US & Saudi Flags Burnt At Gaza Mass Rally
PALESTINIANS have come out in force in the Gaza Strip to protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘capital’, burning ...
Gatwick Airport Faces Default!
GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...
Greek bosses stop wages!
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
Junior doctors be warned over the new GPs contract!
JUNIOR doctors be warned. A historic new GP contract has been quietly negotiated by the BMA and NHSEngland, designed to catapult NHS healthcare into...
Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’
OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...
‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes
Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
BIG SOCIETY A BIG CON – says Unison
PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...
National Gallery strike against privatisation!
‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...
Unions Agree To Axe Steel Jobs And Sell Out Members
UP to 500 jobs will be axed at British Steel with the trade unions agreeing to the axing. The union leaders have warned the takeover...
Tories launch war on ‘all extremism’
‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...
Massacre In Vanni!
TAMILNET reports that in the early hours of Monday at around 3.00am. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B Nadesan and LTTE Peace...
‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance
HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...
Clarke To Introduce Internment
HUMAN rights organisations yesterday furiously condemned the government for planning the introduction of internment in Britain, by giving police the powers to detain suspects...
WALL STREET DIVES! – as Congress argues over Bush plan
THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...
‘THE TALKS ARE A TRAP’ – We must strike on Thursday and Friday
‘The talks are a trap to get over Christmas,’ warned Hampstead Delivery Office Communication Workers Union (CWU) deputy unit rep John Taylor yesterday. He...
1800 YEARS OF JAIL! – for youth charged over Duggan assassination riots
PRISON sentences totalling more than 1,800 years have been handed to youth following the uprising after the police ‘assassination’ of Mark Duggan, in Tottenham,...
Hackney students support WRP’s Leff
STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...
Energy Profit Margins Set To Double!
‘SOMETHING must be wrong’ when profit margins for the big six energy firms are set to double over the next year while families are...
Low pay ‘endemic’ 4.1m in serious debt
AN EXTRA 94,000 people were in work at the end of the latest three-month period, however it now emerges that the unemployment figures have...
Guards strike is on! – as Southern says it will sack every guard!
THE BATTLE is on! RMT confirmed yesterday that the Southern guards’ strike is going ahead. Meanwhile Southern Rail confirmed it will carry...
Shipbreakers Demand Action
FIFTEEN per cent of the 65,000 workers employed in scrapping ships at sites on India’s west coast are suffering from asbestosis. The shocking statistic...
Nurses Ready To Strike Over Pay–Ballot Shows
THE VAST majority of nurses are prepared to strike over pay, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday as it announced a ‘summer...
Cable’s blitz on HE
‘What we have here is a repackaging of student debt. Debt is one of the greatest deterrents to students,’ University and College Union (UCU)...
Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut
BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...
$8.7 Billion Iraq Oil-For-Aid Cash ‘missing’
ALMOST 96 per cent of oil and petrol money earmarked for humanitarian needs and reconstruction in Iraq after the 2003 invasion has gone missing,...
Israel approves 22 new illegal settlements in West Bank
Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...
UK-CIA Inquiry Boycott
NINE rights groups have said they will boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s torture and rendition programmes. Amnesty International, Reprieve,...
US bank rule changes threaten a new crash
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...
Reverse Tube staffing cuts! – after a fire under London Bridge escalator
THE RMT has re-iterated its call for a reversal to Tube station staffing cuts in the light of a major fire-related incident at London...
RACIST KILLINGS ‘LOW IMPACT’ says Home Office
Family and friends of the victims of racist murders have reacted angrily to a leaked Home Office internal memo which describes the murders...
Carillion 98.3% Vote For Industrial Action
WORKERS employed by privateer Carillion at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon have voted 98.3% in favour of industrial action over job losses, pay...
MOSUL OFFENSIVE BEGINS – ‘The hour of our victory has come’ says Iraqi PM
THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...
No beds for intensive care patients
INTENSIVE Care units (ICUs) are suffering such a chronic shortage of beds and staff that four out of five ICUs are having to send...
Met Police take charge of regime change op!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs
A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...
GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms
APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...
Ahli Hospital Massacre – Israel bears the direct responsibility!
‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...
Barclays Sacking 1145!
UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...
Halt NHS Privatisation!
THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Unite says places the NHS at ‘unique risk of being irreversibly privatised’, will not exclude healthcare,...
Israeli strike on Gaza City kills seven & wounds 20!
AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...
UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump
TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...
Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT
THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...
‘The ugly faces of occupation’ by Mats Svensson
See photo gallery for feature by Mats Svensson of demolition of two houses in Silwan, Jerusalem last week
NO! TO BAA BLANKET BAN – climate change camp going ahead
The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...
SANCTION ISRAEL NOW! – –demand 102 UK and French diplomats
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has hailed a coalition of more than 100 former French and British diplomats calling on their governments to work...















