Students who have reoccupied Bramber House, Sussex University are planning a student strike alongside the lecturers on Dec 3rd

Students Will Strike With Lecturers On December 3!

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IN THE early hours of yesterday morning, Birmingham students were forcibly evicted from their week-long occupation of their university. In a defiant statement they said...

Fires burn across Kuwait’s largest refinery for 2nd day

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FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...
Striking BA cabin crew at Heathrow yesterday determined to win their struggle

‘We will reballot after June 10’

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DESPITE the pouring rain, cabin crew maintained three lively pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday, in the final week of their current course of strike...

‘End the criminal Israeli occupation’ – Palestinian Foreign Minister al-Maliki addresses the UN

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THE international community has a responsibility ‘to put an end to Israel’s aggression on our homeland, and to enable our people to establish our...

US FORCES WILL NOT ENGAGE IN UKRAINE! says President Biden

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PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...

DON’T SCRAP TUBE SAFETY RULES – say rail unions

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THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...

‘WEST PLAYING POLITICS WITH AID’ says Hamas as Bush threatens Iran war

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Hamas yesterday accused the West of playing politics with Palestinian aid after the US and EU resumed assistance to the Abbas appointed emergency government...

Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Kidnapped

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The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...
British police working with the French government taking action to stop a convoy boarding a ferry going to Calais

Child refugees in squalid conditions in Calais refugee camp

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CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...
Greek ‘Delta’ riot police beating up students who were protesting at the drowning of migrants

Greek Riot Police Attack Youth

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THE ‘Delta’ mobile Greek riot police units arrested 47 protesting students last Thursday outside the private office of the Merchant Marine Minister M Varvitsiotis...

Tories hold May to no-confidence vote

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‘SIR Graham Brady has confirmed that he has received 48 letters from Conservative MPs so there will now be a vote of confidence in...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) talking to students at Hackney Community College who were all determined to fight against the cuts to their college and get rid of all university fees

Hackney students support WRP’s Leff

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STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

Labour government ‘willing to let hunger strikers die’!

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THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...

ROYAL FREE BED CUTS! – 100 beds and a number of wards to go

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London UNISON health convenor Geoff Martin yesterday slammed plans by the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust to slash up to 100 beds and close...
Trade unionists march on Parliament last July demanding ‘Tories Out!’ – The TUC leadership is now collaborating with them

Tuc Joins Tory Taskforce!

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THE TUC has joined the Tory government’s new National Taskforce on Carillion. In fact it had launched the call for May to form the taskforce. The...

GP referrals to Redditch hospital stopped

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REDDITCH GPs have been asked by commissioners not to refer to a local acute trust for at least three months to allow the hospital...

‘EXTEND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP’ – LP Conference rejects Starmer line

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A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing the company at Heathrow yesterday, despite the bad weather and police threats to arrest them

Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...

Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike

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‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...

White House pushing for Blair to be Gaza boss!

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THE WHITE House is pushing a proposal to instal former British prime minister Tony Blair as head of a so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority,...

Social Care Crisis!

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Age UK yesterday published a damning report, which shows the depth of the crisis in social care and its consequent human cost. The report ‘Care...

Corbyn for second referendum!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...

Labour Leads Anti-Brexit Coalition!

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TORY PM Theresa May attended a summit in Brussels yesterday, hours after 11 Tory rebels and almost the entire Labour Party and all the...

‘Shameful Brown’ Wants To Sack Workers On The Cheap

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‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...

655,000 iraqis have died as a result of 2003 invasion – says Lancet magazine

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AN estimated 655,000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in...
The 32-strong picket line at Bilborough College in Nottingham yesterday

Nottingham school strike!

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NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid

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The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...

EU publishes plans for ‘no-deal’ scenario

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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) published yesterday its contingency plans for a ‘no deal scenario’ as post-Brexit trade deals with the UK remain deadlocked. The President...
An earlier demonstration against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Tower Hamlets – now they are to be closed

17 SURGERIES UNDER THREAT! – in Hackney and Tower Hamlets

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SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...
Saturday’s demonstration in London which demanded all attacks on Syria must halt immediately

British crisis frightens Obama

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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...
Greek riot police attack trade unionists with tear gas and truncheons outside the Labour Ministry

Greek Riot Police Attack Workers

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THIRTY-SIX trade unionists, including members of the GSEE (Greek TUC) general council, were attacked by the riot police with tear gas and truncheons and...
Junior doctors join a demonstration in London against the privatisation of the NHS

NO TWO TIER NHS! – RBS ‘conditional philanthropy’ rejected

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Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

Strip Capita!

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A DEVASTATING ‘blunder’ that saw 160,000 patient records wrongly archived is the latest unacceptable failing from Capita, doctors union BMA (British Medical Association) said...
Demonstrators demanding ‘Freedom for Palestine’ and ‘Hands off Lebanon, Syria and Iran’ in last Saturday’s demonstration in London

‘A DELIBERATE MASSACRE’ – Lebanese Premier denounces Israeli bombing

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Lebanon’s prime minister Fuad Siniora yesterday condemned the latest ‘deliberate massacre’ of over fifty innocent civilians in south Lebanon. As the UN argued over an...
Student nurses at the RCN mass rally in Westminster. Thousands will not get nursing jobs when they graduate this summer

No Jobs For 80% Of Nurse Graduates!

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‘Student nurses are frustrated, angry and disillusioned because of the difficulties they face finding jobs as deficits bite,’ said UNISON, the UK’s largest health...
Workers in Norwich rally against the coalition’s cuts – they are demanding that the TUC take action against the government

TUC meets to discuss action!

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‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...
Tamils during a sit-down opposite parliament last week held pictures to bring home the genocide against their people

Tigers Declare Unilateral Ceasefire

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In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the UN, EU, the governments of the US,...

300,000 march on Downing St calling for Victory to Palestine!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines

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THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...

‘A DAMNING INDICTMENT’ – of Labour’s social care system

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‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman said yesterday. He was...

NATIONALISE GM – occupy Luton and Ellesmere Port to stop closures

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THE head of General Motors Europe warned yesterday that without government finance Vauxhall Luton and Ellesmere Port face immediate closure as ‘the obvious next...

Bring Private Care Homes Back In-House

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‘I STRONGLY believe that care homes should be taken back under local council control,’ GMB rep Dianne Wragg said yesterday. Wragg is the lead steward...

GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis

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THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...

MURDER IN IRAQ! – new inquiry into British Army

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THE Secretary of State for Defence will today announce in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment and...
Workers at the Ritzy, Brixton are fighting for the Living Wage in the face of a rapidly rising cost of living. They are taking strike action again today

Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!

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INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...