Palace Gardeners’ strike action
ANGRY GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) were on picket lines outside Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London...
‘Big Four’ supermarkets pay back £1.7bn in Covid funds
SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...
Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!
MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...
Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown
In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey ordered terrorist attacks in Syria
THE Syrian Cabinet has condemned the terrorist blasts which hit the cities of Jableh, Tartous, and al-Qamishli last Monday. It also condemned terrorist mortar attacks...
Tories scrap 2 weeks cancer waiting times target – new boost for health...
THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...
TUC delegates speak out in favour of an anti-Tory general strike!
DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...
Brighton City College strike action!
STAFF at City College Brighton took one-day strike action yesterday against threatened job losses and cuts to courses and support staff. The UCU members voted...
Return of rogue landlords!
HAVOC is being wreaked on the lives of thousands of private tenants by rogue landlords, Shelter reported yesterday. New research found that over 125,000 private...
‘WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH MAY’ says McDonnell
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...
‘NO HIDING PLACE NOW!’ – ‘We need the rest of the country out’ say...
POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...
Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!
DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...
Social cleansing condemned – LONDON CLEARED OF 50,000 FAMILIES
CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...
US Threat To Close Plo Office
SAEB Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee, said on Saturday that ‘the US State Department notified us with an...
‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning
‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...
NHS care to be shifted out of OUR hospitals!
UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...
Remainers attempts to reverse Brexit defeated
REMAINER MPs were defeated in their attempts to reverse Brexit yesterday after the majority voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 on a ‘meaningful...
‘More NHS cuts will harm patients’
THE British Medical Association yesterday warned that further NHS cuts will compromise patient care. It was responding to the publication of a review into NHS...
MIGRANTS HAVE RIGHTS – GMB warns bully bosses
THE GMB yesterday at its annual Congress in Blackpool demanded that the owner of the American Dry Cleaning Company, Julian Stone, reinstate two...
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...
‘GREECE WILL NOT BECOME THE EU’s LEBANON’
GREECE has recalled its ambassador to Austria amid sharp divisions among EU states over the migrant crisis. The move came after Austria hosted a meeting...
French Pensions Strike!
THE French transport workers’ strike against pension cuts yesterday caused huge stoppages on TGV fast rail routes, local train, metro and bus services. Only 90...
‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – says Anna Athow,...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...
IRISH FERRIES BARRED – turned away by port workers in Dublin and Rosslare
Rosslare and Dublin port workers have said they will not handle Irish Ferries ship the MV Normandy if it tries to dock at their...
EU crisis meetings over Greece
GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...
INFLATION SET TO RIP! – pound under pressure after Moody’s downgrade
THE POUND is set to fall dramatically when the money markets open in the City of London today, following Britain’s first ever sovereign ratings...
British crisis frightens Obama
US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...
‘VITAL TRAINING IS BEING SACRIFICED’ says Junior Doctors chairman
SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
Pm Johnson Facing Defeat On Foreign Aid Budget Cut
THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...
Heathrow Conflict Is Set To Widen
New British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who takes up his post this weekend, plans to sack 6,000 out of BA’s 46,000-strong workforce, starting...
Unite Demands 15% NHS Pay Rise
NHS workers should receive an early pay rise of 15 per cent or £3,000, whichever is greater, the Unite union, said yesterday. Unite, which has...
Plan For Mayors To Run NHS Hospitals!
MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...
SOCIALISM THE FUTURE FOR YOUTH – no jobs under capitalism
Teachers and lecturers yesterday congratulated teenagers over the best ever GCSE results, but warned youth faced a tough future in the face of education...
‘lives Will Be Lost If Chase Farm Closes’
‘I HAVE to come on the march to save my job and to save lives. If Chase Farm closes, lives will be lost,’ nurse...
Begg Offer To Help Refused
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg offered to help the British government in securing the release of hostage Alan Henning from Islamic State (IS)...
NO TO CREEPING PRIVATISATION! – UCU tells government
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday wrote to the University and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA) to ask the employers to act to...
Eleven colleges launch strikes!
ELEVEN colleges launched three days of strike action yesterday morning after rejecting a 1% pay offer which, when inflation is taken into account, is...
Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...
SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
Greek Workers March Against Police
Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...
Israel Continues Gaza Strip Massacres!
THE Israeli occupation army continued to commit massacres in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, killing and injuring...
ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge
UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...
US will fall off fiscal cliff
THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...
Russia ‘reserves the right to respond’ – after Israeli actions down its plane in...
RUSSIA ‘reserves the right to respond’ after Israel’s actions led to the downing of a military plane in Latakia in Syria, resulting in...














