Greek dockers banner against privatisation at Tuesday’s demonstration in the port of Piraeus

GREEK PUBLIC SECTOR 24hr STRIKE

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GREEK public sector workers went on a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday against the so-called government ‘mobility scheme’ to bring in tens of thousands...
Gourmet pickets earlier this month – calling the whole trade union movement to join their march in Southall on December 4

Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to march through Southall

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LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers are to march through Southall on Sunday December 4th to demand that the TGWU makes their dispute official and...

3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!

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THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...

BA Continues Cancelling Flights

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BRITISH Airways’ deepening crisis showed yesterday as it still cancelled flights in the aftermath of a three-day strike by cabin crew. The airline’s website shows...

Johnson blasts ‘gloomsters’

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THE NEW PM Boris Johnson, making his first speech outside the doors of 10 Downing Street yesterday at 4pm, denounced the ‘pessimists at home...
Protesters outside parliament yesterday on behalf of Grenfell tenants who died in the inferno

Toxic Grenfell Insulation Was Banned!

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MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...

Labour leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff not the bosses’ says UCU

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LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...

Israel steps up its Gaza genocide campaign!

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SCORES of Palestinian civilians were murdered and many others injured on Friday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza continued for the 42nd day...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...
BOB CROW (right) with Thames watermen. He warned that a ‘dilution of safety’ would be met with industrial action

‘NO DILUTION OF SAFETY’ – Crow warns of Thames Waterway industrial action

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‘There must be no dilution of safety and if we find that our members are put in danger then there will have to be...

13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!

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At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...

Pm Johnson Facing Defeat On Foreign Aid Budget Cut

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THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...

Westbourne Park busworkers set to strike again!

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OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...

Israeli Onslaught Targets Hospitals And Homes!

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TANKS and armoured vehicles fired on family cars and buses in Gaza yesterday, slaughtering the occupants, while areas around al-Quds Hospital were continuously targeted...

Workers block South Korea coup!

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‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...

Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital

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HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...

Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change

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NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...

BAILIFFS MOVE IN AT CRACK OF DAWN! – but Brent Academy protesters vow to...

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AT the crack of dawn bailiffs once again invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground. No legal notice had been given to the G.R.A.S.S occupiers...

Bandit capitalism goes bust

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THE UNITE trade union is demanding an urgent meeting with Ernst & Young, Interserve’s administrators, after Friday’s announcement that the company is being forced...

Russian Foreign Ministry summons UK ambassador – after drone attack on the Black Sea...

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THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...

Greek students march against riot police

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SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...

‘Malnutrition is a big part of the everyday experience of children!’

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CHILDREN are starting school underweight, hungry and anaemic, a committee of MPs warned yesterday, and teachers’ union NUT blamed Tory cuts as responsible for...

GAGGED! – ex-soldier who exposed Labour’s lies on rendition

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‘As of 1940hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of...

RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act!

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THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...

FREE THE FILTON 24! say Palestine campaigners at Woolwich Crown Court

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THE RETRIAL of six of the Filton 24 opened at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London yesterday, with scores of demonstrators outside supporting the...

Savage Cuts To ‘Reset’ NHS Trusts

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A REGIME of ‘financial special measures’ has been announced for trusts and clinical commissioning groups to ensure the NHS lives within its means by...

‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...

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OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
Queen Elizabeth Hospital workers on the picket line yesterday morning, determined to win parity

‘NO TWO-TIER WORKING IN THE NHS!’ say Woolwich NHS strikers

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QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...
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New Line – All Trades Unions Alliance

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Conference This Sunday 29th June
A section of last Friday’s 10,000-strong demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London demanding an end to the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Rafah school shelled!

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TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...

Iran dismisses claims that a deal with the US is imminent

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IRAN has dismissed claims that an agreement with the US is imminent or that the nuclear file and management of the Strait of Hormuz...

1.2m HUNGRY CHILDREN!

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More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...
Demonstration outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in support of Julian Assange on 16th August 2012, the day Ecuador granted him asylum – Assange’s supporters are expected to flock to the embassy to defend him after this latest attack

Embassy cuts Assange off!

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ECUADOR has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s internet and stopped all visits after he tweeted about the arrest of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont....

BBC strike action by Xmas!

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BECTU and the NUJ yesterday warned that BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs would provoke strikes by Xmas. The BBC intends to reshape its TV...

PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week benefit cuts

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THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...
Tenants demanding social housing and protesting at rent rises that are converting them into the working poor

‘RENTQUAKE!’ –tenants face unaffordable rents

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‘RENTQUAKE’ has hit middle England as rents race above wages in market towns, said housing charity Shelter yesterday. Rents have risen 60% faster than...

PENSIONS STRIKES! – at 7 major UK airports in january

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WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...

Tory Bullying Scandal

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LEADING Tory Grant Shapps on Saturday quit as international development minister amid claims he failed to act on allegations of bullying. Claims have engulfed the...

EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’

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EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...

BRING DOWN COALITION! –to defend jobs, benefits, the NHS & rights

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‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...

Royal Mail 97% YES for strike

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OVER 97% of members of the CWU (Communication Workers Union) working for Royal Mail, voted ‘YES’ for strike action, it was announced yesterday. Hundreds of...

IRAN STRIKES BACK! – and condemns US-Saudi attack on Iraq

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THE Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have staged a retaliatory ballistic missile strike against an American airbase in Jordan, besides halting three trespassing vessels...

Streeting announces 18,000 NHS sackings

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THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...

Murdoch targets unions & BBC

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News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch yesterday made it clear that he had taken a decision to smash the print unions when he provoked the...
Students and lecturers marching in London last November against the introducton of £9,000 tuition fees

Pension Strikes At 63 Universities

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‘Well over a million students at 63 UK universities will be hit with strike action this month unless a dispute over changes to staff...