Goldsmith No To 42 Days
Amnesty International UK yesterday welcomed a further statement by Labour’s former Attorney General, Goldsmith, opposing plans to extend detention without charge to 42 days. Amnesty...
Big victory for Ealing Hospital workers
THE GMB trade union yesterday declared a massive victory for low-paid Ealing Hospital ancillary workers. The union called off strike action, due from yesterday by...
Massive London Postal Strike Action
PICKETS were out in force at Stoke Newington N16 Delivery Office in Hackney on Wednesday, day one of the London postal workers three day...
NHS Trusts – No money for surgeons
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...
Greek Universities & Schools Occupied
Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...
REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra
THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
Hamas protecting aid convoys
GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...
Slum housing drove up Covid-19 deaths – new Public Health England report
POOR housing conditions contributed to the disproportionate amount of people who have died of Covid-19 in poverty-stricken communities, a new report released yesterday by...
Israel Escalates Violence Across West Bank & Gaza!
ISRAELI forces carried out a series of demolitions and violent raids across occupied Palestinian territories yesterday, further escalating the ethnic cleansing in the West...
Crisis Hitting Jobs
Unemployment is set to increase sharply this year, economists have warned, after a Bank of England report showed more firms were looking to axe...
Bosses Come First Says Brown
Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the RMT trade union yesterday, saying whatever its reason, the Tube strike is ‘unjustifiable’. Answering questions at his second monthy...
‘We won’t be border police – insist doctors
HEALTH professionals yesterday condemned coalition government moves to bar immigrants from access to healthcare, and charge overseas visitors a £200 fee to qualify...
DEFEND THE ROYAL MAIL– No to 50,000 job losses
‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...
Defend Bombardier Jobs!
A DEPUTATION of Bombardier workers will be meeting with MPs at the House of Commons this morning and will press the government into taking...
Bankers’ Man Hunt Imposes Tens Of Billions In Tax Rises & Savage Cuts
CHANCELLOR HUNT yesterday announced tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts in his Autumn Statement. Hunt acknowledged that the UK was in recession...
Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress
THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...
Wages being slashed!
PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...
STAFF ‘LOCKED IN THE GATE GOURMET CANTEEN’ – sacked shop steward tells Employment Tribunal
THE Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ employment tribunal in Reading continued yesterday with the case for the sacked workers. First to appear was Sajit Sandu,...
CWU votes to Boycott Private Mail!
Members of the Communication Workers Union representing 160,000 employees in Royal Mail Group yesterday morning voted unanimously in favour of a mail boycott if...
Victory to Junior Doctors! – 98% vote for strike action
JUNIOR doctors yesterday overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking strike action to defeat the government’s intent to impose a new junior doctor contract in...
Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers Lobby Tuc
In London Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the TUC. Here they are discussing with MARY BOUSTED the leader of the ATL teaching union...
No NHS ‘Stealth’ Privatisation!
THE UNITE union will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries set up by...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike’ – RMT Pickets Tell News Line
RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...
Manchester health cuts condemned
DOCTORS, nurses, staff and patients alike are furious at the major staff cuts and proposed further funding cuts affecting the hospitals in the Manchester...
Fox-Gove Brexit Surrender
THE TORY Brexiteers are starting to split with a number moving to support PM May and a Customs Union with the EU. The UK...
Failing Universal Credit proceeds!
THE disastrous Universal Credit scheme, despite being lambasted by the National Audit Office for wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers...
Self defence forces take action!
SELF DEFENCE forces have confirmed they attacked a Ukrainian military helicopter at an airfield in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A plume of smoke...
‘Kill The Bill’ Demos Nationwide!
‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...
Felixstowe dockers fighting bullying, threats and victimisations!
YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...
Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh
THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...
Teachers mount SATs challenge
THOUSANDS of head teachers boycotted SATs tests yesterday on the grounds that the tests damage children’s education. Head teachers in the National Association of...
Police Use Taser Gun In Midlands Raid
A MAN, claimed by the police to be Yasin Omar, was stunned with a high voltage taser during an armed police raid carried...
OCCUPY TO STOP A&E CLOSURE – demands Chase Farm mass picket
Haringey, Barnet and Enfield Primary Care Trusts agreed yesterday that Option One will be carried out in relation to Chase Farm Hospital – that...
Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...
CLAIMANTS GOING HUNGRY! – because of the axing of civil service jobs
Claimants are going hungry because of the government’s axing of thousands of civil service jobs, warned the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday. Further...
Greek ministries occupied!
FOLLOWING the example set by school and university students, Greek civil servants carried out a mass occupation of ten ministries on Thursday morning. The...
HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’
Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...
PM’s top advisor Cummings refuses to quit
‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...
Greek Vodafone strike ‘illegal’
AN Athens court declared ‘illegal’ the national strike called by Vodafone workers yesterday demanding a collective labour agreement. The Vodafone workers’ trade union refused to...
Palestine erupts!
ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...
People dying because of staff cuts
THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...
NHS Boss Calls To Close More Hospitals!
MIKE Farrar, the Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, has spoken out for the closing of more hospitals. He also condemned MPs who respond...
PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages
University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...
All Cladding Samples Fail Safety Checks
THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...
Tory plan to replace school meals with ‘25p breakfasts’ slammed!
TORY plans to replace free school lunches with free ‘breakfasts’, costed at 25p, for primary school children have been lambasted by the...

















