Israeli Bombers Target Gaza Schools
ISRAELI forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials,...
National Dock Strike! Warns Unite
UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...
Lecturers Fight Long Hours And Privatisation
The University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday that its members at the University of West England (UWE), Bristol, will be balloted for strike...
FBU fighting pension cuts!
FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...
UNIONS MAKE TERMINAL 5 DEAL – but refuse to reveal the details
Trade union officials were yesterday giving out mixed messages about a new staffing levels agreement with British Airways for the move to Terminal 5...
NINE OUT OF TEN WORSE OFF – under Universal Credit
‘Nine out of ten people are expected to be worse off under the new Universal Credit system,’ Tim Nichols of the Child Poverty Action...
MPs’ 11% pay rise scandal
THE MPs’ pay rise plan shows a political class ‘wildly out of touch’, said Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday. Commenting...
UK is bankrupt! – UK national debt is 103.5% of GDP
UK GOVERNMENT borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was £28.4bn...
ONE IN THREE A&Es TO CLOSE
One in three NHS accident and emergency departments could close across London, documents seen by the BBC have revealed. Eleven A&E units are under threat...
Turned away from A&E!
GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...
Vauxhall 250 Jobs To Go!
VAUXHALL is cutting another 250 jobs at its Ellesmere Port car plant on top of the 400 jobs it announced in October. The carmaker, now...
Dozens Injured By Israeli Forces
DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...
Osborne privatisation drive – but forced to retreat over tax credits
CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...
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...
Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic
THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...
SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped
SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...
End Eurozone Austerity!
UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...
RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed
THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...
Nurses will defend Bursaries! – they condemn doctors’ strike suspension
STUDENT nurses demanded action to defend their bursaries at a Unison student nursing summit held at the union’s headquarters in Euston, central London, yesterday. Sophia...
Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent
The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...
Heygate Tenants Eviction Warning!
TENANTS on the Heygate estate in south London’s Elephant and Castle are being sent ‘take it now or face eviction later’ letters, as part...
NO CHOICE BUT TO STRIKE! – teachers ready for national action
THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...
17.8m out of work in eurozone
FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...
Israeli Troops Storm Al-Shifa Hospital
BATTLES raged between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital yesterday, as the Israeli genocidal bombardment continued. Palestinian families which...
Litany Of Safety Breaches Led To Grenfell
A LITANY of safety breaches which led to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire were revealed yesterday during the opening of the next stage...
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...
Right wing ignores Kiev truce
THREATS of sanctions against the Ukrainian government look like blackmail, and a demand for early elections is a way to force Kiev towards the...
‘Don’t use anti-strike laws against us!’ – FBU leader Matt Wrack urges fire chiefs
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...
STOP PRIVATISING THE NHS! say BMA and Unite strikers
BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity...
PCS condemns job cuts!
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...
120,000 children homeless this Xmas
ONE hundred and twenty thousand children will wake up homeless this Christmas across Britain, Shelter warned yesterday. Shelter has launched an urgent appeal after...
PAY NURSES IN FULL! – demand 186 MPs
Nearly 200 MPs, including former Labour ministers, have joined calls for the government to give nurses this year’s pay award in full, instead of...
We are fighting to continue child heart surgery
THE fight goes on to continue child heart surgery at London’s Royal Brompton, Leeds General Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. An NHS review concluded...
Ealing strikers fight ‘disgraceful’ Labour union-busting
STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...
WE WILL WIN! say CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary Billy Hayes told striking postal workers on the picket line at Mandela...
‘Criminal Investigation’ –Into Death Of Ian Tomlinson
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) yesterday afternoon announced a ‘criminal investigation’ into the death of Ian Tomlinson. Home Secretary Jaqui Smith had conceded earlier...
Syrian local elections ‘prove the failure of our enemies’ – President Assad
SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad said that holding local council elections on time proves the strength of the Syrian people and the state. In a speech...
DEFEND GM JOBS! – JUNE 1st is bankruptcy day
Car parts maker Magna International was yesterday reported to have reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to take GM Europe off its...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
‘NHS needs 50% more consultants’
There needs to be a 50 per cent increase in the number of hospital consultants by 2010 to ensure ‘a safe service’, the President...
17 SURGERIES UNDER THREAT! – in Hackney and Tower Hamlets
SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...
POOR HAMMERED! – by Osborne budget says the IFS
CONTRARY to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s claims that his Emergency Budget is ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’, it is actually unfair and regressive, hitting the poorest hardest. That...
YOUTH FOR REVOLUTION! – in Paris and Athens
FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...
‘DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD’ – GM Works Council leader fears for Luton plant
Negotiations over the future of GM sites in Luton and Antwerp would be ‘a hard nut’ to crack, Opel Works Council chief Klaus Franz...
Stock Market Panic!
AS panic gripped investors on the world’s stock markets, it emerged yesterday that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245...