Part of the huge general strike rally last Thursday on the duel carriageway outside the occupied ERT in Athens

Ert Occupation Is A Centre For The Greek Revolution!

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth are congregating every day and every night at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) building...

DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!

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TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...

Israel F-16 planes bomb houses close to Kamal Adwan hospital

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DIRECTOR of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said that Christmas Eve was one of the most difficult nights in Kamal Adwan Hospital...

GMB legal win over Lidl!

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GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...
Student nurses marching last May in defence of the NHS

Don’t Privatise Hinchingbrooke!

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Public sector union Unison yesterday warned that Circle Healthcare’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgshire could lead to a second Southern Cross crisis. Unison head...

OCCUPY ELLESMERE PORT says ATUA National Secretary

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Workers at the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire are bracing themselves for today’s expected announcement by owners GM of 1,000 job cuts. Trade union...
Midwives and nurses on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital during the the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

£30bn MORE NHS CUTS!

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THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...

Postmasters Convictions Quashed

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JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...

‘GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND POSTAL SERVICE’ – ‘We must win this struggle’ say postal...

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STRIKING postal workers fighting Royal Mail’s diktat yesterday called for a general strike. On a lively picket line outside Camden Delivery Office, London NW1, Communication...
Thousands of Tamils poured into Parliament Square yesterday, after police broke up their overnight sit-down protest on Westminster Bridge

Police Attack Tamils

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Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...

‘CRUEL PUNISHMENT’ OF POOREST PEOPLE! – Xmas Universal Credit to be stopped

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TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...

Thompson Out! Chant 17,000 Striking Postal Workers!

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‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...

HEALTHCARE FOR THE RICH! – being provided by the Tory coalition

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Labour has accused the government of cutting NHS spending in England in poorer areas and moving funds towards richer parts of the country, citing...

Starmer rebuffs Trump’s call for Hormuz escalation!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Starmer yesterday rebuffed US President Trump’s demand that the UK joins him in escalating the war on Iran. Trump urged Britain and...

‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!

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THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...

HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union

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THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...
Ranks of police charge striking miners at Orgreave in 1984

The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...

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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...

Stevens intervention slammed!

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NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has intervened in the referendum debate to declare that leaving the EU could damage the NHS. Citing Bank of...

Docklands strike illegal!

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THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

Hackney School Cleaners Holiday Rates Victory

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HACKNEY school cleaners have hailed victory in a dispute over the failure to pay proper holiday rates. The settlement of the dispute at the six...

Tories Forced Back On Ealing & Charing Cross NHS Cuts

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The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...

Cameron Attacks Youth!

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Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday announced a whole series of police state measures for use against young people and workers. He told a recalled House...

KICK PRIVATEERS OUT OF NHS! – Unison condemns Hinchingbrooke privatisation

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‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...

BMA condemns private management consultants

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned the government for spending £171 million on private management consultants, who have been hired to advise NHS...

RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!

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RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

SAVE OUR POST OFFICES – CWU announces week of actions

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...
Prison officers outside Brixton prison forced to take strike action for health and safety reasons

May uses courts against prison officers!

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THE government was in the High Court yesterday where it won an injunction against striking prison staff. The court ordered prison staff to return to...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...

Hezbollah ‘swarm’ of drones hits Israeli military camp!

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HEZBOLLAH carried out its deadliest attack against Israel since the latest escalation in fighting began on Sunday night, sending a ‘swarm’ of drones to...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...

RMT joins striking barristers outside Old Bailey

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STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

FBU Flood Warning!

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CALLING for cut fire appliances and jobs to be restored, South West Region Fire Brigades Union has warned fire and rescue services won’t be...

‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham

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AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
Teachers, parents and school pupils demonstrate in Bellingham in south east London against vicious education cuts

School funding cuts devastate a generation of children

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AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...

500,000 sanctioned in 12 MONTHS

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CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...

Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!

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WE want the TUC to give us the support that they voted for at their TUC Congress. ‘They must help us to win our jobs...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on Monday demanding action to win their jobs back seen here speaking to GMB general secretary PAUL KENNY

NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....

‘LEAVE NOW’ DEMAND MAY’S MPs – as Tory split widens

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DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...
Students break through the locked gates at Senate House during their protest against police violence and management’s plan to close ULU

Students March Against Police Brutality

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OVER 2,000 students demonstrated outside the University of London Student Union yesterday to express their anger at the attack by the university management on...
Libyan demonstrators at 10 Downing Street on Monday indict Cameron and imperialism and declare their support for Colonel Gadaffi

‘THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS KILLING MORE CIVILIANS’ – says Libyan government spokesman

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British air and missile strikes have caused ‘numerous civilian casualties’ especially at the civilian airport in Sirte, Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim Moussa said...

Bromley Workers Defend Jobs

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COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...

National Post Strike!

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‘THOUSANDS of our Post Office members will strike next Thursday, against attacks on their job security and pensions and in defence of the Crown...

MOODY’s WARNS – UK WILL LOSE CREDIT RATING

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BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

Miliband turns Tory!

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IN A savage attack on workers, youth and disabled people, Labour party leader Ed Miliband yesterday indicated that if Labour wins the next election...