Teachers Announce Joint Strike Action!
The two largest teacher unions, the NUT and NASUWT, representing nine out of 10 teachers in England and Wales, are to stage a series...
FBU Pensions Victory!
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has won a landmark ruling in its dispute with the government over changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015....
Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!
AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...
Alarming teacher shortage
‘AN ALARMING teacher recruitment crisis is gripping England’s schools,’ teachers union NUT warned yesterday, adding that ‘no amount of “golden handshakes” will resolve the...
‘Closures Being Cynically Fast-Tracked’ Says Unite!
THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...
May Brings Back 11 Plus!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
60,000 MARCH to commemorate 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising
AS a result of the huge austerity rocking the Greek economy, this year’s march to commemorate the Athens Polytechnic student uprising was the biggest...
2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St
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...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...
‘Police spy should have been charged’ – say Stephen Lawrence’s parents
THE police officer involved in an alleged plot to spy on the parents of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence should have faced disciplinary charges...
Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf
‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...
CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...
General Strike in Palestine!
A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...
McCluskey praises Miliband while Crow calls for a new Labour Party at the Durham...
OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...
UNIONS MUST JOIN ACTION! say Defend Chase Farm NHS fighters
‘SAY “No’’ to this sham consultation!’, shouted dozens of angry local residents fighting to save Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, as they demonstrated outside...
PCS Universal Credit strike ballot
PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...
JOBS COLLAPSE – worst unemployment since crash
THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...
COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...
Medical students support Junior Doctors
MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...
‘WE ARE WINNING!’ – cabin crew in determined mood on day 3
The British Airways cabin crew strike is gathering strength as the management fails to keep the airplanes flying through the dispute. During the Saturday of...
Steel workers march on parliament
ELEVEN thousand steel workers, whose jobs hang in the balance, were watching like hawks as the deadline for ‘interested parties’ to enter bids to...
FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally
GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...
20,000 Civil Servants On Strike Today!
Approximately 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Identity and Passports Service (IPS)...
Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair
ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...
‘police Refused To Listen!’
THE people of Tottenham were yesterday considering the implications of the explosive uprising that took place on Saturday night. The reverend Nims Obunge said: ‘I...
Whipps Cross 3-Day Strike!
Nearly 300 porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial, based at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London, will be on strike again...
Lewisham & London Met Strike Action!
LECTURERS were on strike at Lewisham and Southwark College yesterday over 112 sackings because of the closure of the Southwark site in Camberwell, southeast...
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...
Nurses Heckle Lansley
Nurses at the RCN Annual Conference in Harrogate yesterday heckled and poured scorn on claims by Health Secretary Lansley that clinical staffing levels in...
Corbyn Wins High Court Challenge!
IN A VICTORY for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a high court challenge which attempted to overturn his right to stand in the Labour...
Bma Row!
AT a stormy morning session of the BMA Annual Representative Meeting yesterday, Birmingham BMA demanded the resignation of the chairman and deputy chairman...
Chase Farm NHS Must Not Close
Drivers honked their horns enthusiastically saluting the picket line outside Chase Farm hospital on day ten of the daily picket fighting to keep the...
GREECE–Government days are numbered
ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....
Hamas opens fire on Israel
HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...
Senior Hamas delegation in Turkey to discuss ceasefire
A senior Hamas delegation led by Dr Khalil al-Hayya met on Wednesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Istanbul to discuss ceasefire developments...
Three More US Marines Killed
Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
Tories scrap 2 weeks cancer waiting times target – new boost for health...
THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...
Doctors at risk from fatigue!
LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...
A&E beds & doctors crisis – May blocks 100 Indian doctors’ visas
A SEVERE shortfall of both A&E doctors and hospital beds must be tackled, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said in response...
Tata To Sack 1500
Yesterday’s announcement of 1,500 job cuts by Tata Steel in mills in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Hartlepool, is a ‘devastating blow’, the GMB union said. Keith...
Kurds march on Downing Street
AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...
OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire
German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
Cuts To Legal Aid Deny Non-UK Residents Justice
MP’s are voting today in parliament over controversial plans to cut legal aid which legal charity Reprieve say will see ‘torture victims denied their...