RECORD NUMBER OF HOMELESS ATTENDING AT A&Es
THE NUMBER of visits to hospital accident and emergency departments by homeless people has more than trebled under Tory governments since 2011, the BMA...
Stop Barber-Prentis Pensions Sell-Out
AT last Thursday’s meeting of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group, TUC leader Brendan Barber urged trade unions to capitulate and sign up...
Ambulance boss must quit!
AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...
ASLEF pickets out at Waterloo
YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...
Yashika Deportation Stopped!
THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
‘WE CAN’T GET JUSTICE!’ – Jean de Menezes’ cousin
‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...
Tory Bullying Scandal
LEADING Tory Grant Shapps on Saturday quit as international development minister amid claims he failed to act on allegations of bullying. Claims have engulfed the...
Nurses furious over pay cut!
NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...
Hunt pledges sanctions against benefit claimants
‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...
Joint enterprise case quashed
THE FIRST person to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed was released from prison yesterday in a landmark ruling against the controversial...
Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!
CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...
Living Wage Battle!
GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...
Arrogant Osborne refuses to apologise – McDonnell calls for him to go!
‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...
Working class families being driven out of London!
‘FROM CAMERON downward there is policy coming from the top to deliberately drive working class families out of London and kettle them into certain...
GREEK RIOT POLICE ATTACK PROTEST! – thousands march against Police State Bill
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...
REPLACE GREEK TUC BUREAUCRATS – demand youth
GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...
BLOCKADES IN A WEEK! – road hauliers give Brown 7 days notice
ANGRY road hauliers yesterday spelled out exactly what they will do when the government tries to ignore their huge protest convoys against soaring fuel...
BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%
THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...
Israeli trade unions call a general strike!
THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...
Irish Workers March Against Austerity
The President and the General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have urged people to join today’s national demonstration in Dublin,...
Two Koreas ‘Cease All Hostile Acts!’
HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...
OCCUPY PEUGEOT – says ATUA National Secretary
Workers threatened with the sack at the Peugeot plant in Coventry voted at mass meetings yesterday morning for strike action to defend their jobs...
75 years since Siege of Leningrad
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin laid flowers yesterday at a monument in the Leningrad Region commemorating warriors who died during the Nazi-led siege of Leningrad....
40,000 Workers Defy Greek ‘police Terror’
OVER 40,000 workers and youth congregated in the central Athens square outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday night despite the riot police terrorist...
SPRINKLER SYSTEM NOT WORKING – in gutted warehouse
With three firefighters still missing presumed dead and one confirmed dead, it emerged yesterday that the sprinkler system was not working in the central...
‘WE HAVE INTENSE SECURITY COOPERATION’ – says PM Netanyahu
‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...
Kolja’s Long Walk for Assange
KOLJA’S Long Walk for Assange is heading for London and will join the weekly Saturday Vigil at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday from 12pm-2pm to...
‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...
TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...
Israel assassinates Gaza mayor
ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government...
SHARES CRASH! – GM down $51bn in 3 years
YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...
3-month-old Reem’s family slaughtered – Netanyahu blocking ceasefire deal – reports NYT
A BABY girl was the sole survivor of an overnight Israeli attack on a family home in Khan Younis which killed 10 people yesterday. The...
Keogh breaks agreement with BMA
THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...
Tories Starve The Disabled!
DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...
‘MARCH WITH US ON MAY DAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...
Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!
HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...
ERT workers fight on
OVER 1,500 workers and youth were present at a solidarity concert in Athens last Thursday evening for the sacked workers at ERT (Greek state...
OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham
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...
Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!
Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...
HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
A&E diverts cause death
A SCHEME to divert patients away from A&E resulted in a patient’s death, prompting NHS officials to launch a national review of the ‘front-door...
41 Heathrow Airport Limited strikes
UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...
100,000 march for Palestine and demand the TUC must call a general strike
MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...
Arab League Opposes Bombing Of Libya!
Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa yesterday issued a statement opposing the bombing of Libya. He said: ‘This is not imposing a no-fly zone. We...
20,000 Civil Servants On Strike Today!
Approximately 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Identity and Passports Service (IPS)...
Greenwich libraries workers victory!
THE dispute over pay and staff cuts affecting Greenwich’s 12 libraries has been settled in what the Unite union described as ‘a great victory...


















