RCN nurses campaigning in defence of the NHS and for jobs for all nurses

‘SCAPEGOATS FOR THE DEFICITS CRISIS’ – RCN condemns targeting of young foreign nurses

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Yesterday Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Beverly Malone condemned the government’s latest scheme to keep overseas junior nurses out of Britain. Responding to...

Irish actors and writers rally in Dublin to support Hollywood strike!

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Hundreds of actors, writers and entertainment workers gathered by the statue of Wolfe Tone at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin on Saturday, to demonstrate...

56 Palestinians killed & scores injured in Israeli assaults!

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AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In...

‘Government is in chaos’ – says Corbyn

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‘THE GOVERNMENT is in chaos,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s speech attempting to defend her Brexit capitulation...

Starmer withdraws support for Pro-Palestine Labour candidate

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LABOUR has removed its backing for Palestine-supporting Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali. Ali was recorded speaking out in support of Palestine at a Labour Party...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers marching through Southall on August 20 this year to mark the first yearof their struggle. Now they are campaigning for a successful rally this Sunday on the eve of their employment tribunal

Gate Gourmet Rally This Sunday

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are inviting all trade unionists and their families and friends to come to their rally in Southall Community Centre, Merrick...

‘Slippery slope to privatisation’

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THE FIRST GP surgery in Maidstone Kent to charge patients for 15-minute face-to-face consultations is open for business! The GP surgery works through ‘Uber-style’...

TORIES SPLIT – Johnson faces revolt over new restrictions

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‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...

‘There will be no limits for this war’ says Israel

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says security forces will have ‘full freedom’ to act after two Israelis were shot dead in an attack in...
Nurses demonstrate against the end of bursaries and the introduction of tuition fees

Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!

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SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...

Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

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PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...
CWU pickets at Gatwick yesterday midday, RAJ  NOTHAY (2nd from left) and STEVE MATHARU (right)

‘WE WILL WIN’ – insist striking CWU members

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‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!

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THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...
Junior doctors took strike action to stop an imposed contract and to save the NHS – their struggle must now be continued to bring the Tories down

‘GP collapse’ in North of Ireland! – put the Tories out on June 8th...

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GENERAL Practice in the North of Ireland is close to collapse with the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) seeking to collect enough undated resignations to...
Supporters of the Sussex occupation lobby the Royal Court of Justice

Students fight injunction against Sussex occupation

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OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...

GM CRISIS DEEPENS – Vauxhall GM in danger

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Fears of job losses and plant closures at car maker Vauxhall grew at the weekend as three firms vied to buy GM Europe, ahead...
The South-East London Council of Action marching to defend tenants on Heygate and Aylesbury council estates

4.5m ON WAITING LISTS – privatisation creates housing disaster

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THE privatisation of housing has been a complete disaster. Completely inadequate numbers of new homes have been built in every region in England since...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF is getting great support for the party’s policies from young people

Vote WRP Vote Leff in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff Workers Revolutionary Party because I want the Tories out and I want a party which is going to...

A&E Waiting Times Crisis!

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WEEKLY national figures from NHS England yesterday showed it has missed the four-hour A&E waiting time target for the 28th consecutive week. The proportion...
Sacked school guards demonstrating in Athens on Wednesday. Banner reads ‘We want our jobs and dignity back’

Defeat For Greek Government!

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THE Greek coalition government’s presidential candidate right-winger Stavros Dimas received the votes of just 160 parliamentary deputies last Wednesday night in the first round...

LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan

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Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...

Thousands Marching To Defend The NHS!

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MANY thousands of nurses, midwives, doctors, physiotherapists, domestic staff, porters and technicians from hospitals all over Britain are marching through London...
Dr CHAAND NAGPAUL, BMA GP Committee chair (2nd from right) at a march in Tower Hamlets last June against the closure of GP surgeries

‘GP services at breaking point’ – warns BMA

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‘GP SERVICES are already at breaking point,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GP Committee chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, warned yesterday, demanding that PM Cameron ‘get...

JOIN OUR MASS PICKET ON 10th FEBRUARY

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are inviting all their supporters to join them on their six-month anniversary picket on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout,...

Tory Party Civil War Set To Continue

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‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...

ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU

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‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...
West Kensington and Gibbs Green estate tenants lobby Hammersmith & Fulham council against the demolition of their estates

Homeless Families Driven Out Of London

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15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

Irish Privatisation Disaster!

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FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...

‘We need a general strike’ – the Tories have to go!

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‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...
NUJ General Secretary MICHELLE STANISTREET (6th from left) on the picket line at Broadcasting House, central London, yesterday told News Line ‘It’s a brilliant, solid turnout’

Nuj Stops Bbc Over Sackings

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‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
During the last Wednesday ‘s General Strike the Deimitra factory banner read ‘Permanent struggle - our answer to  the troika, government, and plutocracy’

Greek Finance Ministry occupied

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WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...

Assange At Risk Of Being ‘Tortured To Death’

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, who has been held in terrible conditions in Belmarsh Prison, is ‘in a dire state of health due to psychological...

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...

POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster

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Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...
Determined Metronet strikers lobbying the Department of Transport in central London yesterday

‘GET RID OF THE PRIVATEERS’ – say Tube strikers

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‘Privatisation has been a disaster, we want the complete renationalisation of the railway network in Britain,’ RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Crow was...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

Hamas calls for unconditional ceasefire in Gaza

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THE Hamas Movement, along with the Palestinian presidency, welcomed the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming adoption on Thursday of a resolution calling for an immediate,...

Virgin to axe 3,150 jobs! – and permanently leave Gatwick

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VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...

POLICE STRIP-SEARCHING CHILDREN ‘DEEPLY CONCERNING’ says Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza

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CHILDREN as young as 8-years-old are being strip-searched by the police, with black children six times more likely to be targeted than non-black. A report...
Greek workers battle with riot police

Greece under Franco- German occupation!

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THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...

POA condemns ‘reserve force’

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THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...

Mexican forces attack caravan

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CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...
Chagossians with their Community Association banner, demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia, outside parliament yesterday

GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils

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GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...
A strong picket at the University of East Anglia’s cyclists entrance

UNIVERSITIES WALKOUT! – over 1% insulting pay offer

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ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...

Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...