260 DEAD IN KENYAN FIGHTING – after Presidential election rigged
As the death toll rose to 260, EU monitors yesterday cast doubts on the results of Kenya’s disputed presidential vote. This stepped up the pressure...
Cameron Pledges More Cuts!
PM Cameron yesterday defended the government’s spending and welfare cuts, and pledged to continue them and to stop at nothing to defend British capitalism. However,...
POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE –against unacceptable changes
OVER 12,000 postal workers across the UK will be striking today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and executive action by Royal Mail....
20 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed In Tigers Counter-Attack
COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...
Watson rebukes non-social democrat Corbyn
THE DEPUTY leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson spoke to Andrew Marr’s BBC show on Sunday about diverting the party away from its...
OUTSOURCING FOR TORTURE – House of Commons Committee demands investigation
THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...
‘PACKED LIKE SARDINES!’ – need for 250,000 pupil places says ATL
SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...
UCU holds strike rally as 17 FE colleges stop work
The University and College Union (UCU) held a strike rally of over 150 members from across the country at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham...
‘SERIOUS UPHEAVALS’ – predicted by head of World Bank
WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...
Marzieh Hashemi Is Free
IRAN’S Press TV English service anchor Marzieh Hashemi, 59, was freed on Wednesday from a Washington prison where she had been held by federal...
Heads Denounce Ofsted ‘Bully Boys’
Head teachers yesterday denounced Ofsted’s ‘bully boy tactics’ and sent a strong message to the chief inspector (HMCI) of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, in...
Greek teachers deliver major blow to right wing Mitsotakis government
GREEK teachers delivered a major blow to the right wing government of Prime Minister Mitsotakis last Wednesday after courts had declared as ‘illegal’ the...
Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...
ISRAEL TO INVADE GAZA!– Olmert gives final warning
Israeli officials have warned that the Israeli military is preparing to attack Gaza in the coming days. On Wednesday Israeli airstrikes and ground invasions...
Binmen win legal action! – Labour Council ordered to withdraw redundancies
THE UNITE union yesterday called on Birmingham city Labour council to honour the ACAS agreement and resolve the Birmingham bin dispute after the High...
‘Citizens Being Treated As Toxic Waste’
RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...
‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court
‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...
Massive Victory For Asda Staff!
THE GMB has hailed a ‘massive victory’ for 40,000 Asda workers in their equal pay claim after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour...
60 Years Since The ‘Catastrophe’
On the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) last Thursday, agriculture minister Dr Mohammed Al-Agha strongly criticised international institutions for not...
Splitters should stand down & fight by-election – demands McDonnell
‘THE HONOURABLE thing, the usual thing for them to do now, is to stand down and fight by-elections, back in their constituencies,’ shadow chancellor...
NATIONALISE! – to save jobs says ATUA national secretary
‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool
Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...
Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed
SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...
The Ys Calls ‘Jobs For Youth’ Lobby Of Tuc!
THE Young Socialists yesterday called a mass lobby of the TUC Annual Congress for Monday September 12, beginning at 8.00am. The conference is being held...
Tories Can Still Win Says Sunak
TORY PM SUNAK has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats. Labour and the Lib Dems...
HINCHINBROOKE JOBS FREEZE! – Circle-run hospital deep in debt
THE privately-run Hinchinbrooke Healthcare Trust in Cambridgeshire has imposed a jobs freeze after making a £2.3m loss in the three months to the end...
Stop ‘Uberisation Of Universities!’
OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...
NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...
‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm
Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...
Corbyn calls for Customs Union and Single Market
‘IT IS TIME for Parliament to take control,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s statement to Parliament on the...
MASSIVE CORRECTION – on the way says BIS bank
THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...
Greek Local Government Workers Occupy
SCORES of town halls in the metropolitan Athens-Piraeus area were being occupied by municipal workers on Wednesday morning following a decision by the POE-OTA...
Judges back Parliament against the people!
THE JUDICIARY yesterday sought to rescue the Parliament from the people with its ruling that the House of Commons must agree before the process...
Greenwich libraries workers victory!
THE dispute over pay and staff cuts affecting Greenwich’s 12 libraries has been settled in what the Unite union described as ‘a great victory...
Richards Call For Libya Shock And Awe Campaign
UK Chief of General Staff, General Sir David Richards has called for an easing of restrictions on NATO targets to allow the bombing of...
Campaigners Reject Ippr Insult
NHS DEFENCE campaigners were outraged yesterday at the comments by the Blairite Institute for Public Policy Research that their campaigns to defend District General...
‘A SUSTAINED ATTACK ON THE POOR’ – Tories assault on council housing condemned
Homeless charity Shelter yesterday condemned the planned ‘radical reform’ of council housing as ‘a deliberate attack on the poorest in society’. Announcing the measure, ...
18-59% food prices hike!
The price of staple foods has shot up by between 18 and 59 per cent over the past three years, as world supply problems...
FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!
THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...
Get the Tories out! Victory to Palestinian hunger strikers! say London May Day marchers
UP to 10,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched on May Day in London from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and...
Thousands of GPs tell BMA rescue package is ‘useless’ – BMA survey reveals
THOUSANDS of GPs in England have told the British Medical Association (BMA) that Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s package of measures to supposedly rescue general...
EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013
THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
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...
Chase Farm Daily Picket
MONDAY’S launch of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, in preparation to occupy the departments threatened with closure, was a roaring success. The...
VENEZUELA – MILITARY INTERVENTION IMMINENT – China-Russia warn USA
CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...