The front of the  Young Socialists march in Swindon for Jobs for Youth at trade union rates of pay

Out With Slave Labour!

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UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers were joined by the TGWU executive council members on the picket line outside the factory yesterday

3,000 Junior Doctors Jobless!

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AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...

‘We have to keep our rights’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers are opposing a ‘compromise agreement’, which the company and leaders of the Transport and General Workers’ Union are negotiating and which...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...
The demonstration to back the Orgeave Justice Campaign’s call for a full inquiry into the police attack on thousands of striking miners at Orgreave thirty two years ago

Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’

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OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...

‘Next three months absolutely critical for NHS’ – Blair

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‘Whether it’s redundancies or posts not being filled, thousands of jobs are still being lost in the NHS,’ a British Medical Association spokesman...

Scores of Labour MPs are ditching Starmer!

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THE NUMBER of Labour MPs calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit stood at 87 by late yesterday afternoon, including four ministers. Allies of...

Government Of National Unity ‘Not Serious’ Says Hamas

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...

HALTING ISRAELI AGGRESSION OUR TOP PRIORITY – Palestinian Presidency

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IN RESPONSE to reports of Israeli plans regarding post-war Gaza, the Presidency of the State of Palestine firmly reiterated yesterday its clear stance, emphasising...

$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump

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Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...
Hunger striker PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN now on the 22nd day of his action. He is not prepared to give up

Sri Lanka – Lives Of 100,000 Civilians Threatened

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The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG-T) said it has received credible information that Sri Lankan government forces are preparing for a final...
Workers outside the law courts fighting the bedroom tax and condemning the situation where mothers were skipping meals to feed their children

‘FOOD POVERTY!’ A public health emergency says BMJ

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FOOD poverty in the UK has now become a ‘public health emergency’, a group of health experts said yesterday. In a letter to...
Student and lecturers came out in support of cleaners at SOAS during yesterday’s mass picket

Cleaners mass picket at SOAS

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THERE was a lively mass picket at SOAS University, Central London, yesterday at the start of a two-day strike by cleaners. SOAS Unison Assistant Branch...
Hospital staff and local residents marching to save Whittington Hospital in February. There is massive opposition to NHS cuts

‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference

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‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...

‘We will resist Met Uni cuts!’

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‘UCU and Unison staff will resist all cuts to courses, jobs and provision at London Met by whatever means, including industrial action.’ University and College...

UNARMED MAN SHOT IN CHEST – after 300 police raid east London home

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‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...

May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!

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TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
A section of the 5,000-strong march on June 1st when lecturers’ leaders pledged they would carry on with the exams boycott and fight for a decent offer from the employers

RESIGN! – over insulting pay deal say Cardiff lecturers

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Cardiff University and College Union (UCU) lecturers branch has called on national union leaders to resign over calling off industrial action before consulting members...

Reducing staff levels puts patients at risk

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THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...

14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...

Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!

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OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...

Murdoch-Farage Out To Get Cameron

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FORMER Surrey Police officer Alan Tierney, 40, yesterday admitted selling information to the Sun newspaper. Tierney pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to two offences...
Marchers in London urging: defend the NHS and stop privatisation – the GMB is now fighting an attempt to privatise an elderly people’s service contract in Cambridge which is being presented as a £1bn deal

Stop £1bn NHS privatisation!

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THE GMB trade union is calling on members and the community to join the lobby of the Clinical Commissioning Group in Cambridge from 1pm...
Young NHS workers march against Tory government cuts

530 lifesaving cancer operations axed

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HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers discussing with Unite union co-leader Derek Simpson who said ‘if there is injustice I am very concerned’

Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call

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ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...

Williamson & Jenrick Sacked

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GAVIN Williamson was the first to go in Tory PM Johnson’s reshuffle yesterday as he was sacked from his post as education secretary. Then...
A section of the 2,000-strong demonstration outside the BBC in White City demanding that the BBC must not assist Sri Lanka  genocide against Tamils

Bbc Vetos National Appeal For Gaza

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THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...
Junior doctors defending the NHS – all they have got from the TUC is warm words and absolutely no action

‘The Junior Doctors’ dispute is for all of us’ says TUC – however it...

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‘THE junior doctors’ dispute is an issue for all of us,’ declared Unison delegate James Anthony moving Emergency Motion 5 Support for the BMA...
The mass meeting of postal workers at Mount Pleasant heard CWU leader Ward condemn the Labour Party for its treachery

Strike ballot vote will be a ‘game changer’

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward yesterday pledged that the union will defend the terms and conditions of postal workers following...

Hunt in charge of health & social care

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HEALTH secretary Hunt was yesterday promoted by PM May with social care being added to his portfolio. The decision will infuriate health workers and...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes

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ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis

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US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...

Gate Gourmet sacked workers picket TGWU office

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Hillingdon Regional Office of the Transport and General Workers Union yesterday. They told fellow union members that their employment...

RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation

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MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...
After the 2017 general election Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell called a march on Parliament to kick the Tories out  – this still has to be done

May Survives No Confidence Vote

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PRIME Minister May survived a no confidence vote by 325 to 306 votes after a vitriolic attack on the opposition parties especially the Labour...

Workers Fury Forces Brown Retreat!

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Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...
A thousand POA members marched to Downing Street yesterday mid-morning to condemn the attack on their pensions

POA demands General Strike

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UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...

Unions Strike Ballots To Achieve Inflation-Busting Pay Rises!

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UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...
Ranks of police charge striking miners at Orgreave in 1984

The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...

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THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...
The WRP and YS contingent on yesterday’s May Day march in London

‘Murderous Nato Are Child Killers’

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WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney yesterday condemned the ‘attempt of the NATO gangsters to murder the Libyan leadership headed by Colonel Gadaffi.’ He called them...

Youth In Poverty!

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THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...
Youth marching to Parliament Square on June 20th to demand that the Tories scrap their austerity programme

Tuc-Nus Joint Campaign Against Privatisation!

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THE TUC and the NUS signed an agreement yesterday for joint campaigning by the trade union and student movements for the coming year. The partnership...
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...