the chain binding occupier Hank Roberts to a pole

Bailiffs invade Brent occupation

0
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...
A section of Saturday’s 25,000-strong ‘Gaza Flotilla March’ makes its way towards the Israeli Embassy in Kensington

‘Break The Siege’ Call From Gaza

0
A call has come from the University Teachers’ Association, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and 31 other Gaza civil...

Victory to the Crown Post Office strikers!

0
‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

Tories send refugee children into the hands of smugglers

0
‘LET me be clear, the decision to cancel the Dubs scheme after admitting only 350 lone refugee children shames Britain. It must not...
Ambulance staff taking strike action in October – they know that doubling ambulance times will cost people’s lives

Plans to double ambulance times condemned!

0
DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...

Famine Spreads In Gaza!

0
AT LEAST 15 people, including four children, died from famine and malnutrition in Gaza yesterday, the Health Ministry reports. Israeli forces also killed at least...
Striking London firefighters demonstrated on Monday night outside the Southwark fire station where a number of attacks were made on them

‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters

0
THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...

209,000 Miss Out On University

0
Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...

Blair Calls For Intervenion In Somalia And Sudan

0
Prime Minister Blair yesterday said UK forces had to be ready for action in Sudan and Somalia as part of a policy of foreign...

RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act!

0
THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...
BMA delegates voting to defend the NHS at yesterday’s consultants conference in London

WE’LL STOP NHS PRIVATISATION – say BMA consultants

0
‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...

Colleges Going Bust!

0
SIXTH Form Colleges ‘cannot survive on starvation rations.’ One third say that they will go bust and shut down by 2020 if the massive...

RMT calls new round of strikes – Rail bosses cancelled talks ‘at one hour’s...

0
THE RMT rail union will hold a series of 48-hour strikes in December and January after industry bosses failed to offer any new deals...

PLO slams US-sponsored Bahrain conference

0
THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) issued a statement slamming the US-sponsored conference in Bahrain on its second and final day yesterday: ‘The PLO Executive Committee...

Syriza Ready To Accept 70% Of Austerity Programme

0
THE Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Monday evening ended without agreement between the EU and Greece, after the Greek Finance Minister...
Over 50 Tesco distribution drivers on 90 days notice came down to Westminster yesterday to defend their jobs

Drivers fighting Tesco sacking deal!

0
‘WE see it as nothing but a “dirty deal” from Tesco,’ Unite shop steward Trev Cheetham said outside Tesco’s, near to Parliament, yesterday. Over...
Junior doctors last month said gender inequalities that the contract imposes are as bad as the days of the Suffragettes

Hunt agrees to talks!–as junior doctors call to scrap new contract

0
HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...

Palestinians Form Unity Government

0
Palestinian leaders unveiled a new unity government yesterday that they hope will stop months of deadly factional violence and end a crippling international aid...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers discussing with Unite union co-leader Derek Simpson who said ‘if there is injustice I am very concerned’

Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call

0
ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...

‘Rampant Capitalism & Wage Robbery!’

0
THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...

TORIES ‘FORCING’ WEEKEND RAIL STRIKES – insist ASLEF’s Whelan and the RMT’s Lynch

0
ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...

193 Palestinians killed in 24hrs by Israeli forces!

0
A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...

Angry Nurses To Escalate Strikes!

0
NURSES’ strike action will escalate and spread across the UK in the new year, after RCN Scotland members overwhelmingly voted to reject the Scottish...