Workers occupying the Visteon factory in Enfield

Visteon Workers Occupying Till Victory

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Defiant Visteon workers are still occupying three factories in Enfield, Basildon and Belfast. Over 250 trade unionists and youth rallied in support of the...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St

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MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...
GPs demonstrating to ‘save your surgery’ in Rugby earlier this year

Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...

‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’

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LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

Unite calls May Day NHS strike NHS – St Thomas’ & Yorks Ambulance to...

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LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...

Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital

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HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...

PARIS ERUPTS – as Macron’s pension attack goes to French Parliament

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FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...

Government Of National Unity ‘Not Serious’ Says Hamas

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...

Israeli occupation forces open fire on families!

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THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by...

Schoolchildren to be served smaller portions!

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SCHOOL caterers will have to serve children smaller portions or use cheaper ingredients, they were warned yesterday. Andrew Selley, boss of Bidfood, one of the...

EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away

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Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...
PCS pickets during their recent strike action at at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square

Civil Servants Fury Over Job Cuts

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OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...

Parliament recalled: over war on Syria

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PARLIAMENT is being recalled tomorrow with prime minister Cameron demanding Labour support for his ‘clear motion’ for military action against Syria. Downing Street released a...

GPs HIT BACK AT PM MAY!

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DOCTORS leaders yesterday hit back at PM May’s threat to cut GP funding to surgeries that did not open for longer hours and offer...
Wednesday’s emergency demonstration opposite parliament against Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR CRIME! – says UNISON’s Prentis

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AN Israeli soldier was killed and another injured on Thursday during renewed clashes with Palestinian fighters near the Kisufim military post east of Al-Qarara...

Youth In Poverty!

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THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...

NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts

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THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...

Three-Day General Strike In Turkey

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AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...

Junior Doctors Ready To Strike

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TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...

Don’t carry out Tory NHS cuts! – Unison urges Northern Ireland NHS Trusts

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UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

Gas Prices Surge!

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THE price of wholesale gas yesterday surged to a huge record high after the unexpected closure of one of three import pipelines. A technical fault...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

LECTURERS STRIKE – NATFHE and AUT to stop tomorrow

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Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...
Pickets outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning

KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – No to polyclinic, urges picket

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PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...
Striking London firefighters demonstrated on Monday night outside the Southwark fire station where a number of attacks were made on them

‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters

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THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...
The Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress  yesterday afternoon showed delegates that youth would never submit to being cheap labourers and were demanding a general strike to bring down the coalition

‘Deliver General Strike’ urges PCS leader Godrich

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TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

Poa Backing Corbyn

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...

2,018 babies taken into care

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A HUGE rise has taken place in the number of babies taken by social services from ‘Troubled Families’. Figures compiled by the University of Lancaster...

Picket Line Victory

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers won a victory yesterday, when they successfully carried out their picket at the Gate Gourmet plant front gate, despite a...
Teachers on the front line of the struggle against savage Tory cuts

Basic funding too low to allow schools to operate!

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EVERY school in England will see budget cuts before 2020, even after new funding plans are put into place, Education Policy Institute (EPI) research...

16 Illegal Events Were Held In Downing St

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SENIOR civil servant Sue Gray’s anticipated report into illegal lockdown gatherings held in and around Downing Street by members of the government has been...
NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...

GMM Luton–decision within 6 weeks

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A decision is to be made by GM within the next six weeks on whether the Luton GMM plant is to be closed in...

Labour Calls For An Emergency Budget!

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LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...
An enthusiastic crowd gathers at the start of yesterday’s Al Quds march outside the Saudi Embassy in central London

Thousands March For Palestine

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‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...

Shrewsbury Pickets conspiracy exposed

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The Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign, led by former pickets Ricky Tomlinson and Terry Renshaw, with Andy Warren (son of deceased picket Des Warren) yesterday...

East Kent hospitals under threat

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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...
Yesterday’s picket at Chase Farm – is having a big impact on the struggle to keep the hospital open

Chase Farm CEO quits!

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MARK EASTON, the chief executive of the Chase Farm and Barnet NHS Trust, quit yesterday after it was made public that the trust intended...
Local residents join forces with firefighters to demand ‘No Justice No Peace’ on a march last June – the North Kensington Law Centre claims that Grenfell survivors are being pressurised into accepting sub-standard housing, 150 families are still without h

Grenfell survivors pressured to take sub-standard homes – alleges North Kensington Law Centre

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...

Thousands turn out to save Honda car factory!

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SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

THIS CASE THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM says Julian Assange’s fiancée

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‘THIS CASE is a grave threat to press freedom, not just for Julian Assange, but for all British journalists,’ lawyer Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s...

UK Grinds To A Halt!

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THE UK economy ground to a halt in the three months to June 30, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up just 0.2 per...
London Overground Travel Safe officers in the RMT are fighting for sick pay, job security and proper contracts

RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!

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RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...
Masses of students marching on parliament last December were joined by trade unionists who backed their fight against tuition fees. Now the government is planning a showdown with the trade unions in the summer

TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers

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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

‘Where were the bells-tolls for Grenfell?’

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THE Coordinator of Justice 4 Grenfell Yvette Williams demanded yesterday, ‘Where were the bell-tolls for Grenfell?’ She contrased the bell tolls and the rush of...