Queen’s Hospital workers are striking for fair pay
THERE was a lively well attended picket line at Queen’s Hospital Romford yesterday. A number of issues have brought the Unite union membership of the...
Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally
ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...
Austerity has produced the healthcare crisis says BMA
THE GP funding crisis is seeing patients in the most deprived areas of England facing poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on...
NO MORE QUANTITATIVE EASING – Bank of E allowing UK economy to sink
DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...
Israel assassinates Gaza mayor
ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government...
Rise Up! No To US Missiles In The UK
‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...
MASS PICKET – a huge success say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...
40 Bus Workers Picket Ash Grove
FORTY bus workers had a very lively picket yesterday morning, at Hackney’s Ash Grove bus depot in east London, as they staged the first...
Fire cuts hampering flood response
FIRE and rescue services currently responding to the floods in northern England are hampered by the unprecedented cuts they have suffered over the...
Starmer-Streeting declare war on NHS – and pledge to ignore the vote to reverse...
DELEGATES at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool overwhelmingly voted to overturn the Labour government’s abolition of the Winter Fuel Allowance yesterday. Moving the motion,...
Iran’s new leader vows revenge for Minab school massacre
IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...
‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion
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...
Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate
THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...
‘Kill The Bill’ Demos Nationwide!
‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...
Clarke To Introduce Internment
HUMAN rights organisations yesterday furiously condemned the government for planning the introduction of internment in Britain, by giving police the powers to detain suspects...
Nigeria–Oil Shutdown Starts
The general strike in Nigeria entered its fifth day yesterday, as talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and trade union leaders failed to end the...
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...
South Africa slams Israel over genocide against Palestinians!
IN A historical development at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, South Africa presented its detailed case against Israel committing genocide...
KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! – march today
HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...
Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’
THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...
Low interest rates spark new global economic crisis
LOW interests rates ‘risk sparking a new crisis’ across Europe, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) warned in its annual report released yesterday. The BIS...
70 Fire Stations To Close
seventy fire stations in England are threatened with closure and scores more face severe downgrading when the government presses ahead with its spending cuts,...
‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower
‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...
‘We are marching to defend the NHS’ say striking junior doctors
AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...
SPECIALIST NURSES FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS – as the NHS heads for a £1.8...
VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...
Murder in Syria was for ‘self-defence of Iraq’–claims ambassador
FOLLOWING the uproar questioning the legality of the UK drone assassination of a British citizen in Syria, a letter to the UN casts doubt...
Bombardier Workers Lobby Parliament
TWO hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament yesterday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has already...
NO UK SYRIAN INTERVENTION! – says Labour Party conference resolution
THE Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday voted for an emergency motion moved by Unite calling for a United Nations Security Council resolution...
Israeli attacks disable Gaza Eye Hospital
GAZA’S Eye Hospital warned yesterday that it is now unable to provide full services amid ongoing war and shortages. Dr Hussam Dawoud, director of Gaza’s...
Fallon Wants Lawless Army!
UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...
POLICE RAID ON NOTTING HILL – stun grenades used by armed police
Yesterday, police said that two more of the alleged 21 July would-be London bombers were now in custody after a series of armed raids...
WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran
United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
Greek Universities & Schools Occupied
Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...
Tories step up attacks on refugees & their lawyers
THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...
Defend Our Hospitals!
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...
Rights Groups condemn Israel’s control of ‘Area C registration’
ISRAEL’S cabinet has approved a measure to assume full control of land registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which covers around...
PROSECUTIONS NOW! – demand Grenfell survivors
GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...
JCB AXES MORE JOBS! – despite £50 a week GMB wage cut deal
more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...
Gate Gourmet Workers Battle On
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...
Two million Gazans face hunger, thirst, disease, fear & flooding!
MORE than two million people in the Gaza Strip are besieged by hunger, thirst, disease and fear and obtaining meals has become an impossible...
Osborne privatisation drive – but forced to retreat over tax credits
CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...
Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!
THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...
CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...
The Israeli Regime Has Escalated Its Genocide!
THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing...
‘Stop UK arms sales to Israel and end Gaza blockade’
END the blockade of Gaza! Stop selling arms to Israel! Investigate Israel for war crimes! delegate to the Labour Party conference, Sarah Jane Potter...












