Protesters at the 2,000-strong picket of the Israeli embassy on Sunday demanding an end to the siege on Gaza

DON’T BUILD ‘FENCE OF DEATH’ – Hamas leader Haniya urges Mubarak

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Hamas prime minister in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya appealed to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday evening, to halt the construction of the...
Seafarers with their union banner calling for a ‘block to fascism’ at the head of Thursday’s march in Kokkinia, Athens

Greek Teachers Vote For 5-Day Strike

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GREEK teachers voted on Thursday by clear majorities for another five-day national strike starting Monday. The final decision will be taken by the OLME (teachers’...

‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff

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‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
Police confront students to try to stop their demonstration

Police confront students

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OVER 200 students from London universities and supporters from other universities demonstrating yesterday against police violence, were themselves confronted by Police. They marched from ULU...
Tower Hamlets demonstration against the closure and sell-off of GP surgeries

Reject Devo Manc To Defend The NHS!

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GREATER Manchester Association of Trades Union Councils (GMATUC ) has called a mass NHS emergency protest rally for Sunday to protest against the plan...
Steelworkers from Port Talbot, Teesside, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire lobbied parliament on October 28th. Many of them called for occupations and a national strike to secure the nationalisation of the steel industry

NATIONALISE TATA! –Occupy to defend jobs and stop the sackings

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THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...

NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital

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THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) rallying in Westminster, demanding ‘Reject Cuts Now’

BIN PAY CUT PLANS says GMB leader Kenny

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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to demands from the Institute of Directors (IoD) to end national collective bargaining in the NHS and Education sectors,...

GPs reject privatisation

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AT THE BMA Local Medical Committees (England) conference yesterday, GPs voted against a proposal to allow privatised GP services in England. The motion stated:...
Massive protest strike last Friday by McDonald’s TGI Friday’s, Uber Eats and Wetherspoon workers made a huge impact on Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Labour to scrap Universal Credit! – John McDonnell makes a pledge

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...
Union leaders heading the March 26th 500,000-strong TUC march against coalition cuts

‘WE WANT THE HEALTH BILL SCRAPPED’ – Prentis tells Lansley

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Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...

Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!

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CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...

Sweden to re-open Assange investigation

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YESTERDAY Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, announced that an investigation into a rape allegation made against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange in...
Youth in Hounslow showing their support for the locked-out Gate Goumet workers marching in Hounslow

Harrier jets to stay in Afghanistan

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Six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to stay in Afghanistan until 31 March 2007 to support UK troops and their allies on the ground,...

UNIONS SLAM NOV 30th STRIKE BREAKING PLAN!

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Public sector union Unison yesterday hit back at Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander’s, call for strike-breakers for the November 30th national pensions strike. Unison gave an...

Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!

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SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...

Russia takes Kherson & surrounds Mariupol

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YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from...
Junior doctors on strike against the government’s attack on the NHS

NO BALLOT ON INDUSTRIAL ACTION – BMA leaders decide

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THE GENERAL Practitioners Committee has abandoned balloting GPs for industrial action despite being mandated by their own conference to do so. A motion at the...
Demonstrators in London last May determined to defend the NHS

BMA rejects NHS charging

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) is today warning against NHS charging. Responding to Lord Warner’s call to introduce charging patients a monthly fee to...

BMA industrial action ballot agreed!

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‘THE government can’t afford another battle with doctors, so let’s put down a marker,’ Tower Hamlets GP Dr Jackie Applebee urged the BMA Local...
Greek workers demanding the Syriza government fight Troika-imposed austerity

Greece mass rallies on Sunday!

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THE Greek government’s spokesperson Gavriil Sakelarides stated yesterday morning that ‘he was optimistic of a deal’ with the European Commission by this Sunday. He said...
Striking SERCO workers at Barts NHS Trust at a rally at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday

‘WE WANT A PAY RISE’ say 200 Barts SERCO strikers

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‘WE WANT a pay rise!’ said over 200 striking Bart’s NHS Trust ancillary workers employed by privateer SERCO at the trust’s four London hospitals. The...
Doctors stand up to the Home Office refusing to shop confidential information to immigration officials – they refuse to be used as border control – St Mungo’s however have co-operated with immigration squads who target homeless people for deportation

Immigration squads target the homeless

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WHILE helping identify homeless people at risk of freezing to death on the streets, homeless charity St Mungo’s has admitted to co-operating with ...

IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army

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TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...
A large and lively picket of striking teachers outside Copland Community School in Wembley yesterday morning

NO ACADEMY! COPLAND 5th STRIKE

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COPLAND Community School workers took an unprecedented fifth day of strike action yesterday to stop the ARK academy chain taking over their school in...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...

Defend the NHS!NHS – Foundation Trusts call to lift cap on private patient numbers

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Public sector union Unison yesterday sounded the alarm bells over a move from NHS foundation trust bosses to lift the cap on the...

Tube Strike began 12.00am

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TWO 24-hour Tube strikes began at 12 midnight and on Thursday, with RMT members walking out over Transport for London’s (TfL) ‘continued refusal to...
Delegates to yesterday’s SRM vote to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill which would smash up and privatise the NHS

LANSLEY MUST GO! – BMA SRM told

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...

Israel to annexe settlement!

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ISRAEL’S education minister and leader of the far right, pro-settlement Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, said yesterday morning he would propose a bill by...

10 days of strike action at St Thomas’ Hospital!

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YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...

Merger of Fire Service and Police rejected by FBU!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said a new report that calls for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue to be merged with the police is...
25,000 people marched in Lewisham on January 26 to save their hospital – they will be very angry at Hunt’s remarks that savage cuts will save 100 lives

Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced

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LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...

Series of 48 hour postal strikes

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POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...
Junior doctors and BMA members demonstrate their support for the junior doctors’ struggle outside the meeting yesterday

Demand TUC take action! – Anna Athow tells BMA’s Representative Meeting

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BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

Barristers Strike Growing In Strength

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HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...

UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen

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On the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...

Forces of Donetsk Peoples Republic are in full control!

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‘AS of May 27, 2022, the forces of the DPR and the LPR supported by the Russian army’s firepower, liberated and established full control...
Adam’s mother (holding banner on left) during a United Families and Friends march to Downing Street

RICKWOOD INQUEST TO OPEN –youngest child ever to die in penal custody

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THE inquest into the death of 14-year-old Adam Rickwood in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre on 8th August 2004 will open on Monday 10 January...
NHS workers at Kings College Hospital in Denmark Hill south-east London taking strike action

Health care assistants in crisis

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HEALTHCARE assistants across the UK face are suffering from the NHS crisis of staffing levels. The Unison union’s report, Red Alert – Unsafe Staffing Levels...
Youth in support of Palestine marching in London last May

Lifeline Convoy Sets Out For Gaza

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British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...
Irish workers on a ICTU demonstration show the high unemployment because of the  EU -IMF-ECB imposed cuts that are being carried out by the government

Ireland being robbed by EU

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DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...

LIBYAN DIPLOMATS EXPELLED – by terrorist government that’s bombing Tripoli

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THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...

How the US government murdered Soleimani!

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NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...

Thousands of teachers lobby today

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THOUSANDS of angry teachers, lecturers and support staff are lobbying Parliament today against the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s onslaught on their pensions. The unprecedented joint action...