Riot Police Attack Sacked Greek Cleaners
A SQUAD of Greek armed riot police on Tuesday morning attacked the sacked women cleaners who were blockading the entrance into one of the...
More FBU strike action
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced that its members in England and Wales will take strike action again next weekend, Friday 13 and...
Strike Ballot Now! – Demand Sparks
MORE than 300 angry electricians marched onto the Kings Cross Station concourse in central London yesterday, where they held an impromptu public rally. Union reps...
General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
GOURMET CRISIS! – Siegel flies back to the USA
THERE WERE no talks yesterday between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet bosses after its chairman David Siegel flew back to the US for crisis...
Syria condemns Turkish piracy!
SYRIAN transport minister Mahmoud Saeed yesterday accused Turkey of ‘air piracy’ over its forcing down of a Syria-bound passenger aircraft travelling from Russia. Turkish jet...
The ‘Elite’ Russell Group Is Super-Exploiting Lecturers
THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...
March to TUC begins!
‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...
OCCUPIED! – UCL student action in support of UCU lecturers strike
AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...
Israel Using Banned Weapons!
GAZA’S Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra accused Israel of intentionally striking Palestinian hospitals to shut them down. He announced that at least 15,899 Palestinians...
Unions must strike to stop NHS closures
CAMPAIGNERS against the closure of four west London hospital Accident and Emergency Departments expressed fury yesterday at the declaration by Imperial College Healthcare NHS...
Stop The Cuts, Stop The Bullying!
BBC journalists and technicians walked out across the UK at noon yesterday at the start of a 12-hour strike over cuts and a ‘bullying...
‘A nurses strike is long overdue’
NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...
Bma Rejects Privatisation!
‘The NHS should not be run in the same way as privatised industries such as water, gas, and telecommunications,’ the BMA said yesterday. The warning...
64 Universities Pensions Strike
‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...
£850 million to pay for NHS sackings
The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...
THIRD OF A&Es SET TO CLOSE
A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...
‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the NHS
BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
More than 780,000 Gaza students have no schooling for 3 years!
ISRAEL’S genocidal assault on Gaza has devastated the territory’s education system, leaving more than 780,000 students without regular schooling for three consecutive academic years,...
‘SHOP A SCROOGE BOSS THIS XMAS’ – urges TUC
THE TUC has urged workers to ‘Shop a Scrooge’ this Christmas. It’s message is dial the National Minimum Wage helpline – 0845 6000 678,...
Doctors Want Private Sector Out Of The NHS
Doctors are extremely concerned about the impact of the private sector on healthcare, a snapshot BMA News survey has indicated. More than nine out of...
Israel launches ‘war of extermination!’ – 274 killed in first few hours yesterday
THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...
NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’
NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...
Occupy To Keep Chase Farm Open
MATERNITY staff at Chase Farm Hospital joined the North East London Council of Action picket yesterday to demand paediatrics, A&E and maternity services are...
50,000 School Youth March In Paris
For the second time in a week 50,000 school youth demonstrated in Paris on Thursday against the cutting of teaching posts in colleges and...
Labour backbenchers mount a rebellion to release documents!
MPs are attempting to force the release of documents relating to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to the United States after a Commons...
Publish 7-day NHS plan – BMA challenges Cameron
THE BMA yesterday called on David Cameron to set out the detail of his plans for more seven-day NHS services. The BMA said:...
‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides
DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...
Labour Budget Hits Out At The Low Paid
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...
Grenfell Tower inferno – Twin Towers experts helping police
EXPERTS who helped recover remains after the September 11th 2001 terror attack on the Twin Towers in New York, are now helping police investigating...
‘GET READY FOR WAR!’ –Trump demands UK & NATO support
IN A SPEECH to a military audience on Monday night, US President Donald Trump outlined his change of strategy on Afghanistan. He said: ‘A hasty...
Doctors dangerously tired! BMA launches ‘Sleep Charter’
DOCTORS must have at least 46 hours rest after a string of night shifts in order to combat fatigue at work, according to a...
2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!
APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
Teacher Unions Vote To Strike
THE NUT and NASUWT teachers unions voted overwhelmingly for strike action at their annual conferences over the weekend. Speaking after the Priority Motion on Pensions...
Hundreds of towers at risk of collapse!
HUNDREDS of tower blocks across the UK are be at risk of collapse, threatening multiple disasters on the scale of the tragedy at Grenfell...
‘We will proudly break sanctions’ – Iran defies the US
‘WE WILL proudly break the sanctions,’ Iranian leader President Hassan Rouhani said defiantly at a meeting of economic officials yesterday, describing the new wave...
FOUR CHARGED WITH TERROR ATTACKS – As Saudi scare sends oil prices sky-high
Four men were yesterday remanded in custody to appear on criminal charges at the Old Bailey on November 14th, in connection with the July...
Radiologists ‘Red Alert!’
BY THE END of this week Raigmore Hospital in Inverness Scotland will lose its last radiologist, prompting the Royal College of Radiologists to declare...
Occupy To Stop Chase Farm Closure
‘WE’RE having a good picket today, with plenty of support for an occupation of Chase Farm Hospital,’ said Bill Rogers, North-East London Council of...
NORTHERN ROCK JOBS SHOCK! – Unite pleges to fight compulsory redundancies
The Unite trade union yesterday told Northern Rock that they will oppose any plans for compulsory redundancies at the publicly owned bank. Following the announcement...
‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May
IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...
Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years
A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...
250,000-strong London march for Palestine
OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...
‘We won today in Court’ says Moris after Assange is granted Supreme Court appeal...
‘MAKE no mistake we won today in court,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee said to cheers outside the Royal Courts of Justice...
Support For Luton Occupation!
Talks between German government ministers and GM and US government representatives are resuming in Berlin today to decide who will take over GM...

















