No fire cover at night in Surrey!
SURREY County Council has announced shocking plans to shut three fire stations at night, axe 70 firefighters’ jobs and halve the fire cover at...
Israeli air strikes kill 24
ISRAELI air strikes killed at least 24 Palestinians between dawn and noon on Wednesday, with one of the biggest strikes targeting a school in...
THE NHS IS IN DANGER! – warns BMA Council Chair Nagpaul
THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...
Release Congolese Detainees – Urge Protesters
REFUGEES from the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) celebrated their court victory last week, as they demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday against deportations...
NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!
THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
674,000 Residents Go Hungry In Los Angeles County
HUNDREDS of thousands of people are going hungry in Los Angeles County, California, in the richest state in the richest country in the world. Demand...
Don’t implement contract urges BMA
DO NOT implement the new junior doctors contracts, the BMA urged NHS Trusts yesterday, the day the new contracts were due to be rolled...
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,...
PFI ‘drives cuts and closures’ says BMA
The Private Finance Initiative ‘will burden local health economies for decades’ and drive forward cuts and closures, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned this...
‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution
‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...
NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
UK DEBT NOW EXCEEDS £2tn!
UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion for the first time amid heavy spending to support the failing capitalist economy amid the coronavirus...
Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers
EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...
GENERAL STRIKE SWEEPS ISRAEL – then Labour Court rules it illegal
YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...
Teachers Reject Savage Cuts
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) hit back yesterday at Education Secretary Ed Balls over his call to sack thousands of school heads and...
London Met University Strike Action
OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...
‘NO TIME FOR NATIONALISM!’ – 5,000 car workers march to Antwerp plant
5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...
Immigrant Children Held In Greek Jails!
ATHENS – Greek state officials delivered shocking reports on the treatment of immigrant children held in jails, at a meeting last Friday of the...
BLAIR AT BAY – Ignores Dunfermline defeat
Prime Minister Blair avoided all mention of Labour’s crushing Dunfermline by-election defeat in his keynote speech to the Labour Party Spring Conference in Blackpool,...
Brighton City College strike action!
STAFF at City College Brighton took one-day strike action yesterday against threatened job losses and cuts to courses and support staff. The UCU members voted...
‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah
THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...
London Met Job Cuts Battle
UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...
Israel bombards areas west of Gaza City – 40,334 killed so far
SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...
OCCUPY TO DEFEND JOBS! says Vauxhall ex-convenor
‘I totally support the call to occupy GM Luton to defend jobs’, former Vauxhall Luton TGWU convenor, Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. He...
Prosecute companies who exploit graduates
‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...
US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis
US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...
Ldv: No Jobs Guarantee
Hundreds of workers at the Birmingham-based LDV van plant were yesterday warned there is no guarantee they will have a job after a...
Locked-out US steel workers lobby UK AGM
REPRESENTATIVES of United Steel Workers (USW) trade union members who are locked out in Massachusetts, USA, by National Grid, lobbied the parent company’s AGM...
Sanctions Linked To Foodbanks!
NEW University of Oxford research confirms there is a strong link between increased benefit sanctions and higher foodbank use. The University of Oxford researchers analysed...
Plan Action To Keep Hospitals Open –Bma Urged
The British Medical Association (BMA) Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC) is meeting today at BMA House, Tavistock Place, London. One of the resolutions before...
‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths
‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
LONDON UNDERGROUND TOTAL SHUTDOWN JULY 26 & 28 – ASLEF joining RMT on strike
ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...
Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson
WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...
Police Spies – Met’s Unreserved Apology!
THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...
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...
PCS put on war footing!
FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...
Crippling mental health beds crisis!
A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...
GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers
British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...
5,500 Children killed in Gaza! – World Children’s Day November 20th
ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...
POLICE BUGGING INQUIRY – Labour MP spied on as he met US extradition target
Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...
3 unions reject BA’s offer – strike looms!
THREE unions – BALPA, Unite, and GMB – representing 25,000 British Airways workers have rejected the company’s latest pay deal meaning that a major...
‘SERIOUS UPHEAVALS’ – predicted by head of World Bank
WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...
Unions split on NHS pay changes
UNITE and GMB officers, members and supporters held a lunchtime protest outside the Unison head office in London yesterday, where the NHS staff side...
Palestinian Killed At Point Blank Range
VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...
‘LICENCE TO PRINT MONEY’ – £1.8bn for consultants as thousands sacked
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this morning accused the government of giving management consultants a licence to print money at the taxpayer’s...