Junior Doctors Will Not Accept Imposition!
‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...
Israel rejects ceasefire and pledges to flatten Gaza City
ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...
SLEEPING ON THE STREETS! – treatment of asylum seekers condemned
REFUSED asylum-seekers are eating out of bins and sleeping in parks, public toilets and phone-boxes because of government policy New reports show government...
DICTATOR BERCOW! – ready to forcefully remove PM from office
THE OUTGOING Speaker John Bercow, due to leave on October 31, has said that he will forcibly remove PM Johnson from office if he...
Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!
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...
‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES AND CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – YS lobby gets...
‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...
Tories throw down gauntlet to junior doctors
THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...
Second Reprieve For Dale Farm
DALE Farm residents won another reprieve in the High Court yesterday, after a judge ruled that Basildon Council hadn’t been sufficiently clear in its...
Sixth Forms strike today across UK
TWENTY five Sixth Form Colleges take their second day of strike action today against savage cuts to pay, funding, courses and staff. The strikers, who...
Burston marchers call for a general strike!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the contribution of refugees and overseas workers in the NHS when he addressed a 1,500-strong Burston Strike...
Civil Servants To Strike
THREE-QUARTERS of a million public sector workers will take strike action against government attacks on their pensions on Thursday 30th June, it was confirmed...
Prentis Warns Labour
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...
‘Outrageous discrimination’ – Tube workers strike ballot opens
‘IT IS outrageous that London Underground have decided to discriminate against their Night Tube drivers,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday as...
Israel Assassinates a Hezbollah Commander
LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...
‘CUT THEIR BENEFITS!’ – Hutton threatens the unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton yesterday declared war on the unemployed, saying Labour will cut off benefits from those who reject...
Parliament can stop UK leaving EU – says shadow chancellor John McDonnell
PARLIAMENT can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed yesterday. He said he could ‘not countenance’...
Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!
Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
LONDON FACES STANDSTILL! – as thousands of Metroline busworkers vote to strike
LONDON is set to be brought to a standstill after thousands of bus workers employed by the privateer Metroline have voted overwhelmingly for strike...
Bank Rate Rise Fears!
The Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been shaken by the ‘increase in inflationary risks’ which if...
BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...
‘OUTRAGEOUS!’ – ISS pays no insurance contributions
ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers President Hank Roberts yesterday condemned as ‘outrageous’ an offshore company employing thousands of supply teachers avoiding the payment of...
Blair is to blame for Iraq war and occupation deaths
THE widow of Guardsman Anthony Wakefield, Ann Toward, is 100 per cent correct – Tony Blair is to blame for the death of her...
‘WINTER CATASTROPHE!’ warns RCN
‘EMERGENCY departments should be places of safety for those in crisis, but this report shows they have become places of prolonged and unnecessary suffering.’ Royal...
‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis
GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...
Workers Demand ‘End Austerity!’
SURVATION – who accurately predicted the hung parliament – also now shows Labour storming to a 7 per cent lead over the Conservatives. ...
1.92 Million Unemployed
UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...
UNLAWFUL! Law lords condemn Clarke’s terror plans
Home Secretary Clarke’s plans to give police powers to hold people for 90 days without charge has been condemned as ‘unlawful’ by Law Lord,...
7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens
SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool
Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...
SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped
SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...
Second day of Ealing Hospital strike
EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...
64% Say End Afghan War
A total of 64 per cent want all British forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘as quickly as possible’, with 33 per cent in...
May’s Grammar School Move Is Slammed
‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...
Cutting council funding will harm public health!
FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...
Israeli Bombers Target Children
AT least nine people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp yesterday morning, including five children who were playing in...
26 College Principals received pay rises of over 10%
ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...
Workers Of The World Support BA Cabin Crew
‘WE stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Unite who are fighting for a fair contract at British Airways,’ says the Teamsters...
THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union
FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...
UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!
A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...
Article 50 Showdown Postponed
ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...
ASYLUM SEEKERS RIGHT TO WORK – TUC launches national campaign
TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...
Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens
‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...
Greece 24hr national strike
GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...
Special measures for more NHS A&Es says NHS England
NHS Trusts performing poorly against the four-hour target could be placed in new ‘A&E special measures’ if their performance does not improve by June,...