Civil servants stop Ealing Tax Office
TWO HUNDRED civil servants employed at the International House Tax Office in Ealing Broadway west London went on strike yesterday, determined to defend their...
‘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...
McCAIN TO TAKE BROWN TO TASK – over UK troops withdrawal
US Republican presidential candidate John McCain, due in London next week to meet premier Gordon Brown, has said in advance of the visit that...
KEEP CHASE FARM OPEN – No to polyclinic, urges picket
PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...
‘SYSTEM RIGGED FOR RICH!’ – says Labour leader Corbyn
‘WE HAVE four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better,’ Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...
New junior doctors imposed contract is illegal
THE NEW contract being imposed by the Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt on junior doctors is ‘potentially illegal’, an equal rights watchdog reported yesterday. The...
RISKY AND DISASTROUS! – warn health union leaders
The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...
NHS Rationing ‘Widespread’
Rationing of NHS treatments is becoming more widespread, a survey of GPs and hospital doctors for ‘Doctor’ and ‘Hospital Doctor’ magazines has found. Of the...
TATA SACKING THOUSANDS – McCluskey praises Cameron and temporary nationalisation
TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...
Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses
BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...
NO PENSIONS SELL-OUT – demand CWU reps
Communication Workers Union representatives from across the country yesterday slammed the changes to Royal Mail pensions that their leaders want to sign up to,...
Ecb Bond Buying ‘Could Be Illegal’
THE German Constitutional Court has shaken the European Union with its statement yesterday that the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond-buying scheme could be ‘incompatible’...
Defend Our NHS
NHS London has allocated £115 million to organise the closure of A&E and maternity services at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Emergencies are to be directed...
MASS PICKET – a huge success say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...
Tories drop debate and vote
THE GOVERNMENT has dropped the debate and vote on The Financial Services Bill which seeks to secure funds that can be released if there...
May Silent Over Trident Misfire!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday refused four times to say if she knew about a Trident nuclear missile misfire just weeks ahead of...
More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...
ILLEGAL STRIKE! – POA takes Labour by surprise
Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...
FRENCH AND BRITISH WORKERS UNITE – to keep Peugeot Ryton open
‘Save Peugot Jobs!’ demanded over 400 French and British workers in Paris yesterday. Peugot workers and a delegation of Renault workers from across France joined...
UCU holds strike rally as 17 FE colleges stop work
The University and College Union (UCU) held a strike rally of over 150 members from across the country at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham...
Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well
GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January. They visited Greenford Council depot and...
Nationwide University Strike Today!
UNIVERSITY and college workers are holding the most widespread strike action in Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) for years. Staff in universities have...
UK, US, French Role In Invasion Of Libya Exposed By Wikileaks!
‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...
Russia Rejects Brown Attack
In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...
Met chief Dick warns 43,000 officers over rot throughout force
THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...
‘cowardly’ Attack On Gadaffi Compound
Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...
Corbyn-Watson differ over Trump and Brexit
LABOUR Party deputy leader Tom Watson yesterday claimed that right wing shadow ministers who quit Labour’s front bench in a row over the...
‘Close Down Child Jails!’
THE Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday responded to a written statement by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove,...
Greek police fire teargas at 200,000 workers
Greek police fired teargas and attacked 200,000 workers and youth outside parliament yesterday who were seeking to prevent MPs entering parliament to vote on...
NHS England blockaded! No contracts with Israeli military supplier
HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...
May Brings Back 11 Plus!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
‘FANTASTIC SUPPORT’ for day one of work & pensions strike action
Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...
Gaza air raid was response to jail break – Hamas
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...
Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets
LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...
V&A strikers determined ‘We won’t accept low pay!’
A RALLY of over 100 Victoria and Albert Museum workers was held in Exhibition Road in South Kensington at 8am yesterday morning, ahead of...
Junior Doctors walk out today!
JUNIOR doctors are staging a full walkout in England beginning at 7am today, Thursday 27 June and ending at 7am on Tuesday 2nd July. The...
Over 100 Palestinian prisoners killed since Gaza war began
ISRAELI occupation forces shot dead 21-year-old Qasim Shuqairat during a raid on his home in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel al-Mukaber on Wednesday,...
Cutting council funding will harm public health!
FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...
US plans to split Gaza & allow reconstruction in the Israeli-held area
A NEW US-backed plan would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, allowing reconstruction only in the Israeli-held area and raising...
‘CUT THEIR BENEFITS!’ – Hutton threatens the unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton yesterday declared war on the unemployed, saying Labour will cut off benefits from those who reject...
Flammable wooden cladding found on 20 blocks!
AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...
May Returns To ‘No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal!’
AFTER PM May’s Chequers deal was blown out of the water by the EU on Thursday evening, yesterday May ‘addressed the nation’ and said...
FIREFIGHTERS PREPARED TO STRIKE – if Authority carries out mass sakings threat
FIREFIGHTERS are prepared to strike to defeat the Tory-controlled London Fire Authority if it carries out its threat to sack all 5,500 London firefighters...
Round the clock GPs slammed
TORY leader Cameron is today unveiling measures to force GPs to open from 8.00 to 8.00pm and on Saturdays and Sundays. The hours change is...