How the US government murdered Soleimani!

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NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...

Massachusetts teachers win ‘illegal’ strike!

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TEACHERS in Haverhill, Massachusetts, have won their strike held last week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking,...
Junior doctors, health workers and supporters joined the mass picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital during the January 12th nationwide strike – they are out again on February 10th

Junior doctors strike on!

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THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...

Youth demand at least £10 an hour

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‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

‘NO RETREAT’ say striking lecturers

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LECTURERS at 140 universities and colleges of higher education across the UK took national strike action yesterday, vowing: ‘We will not back down on...
Protest outside the BMA GPs conference last month, which voted against the introduction of charges

Crippling mental health beds crisis!

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A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...

Ukraine Ceasefire Agreed

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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...

UK Martial Law plan

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A REPORT published in error on National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) website and quickly taken down, has revealed a secret plan for the deployment...
Junior doctors demonstrating three days before their last strike which won mass support

‘Escalate strike action! End the imposition’ says Junior Doctors Committee

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‘THE Junior Doctors Committee has made clear the decision that further industrial action is inevitable and that we will consider escalating any action to...

RMT demands inspection of all fire detection equipment

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TUBE union RMT is to leaflet rush-hour passengers at Euston station tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 11 over cuts to safety and safety-critical jobs. This follows...
Demonstration against a forced academy at St Andrew & St Francis School in Brent

Large Scale Academy Cuts!

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LARGE cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial...

Clarke Sacked – Refuses Other Job

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One of the most senior figures in government, an unwilling Charles Clarke was yesterday sacked as home secretary in the biggest cabinet reshuffle of...
Young people marching to the Israeli Embassy in London to denounce Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!

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RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...
Irish Congress of trade Unions demonstration in Dublin in September highlighting the 455,000 unemployed – set for a massive increase with the austerity budget

Irish Workers March Against Austerity

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The President and the General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have urged people to join today’s national demonstration in Dublin,...

CWU votes to Boycott Private Mail!

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Members of the Communication Workers Union representing 160,000 employees in Royal Mail Group yesterday morning voted unanimously in favour of a mail boycott if...
A ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally on the Millennium Bridge yesterday morning makes its message very clear

Refugees Are Welcome Here

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‘HAVE a heart London,’ chanted a whole crowd of Refugees Welcome demonstrators waving red hearts on the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames yesterday. One...

British families: the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic

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British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...

270,000 Civil Servants Ballot For Strike

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday announced that it will start a strike ballot today of 270,000 PCS members working for the...
Demonstration in Wembley against Copland Community School being forced to become an Academy

‘FAILING TOO MANY PUPILS!’ – biggest Academy chain in England condemned

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THE biggest academy chain in England has been accused by Ofsted of ‘failing too many pupils’. Inspectors say that almost half of pupils at secondary...
RMT members picket Transport for London demanding permanent employment

RMT Strike Action Vote

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TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...

‘Keep going to win your demands’ – says UCU President

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STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...

Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed of Palestine Action remain on hunger strike

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HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the TUC

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

4.5 million in insecure work

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FOUR-and-a-half-million people in England and Wales are in insecure work, reveals new analysis by Citizens Advice. The national charity says insecure work – where people...

Tuc Calls For Inquiry Into ‘Back To Work’ Regime

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THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...

Save Lewisham Shopping Centre! – demand hundreds on local march

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MORE than 200 Lewisham residents turned out on Sunday afternoon to march and protest against the collaboration of the south east London Labour Council...

One in ten in ‘insecure’ work!

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THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

6th Form strikes escalating

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ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...

Israel committing massacres in Gaza – 3,000 dead, 1,000 children, 1,000 still under rubble

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ISRAEL headed towards an air, land and sea attack on Gaza yesterday, having killed more than 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, during the...
Marchers on behalf of Grenfell Tower fire victims setting off to Parliament from Shepherd’s Bush Green yesterday

‘Labour a government in waiting’ – Corbyn responds to Queen’s Speech

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‘MY GOVERNMENT’S priority is to secure the best possible deal as the country leaves the European Union,’ the Queen said yesterday, outlining the Tory...
March in Ealing on April 26 against the closure of the Ealing, Charing Cross, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals

STOP NHS STAFF CUTS – says Safe Staffing Alliance

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SENIOR nurses have issued a warning about unsafe staffing levels on hospital wards in England. The Safe Staffing Alliance, which includes the Royal College of...
Nurses on a demonstration fighting against the cutting of nurses bursaries – there is now a shortfall of 35,000 nurses

Restore student nurses bursaries

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NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...
The North-East London Council of Action held another successful picket yesterday against the threatened closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield

Occupy To Stop Chase Farm Closure

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‘WE’RE having a good picket today, with plenty of support for an occupation of Chase Farm Hospital,’ said Bill Rogers, North-East London Council of...

‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...

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ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

IRISH WORKERS SIT-IN – Fighting 90 redundancies

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WORKERS are occupying the Calcast car parts factory in Campsie, just outside Derry in the north of Ireland. The plant, a subsidiary of the...

‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill

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MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...

45 Police To Have Anonymity At de Menezes Inquest

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ALL 45 police officers’ applications for anonymity at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes have been approved, it was announced...

Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members

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UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...

Air Attack On Lugansk Is A War Crime

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The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...

‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...

Truss To Lift Cap On Bankers’ Bonuses!

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PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...
Cadbury’s workers singing Christmas carols outside the Cadbury Schweppes headquarters in Berkeley Square yesterday. The company wants to export their jobs to Poland

Factory Price Inflation Spurs Jobs Crisis!

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Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...

TORTURE CONTINUES! ‘IT’S NOT ALL OVER’ – states Binyam Mohamed

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‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...
North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

Closure Threat To ‘failing’ NHS Trusts!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the threat of closure hanging over a number of NHS hospitals. This followed data published yesterday...