The Great Pensions Robbery! Millions worse off under pension ‘reforms’
MILLIONS of workers will be worse off under state pension reforms, the TUC warned yesterday. New research published by the TUC found that the vast...
Labour Calls For An Emergency Budget!
LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...
94.5% yes for post strike – CWU leaders run away!
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...
CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! – as Royal Mail gets injunction declaring CWU strikes...
POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...
Doctors To Take Action Over 1% Pay Offer
SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...
Ukraine Ceasefire Agreed
KIEV officials and representatives of the People’s Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group...
Iran launches missiles on Israel! – warns any retaliation will meet a ‘crushing’ response
IRAN launched more than 200 ballistic missiles on Israel yesterday in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well...
50 MILLION REFUGEES! – warns Amnesty
‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...
Iran drives US and Israel back!
Iran’s top security body says the powerful Iranian military response as part of True Promise III forced the Israeli regime to halt its aggression unilaterally. The...
3 Years Of Guards Strikes
HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
Israel Plans To Execute Palestinian Prisoners!
THE Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) national security committee for approving a draft law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. In a...
Civil Service Mayhem
PLANS reported yesterday morning to close all but a handful of HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) 160 remaining UK offices would be ‘devastating’ and...
‘WE WILL WIN!’ – call for support at News Line-Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ conference
‘WE MUST not allow the Gate Gourmet workers to be starved. ‘The whole trade union movement must rally round and provide the funds and make...
‘HE’S SHIFTED DEFICIT ONTO THE POOREST!’ – McDonnell condemns Hammond
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond promised in his Spring Statement to MPs yesterday in Parliament to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the...
University staff step up struggle
MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...
Greek Workers & Small Farmers Occupy!
WORKERS and small farmers are in occupation for over a week now of the large state owned EBZ sugar-beets factory in Thessaloniki, northern Greece,...
GPs–‘conflict of interest!’
MORE than a third of GPs on the boards of the new clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have a conflict of interest resulting...
KIDNAP & TORTURE – British government knew say judges
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...
Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing
The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...
Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet
THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...
27,000 NHS Jobs To Go
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...
Half a million on London Nakba march for Palestine
MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined London’s Nakba 77 march on Downing Street in support of Palestine on Saturday. As it...
Islamic Republic defending its territory
THE Islamic Republic’s first and foremost priority is a ‘decisive and firm’ battle to defend its territory against the ongoing unprovoked US-Israeli war of...
March Reaches Stoke
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education campaigned at Keele University yesterday, where students bought tickets for the Meet the March...
Corbyn, McDonnell on their knees
LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...
BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war
Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...
Britain Wants To Legalise ‘indefinite Internment’
GOVERNMENTS around the world will be watching the House of Lords proceedings on 29-31 October which will determine whether they can...
Landlord seeking ‘Benefit Cap’ possession orders!
HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...
Second day of Ealing Hospital strike
EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...
Miliband pledges £8 minimum wage
ADDRESSING the party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Labour leader Miliband pledged to increase the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour over the...
Midwives angry over pensions attack
MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...
Fire Deaths Up–Funding Down!
THE FBU has revealed that firefighters dealt with more incidents, more fires and saw more fire deaths last year than for most of the...
‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises
THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
Smash The Health Bill
Public sector union Unison and the TUC have called a candle-lit vigil outside parliament at 9.30pm on September 7th, as the Health and Social...
‘We need Ealing Maternity!’
TODAY is the final day for Ealing Hospital Maternity, but the residents and staff remain completely angry at the planned closure. They are marching through...
McCluskey surrenders! before a shot is even fired
ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...
Nationwide Post Office strike
‘UNLESS we fight now, the future of the whole of the Post Office network is threatened. The high street Post Offices will no longer...
Harland & Wolff in administration
WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
GMB members £20,000 back pay – as UK Express settles
THE GMB has claimed ‘another groundbreaking victory for members who have bogus self-employment claims in driving and logistics sectors’ against national logistics company UK...
LONDON UNDERGROUND TOTAL SHUTDOWN JULY 26 & 28 – ASLEF joining RMT on strike
ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...
FBU condemns strikebreakers!
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...
NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members
Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
GMB exposes venture capitalist
The GMB trade union yesterday launched a campaign outside Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common, south London, to stop venture capitalists asset-stripping the AA. The...
3-DAY BELGIAN POSTAL STRIKE! – against the privateers
Over 30,000 Belgian postal workers began a three-day strike yesterday against privatisation to defend their jobs, pay and working conditions. Postal unions...
BILLIONS FOR BOSSES AND BANKERS – while its the sack and wage cuts for...
Chancellor Darling yesterday handed more billions to business in his pre-budget report, while making it clear the working class will be expected to pay...