Teachers at breaking point – over Covid restrictions
THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...
12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year
THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...
South Africa warns Israel over genocide
SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The...
Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing
PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...
No Academy Here!
YESTERDAY students at Crown Woods School in Eltham were on strike against management’s decision to turn the school into an academy. Students gathered outside the...
Two million Gazans face hunger, thirst, disease, fear & flooding!
MORE than two million people in the Gaza Strip are besieged by hunger, thirst, disease and fear and obtaining meals has become an impossible...
Cancer research strikers join Maudsley picket
THERE was a lively picket, at the Maudsley hospital in Camberwell, south east London yesterday of over 50 estate maintainance workers. They were joined, by...
‘NO DILUTION OF SAFETY’ – Crow warns of Thames Waterway industrial action
‘There must be no dilution of safety and if we find that our members are put in danger then there will have to be...
NO STRIKES–WAGE FREEZE – agreed by Unite
CALLUM MacLean, Ineos Grangemouth chairman, was exultant yesterday as he told the media that Unite the union had agreed to a three-year pay freeze,...
‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’
‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...
Serco strikers want national demo!
‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...
NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’
NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...
GAZA’S CROSSINGS CLOSED – ‘An act of collective punishment’
THE Gaza Centre for Human Rights has condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between...
Chagos Islanders protest at the Hague
CHAGOS Islanders travelled from the UK to Holland yesterday to protest outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague to demand the right...
Close Down Torture Camp!
The United States government is torturing inmates at its Guantanamo Bay concentration camp on the tip of Cuba, and it should be shut down. That...
Chase Farm ‘needs its A&E back – not a new sign!’
ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...
‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch
‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...
MEDICAL EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK! – Don’t lift fees cap says BMA
‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...
Tories Escalate War On NHS!
AS THE junior doctors ended their latest four-day strike at 7.00am yesterday morning, Tory Health Minister Will Quince kicked out at them and NHS...
Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey
‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...
FBU ‘will Strike Against Wage Cuts’
AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...
‘We fully support the junior doctors strike!’ say 2,500 doctors in letter to Cameron
MORE than 2,500 consultants, GPs and senior doctors have delivered a letter to Downing Street saying this week’s all-out strike by junior doctors will...
‘STRIKE ON THE CARDS’ – as four departments face closure at Liverpool University
Strike action is ‘on the cards’ to defend Liverpool University departments. The philosophy, politics and communications and statistics departments at Liverpool University are still at...
MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m
FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...
Student nurse numbers plummet again
THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...
Gate Gourmet mass picket Sunday
‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...
DEVON NHS PCT CRISIS! – all 5,000 employers offered offered voluntary redundancy
All five thousand Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) employees across the county have been sent a letter offering voluntary redundancy as a cost-cutting measure....
‘Compromise deal collapsing’ say Gate Gourmet workers
HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...
NURSES DEMANDING A DOUBLE DIGIT PAY RISE – says RCN leader Cullen
NURSES require a ‘double-digit’ pay rise! This was the message of the leader of the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) Pat Cullen yesterday, ahead of...
The Great Care Home Massacre!
A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
Student loans privatised! – Birmingham University occupied!
BIRMINGHAM students have occupied their university, pre-empting yesterday’s announcement that Student Loans are to be sold off by the Tory coalition government...
70,000 lecturers vote for national university strike
Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities are to strike after University and College Union (UCU) members overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ in two historic national ballots. The...
‘Forward to workers power’
OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...
Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi Freed
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...
Save London Met! 120 jobs at risk!
‘SAVE London Met – 120 Jobs at Risk!’ was the call from a mass rally of workers and students outside the Holloway Road site...
Gate Gourmet workers support French strikers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, on their picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, spoke out in support of the French airport workers who are...
CIVILIANS WERE ‘SAFELY TRANSPORTED’ says Hashim al-Tai
The show trial in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone of captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and six other co-defendants continued yesterday, over the so-called Anfal...
NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!
A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...
Miliband rats on the unions
LABOUR Party leader Miliband stepped up his attacks on the trade unions yesterday, announcing plans to end the automatic ‘affiliation’ fee paid by three...
3-million-strong Tehran rally!
IRAN’S President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday hailed the ‘magnificent and epic’ presence of millions of Iranians in nationwide rallies on Monday. In a message to the...
‘SHOW NHS NO MERCY’ – says Cameron advisor
Prime minister Cameron’s adviser Mark Britnell has urged that the NHS be ‘shown no mercy’, adding that the government’s planned health ‘reform’ is a...
‘I will not stop’ fighting for justice for Rashan!
‘I WILL not stop with this case while I’m still breathing,’ Rod Charles vowed yesterday. Rod Charles is the great uncle of Rashan Charles...
‘NO VICTIMISATIONS!’ – Carillion workers rally today
WORKERS at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital are holding a mass lunchtime rally outside the hospital today, against victimisation by their multi-national privateer employer Carillion. Swindon...
Teachers & lecturers take action over Pensions!
THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...
Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!
THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...