‘All military families have the right to hear Blair give evidence’ –Reg Keys...
TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...
Ford to axe 12,000 jobs across EU – UK job losses double to 3,100
FORD has almost doubled the amount of job losses to hit car workers in the UK; now as many as 3,100 face the sack...
BROWN SELL-OFF CONDEMNED! – ‘paying for the failures of the city’
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...
Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition
THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...
Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...
TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...
DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – against Tory-Lib Dem rush to privatisation
‘THIS IS a match-fix for privatisation,’ the leader of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday, after the Tory-Lib Dem coalition announced it was...
WALK OUT! – RMT and TSSA take 24 hour tube strike action
10,000 MEMBERS of the RMT and sister union TSSA walked out on 24-hour strike at 9pm last night over plans to axe 800 jobs...
£ falls against dollar! – as UK growth prospects sink
STERLING posted significant declines against the US dollar and euro yesterday as UK growth prospects sank. The pound was 1.5030 against the US dollar and...
NHS Being Driven Along Road To Ruin Says Gmb
TRADE unions and Labour Party leaders yesterday condemned the government over cuts to the NHS that have put patients at risk. The were responding to...
Ambulance staff at breaking point
AMBULANCE staff are at breaking point, with the union Unison raising the alarm yesterday that services are facing unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable...
NHS ‘safe staffing’ suspended
THE ‘SAFE staffing levels’ for hospitals across the UK have been suspended, sending alarm bells ringing throughout the NHS. This has prompted the Royal College...
No private ambulances!
THE local community, backed by Unison, has launched a campaign to stop the privatisation of the patient transport service (PTS) within Greater Manchester. At a...
Corbyn makes May an offer
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...
FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school
worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...
Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa
‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...
‘No Medals, Badges Or Claps Just Pay Nurses 12.5% Rise!’
‘NO MEDALS, badges or claps this time – just pay nursing fairly’, a nursing union leader told Boris Johnson yesterday. The leader of the UK’s...
Travel Safe Workers Locked Out!
LOCKED-OUT Travel Safe workers demonstrated yesterday morning outside the headquarters of London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (just outside Swiss Cottage tube station) against...
Birmingham bin strike Megapicket
Thirty-five Labour MPs have written a letter in support of the striking Birmingham bin workers ahead of their MEGAPICKET on Friday. Many hundreds of trade...
Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...
CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...
CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich
TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
P&O boss admits ‘breaking the law’
IN AN extraordinary admission yesterday P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite admitted the firm knowingly broke the law, choosing not to consult with the...
42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!
A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...
ANNEXATION! – Israeli plan to carve up Palestine
‘WE ARE already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the...
March to save Chase Farm today!
YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...
2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!
APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
STRIKES WILL PROCEED DURING OLYMPICS – say unions
UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...
Grampian NHS Huge Increases In Private Nurses
NHS Grampian in Scotland has spent vast amounts of taxpayers’ money on private nurses in the last five years – almost two million pounds...
End Eurozone Austerity!
UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...
Abbas orders flag to be flown at half mast! – 104 years since Balfour...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has enacted a presidential decree ordering the national flag to be flown at half-mast today and tomorrow, and on November...
Gate Gourmet Sacked-Workers’ Lobby Tgwu Biennial Conference
A COACHLOAD of sacked Gate Gourmet workers is lobbying the TGWU’s Biennial Conference in Brighton this morning. They are currently taking forward a large...
PAY UP! – or face strike action warn NHS trade unions
THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over 1.1 million staff said yesterday. UNISON...
Tens of thousands pray at Al-Aqsa & defy Israeli barriers
TENS of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayer at Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem yesterday, pressing through Israeli checkpoints and metal barriers thrown up...
Pensions Strikes
AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...
RMT National Strike Action
THE RMT national rail strike is back on. A 24-hour strike has been called for Thursday the 4th of June and a 48-hour strike for...
‘WE HAVE GOT A REAL FIGHT FOR THE MEMBERS’ JOBS!’ says CWU leader Dave...
‘It’s an astonishing level of support you are giving to the union, you care about the service you are giving to the public, you...
Tory Civil War Rages!
THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...
Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia – medics receiving pleas for help as soldiers shoot...
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...
Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts
STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...
‘we’ll Keep Chase Farm Open’
‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...
21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...
‘Charge sheet against Hancock grows by the hour!’ says Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...
‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!
‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...
Working class kids denied education!
THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...
DEFUSE CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN – urges Baradei
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief inspector Mohamed El Baradei yesterday warned that the ‘brewing confrontation’ with Iran over its nuclear ambitions ‘must be...
Eu Appoints The Italian Government!
FACING calls for his impeachment, Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella yesterday appointed former International Monetary Fund official Carlo Cottarelli as interim Prime Minister. Known as...