Brady ready to support May deal
SIR GRAHAM Brady, the chair of the Tories’ 1922 Committee, said yesterday, ‘the whole country is tired’ and that people should back the PM...
Miller sacked–now for the rest!
CULTURE Secretary Maria Miller was sacked by Prime Minister Cameron late on Tuesday night, after Tory MPs and local Tory parties threatened...
Victory To Ambulance Strikers!
STRIKING Paramedics, Emergency Care Assistants, call handlers and other ambulance staff across the country who are on strike again in England and Wales today,...
Teachers & lecturers take action over Pensions!
THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...
Immigrant textile workers in Italy win eight-hour day!
IN ITALY’S industrial heartland, immigrant textile workers have launched a wave of coordinated strikes that have forced dozens of factories to concede basic labour...
UK back to Victorian times
OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...
Cambridge Lecturers Striking Tomorrow!
CAMBRIDGE University lecturers are striking tomorrow in the increasingly bitter tidal wave of strikes being waged nationally by the University and College...
STRIKE ACTION WILL SPREAD – warns Dave Ward
‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...
Nurses – Jobs At Risk!
A government ruling on nurse recruitment and work permits that came into force yesterday, puts over 38,000 overseas nurses and their families at risk,...
BHUTTO KILLED BY THE MILITARY – Revolution erupts throughout Pakistan
Yesterday, at 6.16pm local time (13.16 GMT), Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi General Hospital after being shot in the neck...
Tuc Launches March 3 Day Of Action
DOCTORS, nurses, hospital cleaners, midwives and radiographers will be amongst the thousands of NHS staff marking a national day of action on March 3...
‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate
HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...
RMT calls a march on Downing Street
RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...
TUC denied seat at Tories trade table
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...
Labour’s warm welcome for May!
THE ONLY MP in the House of Commons to call for Tory PM May to resign yesterday was a Tory. William Cash Tory MP for...
‘Deliver General Strike’ urges PCS leader Godrich
TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...
‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...
TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...
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 ...
Guards Strike Solid!
‘WE WANT all trade unions to come out in our support if any of our members is sacked. Behind this is a threat to...
BLAIR AT BAY – Ignores Dunfermline defeat
Prime Minister Blair avoided all mention of Labour’s crushing Dunfermline by-election defeat in his keynote speech to the Labour Party Spring Conference in Blackpool,...
LABOUR, THE BANKERS FRIEND – turns on the unemployed
‘With the economy slowing down, and many commentators expecting unemployment to rise, now is not the time to start blaming the victim,’ said TUC...
Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS
CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...
BMA industrial action ballot agreed!
‘THE government can’t afford another battle with doctors, so let’s put down a marker,’ Tower Hamlets GP Dr Jackie Applebee urged the BMA Local...
Southport NHS Mass Sackings
Southport and Ormskirk UNISON health branch has launched a campaign with other health unions, Amicus, GMB, TGWU, the RCN and RCM against 33 compulsory...
‘GET DIRTY AMBULANCES OFF THE ROAD!’ – demands UNISON trade union
UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...
John Breen (1938-2010)
OVER 100 people packed out Hither Green Cremat-orium yesterday for the funeral of John Breen. His wife Doreen, their two daughters, family, friends and a...
STRIKE ON! – CWU Executive decides
At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...
‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah
THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...
Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!
THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...
NHS Bosses Won’t Talk To Bma!
THE British Medical Association yesterday criticised NHS employers for refusing to enter into talks over the loss of hospital accommodation support. From August 2008, junior...
‘UK intends to withdraw from EU!’ – PM May writes to EU President Tusk
PM May has written to EU President Tusk that ‘the referendum was a vote to restore, as we see it, our national self-determination.’ She added:...
Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!
THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...
Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS
VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...
Re-open maternity & children’s wards – demands Ealing mass picket
DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...
Labour split over Scottish Referendum!
SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...
BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT
RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...
GAZA CITY MASSACRE! – 29 killed and 80 missing
‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...
MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated
MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...
Wildcat Postal Strikes
WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...
‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...
Privatisation drive stepped up! – Competition panel formed for NHS
In a new attack on the NHS, the government is driving Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement so-called ‘World Class Commissioning’, which involves selling...
March of the 4-year-olds demands no test
SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...
Chagos Islanders Picket High Court
Chagos Islanders outside the High Court (right) on Friday, the final day of the appeal by the government against their right to return to...
1.300 Sacked At Northern Rock
Northern Rock bosses yesterday confirmed that the nationalised bank has sacked 1,300 workers. Eight hundred of the redundancies were compulsory, with the remaining 500 being...
‘THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN!’ Coalition’s unlimited fees plan condemned
Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...