REINSTATE ENFIELD GP – Haringey BMA condemns surgery closure
A MEETING of Enfield and Haringey Division of the BMA yesterday stated that it was appalled by the treatment of Dr...
Amnesty condemns the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip!
ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...
‘WE’RE NOT BORDER GUARDS’ – say doctors’ leaders yesterday
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition government announced yesterday that it intends to charge all ‘non-EU nationals’ who come to Britain £200 a year for access to...
Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!
DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...
Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood
A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....
NHS strike solid!
ANGRY NHS workers were on picket lines outside hospitals and ambulance stations around the country yesterday as around half-a-million members of ten health...
Mosul civilian deaths and refugee crisis – Battle for Mosul intensifies
HUNDREDS of men, women and children are being killed in US-led air strikes on the city of Mosul in Iraq, and as the battle...
Eu-Ukrainian Deal!
EU leaders yesterday signed an Association Agreement with the Ukrainian coupist government. It is a watered-down version of the agreement that the overthrown President...
AN ACT OF PIRACY! – Israel attacks Gaza-bound flotilla
Pro-Palestinian activists reported yesterday that Israeli forces are intercepting a flotilla of more than 50 boats carrying aid for Gaza in international waters west...
Police Riot In Athens
GREEK workers and youth demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands last Wednesday throughout the country as part of a 24-hour general strike against the...
Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf
‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...
Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza
ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...
Tsipras visits Athens police HQ
The leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras paid a long electioneering visit on Monday to the Athens area Police...
STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS! – FBU delegates demand
‘This union is not crushed, this union is not defeated, this union is united and it will be ready for a fight on pensions,’...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel
OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...
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...
90,000 Kenyans executed – £19.9m compensation
UK Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday expressed ‘sincere regret’ and announced compensation totalling £19.9m for Kenyans who were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in...
Beds Council Workers Defy Wage-Cutting
BEDFORDSHIRE Council’s ultimatum to employees to sign new wage-cutting contracts or face the sack has been met with defiance by council workers, who...
Merkel Offers Gm 4.5 Billion Euro Loan
Germany yesterday upped the pressure on US car giant General Motors to sell GM Europe, which includes Germany’s Opel and the UK’s Vauxhall, to...
Right to attend your A&E being ended!
NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...
Priti Patel ramps up police enforcement!
‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...
‘YOU CAN’T PAY WORKERS LESS THAN THE MINIMUM WAGE!’ – GMB writes to Chancellor...
IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...
SAVAGE SPENDING CUTS – ‘will have serious consequences’ says UCU leader
‘YOU cannot make savage funding cuts without serious consequences, despite Lord Mandelson’s insulting efforts to sell the cuts as an opportunity,’ said UCU general...
Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!
AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...
‘Stop Wandsworth asset-stripping!’
THE GMB union is calling on the public in the south London borough of Wandsworth to support a campaign to stop the sale of...
PASSENGER FURY OVER rail fare rises!
RAIL ticket prices will soar by up to 10% next January, in price hikes described by the RMT railworkers union yesterday as...
BA Cabin Crew Out Today
BRITISH Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are striking against poverty pay today in the first day of a 72-hour strike. It follows last week’s two...
Chagos Islanders Go To Court
THE case against the Chagos islanders was adjourned for 14 days on Wednesday. They are being prosecuted for their campaign in Crawley for their right...
Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...
‘REJECT MARKET POLICIES IN NHS’ –BMA delegates opposed to privatisation
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...
‘TUC MUST ACT’ to win dispute says John McDonnell Labour MP
GATE Gourmet strikers are travelling to the TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday demanding action to win their dispute from the TUC not...
Support The Firefighters!
Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...
Warsi expenses row
TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...
Hamas Landslide!
Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...
‘Ignore us at your peril!’ – nurses warn Tories
SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...
Students walkout today!
TENS of thousands of students are expected to participate in a national walkout today in campuses in every part of the UK against the...
FBU Flood Warning!
CALLING for cut fire appliances and jobs to be restored, South West Region Fire Brigades Union has warned fire and rescue services won’t be...
Pm May Sticks To Backstop!
TORY PM Theresa May pledged in a speech to business leaders in Belfast yesterday to confirm her commitment ‘to deliver a Brexit which ensures...
Warzone docs under attack
HOSPITALS bombed by Saudi forces in Yemen murdering the staff inside, and doctors shot dead in Palestine treating the wounded on the Gaza border,...
Itv 24 Hr Strike!
BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...
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...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son’s murder
A distraught Maria Otone de Menezes visiting Stockwell tube station yesterday, the site of her son's murder. she called for her son, Jean Charles'...
UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings
ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
‘vicious Attack On Teachers’
Education Secretary Gove ‘has launched a vicious assault on teachers’ commitment and professionalism’, said NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates yesterday. This is ‘to deflect from...
‘Palestinians will not be displaced!’ says Hamas and allies
THE Palestinian National and Islamic Forces in Gaza have released a defiant message in response to Donald Trump’s and Israel’s forced displacement plans: ‘ The...