Protesters outside the special adminstrator’s press conference yesterday

Mass sackings & A&E closures – proposed in South East London NHS

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PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were yesterday revealed at a press conference called by the government-appointed administrator...
A section of the 4,000-strong ‘Not Fair Not Safe’ demonstration of Junior Doctors outside Leeds City Art Gallery on Wednesday

Mass support for doctors!

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OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...

Seven Gazans Killed In Israeli Air Raids

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Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...

Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits

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THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...

COVID-19 STAFF DEATHS – HSE Executive is urged to investigate

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THE Health and Safety Executive is being urged to investigate hospitals and care homes over the widespread Covid-19 infections among staff, which led to...

Spanish police shoot five!

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SPANISH police shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils yesterday, during a second vehicle attack, hours after another in Barcelona killed...

King And Darling Take Panic Measures!

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‘A painful adjustment faces the global banking sector over the next few months as losses are revealed and new capital is raised to repair...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...
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...

Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...

Resident doctors begin five day strike against falling pay

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RESIDENT doctors formed a large picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital on Friday morning as they began a five-day strike over falling pay and the...

Palestinian teen severely beaten!

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A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Palestinian minor has told his lawyer that he was severely beaten while detained by Israeli occupation soldiers last week and that he...
Firefighters and other workers condemning bankrupt and corrupt capitalism – they are demanding no bail-out for the bankers

Massive Irish Strike Action

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‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...

Workers & youth demonstrate in support of Filton 24!

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A LIVELY demonstration took place yesterday outside Woolwich Crown Court in support of the Filton 24 pro-Palestinian campaigners. They are currently being held on remand...
Confident striking BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

‘BRING ALL OF BA OUT’ say Heathrow pickets

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THERE were lively picket lines around Heathrow Airport yesterday, as the British Airways cabin crew took their 11th day of strike action in defence...

DICTATOR BERCOW! – ready to forcefully remove PM from office

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THE OUTGOING Speaker John Bercow, due to leave on October 31, has said that he will forcibly remove PM Johnson from office if he...

‘There Are No Safe Zones – They Are Zones Of Death!’

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THERE are no safe zones they are zones of death,’ UNICEF global spokesman James Elder said, as 700 Palestinians were slaughtered in Israel’s genocidal...
ScotRail RMT members on the picket line at Glasgow Central Station on the second day of their strike over safety

Railworkers fighting for safety!

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ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action

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RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...

110,000 Palestinians killed, missing or injured

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‘APPROXIMATELY 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing or injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip,’ Euro-Med...

London, Essex and York tough restrictions imposed – while Liverpool intensive care beds reach...

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MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said...
BMA conference delegates – determined to look after our NHS

GPs condemn £1.43 million Clinicenta contract

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LONDON GPs have complained that £1.43 million has been cut from their commissioning budgets for 2009/10 while £1.4 million is paid for a centrally...

Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’

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THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...
Tents in Athens where the hunger strikers are living

Four Weeks On Hunger Strike

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Dramatic events are unfolding in Athens as the 287 immigrant workers’ hunger strike completes four weeks today, Monday, 21 February. Four hunger strikers have been...

Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Woodley And Barber

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GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...
Junior doctors … their struggle has inspired the country’s GPs

GPs are calling for industrial action

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A SPECIAL GPs conference in just a few weeks called by the BMA GPs Committee (GPC) is set to hear unprecedented calls for industrial...
Hunger striker PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN has decided he will not give up

HUNGER STRIKER ON 23rd DAY

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HUNGER striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan, is continuing his hunger strike for the 23rd day outside Parliament, surrounded by more than a thousand Tamil workers...

BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’

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The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...
Ealing Conference On The NHS

Ealing Conference On The NHS

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EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham

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OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the TUC

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...
CWU leaders BILLY HAYES and DAVE WARD (centre) on the picket line at Mandela Way, south east London last Friday

‘NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE!’ – CWU out for 24 hours from evening of...

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yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...

7 UK soldiers charged with war crimes

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The family of Baha Mousa who was tortured to death and eight other torture victims yesterday welcomed the announcement that three British soldiers from...
A thousand angry local residents marched through Haringey demanding that the HDV – the scheme to privatise housing is scrapped

Green light to privatise Haringey

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THE HIGH Court has given the council the go-ahead to privatise Haringey’s housing, allowing huge private developers to embark on a £2bn private housing...

Cambridge to remain in NUS

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THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...
Parents have been battling against attempts to foist academies on schools for the past two years. Picture shows a Haringey march against forced academies in January 2012

High Court blocks Academy

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FOR the first time, the High Court has blocked an attempt to force a comprehensive school to become an academy. Teachers union NASUWT said yesterday...

Fallon Wants Lawless Army!

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UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...

90 Birmingham bin strikers rally outside Parliament – won’t accept any pay cuts

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NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...
GMB members and service users lobbying Barnet Council against cuts and privatisation

87,000 More Jobs To Go – Gmb

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The GMB union’s up to date list shows that a total of 87,374 posts are being made redundant at 107 councils across Britain. In...

Deficit heading for £100bn

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said, if elected, a Labour government would match the Tories cut for cut. He said that Labour would be...
PCS delegation on a TUC demonstration against Tory government cuts

25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...
A section of yesterday’s 2,000-strong picket in London against the Rajapakse regime

Rajapakse Out! Demand 2000 Tamils

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‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...

Abbas orders flag to be flown at half mast! – 104 years since Balfour...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has enacted a presidential decree ordering the national flag to be flown at half-mast today and tomorrow, and on November...
MPs who supported the recognition of Palestine outside parliament on Monday

‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian

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‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...
Postal workers on the 500,000-strong TUC march in 2011. They have consistently fought Royal Mail privatisation and are ready for more action

CWU reps to decide on national strike ballot – as all 371 Crown Post...

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) reps from Royal Mail workplaces across the UK will meet next week to decide on actions to protect postal jobs...