Israel’s Nation-State Law condemned by the TUC!
TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...
PRIVATISATION DRIVE – being stepped up by Brown
‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...
Israel Arrests Birzeit Students!
THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...
5th October – Northern Ireland nurses strike
NORTHERN Ireland’s Unison education and health members are to take strike action on October 5. Unison general secretary Patricia McKeown said workers in many sectors...
Sunak Escalates Military Action
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...
Released prisoners reveal grim tortures in Israeli facilities!
ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...
Labour Defeats The Snp Nationalists!
THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...
‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...
Chase Farm Will Not Close!
THE North East London Council of Action yesterday held a successful picket against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, maternity and paediatric departments. Hundreds...
Storm Disaster Anger Erupts!
STORM Angus, after ripping through the UK, has caused torrential downpours and flash floods that have destroyed homes, turned roads into rivers and left...
Barts strikers fighting for the NHS
WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing,...
WE WILL WIN! say CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary Billy Hayes told striking postal workers on the picket line at Mandela...
No agreement over Brexit
‘IT is not possible for us to reach an agreement today,’ Jean Claude Juncker, EU Commissioner said at a press conference yesterday as the...
£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...
Gaza workers closure protest
HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...
Disabled cutting back on food and heating
THOUSANDS of disabled people are cutting back on food and heating as a result of the Bedroom Tax, says a group of leading charities. The...
General Council Members Support Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers
TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...
Inflation still outstripping pay – workers won’t be fooled says Unite leader Graham
‘DESPITE Tory claims that the cost-of-living crisis is coming to an end, the truth is that inflation (RPI) is still outstripping wage growth,’ Unite...
Obama Set To Slash US Budget
US President Barack Obama unveiled his 2012 budget yesterday, describing the proposal as a ‘down payment’ on future cuts to the US budget...
Free the hunger strikers now! – Lammy surgery protest demands
A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...
Corbyn woos CBI bosses
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
26 FE colleges to strike – recall TUC & call a general strike urges...
Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’,...
‘Staff May Strike Again This Summer’ Warns RCN
ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary and chief executive, Professor Nicola Ranger yesterday warned staff may strike again this summer unless the government...
‘WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO RETURN’ – insists Chagos Islands Community Association AGM
OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...
Hamas message to Riyadh Summit
THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure...
Plan to ‘Fire and Rehire’ 100 teachers at Richmond College
STAFF are set to strike over a plan to ‘Fire & Rehire’ over 100 teachers at Richmond upon Thames College Staff at Richmond upon Thames...
‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson
SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...
NHS strike solid!
ANGRY NHS workers were on picket lines outside hospitals and ambulance stations around the country yesterday as around half-a-million members of ten health...
‘There could be a Lehmans moment!’ – World Bank warning
AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...
Tory pay rise is a pay cut!
‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...
‘Don’t cut bursaries’ demand 500 nurses
‘DON’T cut bursaries!’ and ‘Jeremy Hunt, Shame on You!’ shouted a crowd of around 500 student nurses and supporters, both Unison and RCN members,...
MAY HAS UNDERMINED BREXIT says ex-Brexit Under Secretary Steve Baker
EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...
Colleges Going Bust!
SIXTH Form Colleges ‘cannot survive on starvation rations.’ One third say that they will go bust and shut down by 2020 if the massive...
Forty universities infected by Covid
AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...
MASSIVE CORRECTION – on the way says BIS bank
THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...
University privatisation plan outrage
STUDENTS will be ‘outraged’ at Tory proposals to raise tuition fees even higher and privatise education, the NUS said yesterday. Tory Universities Minister Jo Johnson...
‘QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED’ – over death of Dean Khan in police custody
The family of Nadeem Dean Khan led a 200-strong demonstration through Burnley, Lancashire, on Saturday to protest against the 28-year-old man’s death in police...
May Being Urged To Risk Split And Sack Johnson!
AN UNDER siege Theresa May was fighting for her political life yesterday as she suggested she would not shy away from sacking foreign secretary...
‘WITHDRAW BILL!’ – DEMAND GPs
AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...
London NHS Rationing Plans ‘Are A Disgrace!’
‘MASS rationing of operations to London’s patients’ is being planned under the London Choosing Wisely Programme, which was launched by the Healthy London Partnership...
Israeli military attack anti-annexation protest
ISRAELI forces cracked down on an anti-annexation protest yesterday which was heading towards Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, near Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley,...
GMB oppose Asda merger
THE GMB union, ‘the trade union for Asda workers’, has come out in complete opposition to the proposed Asda/Sainsbury’s merger as the Competition and...
Defend Our Hospitals!
OVER 400 people lobbied Lewisham hospital on Thursday evening in response to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the hospital’s A&E is to be...
‘World Crisis Opening Up Socialist Revolution’
‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...
‘Rail Cuts Cost Lives’–RMT
‘ACT now to stop another rail tragedy’, demanded the RMT rail union yesterday, in a demonstration alongside members of sister union TSSA outside the...