Israeli air strikes kill 24

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ISRAELI air strikes killed at least 24 Palestinians between dawn and noon on Wednesday, with one of the biggest strikes targeting a school in...
Consultant CLIVE PEEDELL addressing the crowd outside Richmond House in Whitehall, London, yesterday

DEFEAT HEALTH BILL SAY ‘BEVAN’S RUN’ GPs

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‘Thank you everybody! Let’s save the NHS and kill this Bill!’ declared consultant Clive Peedell as he an David Wilson arrived to cheers outside...
Marchers in the West Midlands Unison office yesterday where they received full support for their March for Jobs to the TUC Congress

West Midlands Unison Supports March

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THE Unison West Midlands Office yesterday morning gave its full support to the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs from London to the TUC...
Delegates at the CWU conference applaud the 77.5 per cent vote for strike action at Royal Mail to defend their pay and conditions

‘WE ARE CONFIDENT WE WILL WIN THIS DISPUTE’ – CWU chair O’Hara tells News...

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CWU MEMBERS working in Royal Mail have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action against Royal Mail’s attempts to cut pay, jobs and conditions. The...

Patient records now open to state

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FOR the first time, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access to patients personal GP records, including their ‘fit notes’...
Greek worker stands his ground against an attack by riot police

‘LAST CHANCE FOR GREECE!’ – Eurogroup President Juncker threatens Greeks

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‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...
Cadbury’s workers singing Christmas carols outside the Cadbury Schweppes headquarters in Berkeley Square yesterday. The company wants to export their jobs to Poland

Factory Price Inflation Spurs Jobs Crisis!

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Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...
A section of the mass demonstration outside Parliament of road hauliers from throughout the UK demanding Brown act on high fuel prices

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

Watson rebukes non-social democrat Corbyn

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THE DEPUTY leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson spoke to Andrew Marr’s BBC show on Sunday about diverting the party away from its...

TUC must respond to Tory ‘insult’ by calling a General Strike!

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TRADE union leaders are meeting at the TUC in central London today to discuss their response to meetings held yesterday with Tory ministers where...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

All restrictions to be lifted a month early! – announces Johnson despite Covid deaths...

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‘IT IS MY expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test...
Nurses on the October TUC demonstration demanding fair pay and more staff

‘NHS being collapsed by coalition!’

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THE very minimum number of nurses required for A&Es to function safely was published yesterday in an attempt to address the acute staff shortage...

Israel now on blacklist of countries harming children!

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UNITED Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has informed Israel’s Defence Attaché in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to finally include...

Iranian missiles cause panic in Israel and close Knesset!

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IRANIAN missile strikes triggered widespread panic across Israel yesterday, forcing the suspension of a Knesset (parliament) session. On the 25th day of the conflict, unrelenting...
Part of the march through Stratford called by the Focus E15 campaign to demand social housing as a right

Social Housing ‘No Go Areas’

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One in three councils in England has not replaced a single home sold through the Right to Buy scheme since 2012, according to the...

Free, free Palestine! – chants 30,000 Glastonbury crowd as Cooper prepares ban

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‘We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally,’ Belfast rap group Kneecap singer Mo Chara told a...
Youth are fighting for their rights everywhere. Over 500 students marched yesterday to the occupied Bramber House building, University of Sussex after a lunchtime rally against the privatisation of non-academic services affecting 235 staff, many of whom b

‘Claim Your Money Back’ – Workfare Benefit Stopping Ruled Illegal

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THE COALITION government’s slave labour ‘Back to Work’ programme was dealt a major blow yesterday when, in a unanimous decision, three judges from the...
The community and firefighters united in demanding ‘Justice for Grenfell’ on a joint march with the FBU last month

Ryhurst driven out of Whittington Hospital

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WHITTINGTON NHS Trust has had to abandon plans to put the company responsible for installing the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower in charge of...

FBU strike ballot on pensions

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The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...

EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013

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THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...

‘OUR LIVES ARE NOT VALUED BY THIS SYSTEM’ – Chris Kaba family

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‘TODAY, we are devastated. The not guilty verdict leaves us with the deep pain of injustice, adding to the unbearable sorrow we have felt...

NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...

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UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...

FULL SUPPORT! – pledge the TUC and trade union leaders

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‘NO to redundancies!’ ‘We want our jobs!’ ‘We want justice!’ shouted over 300 locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday inside the TUC Congress in...

Civil Service Mayhem

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PLANS reported yesterday morning to close all but a handful of HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) 160 remaining UK offices would be ‘devastating’ and...
Locked-out Vivergo workers from Hull marching in London last month for support for their struggle. One of their union officials has been arrested

GMB official arrested

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A GMB National Officer was arrested at the protest against the lockout of 430 workers at BP Saltend, in Hull yesterday morning. GMB national officer...

Greek bosses stop wages!

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HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...

Israel bombs 2nd UN school in two days

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ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...
Junior doctors demonstrating outside Downing Street – over 2,000 doctors have sent a letter to Cameron and Hunt giving their full support to the junior doctors’ struggle

‘We fully support the junior doctors strike!’ say 2,500 doctors in letter to Cameron

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MORE than 2,500 consultants, GPs and senior doctors have delivered a letter to Downing Street saying this week’s all-out strike by junior doctors will...

BAME PPE crisis is continuing!

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BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...

Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent

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The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...

Universal Credit is ‘here to stay’ – says Hammond

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TORY Chancellor Hammond, yesterday in his budget claimed to jeers: ‘the era of austerity is finally coming to an end.’ This is...

‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside parliament

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Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...

The nail in ‘coffin UK!’ – Manufacturing output and Sterling falls

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UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...

‘COMPLETE DEADLOCK!’ – Barnier will not recommend further progress

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‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...

5,500 Children killed in Gaza! – World Children’s Day November 20th

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ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...

Brown Calls May Election

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Prime Minister Brown confirmed yesterday that the general election will be held on Thursday 6th May. Flanked by the cabinet outside 10 Downing Street, following...
Experienced and skilled overseas doctors demonstrate against Labour’s new ruling which is forcing them out of the NHS

NHS Trusts – No money for surgeons

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THE government’s privatisation drive is threatening the development of a new generation of NHS surgeons. This was revealed yesterday by Britain’s top surgeon, President of...

Gate Gourmet Workers Lobby Tgwu Executive

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THIRTY FIVE Gate Gourmet locked out workers yesterday lobbied the TGWU executive meeting at the union’s headquarters in Holborn. They kept up chants of ‘Compromise...

US Lawyers Launch Bid To Have Assange Extradited From The UK

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US LAWYERS yesterday launched a fresh attempt to have Julian Assange extradited from Britain, arguing that concerns about the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health should...
A strong and angry picket of New Scotland Yard yesterday after the CPS refused to prosecute the policeman responsible for the deadly assault on Ian Tomlinson at G20 protest last year

COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial

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UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
A section of the over 2,000-strong picket of the Israeli embassy in London last night to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza

‘we Must End Gaza Blockade!’

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‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,’ rang out at the mass demonstration of thousands of mainly young people opposite the...

‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU

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IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...

Corbyn tables motion of no confidence

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PM MAY’S EU deal was rejected by the House of Commons yesterday evening by 432 to 202 votes. The PM in a statement after the...

Doctors taking on coalition!

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A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...