UK Current Account disaster!

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THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...

‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside parliament

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Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...

Labour attacks BA strike

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THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...

BLAIR ON THE ‘HIGH WIRE’ – ‘A significant number of my side are against’

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday admitted at his monthly press conference that the opposition to his schools ‘reforms’ made getting them through parliament ‘a...

‘We’ll do everything to avoid “No Deal” exit from EU’ says Corbyn

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, appearing on the Sophy Ridge show on Sunday yesterday, was asked: ‘Can you guarantee that you’ll call a confidence motion before...

SAS chiefs covered up mass murders!

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MASS murders of unarmed civilians, including women and children, by SAS members in Afghanistan were covered up by two former heads of all UK...

BBC Asian Network 24hr strike

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BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

Graduating With £25,000 Debt

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The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned against further increases to the cost of a university degree after a new survey revealed that...

‘THEY WERE SENDING ME TO THE USA FOR EXECUTION!’ – Lofti Raissi demands apology...

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‘They were sending me to the US for an execution, I will never forgive that,’ said Algerian pilot Lofti Raissi yesterday, after winning the...

‘We’re fighting for the future of the BBC’

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Picket lines are out at BBC sites across the country today as 10,000 workers from all three BBC unions – BECTU, NUJ and Amicus...
Tamils during a sit-down opposite parliament last week held pictures to bring home the genocide against their people

Tigers Declare Unilateral Ceasefire

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In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the UN, EU, the governments of the US,...
Labour leader CORBYN (centre) with trade union leaders at a demonstration of steelworkers in London

Anti-Corbyn coup attempt!

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SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...

BA pilots strike!

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BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery demanding no privatisation

National Gallery strike today!

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NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
Enthusiastic striking BA cabin crew aboard their battle bus at Heathrow yesterday

‘We are fighting for our rights!’

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PICKET lines at Heathrow Airport were all manned successfully yesterday and there was a carnival atmosphere at the Bedfont Football Club, as a battle...
Unite demonstration in London on July 7th in defence of the NHS

‘WITHDRAW BILL!’ – DEMAND GPs

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AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...

£850 million to pay for NHS sackings

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The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...
Striking CWU members in Hampstead, north west London, were in fighting mood yesterday

‘NO HIDING PLACE NOW!’ – ‘We need the rest of the country out’ say...

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POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...

‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN

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‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...

‘SMOKESCREEN FOR HUGE CUTS’ – Unions condemn ‘Localism Bill’

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‘The Localism Bill, promoting the “Big Society” concept, is a smokescreen, so that thousands of local government jobs can be axed’, the Unite union...

Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’

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A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...

Tsipras visits Athens police HQ

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The leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras paid a long electioneering visit on Monday to the Athens area Police...

Israeli forces assault Kamal Adwan hospital

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ISRAELI forces have assaulted the last functioning hospital in besieged northern Gaza, bombing it and killing children inside, according to doctors. Medical sources reported that...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

Lecturers are angry

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UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU warned yesterday that they will take any university management to court if they dock a full day’s pay from their...

Free the Filton 24 hunger strikers! says Greta Thunberg

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'The entire world is watching,’ Greta Thunberg told a 50-strong rally for the Filton 24 hunger strikers on Saturday night. The rally was held at...

‘PAY UP OR WE STRIKE AGAIN’ – says POA

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‘If tomorrow’s talks are not fruitful, we can’t rule out taking strike action again,’ Prison Officers Association spokesman Glyn Travis said yesterday. Today’s talks with...

Blair-Brown War On Single Parents

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Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...
With 100,000 children in temporary accommodation, the right to a home is the big issue of the day

100,000 Children Are In Temporary Accommodation

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HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

Pressure Mounts On May To Resign

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Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...

UK Agrees To Negotiate The Future Of The Chagos Islands

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THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since...

LIBYAN FORCES FIGHTING ON – admits NATO

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LIBYAN Government forces are firing Russian-made rockets and howitzers on counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and their Western commanders and forcing them back. Meanwhile, NATO bombers are clearing...
Staffordshire residents occupied Stafford Hospital grounds for eight months to stop the closure of the hospital’s A&E Department

Staffs Bed Closures – Lives At Risk!

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‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...

NATIONALISE JLR AND CORUS – the only way to defend jobs

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Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

127,992 homeless kids at Christmas

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A record 127,992 children in England will wake up homeless on Christmas day, according to new government figures highlighted by Shelter. The charity turned...

Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action

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The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...

Corbyn-Watson differ over Trump and Brexit

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LABOUR Party deputy leader Tom Watson yesterday claimed that right wing shadow ministers who quit Labour’s front bench in a row over the...

No more wage cuts, pay up now! – demand striking resident doctors

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TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...
Greek electricians and power workers marching in Athens last June – will answer the autocratic bankers with a socialist revolution

Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!

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GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...

‘I want to campaign for Remain!’ says Shadow Chancellor McDonnell

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell was asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday morning: ‘When is Jeremy Corbyn going to come out for a new...

Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood

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A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their supporters on the mass picket on February 10th – the six-month anniversary of the lock out

Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...
'WE WILL WIN!' – say Vestas workers

‘WE WILL WIN!’ – say Vestas workers

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‘THINGS are going well,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith said yesterday. ‘People are in good spirits and we are standing by our call for...
Up to 100 members and supporters of the Pakistan Peoples Party gathered outside the Pakistan embassy yesterday afternoon. They told News Line that the Musharraf regime and its agents were responsible for the murder of Benazir Bhutto

‘WE WILL TAKE REVENGE ON RULERS!’ – Nawaz Sharif tells crowds

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At least thirty people were killed as President Musharraf yesterday called out the army to restore order in the cities as violent protests spread...

Miliband ‘Rent Cap’

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband yesterday pledged that the next Labour government will introduce legislation to cap rents so they cannot rise by more than...