Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...
Myanmar military ‘extrajudicial killings’
A PROTEST of over a hundred Burmese outside the Myanmar embassy in Mayfair, London yesterday demanded the release of their leaders arrested during the...
Barristers To Take Indefinite Action!
BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...
‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses
THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
STOPPED 25 TIMES! –Stuart Lawrence accuses police of racism
STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...
‘General strike for Palestine!’ – urges London May Day march
OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...
GAZA’S CROSSINGS CLOSED – ‘An act of collective punishment’
THE Gaza Centre for Human Rights has condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between...
Train companies ‘trouser £1.3bn’
THE TORIES have allowed train companies to ‘play the system’ collecting more than £1.3bn from the taxpayer for delayed services and passing only a...
Israel assassinates Hamas leader Al-Arouri in Beirut
Hamas has confirmed that Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of its political bureau, was killed in a blast in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood of the...
Parliament erupts over Brexit on 1st day back
PARLIAMENT erupted yesterday on the burning issue of Brexit, on the first day back after the Xmas break. Moving an Urgent Question Labour Leader...
Bank of E fears Barclays exposure to EU debt
UK banks do not have enough capital to withstand an escalation in the eurozone crisis, the Bank of England’s risk regulator has warned. The minutes...
A £5,000 PAY CUT – for first year junior doctors
Over 200 medical students, with placards saying ‘No room for more student debt’ and ‘Junior doctors accommodation – going, going, gone’, demonstrated in central...
Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT
THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...
British Steel 400 sackings
BRITISH Steel is to be sold to Chinese firm Jingye next Monday with the loss of 400 workers. Jingye has offered a contract to 3,200...
‘We Won’t Let Chase Farm NHS Close’
HOSPITAL workers, patients and local residents in Enfield yesterday reaffirmed their determination to stop the planned closure of the A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments...
Busworkers Demand Fair Pay And Fair Treatment
BUS drivers across London and Crawley, working for First Bus, Metroline and Metrobus, are staging a 24-hour strike today, demanding a fair pay rise...
BRITAIN CAVES IN TO SAUDIS – powerful capitalists are ‘above the law’
Britain was yesterday accused of ‘caving in to the Saudis’ after the House of Lords overturned the High Court’s ruling that the government broke...
Picturehouse Cinemas Strike Action Today!
IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...
DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at St Paul’s Medical...
THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...
African-American farmers lost $326bn worth of acreage in the 20th century
AFRICAN-American farmers lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, adding to the racial wealth gap in the United States, a...
500 Killed In Israeli Bombing Of Gaza!
ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...
Academies Crisis!
Angry teachers have condemned the declaration by Schools Secretary Ed Balls that he will resist calls to slow the pace of the Academy programme. This...
GP contract changes will harm patient care!
THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...
Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!
THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
MAY HAS UNDERMINED BREXIT says ex-Brexit Under Secretary Steve Baker
EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...
Cambridge Lecturers Striking Tomorrow!
CAMBRIDGE University lecturers are striking tomorrow in the increasingly bitter tidal wave of strikes being waged nationally by the University and College...
Academies Out!
‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...
ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister
Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...
Labour in crisis after shock Runcorn defeat
REFORM UK’s shock win in Runcorn & Helsby has plunged Labour into crisis. Nigel Farage’s candidate Sarah Pochin snatched the seat by a mere six...
Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed
NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...
UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report
The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
BLOCKADE THE PORTS – say fishermen after no progress in talks
‘BLOCKADE the Ports’ was the cry that went up from up to 300 fishermen, at the outcome of their meeting yesterday with Jonathan Shaw,...
Victory for Syrian troops
THE General Command of the Syrian army said yesterday that ‘Our armed forces succeeded early on Wednesday to restore security and stability to the...
TORIES ON THE RUN! – get them out with a general strike
THE TORY government yesterday dropped its attempt to defeat a House of Commons probe into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs about lockdown parties. With the...
McDonnell capitulates to the EU!
JOHN McDONNELL, Labour’s shadow chancellor said yesterday that Labour will vote down May’s Brexit deal, will not accept No Deal, and instead will propose...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘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...
Funeral procession of Musaab al-Tamimi attacked
A NUMBER of Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces, including a critical injury, during clashes in the Ramallah-district village of Deir Nitham...
Israeli warplanes hit Khan Younis & Rafah in Gaza Strip
THE Palestinian rescue and civil defence teams yesterday removed 12 bodies of Palestinians that were buried under the rubble of two homes destroyed by...
‘100,000 PCS MEMBERS TO STRIKE IN JANUARY!’ says Union leader Serwotka
‘COORDINATED’ public sector strike action will escalate significantly in January and continue right up until May, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned yesterday in...
Prentis ‘Call To Arms!’
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...
Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate
THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...
Strike Ballot Starts For Cabin Crew
Voting papers have been sent to more than 10,000 BASSA (British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association) members of Unite for a fresh strike ballot...
DISTRICT NURSES CRISIS – RCN warns 10,000 are needed
DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...
















