Merseyside FBU 8-Day Strike
‘It seems management are hell-bent on taking on the FBU and cutting 120 jobs’, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union Brigade Chairman Mark Dunne told News...
‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis
‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...
Evacuate within 24 hours or else face Israeli invasion – US & Israel tell...
ISRAEL has ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate the area within 24 hours, in what is viewed as a precursor of a ground...
The nail in ‘coffin UK!’ – Manufacturing output and Sterling falls
UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...
Scrap ‘cruel assessments’
DISABILITY Rights UK yesterday welcomed the report published by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on the Work Capability Assessment. The MPs found that the Work...
Coventry becoming a ‘pariah university’
COVENTRY University is in danger of becoming a ‘pariah institution’ lecturers union the UCU warned yesterday. The union launched a campaign against the university’s...
Thousands March In Athens
Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...
Tory War On Special Needs!
TEACHERS unions have condemned the onslaught on children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), launched by the coalition government yesterday. Legislation to slash the rights and...
US refused to prosecute HSBC money launderers
US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...
‘We will reballot after June 10’
DESPITE the pouring rain, cabin crew maintained three lively pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday, in the final week of their current course of strike...
GPs GIVEN AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE! – BMA condemns Labour dictatorship
The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...
Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda
The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...
Sports Direct workers victory!
SPORTS Direct has been forced to pay out £1 million after admitting it was not paying its workers the minimum wage, it was announced...
Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit
LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...
5,500 petrol stations run dry! Bad pay & conditions force truckers to quit!
THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...
Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!
TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
General Strike To Bring Down Starmer Government
OVER 100 protesters gathered outside the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 18, activists from Palestine Action after initially being detained under...
50 MILLION REFUGEES! – warns Amnesty
‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...
62% Don’t trust coalition on NHS!
A You Gov poll commissioned by Unison reveals that the majority (62 per cent) of the public do not trust the government to handle...
209,000 Miss Out On University
Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! – demands Palestinian Ambassador to UN
PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...
STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder
FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...
‘We will return!’
‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...
Cabin Crew Determined To Win
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
Gate Gourmet Tribunal Opens
THE first day of the Employment Tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers took place yesterday in Reading, where they are challenging the company over...
Israeli tanks push deeper into Gaza City encircling Palestinian families!
LOCAL authorities say Israeli occupation forces have pushed deeper into Gaza City in open violation of the ceasefire, expanding the so-called ‘yellow line’ and...
McDonnell wants to avoiD split ‘at all costs’
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell is ‘worried and saddened’ by the prospect of a Labour Party split and has appealed to MPs considering leaving the...
Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry
US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...
US Was Given Notice Of Attack!
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say none of its missiles were intercepted during Wednesday’s heavy strike that targeted two US bases inside Iraq...
Rafah school shelled!
TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...
Disabled condemn ‘pre-conference spin’
‘THIS is just pre-conference spin to try to improve the Tories toxic reputation on their shabby treatment of disabled people,’ said Disabled People Against...
More Unite ambulance workers to take strike action on May 2
MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...
AMAZON MUST BE NATIONALISED! – WRP’s Leff tells HQ rally
‘AMAZON and all companies and industries must be nationalised and put under public ownership,’ Jonty Leff, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and...
Carillion crash hits NHS hospitals hard
THE LIQUIDATION of Carillion has created such a crisis in the NHS that 14 hospital Trusts have had to trigger their emergency ‘contingency...
‘Overthrow government if you will!’ – Greek Finance Minister challenges opponents
THE Greek Interior Minister, Christos Kastanidis, has issued a press release/edict stating that the wages of all local government workers would be withheld unless...
Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’
CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...
Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’
WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...
MPs’ 11% pay rise scandal
THE MPs’ pay rise plan shows a political class ‘wildly out of touch’, said Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday. Commenting...
Junior Doctors To Act Over 20% Pay Cut
Angry delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in central London on Saturday voted for action to restore free accommodation for...
Global Amazon protests and strikes!
PROTESTS took place worldwide outside Amazon buildings on ‘Black Friday’ yesterday, in the US, UK and across Europe. Black Friday is the busiest online shopping...
Chavez Death – ‘work Of Enemy’
THE anti-imperialist President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has died aged 58, after 14 years in power. Chavez had been seriously ill with throat cancer for...
‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah
THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...
Downgraded! – A-Level Results Outrage
AS A-LEVEL results came in yesterday morning head teachers warned that lowered grades are ‘unfair and unfathomable’ while teachers said that the results were...
Drivers fighting Tesco sacking deal!
‘WE see it as nothing but a “dirty deal” from Tesco,’ Unite shop steward Trev Cheetham said outside Tesco’s, near to Parliament, yesterday. Over...
Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators
A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...