National Gallery strike against privatisation!
‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...
Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories
THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
RMT East Mids Strike Is On
THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...
Homeless Children Housed In Containers!
TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
Tory war on teachers and their unions
THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...
Bring us back ‘in-house’ – demand Barts SERCO strikers
BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...
Birmingham bin strikers bring their fight to London
STRIKING Birmingham binworkers are holding a London rally outside Parliament today where their Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham will deliver a speech calling...
Aslef Driver Only Strike Ballot
TRAIN drivers in the ASLEF union are to join their RMT colleagues in an escalating struggle against Driver Only Operated (DOO) on Southern...
Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back
The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...
Two British Troops Killed By Basra Ied
Two British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment were killed near Basra, southern Iraq on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told
EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
Barclays to sack 12,000 – while bonus pool for 2013 rises to £2.38bn
BARCLAYS bank yesterday announced plans to sack 12,000 bank workers and in the very same breath announced whopping bonuses for its top bankers. The...
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...
Rajapaksa under fire in Australia
CANBERRA – Sri Lankan-born Australian Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran filed an indictment on war-crime charges against the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday, declaring he...
DOWNING ST LAWBREAKERS – to be named by Civil Service boss Gray
SUE GRAY INTENDS TO NAME civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street. The senior civil servant will publish...
All Out For Gate Gourmet Demonstration
‘WE want all trade unionists and everyone who supports the working class to come to our march next Saturday,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Raksha...
£700bn of government debt
GENERAL government debt is now over £700 billion as the slump hits public finances. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: ‘Net debt was £703.4...
Riot police attack Spanish Miners
RIOT police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at Spanish coal miners protesting in the streets of Madrid, along with tens of thousands of other workers. Hundreds...
FBU Will Fight Cuts & Sackings
SEVERAL thousand firefighters from all over Britain, lobbied Parliament yesterday, to give notice that they and their union would not accept a 25 per...
One Million Strike In Greece
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...
Britain must recognise state of Palestine!
THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...
Oxygen masks needed for Iraqi children
A DEMONSTRATOR highlighting the plight of dying Iraqi children was read a section of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act by a police...
96-hour walkout by the junior doctors!
THE BMA yesterday announced dates for a new 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England after the government’s failure to make any credible offer...
Refugees hang in Victoria Square, Athens
TWO desperate refugees tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves in central Athens’ Victoria Square on Thursday. With the EU states bordering Greece...
Boris Bikes Strike
FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...
80% of flammable towers have still not been reclad
‘STILL almost 8 in 10 blocks with Grenfell type cladding have not had it replaced with over half of those with no work started...
Fingerprinting At Over 280 Schools
‘Schools should hold off until there is proper guidance,’ NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates told News Line yesterday. The teachers union leader was responding to...
Johnson Gov Must Answer Over The 20,000 Care Home Deaths!
THE Johnson government must answer for its actions over the 20,000 Care Home deaths says the GMB. Ministers ignored science, evidence and the GMB Union...
de Menezes Memorial Is Unveiled
‘TO THIS day, not a single police officer has been punished for the deliberate shooting of an innocent man and the cover up that...
‘work Experience’ On A Hospital Ward!
MOVES by a Midlands hospital trust to recruit unpaid ‘jobseekers’ to clean wards and ‘support patients through their hospital experience’ were condemned by a...
Corbyn tables motion of no confidence
PM MAY’S EU deal was rejected by the House of Commons yesterday evening by 432 to 202 votes. The PM in a statement after the...
Johnson Mortally Wounded In Confidence Vote
TORY PM Boris Johnson was mortally wounded in the no confidence vote in parliament last night, with 40% of Tory MPs voting against his...
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...
UN must end Israel’s illegal acts of violence – demands Hanan Ashrawi
Three of six Israelis held over the abduction and killing of 16-year-old Palestinian teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir last week have now confessed to his...
Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories
‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...
SUPPORT JUNIOR DOCTORS! BRING DOWN TORIES! – demands Ealing mass picket
‘VICTORY to the junior doctors!’ shouted the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning, adding, ‘Call a general strike!’ The picket, called by the...
EU deal ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’ – Merkel tells PM Johnson
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...
Over 700 Killed In Lebanon!
INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were...
Scandalous Free School Expansion
TEACHERS unions yesterday opposed the ‘scandalous’ proposal to pour millions of pounds into hundreds of new privately run free schools. They were responding to PM...
56 envoys boycott US embassy opening
ONE Palestinian was killed and 167 others injured by Israeli forces on Friday as hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of the...
RISKY AND DISASTROUS! – warn health union leaders
The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...
Armed Police Hunt For ‘Illegals’ In Athens
GREEK armed riot police squads assisted by other police units yesterday continued, for the fourth day running, the biggest pogrom against immigrant workers and...
Tories stripping MS sufferers of mobility
THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...
NO TO PAY CUT – say Science Museum strikers
Pickets were out in force at the Science Museum in west London yesterday. Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members joined colleagues from the Prospect trade...
Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!
TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...