IRAN FREES SAILORS – as a gift to the British people

0
‘Although Iran has the right to prosecute them by following the model of the Prophet, the fifteen people are pardoned and their freedom given...

Labour Government votes for disability cuts!

0
THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...

Abbas orders flag to be flown at half mast! – 104 years since Balfour...

0
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has enacted a presidential decree ordering the national flag to be flown at half-mast today and tomorrow, and on November...

Rough Sleeping Doubles!

0
HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...

Palestinians Drive Israeli Tanks Out Of Gaza

0
Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...

‘Go North West’ buses continuous strike today! – Company plans strikebreaking force

0
THE UNITE trade union, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,...

‘Shoot-to-kill’–law change!

0
PRIME Minister Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris terrorist attacks. The review...
ROSE GENTLE (centre, right) leading the group from Military Families Against the War to the Cenotaph

Hounslow Unison To March With Gg Locked-Out Workers

0
THE Hounslow local government Unison branch banner will be with the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers banner on the TUC May Day march through London...

GPs ANGRY OVER PENSIONS CAP!

0
A JUDICIAL Review sought by the British Medical Association to challenge the government’s decision to cap the pensions of GPs will take place in...
Crowds of supporters celebrate the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader at the Refugees Welcome march in September 2015

KICK TORIES OUT ON JUNE 8th

0
‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...
Unite members marching against pay cuts during July’s national strike by local government workers

STRIKE ACTION AGAINST LOW PAY! – at Gatwick and Stansted airports

0
strike action against low pay was announced by Unite and the GMB unions at Gatwick and Stansted Airports yesterday. Unite head of Civil...

Russia took action to defend Donbass – says Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vasily...

0
RUSSIA’S ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke at the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, defending...

23 Russian diplomats expelled!

0
‘MOSCOW had no motives for poisoning former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter, while those who are trying to push ahead with the...
Demonstration outside Hammersmith Hospital in west London on July 31. The A&E was closed on September 10, one of the reasons given by the Trust was that there was no full time A&E consultant cover

Emergency Consultants Quit Over Cuts Policies

0
SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...

Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq

0
THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...

Brexit vote on January 14 says May

0
TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...

Day four of Harland & Wolff occupation – South African unions send international solidarity...

0
THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...

Russia Today fined £200,000!

0
BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...
Members of Unite assemble for a demonstration in central London during national strike action by local government workers in July

Unions March Against ‘Breadline Britain’

0
THOUSANDS of trade unionists – including members of Unite, the GMB and the CWU postal workers’ union – will demonstrate in Manchester today at...

Tories Are Opening ‘Virtual Wards’ To Shut Down NHS!

0
THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...
CWU pickets at Stamford Hill Delivery office during the September 29th strike in North London

Cwu Offers Wage Cuts!

0
THE Communication Workers Union has said it is prepared to ‘settle around inflation’ for the next two years. Given that ‘around’ means less, and that...
Postal workers and their families marched against the closure of Crewe Mail Centre last month. Another large demonstration is expected in Milton Keynes today

Defend Milton Keynes Mail Centre!

0
Hundreds of postal workers and their families are today joining the business community, politicians and members of the public in a march through Bletchley,...

MANUFACTURING COLLAPSE – Nissan cuts production

0
Nissan announced a halt to production at its Sunderland plant for a fortnight and shorter working days for three weeks during October and November...

Corbyn announces ‘free vote’ on Syria

0
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn announced yesterday that he will give Labour MPs a ‘free vote’ on the crucial issue of whether the UK joins...
Nurses outside Chelsea & Westminster hospital during the last NHS pay strike on November 24th

Less than 1% of the £700m emergency care reached A&Es

0
LESS than 1% of the £700m allocated by the government for emergency care in England this winter ended up directly in A&E departments, according...
Junior doctors battling against the attempt by Health Secretary Hunt to dictate their contract to them

DROP IMPOSED CONTRACT – Royal College urges Secretary Hunt

0
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s decision to impose the new contract onto junior doctors must be reversed since the premise behind the contract’s...

Johnson gags the SAGE scientists!

0
TORY PM Johnson during the daily Downing Street press briefing yesterday, repeatedly blocked journalists from asking his scientific and medical advisors about the ongoing...

HEADING FOR THE ROCKS – The Fed’s Kohn warns of ‘uncharted waters’

0
The Bank of England is warning that high street banks face big new risks from future rises in interest rates and the current crisis...
Yesterday morning’s demonstration outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston

NO PAY RISE FOR YEARS! – end exploitation of rail cleaners say RMT

0
MORE than 50 members of the RMT rail union demonstrated outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston yesterday morning, before picketing the Association...
Enthusiastic youth at yesterday morning’s mass picket to keep open Chase Farm Hospital

OCCUPY TO STOP A&E CLOSURE – demands Chase Farm mass picket

0
Haringey, Barnet and Enfield Primary Care Trusts agreed yesterday that Option One will be carried out in relation to Chase Farm Hospital – that...

‘We strike to protect ourselves and our patients!’ – say Guy’s and St Thomas’...

0
STRIKING Day Surgery nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust are holding a demonstration at 2pm today at Guy’s Hospital entrance, St Thomas’ Road...
Workers and young people march on a Tories Out! demonstration last year

Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet

0
BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...

Vauxhall 250 Jobs To Go!

0
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...
Domestic workers demonstrating outside Parliament demanding ‘No return to slavery’

Forced Labour Challenged!

0
Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) have begun a legal action challenging the coalition government’s ‘Mandatory Work Scheme’ which it argues amounts to unlawful forced labour....

BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT

0
RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...

3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid

0
PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

Assange High Court decision today!

0
THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to...
40,000 Unison members took part in the recent March 26 TUC demonstration  – Unison is calling for the Health Bill to be scrapped

Gp Head Slams ‘Listening’ Stunt

0
THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...
Copland school in Brent, north west London, where staff, parents and pupils are fighting the attempt to impose an academy

‘Say No’ To Academies

0
ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...

100,000 on London march for Palestine

0
OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...
Milton Keynes Mail Centre workers march to defend jobs. Royal Mail is threatened with privatisation

NATIONAL ACTION NEEDED! – to fight Royal Mail privatisation

0
Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

0
PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...
BECTU picket line at the Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday

London Picturehouses strike solid!

0
NOT a single film was on show at the Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday as the cinema workers escalated their strike action for a living...
UAW members demonstrating on February 16 outside the Flint East Delphi plant demanding no wage cuts

From New Labour Spin To Union Busting

0
GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...
Sacked schools’ guards, part of the 10,000-strong workers’ protest outside the Greek parliament that defied the European Central Bank and shouted ‘We will not be blackmailed’

‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers

0
SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...