Defend Public Sector Jobs!

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Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...

Birmingham bin strike escalates! – Unite condemns ‘disgraceful use of unlawful labour’

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NEARLY 400 Birmingham refuse workers began indefinite strike action yesterday over the scrapping of the waste collection and recycling officer role (WRCO), which has...
CWU pickets at Brockley Delivery Office during their strike on August 7th

London Postal Workers Out Today

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ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall on the first anniversary of their dismissal

Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department

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GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...
The front of the North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield in June 2009 demanding no cuts and closures in the NHS

NHS FRONTLINE SERVICES CUT! says Royal College of Nursing

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Almost 10,000 NHS posts in England, the equivalent of a large teaching hospital, have been earmarked for cuts, the Royal College of Nursing revealed...

BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...

Mobilise Against Starvation And Genocide!

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THE Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported yesterday afternoon that 109 Palestinians were killed and 216 others injured in the escalating Israeli...
Rolls Royce workers marching to Parliament to defend their jobs

RATES KEPT AT 5% – TUC warns its rates cut or slump

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday kept interest rates on hold at 5% as the central bank struggles to deal with...

UN must act against Israel – insists Iran

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‘IRAN'S armed forces are better prepared than before and are fully ready for any future contingency, and any return by the enemy to military...
Resident of North Kensington holds a piece of the charred cladding from the Grenfell Tower inferno – building materials will still not be rigorously tested to see if they are flammable as the Tories have refused to rule out ‘desktop assessments’

Building materials will not be fire tested!

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EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...

CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says Business Secretary Cable

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...

Google handed private medical records

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PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...
Determined Metroline pickets at Willesden garage during their stike over pay on November 20

Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours

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Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...
The last angry march through Enfield where 10,000 local people turned out to protest at the plan to close Chase Farm Hospital

Stop Chase Farm Closure!

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THE North East London Council of Action is organising a march through Enfield today starting from the war memorial at 1pm to Chase ...

Move towards national teachers strike

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THE NATIONAL Executive of the NEU (National Education Union) is moving to formal ballots for strike action over pay and funding. The formal ballots of...
BMA GPs committee member BETH McCARRON-NASH, GPs committee chairman Dr LAURENCE BUCKMAN, GPs committee member Dr PRIT BUTTAR, and BMA Patient Liason Group member NATALIE TEICH before handing in a 1,236,085-signature petition to Downing Street

DARZAI MUST RESIGN! – says the GPs conference!

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FAMILY doctors yesterday expressed their furious opposition to privately-run polyclinics and voted to take ‘unprecedented action’ in response to ‘unprecedented political threats to general...
London Overground Travel Safe officers in the RMT are fighting for sick pay, job security and proper contracts

RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!

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RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks

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A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...

Warsi Resignation Rocks The Tories

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TORY Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has quit the government, saying its policy on Gaza is ‘morally indefensible’. In her resignation letter, Warsi spoke of...
Workers Revolutionary Party Norwich Central candidate GABRIEL POLLEY speaks out to the discomfort of leading Blairite CHARLES CLARKE (second from right)

Gabriel Polley Speaks Out For Workers

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‘THE working class is tired of listening to the lies put forward by the ruling class politicians,’ said Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Gabriel Polley,...

DARLING KNEW! – that 10p measure would hurt low paid

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Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...

‘FRESH BLOW TO CAR INDUSTRY’! – over 10% job losses at JLR Halewood

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THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...
Junior doctors showing their determination to defend the National Health Service on their demonstration on March 17th

Anger Over Doctors For Export!

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Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...

Tory Crisis Deepens As Parliament Returns

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LIZ TRUSS returns to Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister today, amidst a bubbling rebellion of MPs and economists who are aghast...

2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St

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MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...

Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC

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MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...

200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!

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MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...
Teamsters leader JAMES HOFFA (centre) standing with Unite leader LEN McCluskEy, emphasised  that US and UK workers are struggling against the same bosses

‘Together we’re stronger!’ – Hoffa urges US-UK working class unity

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TEAMSTERS Union leader James Hoffa stood side by side with the UK’s Unite trade union in Birmingham yesterday mid-day against National Express, the...
Refugees aboard an overloaded boat desperately trying to cross the Mediterranean

170 Refugees Feared Drowned

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AS MANY as 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR said. The Italian navy reports...

UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!

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PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...
Youth on December’s silent march for Grenfell in North Kensington – they demand Justice for Grenfell

White goods cause 60 fires a week Silent march for Grenfell today in London...

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‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...
Ritzy and Curzon cinema workers marching to City Hall yesterday afternoon demanding the London Living Wage of £8.50 an hour

Marching For A Living Wage!

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RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...

NHS winter crisis is ahead warns Dr Boyle

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SPEAKING ahead of the three-day strike of tens of thousands of NHS Junior Doctors which begins at 7am on Wednesday morning, the leader of...

Trump threat to invade Cuba!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened Cuba, warning on Sunday: ‘THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I...

Jenin is facing complete Gazafication – destruction

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AN anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has issued a stark warning about the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin,...

Israeli Troops Storm Al-Shifa Hospital

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BATTLES raged between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital yesterday, as the Israeli genocidal bombardment continued. Palestinian families which...
Whipps Cross Hospital strikers on the picket line last Wednesday determined to win their pay dispute

Whipps Cross – More Action Planned

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ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...
Serco strikers fighting for a 30p an hour increase, on the picket line at the London Hospital yesterday morning

‘LOW PAY – NO WAY!’ say striking Serco workers

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‘LOW PAY – NO WAY!’ shouted Unite Serco strikers on a lively picket line outside the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel yesterday morning. Cleaners, catering workers,...
GPs and local residents join hands to stop the closure of GP surgeries in a demonstration in Rugby

REFORMS WILL HIT POOR – says BMA’s Dr Buckman

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THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...

Barts & St Thomas’ solidarity action!

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UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...

On-line GP consultations dangerous & ineffective

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BUCKETS of cold water have been poured on Tory plans for patients to see their GP over the internet rather than face-to-face. The pilot...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...

Brown Denies Job Change

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Gordon Brown yesterday denied that he is about to step down as Prime Minister, adding that there is ‘no possibility of a job called...

Unison delegates want action

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UNISON members are gathering at the union’s national delegate conference in Manchester today, determined to defend their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. They will...

Mau Mau Torture Victims Victory

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THERE was jubilation among a group of fifty former Mau Mau freedom fighters in Nairobi yesterday as news broke that a torture victims compensation...