Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...
Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report
THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...
Appalling Rough Sleeping Rise Says Crisis
ROUGH sleeping is rising at ‘an appalling rate,’ said the homelessness charity Crisis yesterday, as it emerged that more than 4,000 people a night...
‘WE WILL DEFEND OUR MEMBERS AGAINST ALL ATTACKS!’ says Unite General Secretary Graham
‘WE WILL defend our members against any and all attacks,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham declared yesterday, in response to Tory Business Secretary Kwasi...
Greek Debt Crisis Talks
The Greek government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis stated that the Prime Minister was to meet with Institute of International Finance (IIF) director Charles Dallara yesterday...
‘RENTQUAKE!’ –tenants face unaffordable rents
‘RENTQUAKE’ has hit middle England as rents race above wages in market towns, said housing charity Shelter yesterday. Rents have risen 60% faster than...
Sulivan teachers, pupils & parents lobby council
Teachers, parents and pupils are lobbying a full Cabinet meeting of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which starts at 6pm tomorrow at Hammersmith Town Hall,...
BLAIR’S POLICE STATE POWERS – come in on Sunday January 1
‘These powers constitute a serious erosion of civil liberties in this country. They will change the relationship between the police and the individual fundamentally,’...
Darroch quits – ‘thrown under a bus by Johnson’ say ‘Remainers’
SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...
JUDGE LABOUR ON CHANGE IT DELIVERS – says Corbyn
IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...
MAY’S WAR ON MIGRANTS! – condemned by Institute of Directors
‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...
ENERGY PRICE RISE CONDEMNED – UNISON demands profits inquiry
Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...
Israel’s permanent occupation of Gaza plan ‘deeply alarming’
THE NETANYAHU-led Israeli regime’s just-announced plan for the permanent occupation of the Gaza Strip and permanent expulsion of Palestinians from it has been widely...
Stop privatisation of ambulance service! – demand Manchester ambulance workers
ONE HUNDRED ambulance workers and supporters from Manchester descended on parliament yesterday to demonstrate against the transfer of the patient transport service (PTS) from...
‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker
TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...
Another Huge Rise In Jobless
There was another record increase in the unemployment rate to reach 2.38 million in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest figures...
Fears Of Eu Debt Meltdown
CITY regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has stepped up scrutiny of UK banks’ exposures to foreign government debt after fears of a European...
Unlimited Stop & Search Powers For Police!
TORY PM Johnson’s new police state measures allowing police unlimited stop and search powers have been condemned by Stopwatch, while Shadow Home Secretary Diane...
Remain permanently in customs union – says Corbyn
‘LABOUR’S plan is for Britain and the European Union (EU) to negotiate a permanent customs union to protect jobs and manufacturing,’ Labour leader Jeremy...
General strike sparked by demolitions in Palestine!
A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...
Starmer Joins Hammond For Anti-Brexit Coup!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, yesterday welcomed Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s announcement on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he will resign on...
‘Stop NHS medical records sale to Capita!’ urges Unison
CHRISTINA McAnea, Unison National Secretary for Health, has written to Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about the proposed transfer of Primary Care Support services...
Tories withdraw infection control fund today!
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
Over 10,000 workers & youth march to Trafalgar Square!
OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...
‘BACK TO THE DAYS BEFORE THE NHS’ – Consultants leader slams the Health Bill
‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...
PCS Heathrow strike ballot launched! – while TUC and Unite stress that they support...
THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...
Powell Suffers Multiple Memory Failure!
WHEN Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1997-2007, Jonathan Powell, was questioned yesterday about the September 2002 dossier that took the UK to war...
NHS Staff Face Privatisation!
The coming clash between the trade unions and the Labour government over plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS was yesterday...
The BMA has never been as strong as today for full pay restoration!
OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...
HAIN QUITS! – after police called in
Work and Pensions Secretary and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain yesterday quit the Cabinet after his late declaration of £103,000 of donations to his Labour...
Tories unleash savage cuts on South Western Railway – RMT launches week of action...
TRANSPORT union the RMT is stepping up its campaign today against ‘swingeing cuts’ on South Western Railway which will unleash an attack on rail...
SACK G4S demands Howard League
THREE G4S employees were arrested yesterday and are being held on suspicion of child neglect following an investigation into abuse at a young offenders...
‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’ – say defiant...
‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...
Whipps Cross – More Action Planned
ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...
‘FURTHER ACTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE’ – pledges Matt Smith of Scottish UNISON
‘If there is no movement then we will have to look to further action in the near future,’ UNISON Scottish Secretary Matt Smith told...
Tube Strike Tonight!
TUBE workers are walking out on the first of two 48-hour strikes tonight over plans to close all 278 of the capital’s Underground ticket...
Safety Before Profits!
SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...
COALITION RAIL DISASTER – RMT condemns Command Paper
THE RMT yesterday warned that ministers are preparing to wind back the clock to the days of the Hatfield and Potters Bar disasters and...
Greek Workers Clash With Riot Police
WORKERS in Greece staged the biggest march of recent years in Athens on Wednesday, against the government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou which carries...
State navies should break Israel’s siege of Gaza – says UN’s Albanese
THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...
Southport NHS Mass Sackings
Southport and Ormskirk UNISON health branch has launched a campaign with other health unions, Amicus, GMB, TGWU, the RCN and RCM against 33 compulsory...
Labour Opens Door To Super Exploitation!
TWO young Polish women, Marta and Kaisia, yesterday told a TGWU-organised briefing in the House of Commons of their experiences as cheap labour agency...
Nippon Workers Fight Back!
FORTY-FIVE drivers and warehousemen at Nippon Express Air Freight Agent in Hayes near Heathrow Airport are on their third day of a three day...
East Kent hospitals under threat
EAST Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of more than 750,000 people across five different hospitals has been placed under special measures. ‘This...
‘The attack on pensions is an attack on the NHS!’
Over 50 doctors and their supporters organised a demonstration outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London yesterday during their strike over major...