Youth and trade unionists stand together against pension cuts during last November’s National Pension Strike

Teachers & lecturers take action over Pensions!

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THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...

Eu Appoints The Italian Government!

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FACING calls for his impeachment, Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella yesterday appointed former International Monetary Fund official Carlo Cottarelli as interim Prime Minister. Known as...

Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action

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JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...

BROWN’S 2.5% VAT CUT – borrowing to be increased by £150bn

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Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...

3 unions reject BA’s offer – strike looms!

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THREE unions – BALPA, Unite, and GMB – representing 25,000 British Airways workers have rejected the company’s latest pay deal meaning that a major...
Thousands of workers were in the ERT ground’s last Wednesday evening defending the occupation

‘Overthrow Junta!’ Greek Workers Ready To Act

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OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

World Bank Halts All Its Funding For Afghanistan!

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THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...

More Savage Budget Cuts!

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond has signalled more savage cuts in Wednesday’s Budget, saying he will not be having a public sector ‘spending spree’. Writing...
Delegates voting on Palestine at the TUC Congress in Liverpool

FREE PALESTINE! – TUC Congress votes for boycott of Israeli goods

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THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...

Child benefit savage cuts

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STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
Demonstrators outside yesterday’s hearings where MPs questioned the Murdochs and sacked police chiefs, demanding that Cameron and Murdoch go

Out with Cameron! – nationalise Murdoch empire under workers control

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RUPERT and James Murdoch yesterday sought to stonewall MPs questioning them about phone-hacking at the ‘News of the World’, denying any responsibility or knowledge...
A section of the strikers from Gate Gourmet listening to a report from Tony Woodley on Monday afternoon in Southall

AS TALKS BREAK DOWN – Call out the airport say Gate Gourmet pickets

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‘Talks have, indeed, broken down as a consequence of Gate Gourmet wanting to selectively re-employ those who had been sacked, even though there is...

Downing Street didn’t tell truth about Pincher says former senior civil servant

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DOWNING Street did not tell the truth when it said Boris Johnson was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour, a former senior...
Doctors applaud one of the speakers at the BMA conference yesterday, where NHS privatisation was loudly condemned

DEFEND NHS GENERAL HOSPITALS! – demand BMA delegates

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose the government’s ‘local hospital model for London’. They voted instead...

Oecd Issues Slump Warning

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US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...

Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says Gove

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COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...

‘We will win this dispute!’ says John McDonnell at Heathrow

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‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...

Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!

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DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...

PCS Universal Credit strike ballot

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...
The picket line at Dewsbury District Hospital yesterday morning. The workers are determined to defeat management attacks

Yorks Hospital Workers Strike To Defend Jobs

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five-hundred clerical and administration workers at three hospitals in West Yorkshire came out on strike on Sunday. They are striking for five-days against threats of...
WRP Election Committee Rooms opened in the busy Walthamstow market last Thursday

Wrp Election Office Opens

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WALTHAMSTOW’S WRP election premises were opened on Thursday evening to a loud cheer from campaigners and supporters who had gathered outside the shop. Workers Revolutionary...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against the privatisation of surgeries

BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!

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Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...
Migrant workers’ protest outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday morning

‘END MODERN SLAVERY!’ – Migrant workers lobby Parliament

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MIGRANT domestic workers lobbied Parliament yesterday, World Human Rights Day, demanding an end to modern slavery. Workers were joined at the lobby by supporters including...
Students on the march – looking to Labour to write off all student debt

Labour wants to write off all student debt!

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SHADOW education secretary, Angela Rayner, said yesterday that the Labour Party’s ‘ambition’ is to write off all student debt at a cost of £100bn. But...
FBU strikers at Chelsea fire station  are determined to win their battle and are prepared to fight victimisations

FBU EC member sacked! – union considering taking strike action

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THE firefighters union, FBU, yesterday said that they are considering strike action to defend Buckinghamshire firefighter and FBU executive committee member Ricky Matthews. He was...

MPs CALL TO REJECT ID CARDS BILL

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MPs yesterday raised questions about the ID card Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons by Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Clarke said he...

Tories on collision course with nursing staff

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‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over...

Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class

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CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

Fierce battles rage around Jabalia Refugee Camp!

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Fighting between Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli troops raged in Gaza on Friday after the Zionist genocidal regime intensified its ground invasion. Fierce battles raged overnight...
Refugees at Wednesdsay’s march to the EU offices in Athens demanding ‘Freedom!’ Photo credit: voria.gr

Refugees March To Eu Offices Demanding ‘Freedom!’

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OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...

FBU demands emergency funding – London Fire Brigade is facing £20m cuts

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PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...

Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey

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‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...
Demonstrators in Karachi burn an effigy of George ‘dog’ Bush  after US forces bombed Afghanistan in September 2001

Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...

GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!

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GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...

Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN

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‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...

Privateers take £1.5bn out of the NHS since 2012!

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A NEW investigation by Unite has found that since 2012 a scandalous £1.5 billion has left the NHS and gone into the pockets of...
Greek workers stage another mass demonstration in Athens as the struggle against the right-wing Karamanlis government and paramilitary police force continues

Second youth shot in Greece

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The Greek university students’ occupation committees have called for a mass demonstration next Tuesday in Athens. Marches are to be held in other cities...

‘PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME’ – Scottish BMA condemns coalition

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The leader of Scotland’s doctors has yesterday warned that a series of direct attacks on the medical workforce is testing the goodwill of the...
The government insisted in the Queen’s Speech that its ‘7-day NHS’ policy would continue

Queen’s Speech Attack On Democratic Rights!

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TORY class war legislation to be brought in for use against the working class over the coming year was unveiled in the Queen’s Speech...

Industrial Action Call At The Bma

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A CALL for ‘appropriate industrial action to stop the redundancy of its members’ was made to BMA representatives at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting...

The nail in ‘coffin UK!’ – Manufacturing output and Sterling falls

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UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...

‘A TOTAL DECLARATION OF WAR’ – Nigerian unions slam doubling of fuel price

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THE Nigerian trade unions have called for a mass mobilisation of ‘strikes, street demonstrations and mass protests across the country’ in response...

Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed

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SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...
immediate release of Binyam Mohamed and all political prisoners still being held in Guantanamo Bay

Bring Binyam Back!

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‘BRING Binyam home! Close Guantanamo Bay!’ chanted over 100 demonstrators at Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon, before the arrival of US President George W. Bush...

‘The Met took my son’s life’

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‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...