Global protests over assassination of Gaza journalists!
ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...
March to save Chase Farm today!
YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...
Unite demands Guarantee for Port Talbot steel!
TATA steel at Port Talbot in Wales is being allowed to ‘wither on the vine’ while the specialised side of the business...
Forced labour for ex-Calais children
REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...
Join Our Mass Picket Today!
‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...
Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!
OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...
Turkish workers confront state forces
ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters confronting riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and its adjoining Gezi Park yesterday, issued a call for Turkish citizens to join them...
RENATIONALISE RAIL – only answer to huge fare hikes
RAIL ticket price hikes of up to 5.1% came into force yesterday with the RMT, Unite and campaign groups calling for the re-nationalisation of...
Doctors – No Confidence In Blair
the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...
‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS
A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...
Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet
THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...
Athens Law School occupied!
STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...
Notts College Industrial Action Ballot
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...
US jets bomb Syria hospital
WARPLANES of the US-led international coalition shelled a hospital and perpetrated a new massacre in Syria on Saturday, claiming the lives of six civilians...
Miliband Won’t Reverse Tory Policies!
IN THE middle of the greatest ever capitalist crisis, Labour leader Miliband, while the ruling class is attacking and robbing the working class...
US workforce falls by 652,000
THE US was shocked and shaken yesterday after learning that the workforce shrank by 652,000 jobs in the month of June alone. Former US Labour...
35 Years Since Battle Of Orgreave!
ON Saturday, Wakefield was like a sea of miners’ banners, declaring: ‘United we stand, divided we fall,’ ‘An injury to one is an injury...
100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition
STOP THE THEATRE CLOSURES! – actors to march today from Piccadilly
ACTORS will demonstrate in the centre of London today against a wave of threatened theatre closures. Actors in white masks will take part in today’s...
GP contract changes will harm patient care!
THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...
12 Palestinians killed in the West Bank!
TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were...
‘Forward to workers power’
OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...
Israel launches deadly attacks on Palestinians
ISRAEL has launched another deadly attack on displaced Palestinians in Gaza, bombing a school sheltering families in Jabalia an-Nazla, northern Gaza, and killing at...
Village School ‘No Academy’ Strike
THERE was a lively and colourful picket of The Village School in Kingsbury North West London yesterday morning, where 150 National Education Union (NEU)...
‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference
THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...
Cameron boasts unions accept ‘thresholds’ are right!
PM CAMERON told the Andrew Marr Show yesterday that what was interesting about Unite leader McCluskey’s proposals on the new anti-trade union bill...
Labour NEC gives in to witch-hunt
THE LABOUR Party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), yesterday adopted all of the examples of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the international definition, in addition...
BLACKMAIL – Hamas condemns imperialist pressure to recognise Israel
THE Arab League; the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia; Israel and the Palestinian Fatah movement are...
PCS Fights Tate Sackings
A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...
14 Palestinians starve to death!
FOURTEEN more Palestinians, including two children, died from starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the 24 hours to yesterday, reports the Palestinian Ministry of...
Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...
Tories Refuse Additional Help To Gp Practices! – BMA
GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...
‘Ministers keen on kicking struggling youngsters when they are down!’
THE TUC said yesterday that young people not in full-time education are now less likely to be in work than people of other ages...
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...
Alarming A&E Waiting Times
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...
No beds! Intensive Care Units at 100% capacity!
ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...
Capita Pensions Strike
ON the day that Capita has announced its half year results Unite, representing staff at Capita, has said that staff have...
NHS ‘Reforms’ Condemned!
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday moved to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill, arguing that serious concerns have not been addressed...
MISSILE ATTACK IS ‘ACT OF AGGRESSION’ – ‘Reminiscent of 2003 attack on Iraq’
THE US missile attack on a Syrian airbase is an act of aggression under a far-fetched pretext and is reminiscent of the situation in...
GAZA CITY MASSACRE! – 29 killed and 80 missing
‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...
7 UK soldiers charged with war crimes
The family of Baha Mousa who was tortured to death and eight other torture victims yesterday welcomed the announcement that three British soldiers from...
NHS winter crisis – 10,000 excess deaths
THE NHS winter crisis was responsible for an extra 10,000 deaths in the first weeks of 2018, figures published in the British Medical Journal...
HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...
‘FAILING TOO MANY PUPILS!’ – biggest Academy chain in England condemned
THE biggest academy chain in England has been accused by Ofsted of ‘failing too many pupils’. Inspectors say that almost half of pupils at secondary...