Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres

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ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...
WRP candidate ANNA ATHOW found that her stand to defend the NHS and keep all hospitals open is very well supported

OUR HOSPITALS MUST NOT CLOSE! – Voters tell Enfield WRP candidate Anna Athow

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Enfield North WRP election candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team received a big response on the High Street yesterday. Anna, a consultant surgeon, has...

Syriza Willing To Suspend Election Pledges

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THE Italian state TV and radio reported on Friday that according to the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government was prepared to...

‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May

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IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...
Sacked schools’ guards, part of the 10,000-strong workers’ protest outside the Greek parliament that defied the European Central Bank and shouted ‘We will not be blackmailed’

‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers

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SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...
Demonstrators in London demand an end to the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Killing Continues Minutes After Ceasefire!

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Israeli forces targeted a home in Gaza City early Monday, killing a young girl and injuring dozens of Palestinians just minutes after a humanitarian...

20% cuts and a pay freeze

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‘Raiding public service pay and pensions is a fundamentally flawed strategy,’ said the NASUWT teachers union yesterday. It was responding to calls for pay freezes...

Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!

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THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

Refugees Attacked By Riot Police

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Refugee families at the Athens Railway Station and at the Diavata refugee camp outside Thessaloniki, northern Greece, were ferociously attacked by riot police last...

MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat

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The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...

GPs–‘conflict of interest!’

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MORE than a third of GPs on the boards of the new clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have a conflict of interest resulting...
A section of the 100-strong vigil outside the Syrian embassy on Friday evening in memory of the over 70 killed in the latest bombing in Damascus

Syrians Support Assad

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Around 100 Syrians and supporters held a vigil outside the Syrian embassy in London last Friday evening, to condemn last Thursday’s terrorist bombings in...

BMA rejects NHS privatisation

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ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...

Sack Sats Private Contractors – Says Nasuwt

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TEACHING trade unions have condemned the government’s use of private contractors, hired to mark school children’s ‘SATs’ exam papers. The condemnation was in response to...

Sunak Is Silent Over Procurement Scandal

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AT PRIME Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday PM Sunak sought to divert questions away from the developing Tory PPE procurement...

Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants

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‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...

Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk

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VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
At 6.30am yesterday morning, hospital staff and workers came in and immediately declared their solidarity with the occupation

Ealing Hospital Workers Welcome The Occupation!

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EALING Hospital staff members and patients welcomed the occupation of the entrance to the closure-threatened Maternity Unit yesterday. The occupation, to keep the unit open,...

NATIONALISE BRITISH STEEL says Unite trade union

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THE UNITE trade union yesterday urged ministers to take British Steel into public control if a deal cannot be struck between owners Greybull, its...

PSPOs criminalise homeless & youth

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‘IN KETTERING it is illegal to go out after 11 at night if you are under 18. In Hillingdon you cannot gather in...

Warsi Resignation Rocks The Tories

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TORY Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has quit the government, saying its policy on Gaza is ‘morally indefensible’. In her resignation letter, Warsi spoke of...
BA cabin crew pickets think that the whole airport must come out in support to win their dispute

‘we Are Fighting For Our Lives’

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DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...

Huge victory for Filton 24!

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Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...

TRIBUNAL FEES RULED ILLEGAL – Unison court victory

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EMPLOYMENT tribunal fees will be scrapped after Unison won a landmark court victory against a government policy yesterday morning that was found to be...

Tories Launch Assault On Tata Pensions

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TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
The ERT is still not for sale

Ert Fight At Critical Stage

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THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...

Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards

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A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...

May declares war on the pensioners!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday declared war on pensioners and their children yesterday with the launch of her party’s election manifesto. This includes means testing...
Striking prison officers outside Brixton prison yesterday

ILLEGAL STRIKE! – POA takes Labour by surprise

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Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...

Unis strike action Dec 3rd

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UNIVERSITY staff across the UK will walk out for a second day of strike action on Tuesday December 3rd, trade unions representing university...
Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, PATRICIA DA SILVA ARMANI leading last Saturday’s United Families and Friends Campaign annual march against deaths in state custody

Met Police Guilty In de Menezes Killing

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THE Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, Erionaldo da Silva said yesterday: ‘I have spoken to Jean Charles’ mother Maria, in Brazil and she...
Palestinians marching in London for Justice – Israel is now preparing another intervention into Lebanon

‘Don’t invade Lebanon!’ – Hezbollah warns Israel

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A SENIOR official of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the group is ready for any military scenario, amid indications that Saudi Arabia is...
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...
MIKE ABBOTT with KEN LOACH holding up a copy of ‘The Key to My Cell’ by Des Warren, the story of the building  workers’ strike and the way in which it was attacked by the  capitalist state

‘TAKE ACTION TO RELEASE SHREWSBURY PAPERS’ – urges Ken Loach

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FILM-MAKER Ken Loach yesterday called on the trade unions to take strike action to force the release of government documents concerning the 1972-73 trial...

Pupils miss out! Primary schools at bursting point

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PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...

UK Full Of Working Poor!

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THE ‘improved’ unemployment figures are a mask for a country that is working harder, and getting poorer, with more than 4.5...

Shell Tanker Drivers Out Solid!

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Pickets were out at twelve fuel depots from 6am yesterday as over 600 Shell tanker drivers empl-oyed by two companies, Hoyer UK and Suckling...
Demonstrators expressing their anger at the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in July – police would like to criminalise slogans on placards they decide to be ‘offensive’

POLICE MUST NOT BE CENSORS – says Liberty

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Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

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DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...
Campaigners marching from University College Hospital to the Department of Health in May demanding that NHS privatisation be stopped

‘WITHDRAW THE HEALTH BILL!’ –insists BMA conference against executive advice

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BMA representatives yesterday voted – against the advice of BMA Council Chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum – to ‘continue to call for the Health...

‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state

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PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves abandons food price caps – inflation is set to soar!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves abandoned a proposal to introduce voluntary price caps on essential groceries yesterday after a concerted backlash from supermarket executives and pressure...

Brexit vote on January 14 says May

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TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...