Tory pay rise is a pay cut!
‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...
US General Predicts Failure In Afghanistan
THE top American army commander has admitted that the US does not have enough troops to sustain its eight-year-old military occupation of Afghanistan, that...
Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!
‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...
250,000 UK Workers And Youth March For Liberation Of Palestine
A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...
PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’
‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...
Crippling mental health beds crisis!
A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...
Hezbollah defending Lebanon against Israeli genocide
‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a...
Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards
A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...
Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...
UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...
END PFI NOW! – demands Unison as mass hospital closures threaten
THREE London hospitals face the threat of immediate closure as a result of PFI-induced bankruptcy, it emerged yesterday. In the first case of its kind,...
Energy Price Rise Bombshell
UNISON leader Dave Prentis has warned that the massive 10 per cent price hike announced by the British Gas energy privateer yesterday will lead...
Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...
PROBATION PRIVATISATION COSTS ELECTORS £500m!
THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...
GPES & ATOS slammed
THE General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) IT system, designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs, is late,...
Greek Tuc Occupied By Youth!
Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike. Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the...
Britain Trains Saudi Snipers
It emerged yesterday that the UK is training Saudi Army troops who are being used to suppress demonstrators against the feudal ...
‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’
TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...
Assad Visits Moscow!
SYRIAN President Bashar Assad visited Moscow on Tuesday to extend thanks to the Russian authorities and people for helping to preserve the unity and...
250,000 IN NEGATIVE EQUITY! – as Ryanair announce 10% fleet cut
CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...
General strike sparked by demolitions in Palestine!
A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...
Stop £1bn privatisation – GMB warns against Cambridgeshire sell-off
THE GMB union is calling for an immediate halt to the tendering process for the up to £1bn Cambridgeshire Elderly Care contract. The union ...
Residents charged £3.5m to remove flammable cladding – plus £5.4m to pay for fire...
LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...
TUC leader calls for banning of zero-hour contracts
YESTERDAY lunchtime TUC general secretary Paul Nowak gave a press conference ahead of the Congress. The main thing he talked about was the upcoming Employment...
Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits
THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...
TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd
PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...
Retail Collapse Hitting Youth
THE British Retail Consortium warned yesterday that after zero growth in 2011 and a disappointing Christmas, the new year is seeing a spate of...
Gate Gourmet Workers Angry At Tgwu Officials
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke out angrily yesterday over TGWU officers who are putting pressure on those the company has selected for compulsory...
‘THE STRIKES MUST GO AHEAD’ – CWU members tell News Line
Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...
Cwu Marches To Defend Royal Mail
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) are hosting a march and rally in Corby, Northamptonshire, today against the privatisation of Royal Mail. The March will begin...
‘Don’t witch-hunt teachers!’
Teachers’ union leader Chris Keates yesterday slammed a BBC Breakfast programme claim that there are an estimated 15,000 incompetent teachers in schools. The NASUWT general...
Preemptive strike to defeat Trade Union Bill!
TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...
STRIKE ON! – Form public sector alliance demand postal workers
‘Everyone has to come out now, all the unions have to,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Hampstead Delivery Office deputy unit rep John Taylor told...
GATE GOURMET IS FACING HUGE FINE – lawyers plead it had to sack first...
GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...
Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back
The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...
‘Say No’ To Academies
ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...
Riot police attack villagers! – under orders from Syriza
HUNDREDS of mineworkers armed with wooden sticks, employed at the Skouries gold mine in the Khalkidiki area of northern Greece, on Sunday morning supported...
‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill
MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...
‘MY BLOOD WAS BOILING!’ says RCN leader after Army mobilised against strikes
‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...
Tory NHS Funding Scandal
THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...
US threatens Ukraine intervention if conflict escalates
AMERICAN and allied forces may directly intervene in the ongoing Ukraine conflict against Russia even without a threat to any member of the US-led...
Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force
DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
Cameron Beats War Drums
PRIME Minister Cameron is to set out his strategy on Syria and tackling the Islamic State group in the region before MPs this week. He...
Russia Today fined £200,000!
BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...
Great Welcome In Glossop For Marchers
The Young Socialists March from Manchester to London for Jobs and Free State Education reached Sheffield late yesterday afternoon after a massive reception in...
ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...
ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...



















