BMA to strike on June 21!
DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...
Chancellor ignores the crisis!
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...
Post Strikers Determined To Win!
‘The mood is defiant,’ said striking postal workers in Cambridge yesterday. This came as the Communication Workers Union branded Royal Mail’s business approach ‘chaos management’. Thousands...
Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding
ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...
GLUM KING ADMITS TO SLUMP! – while EU rows over Greek euro exit
GOVERNOR Mervyn King announced yesterday that the Bank of England has cut its growth forecast to close to zero – from the 0.8 per...
‘Hormuz unbearable for the US’ – ‘Marines will end up in an abattoir’
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is becoming ‘unbearable’ for the United States, while...
‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns Zarif
IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...
Thousands of Nurses protest across USA! – against staff shortages in hospitals
AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...
Starmer poised to clash with unions over pay rise demands
LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...
‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters
THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...
HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up
LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...
UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings
ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
COUNCIL TAX HIKE! –families’ bills set to rise by up to £600 a year
LOW-INCOME families will see their council tax bills rise by up to £600 a year from April, warns a report by the Resolution Foundation. The...
RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress
DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...
Union Leaders Warn King
BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...
‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free!’
MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Parliament Square on Saturday, chanting: ‘From the River to...
Starmer withdraws support for Pro-Palestine Labour candidate
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...
Hamas Agrees To Ceasefire Deal!
THE HAMAS political bureau, announced yesterday evening that it has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. ‘The mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the...
BROWN – ‘We’re going to change the way we govern’
Prime Minister Brown, flanked by Chancellor Darling, told a press conference yesterday that, ‘the changes I have announced in the cabinet and in the...
Coronavirus–10,000 troops on the streets!
‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...
Israeli forces carry out another Gaza massacre
ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
500,000 March For Action To Bring Down The Coalition!
500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...
OCCUPIED! – UCL student action in support of UCU lecturers strike
AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...
3 Days Of Public Sector Strikes
ALMOST a quarter of a million civil servants will take part in 72 hours of action in the public sector with a strike on...
JAIL TIME FOR BANKERS – raised at parliamentary committee
EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...
NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds
YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...
PCS delegates demand national action
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) voted unanimously yesterday to pursue its ‘ongoing trade dispute’ with the government, including taking ‘industrial action’. Moving the...
Kick Capita out of NHS! ‘Patients’ lives at risk’– NAO report
PRIVATE outsourcing firm Capita has ‘put patients at risk of serious harm’ a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) states, which...
‘THEY WANT US ALL TO BE GIG ECONOMY WORKERS!’ – 70,000 UCU members strike
OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...
‘WALSH WON’T BEAT US’ say cabin crew
THERe was a family day event for the striking BA cabin crew at Bedfont Football Club yesterday, with bouncy castle, face painting and other...
‘You Have Right To Refuse To Work!’ – Aslef Advises Members
As London Underground ramps up services today, ASLEF has advised members of their right to refuse to work in circumstances where they are at...
The Great Pensions Robbery!
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow warned yesterday that the Hutton Review will be ‘the spark that lights the blue touch paper of co-ordinated strike action’. Crow...
Series of 48 hour postal strikes
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...
‘A PRIVATISATION TOO FAR’ – UNISON leader Prentis urges suspend NHS Logistics sell-off
UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...
Israel Bombs Unrwa Hq!
PALESTINIAN Legislative Council member Mustafa al-Barghouti challenged the head of the United Nations to personally go into Gaza, after Israel shelled the UN’s humanitarian...
Trump Puppets Johnson & Farage Fall Out!
THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...
Meeting – Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!
THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama
American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
‘Putting out forest fires with water pistols’
‘LIKE putting out forest fires with a water pistol,’ is the way the GMB union branded the Taylor Review released yesterday which looked into...
Imposed Contract Stresses Junior Doctors!
ANXIETY, stress and depression were to blame for nearly half the sick days taken by doctors in central Bristol last year, according to new...
‘MURDERERS!’ Paris – 3rd night of rage after police killing
FIERCE clashes broke out between the French CRS riot police and protesters for the third night in a row on Wednesday night. Demonstrators are furious...
Nissan Opens!
NISSAN is piloting new safety measures which will see around 50 staff return to work at Britain’s biggest car plant today, with the support...
Tories slam door on child refugees
THE TORY government issued a written Home Office statement on Wednesday saying it is closing the door on child refugees at the end of...