MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
Brown Rejects Withdrawal Timetable
Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...
NO CAP ON GPs PAY – Insist BMA doctors and RCN nurses
Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...
Three months to save NHS – ‘from free market free-for-all’ says Miliband
‘We have three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS,’ Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday. In an article for the Observer,...
The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...
THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...
‘THEY WANT TO STEAL LIBYA’S OIL’ says Chavez
THE Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the US of preparing to invade Libya to steal its oil. ‘A campaign of lies is being...
Powers Bill to be rushed in! –as Labour shifts ground over Syria attack
THE British state yesterday stepped up security measures in the wake of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris. Cameron held a Cobra emergency committee meeting...
STOP NO-DEAL BREXIT ‘BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!’ – urges John McDonnell and Shami...
LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...
SACK HUNT! –80,000 sign petition for action
A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...
Rudd denies all knowledge about May’s attack on pensioners!
HOME Secretary, Amber Rudd, has admitted she does not know what the proposed cap on the social care costs would be, in the Tory...
Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer
FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...
‘Don’t lecture us about wage restraint’ – ‘the alarm bells are ringing!’ says Unite’s...
‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...
Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...
Cable To Double Student Debt!
Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...
‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!
PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...
Hamas to launch legal action against Tories! –After UK Parliament designates Hamas a ‘terrorist...
THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...
Lobby The Tgwu Biennial Conference
ALMOST two years after over 700 Gate Gourmet, Heathrow workers were sacked and locked out by the Texas Pacific equity capitalist group, the...
Greek Police Assault Teachers’ Leaders
Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...
25,000 Bank Jobs At Risk
The Unite union yesterday warned that up to 25,000 banking jobs are at risk with the government’s plan to sell off the profitable parts...
McDonnell advocates Customs Union pact with PM May!
LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...
Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...
‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...
MI5 WORKED WITH TORTURERS! – Binyam Mohamed exposes complicity
MPs yesterday demanded a judicial inquiry into a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s claims that MI5 was complicit in his torture. In a ‘Mail on...
Court rules against disabled!
A HIGH Court Judge in London ruled yesterday that the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is lawful. The Tories plan to...
‘Perilous’ Levels Of Debt
EVEN in a ‘good growth’ scenario, the number of UK households facing a debt crisis would almost double, warns the Resolution Foundation think-tank. It said...
Junior Doctors Will Not Accept Imposition!
‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...
FBU oppose firefighter ‘super cops’
‘WE REMAIN opposed to any attempt to turn firefighters into law enforcement, either in Devon and Somerset, or elsewhere in the country,’ Dave Green,...
‘WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF TALKS WE WANT ACTION’ say Gate Gourmet locked out...
The Gate Gourmet pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday had a Transport and General Workers Union shop stewards report back on a meeting held with...
Plymouth principal Phillips quits
UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...
Over 100,000 March On The US Embassy!
MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...
McDonnell launches 3-day BA cabin crew strike!
A HUNDRED British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew, members of Unite, attended a rally at the Bedfont Sports centre at Heathrow yesterday morning to...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
Angry Aslef pickets reject four per cent pay offer!
STRIKING ASLEF pickets were at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning on the first of three one day strike actions. They are extremely angry over the...
Inflation Leap Slashes Wages & Pensions
‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...
Refugees left to freeze!
‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...
STRIKE ACTION SPREADS TO 68 UNIS – more than 50,000 staff mandated to strike
STRIKE action at UK universities spreads to 68 institutions today as more than 50,000 staff are mandated to strike and well over a million...
‘I WILL NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE’ – Glenn Close says she’ll boycott Oscars
ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...
Johnson Faces Calls To Resign
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...
NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...
UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...
Campaign to aid & rebuild Gaza Strip began Sunday
MORE than 80 countries and institutions are participating in an international campaign to aid and rebuild the Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire that came...
‘We’ve been sold out’ – say Gate Gourmet workers
ANGRY Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday after Wednesday’s sell-out deal between the Transport and General Workers’ Union leaders, TUC leaders...
Drownings–Greece Accused!
THE shocking truth is slowly emerging of last Monday’s ‘several’ drownings of refugees off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi, close to the Turkish coast. The...
‘We have to keep our rights’ say Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers are opposing a ‘compromise agreement’, which the company and leaders of the Transport and General Workers’ Union are negotiating and which...
Bromley Workers Defend Jobs
COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...
REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra
THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
Museums taking strike action
Strikes by workers at museums and galleries across the country today kick off a long weekend of action against government cuts. The Public and Commercial...