4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!
OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...
Greek universities go bankrupt
THE Deans of Greek Universities and Technical Colleges are to take the Bank of Greece to court accusing the Bank of investing the universities’...
Cameron’s war on youth!
PRIME Minister Cameron stepped up his war against youth yesterday by launching the new Tory ‘Community Work Programme’. The programme forces youth to carry...
Eu Must Represent Millions Who Are Opposed To Brexit Says Tusk
THE President of the European Council warned yesterday that anti-Brexit British voters who want to remain in the EU must not be ‘betrayed’. Treating Britain...
‘THEY WANT US ALL TO BE GIG ECONOMY WORKERS!’ – 70,000 UCU members strike
OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...
‘One rule for them and another for us!’ – unions condemn Grenfell surrender
ATTORNEY General Suella Braverman’s undertaking that evidence given by contractors at the Grenfell Inquiry will not be used to prosecute them constitutes ‘One rule...
Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!
GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...
NHS JOBLESS GROWS – as Department of health sees no crisis
THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...
‘NO TO TWO TIER PAY & CONDITIONS’ – urges TGWU biennial conference
DELEGATES at the TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday gave their full support to Salford Council workers who will be taking more strike...
BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead
‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...
Pro-Palestine prisoners to go on hunger strike!
A LETTER was delivered to the Home Office yesterday, informing it of a forthcoming hunger-strike by pro-Palestine prisoners held in British jails. The prisoners are...
‘You’re playing with fire’ – IMF tells Chancellor Osborne
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard has warned UK Chancellor Osborne that he is ‘playing with fire’ with his fiscal policy. Blanchard also...
Raid Police Broke Into Neighbour’s Home
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...
ACADEMIES EVERYWHERE UNDER LABOUR!– while teaching unions cover-up
ALL SCHOOLS will be academies under a Labour government, the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg said yesterday. Academies, which are privately-run but state-funded, operate...
NHS must run vaccinations! Unison warns of private firms using unqualified staff
CORONAVIRUS vaccinations must be managed entirely by the NHS and public bodies, and not allow the involvement of private firms and the use of unqualified staff,...
Labour To Charge May With Contempt Of Parliament!
All opposition parties in the House of Commons plan to join forces today in a bid to force the government to publish the full...
Catalan Leaders Jailed
TENS of thousands have demonstrated in Barcelona in protest at the jailing of eight deposed Catalan ministers who have been remanded in prison by...
Tgwu Officials Refuse To Pay Out Xmas Hardship Money
THIRTY locked-out Gate Gourmet workers gathered at the TGWU union office in Hillingdon yesterday, angry that they were not being given their hardship money...
Sparks Battle 35% Wage Cut
MORE than 200 construction workers fighting 35 per cent pay cuts demonstrated on the Crossrail site at Farringdon Street in central London yesterday, brushing...
Increase nurses pay! – top NHS manager on £211,249
END the pay freeze for midwives and give them the same percentage pay increase as managers, the Royal College of Midwives has demanded, in...
Renationalise the railways – Demand unions as fares hike announced
RAIL fares are to rise by 1.9% in England, Scotland and Wales it was announced yesterday, with unions, campaigners and Labour leader Jeremy...
HEARTBREAKING! – ‘This report expresses the determination of the families’
REPEATED catastrophic failures at an NHS trust meant that more than 200 babies may have died and that many others were left with life-changing...
Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins
MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...
PRIVATEERS OUT! – say BMA delegates in Belfast
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...
Gaza Hospital Superbug Epidemic
AN EPIDEMIC of an antibiotic-resistant superbug is spreading throughout the hospital system in Palestine’s Gaza City, with doctors warning of a ‘global health security...
GOURMET LOCKOUT COSTS BA £100m
FURIOUS locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday slammed Transport and General Workers Union officials for demanding British Airways workers, who came out on strike in...
GATE GOURMET WORKERS DEMAND TUC ACTION – ‘to win all our jobs back’
A LARGE number of sacked Gate Gourmet catering workers from Heathrow were on their way to Brighton to lobby the Trades Union Congress early...
NHS Winter Crisis
THE NHS needs a long-term plan rather than a short-term fix, doctors’ leaders said yesterday. Fearing a winter crisis in the NHS in England, the...
‘A Major War Crime!’
HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...
Gaza ceasefire deal ‘at closest point yet’
‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...
Gaza’s Children Going Back To School
EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...
Israel kills 67 waiting for aid in northern Gaza
The Israeli military killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says. Six more people...
Corbyn Attacks ‘No Deal’ Brexit At Tuc Conference!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...
‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS
A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...
Social Housing ‘No Go Areas’
One in three councils in England has not replaced a single home sold through the Right to Buy scheme since 2012, according to the...
‘We are striking because people are dying!’ – says RCN’s Cullen!
‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...
Corbyn Praises Hunt And Javid!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a boost to Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt and business secretary Sajid Javid during his speech at the CBI...
ISRAEL TO INVADE GAZA!– Olmert gives final warning
Israeli officials have warned that the Israeli military is preparing to attack Gaza in the coming days. On Wednesday Israeli airstrikes and ground invasions...
Tsipras Turning ‘No’ Vote Into ‘Yes’!
GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...
Mind Slams War On Vulnerable
MORE than half of claimants surveyed by mental health charity Mind say fear of having their Incapacity Benefit removed has led them...
Palestine solidarity hunger strike
A BRITISH national of Palestinian origin, Aysar Shamallakh, who is an active and co-founder member of the ‘17 April Group’, has started an awareness...
70,000 jobless rise!
YOUTH unemployment has risen by another 20,000 to very nearly one million, according to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. The number...
Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012
RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...