Israel increases murderous airstrikes on Gaza City
DESPITE Hamas delivering a positive response to the latest ceasefire proposal hammered out by Qatar and Egypt on Monday, Israel increased its murderous air...
NO PAY RISE FOR YEARS! – end exploitation of rail cleaners say RMT
MORE than 50 members of the RMT rail union demonstrated outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston yesterday morning, before picketing the Association...
‘Take Basildon Back Under NHS Control’
Public sector trade union Unison yesterday called for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to be taken back under NHS control. It also...
Turkish workers confront state forces
ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters confronting riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and its adjoining Gezi Park yesterday, issued a call for Turkish citizens to join them...
Police attempt to silence journalists
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland yesterday condemned an attempt by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Durham...
Steel Crisis Meeting At The Tuc
STEELWORKERS’ representatives from the Community, Unite and GMB trade unions met at the TUC yesterday to demand action to save their jobs and industry. They...
COVER-UP – Grieving families condemn Network Rail
PARENTS of two young girls killed on an Essex level crossing in 2005 accused Network Rail of a cover-up yesterday, after the rail privateer...
French unions hold mass rally in Paris tomorrow
SOPHIE Binet, general secretary of the CGT French trade union federation, has called for people to join the rallies on July 18 in front...
King Warns About Intensifying Crisis
In a paper submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday: ‘The recent turmoil...
Pfi Crisis Hits Bart’s & London
‘Direct government investment is by far the cheapest and best way to build new hospitals,’ said a UNISON spokeswoman yesterday, in response to the...
Police demand mass stop & search powers
HOME Secretary Sajid Javid has met police chiefs from seven forces most affected by the violent crime wave produced by the government’s decade of...
China Hits Back At US Trade!
China launched countermeasures against the United States’ trade war attacks yesterday, with the Chinese People’s Daily saying that Beijing ‘will never waver in its...
Starmer beats war drums at Scottish Labour Party Conference!
LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...
Demonstrate April 1 15% for all NHS staff
PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...
Rail Delivery Group RMT members to strike June 2
RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...
Support For Luton Occupation!
Talks between German government ministers and GM and US government representatives are resuming in Berlin today to decide who will take over GM...
Labour launches EU election campaign
‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...
Tories Mount Jobs Assault
Chancellor Osborne yesterday announced the first £6.2bn of savage cuts planned by the Tory coalition. At a press conference, Osborne confined himself to generalities, then...
TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General
Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...
Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!
DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...
‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid
THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...
STOP PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! – End unfair NHS in England urge Welsh doctors
DOCTORS in Wales yesterday called for doctors’ prescriptions to be made free to all patients in England. On the second anniversary of the abolition of...
CAMPSFIELD DETAINEE BEATEN’ – and dragged from his cell
Detainees at Campsfield immigration detention and removal centre near Oxford rose up yesterday morning after an African detainee was beaten and dragged out of...
NHS Hit List!
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed the government for ‘treating health care like a business opportunity’. It was responding to news that the government...
‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution
‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...
Palestinian hunger striker wins his freedom! Kayed Fasfous is to be released December...
PALESTINIAN prisoner Kayed Fasfous has won a decisive victory and ends his hunger strike after an agreement was reached to end his administrative det-ention...
Two British Troops Killed By Basra Ied
Two British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment were killed near Basra, southern Iraq on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
BUNCEFIELD INQUIRY – prohibition notices served on oil companies
THE Health and Safety Commission (HSC) yesterday announced the official inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire. HSC chairman Bill Callaghan told a press conference...
RMT Calls For General Strike!
RMT leaders yesterday responded defiantly to Southern rail’s threat that if guards strike and do not sign new contracts by Friday, they will be...
ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts
UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
‘Overthrow dictatorship!’ – say Greek workers and soldiers
THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...
Seven Gazans Killed In Israeli Air Raids
Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...
Over 8,500 GPs vote to strike!
OVER 8,500 General Practitioners (GPs) across England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking collective action, including strike action, in response to mounting challenges...
‘CHARGE THOSE RESPONSIBLE WITH MURDER’ – demands Phil Shiner
THE lawyers acting for Colonel Mousa, Baha Mousa’s father, today responded to the latest evidence given by ex-soldier Donald Payne in the Baha Mousa...
Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!
ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS’ – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on all trade unionists to act in their support. The TGWU members are fighting for reinstatement on their...
Pensions crisis–Coalition pays tribute to the TUC!
JUST AS LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alexander was thanking the TUC in the House of Commons yesterday claiming that the public sector...
Bradford Youth ‘Uprising’ Wins For Galloway
THE workers and youth of Bradford West have dealt a body blow at the Labour Party reformist leadership by unprecedently throwing out their Labour...
‘excessive Workload’ At Great Ormond Street
Doctors at a clinic that failed to spot that Baby Peter – ‘Baby P’ – had a broken back two days before he died...
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...
Israeli tanks surround Gaza hospital – forcibly remove staff and patients!
ISRAELI occupation forces have encircled the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, demanding the immediate evacuation of all those inside. Gunfire has been reported...
‘whipps X Will Not Close!’
OVER 70 hospital staff, patients, supporters and trade unionists held a rally outside the threatened Whipps Cross District General Hospital in Walthamstow, north London...
Labour to win by-elections – Tories in huge NHS crisis
VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...
March Reaches Stoke
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education campaigned at Keele University yesterday, where students bought tickets for the Meet the March...