Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!
PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...
Met chief faces questioning over destroyed evidence!
THE head of London’s police is going to be questioned today about the destruction of a ‘lorry-load’ of evidence of widespread police corruption...
NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL
Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
PRIVATISATION MENACE – a threat to road safety says Prospect
PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...
GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi tells rally
Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...
‘We can’t allow the City to sink beneath the waves’
‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor...
Workers sign up for August 20th rally
TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...
‘Guarantee our jobs by Wednesday or we strike’
If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...
‘STAR CHAMBER’ TO PUSH THROUGH £60bn CUTS
CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...
‘Failing Grayling’ must go says RMT leader Mick Cash
RMT’s Mick Cash has repeated his call for ‘Failing Grayling’ to go as the scale of the probation service scandal emerges. Cash said: ‘The truly...
‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers
SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...
Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins
THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...
The TUC calls to tax the rich – refuses to call General Strike
On the eve of its Congress, the TUC has called on the government to equalise capital gains tax with income tax which could raise...
Defend the NHS!NHS – Foundation Trusts call to lift cap on private patient numbers
Public sector union Unison yesterday sounded the alarm bells over a move from NHS foundation trust bosses to lift the cap on the...
OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire
German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...
Rail Companies Are Paying Massive Dividends Says RMT
NEW RMT research has revealed that the private companies responsible for supplying trains to the railways have been paying massive dividends to their shareholders...
REPLACE GREEK TUC BUREAUCRATS – demand youth
GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...
‘We want to work for NHS!’ – say striking pathology staff
PATHOLOGY staff struck for 24 hours yesterday, at King’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals in a determined struggle against venture capitalist encroachment in the...
BAILIFFS MOVE IN AT CRACK OF DAWN! – but Brent Academy protesters vow to...
AT the crack of dawn bailiffs once again invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground. No legal notice had been given to the G.R.A.S.S occupiers...
HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets
HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...
Papandreou Agrees To ‘Great Sacrifices’
Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that Greece has agreed the terms of a financial rescue deal with the European Union and IMF. This will...
WORKERS FACE PAY FREEZES – as prices soar
The class struggle is set to escalate sharply in the new year as workers and their families face soaring food and fuel prices, while...
Tribunal Fees A Denial Of Justice!
GMB members will hold a protest outside the Central London Employment Tribunals to coincide with the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees on Monday, 29th...
Shrewsbury Pickets conspiracy exposed
The Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign, led by former pickets Ricky Tomlinson and Terry Renshaw, with Andy Warren (son of deceased picket Des Warren) yesterday...
US WEBSITE SEIZURES CONDEMNED! – Biden continues from where Trump left off
THE US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said...
Biden leaves for Middle East!
US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...
RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed
THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...
Gate Gourmet Rally This Sunday
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are inviting all trade unionists and their families and friends to come to their rally in Southall Community Centre, Merrick...
WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran
United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
Murdoch Quits News International
James Murdoch quit as executive chairman of News International yesterday, but said he will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News...
Junior Doctors marching today
THOUSANDS of junior doctors will take to the streets of London today in protest at the imposed changes to their contracts. The rally today in...
Occupy to stop Ealing closure
EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...
Southern bailout stinks!
‘THIS STINKS of another multi-million pound taxpayer subsidy to bail out the failing Southern rail part of the Govia Thameslink franchise,’ Mick Cash general...
DEVON NHS PCT CRISIS! – all 5,000 employers offered offered voluntary redundancy
All five thousand Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) employees across the county have been sent a letter offering voluntary redundancy as a cost-cutting measure....
President Abbas meets Blinken in Ramallah!
‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...
‘WITHDRAW BILL!’ – DEMAND GPs
AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...
‘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,...
250,000-strong London march for Palestine
OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...
‘Don’t Play Games With A&E!’
‘NO more games with our A&Es,’ doctors demanded yesterday in the wake of the intense A&E crisis over the winter. Doctors union, the BMA, said...
Savage Cuts On The Way!
THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...
UK Did Torture Kenyans!
THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...
Swindon Hospital Workers Lobby Carillion
OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...
‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham
AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...





















