Greek Dockers Strike Against Privatisation
GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...
ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU
‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...
UNSUSTAINABLE! – says EU Central Bank President Draghi
EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi yesterday warned eurozone leaders that current financial mechanisms are ‘unsustainable’. Addressing the European Parliament, Draghi asked: ‘Can the...
Junior Doctors Are On Strike Today!
JUNIOR doctors in England begin five days of strike action at 7am this morning, until 7am next Tuesday morning. Strike leaders Dr Robert Laurenson and...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!
PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...
TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers
THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
Carers must be paid travel time, rules EU
IN A LANDMARK judgement the European Court of Justice has ruled that care workers in the UK must be paid for their travel...
Drivers fighting Tesco sacking deal!
‘WE see it as nothing but a “dirty deal” from Tesco,’ Unite shop steward Trev Cheetham said outside Tesco’s, near to Parliament, yesterday. Over...
NO TO CREEPING PRIVATISATION! – UCU tells government
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday wrote to the University and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA) to ask the employers to act to...
RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!
PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...
BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation
A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...
Support mounting for Gate Gourmet meeting
MANY Heathrow Airport workers, most of them Transport and General Workers Union members, bought their tickets yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers pre-Tribunal...
Hezbollah denies responsibility for deaths!
HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in...
Parliament votes to bomb Iraq! – as Cameron claims the right to attack Syria
SIX RAF Tornados were ready to go last night to begin raining bombs down on Iraq after an extraordinary session of parliament which...
NEW POWER JOBS OFFER – workers slam EU law
Striking power workers in Lincolnshire are this morning voting on a deal agreed by union leaders yesterday after marathon talks facilitated by ACAS. Union leaders...
John Breen 1938-2010
We are very sad to announce the sudden death of John Breen on Monday 15 February. He was a lifelong member of what became, SOGAT,...
SMASH 1% PAY CAP! 40,000 nursing vacancies in NHS
THERE are not enough nurses to provide safe patient care, shows a survey released today to coincide with a mass lunchtime demonstration...
Mortgage Crisis Grips!
UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...
‘Swallowing Tory manifesto’
LABOUR leadership contender Yvette Cooper has accused some in the party’s leadership contenders of ‘swallowing the Tory manifesto’ following its election defeat. Cooper warned against...
Thames Water ‘drowning in debt’ – nationalise without compensation demand GMB and FBU
‘THAMES WATER is drowning under a mountain of debt,’ GMB union National Officer Gary Carter said yesterday, in response to the privateer’s announcement of...
Countdown to March 29th
PRIME Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three-month delay to Brexit. The UK is leaving the EU next...
NHS ‘CAN’T DELIVER WHAT IS REQUIRED!’ says Hopson
‘WE FACE the greatest challenge in a generation,’ NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday. The just launched The...
Cotton Goes – Savage Fire Cuts In Surrey
LONDON Fire Brigade Chief Dany Cotton is to leave the service four months early. Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London...
Downing Street Warning To Climate Change Camp
Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...
Government NHS Reforms Impossible To Deliver – RCN
A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
Iraqi Death Toll Reaches New Hihe
THE death toll of civilians in Iraq reached a new high of 3,709 in October, with sectarian violence to blame for most of the...
Social cleansing condemned – LONDON CLEARED OF 50,000 FAMILIES
CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...
GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis
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...
BofE & EU Central Bank are paralysed in face of crisis!
THE BANK of England and the European Central Bank were yesterday paralysed in the face of the rapidly deepening crisis of the world capitalist...
RMT Demanding No Slave Labour On Brexit Ferries
AS the RMT protested at the Department for Transport yesterday, the Shipping Minister Nusrat Ghani has refused to agree that UK employment legislation such...
Israeli tank shells Gaza Hospital
AN ISRAELI tank shell smashed into the third and fourth floor of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza yesterday morning, killing four people and...
Lambeth College strike action!
LAMBETH College UCU strikers held a lively picket and rally yesterday, on the last strike day of 2014 and stressed their determination to...
Assad Warns West
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...
Greek Workers Reject Austerity Government
Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...
King’s Hospital head resigns over cuts!
CHAIR of the King’s College Hospital NHS Trust Bob Kerslake resigned late on Sunday evening stating that the cuts he was being asked to...
Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally
ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...
Bma Condemns The Abduction Of Bahraini Doctors
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ the terrorising and detention of doctors in Bahrain by the feudal regime that is armed...
Junior doctors strike is on!
JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...
Gaza Critical – ‘Hunger Rebellion’ In Nablus
UNRWA, the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees, yesterday evening suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip citing a shortage of fuel. The suspension means...
Unite will fight brutal Tory school cuts
UNITE General Secretary Sharon Graham pledged her union would stand against the Westminster government’s ‘scorched earth’ approach in imposing brutal cuts on schools and...
Doctors demand vote on White Paper
THE BMA council is set to hold a crunch vote on holding an emergency representative meeting to decide its stance on the government’s privatising...
60% Of Sadr City Dead Are Women And Children
THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...