Private Schools After Academy Cash
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday condemned moves by private schools to rescue their finances through obtaining academy status. A NUT spokeswoman told News...
STRIKE ON! – Form public sector alliance demand postal workers
‘Everyone has to come out now, all the unions have to,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Hampstead Delivery Office deputy unit rep John Taylor told...
Ritzy Strike
A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...
Iran calm restored – ready to rebuff US attack
THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...
‘WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!’ – declare 4,000 Newham marchers
MORE than 4,000 people joined an angry demonstration through Newham yesterday against the huge police raid in Forest Gate on June 7. As they made...
‘Charge police with murder’ say family of George Floyd
MASS uprisings have broken out in Minneapolis as hectic protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd escalated into violent...
‘Halt Nato Barbarism’ Libyan Government Calls For Ceasefire!
LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...
20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget
TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...
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...
FIREFIGHTERS PREPARED TO STRIKE – if Authority carries out mass sakings threat
FIREFIGHTERS are prepared to strike to defeat the Tory-controlled London Fire Authority if it carries out its threat to sack all 5,500 London firefighters...
Teaching Assistants face sack!
THE GMB union will consult members in Brighton schools as to what action to take as 51 Teaching Assistant redundancies loom with many facing...
28 Remploy Factories To Close
The GMB trade union yesterday slammed ‘failed Remploy management’ over plans to close 28 factories for disabled workers. Responding to proposals from Remploy management, GMB...
Netanyahu Bans Al Jazeera
IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...
Britain Must Stop The Killing Of Tamils
THE Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) mobilised over 3,500 supporters of the struggle of the Tamils in a lively and colourful demonstration outside Downing Street...
‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises
THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
YOU FACE DEFEAT – Hamas warns Israel
Nine more Israeli soldiers were injured in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, two of them seriously, as fierce fighting continued on the tenth day...
Coronavirus–10,000 troops on the streets!
‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...
Lib Dems Dump Hs2 Policy To Win Tory Seat!
THE Lib Dems have pulled off another opportunist by-election victory, overturning a 16,000 Tory majority in a seat that has always voted Conservative. They did...
TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union
Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...
NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members
Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
Mass Executions In Sirte
Fifty-three Muammar Gadaffi loyalists were executed by members of the counter-revolutionary NTC at a Sirte hotel last week, Human Rights Watch reported yesterday. Human...
Tory Cuts & Closures –A ‘Lethal Cocktail’
‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...
Xmas Mass Picket At Ealing Hospital
THE WEST London Council of Action has called a 7am-9am Xmas Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital on Friday 20th December to step up the...
Israel to annexe settlement!
ISRAEL’S education minister and leader of the far right, pro-settlement Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, said yesterday morning he would propose a bill by...
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...
More Leaving Than Joining Nursing
RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...
Steel workers march on parliament
ELEVEN thousand steel workers, whose jobs hang in the balance, were watching like hawks as the deadline for ‘interested parties’ to enter bids to...
COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES! – Bush and Blair are accused
‘THE position of Israel and its heinous crimes against our civilians will not break the will of the Lebanese people. There...
‘We have to stop Ealing Maternity closure!’
TRADE union members working at Ealing Hospital yesterday bought their tickets for next Tuesday’s meeting and pledged to march and occupy to defend the...
KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture
THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...
The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...
THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...
‘Life-threatening’ failings – in BMI private hospital
EX-PATIENTS and their families were angry yesterday to hear that the local clinical commissioning group (CCG) has only suspended referring NHS patients to the...
5,500 Schools Face Years Of Financial Misery!
THE TORY government has admitted that 5,500 schools face years of financial misery and that they are on the ‘funding floor.’ The Education Select Committee...
Brazen Cameron! Tries To Tough It Out
PRIME Minister Cameron was repeatedly challenged yesterday over his hiring of Andy Coulson during the discussion on his statement over the News International crisis. Cameron...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!
PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...
ALL OUT ON THE 27th
AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...
BT Group Votes For Strike Action
CWU general secretary Dave Ward, announced yesterday at a press conference that a vote for strike action was carried by CWU members in the...
34 Tories quit government positions
BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...
PROBATION PRIVATISATION COSTS ELECTORS £500m!
THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...
US has lost all control in Syria says Churkin
THE UNITED States air strike on Deir Ez-zor on Saturday, which killed 62 Syrian soldiers, means the US has lost control over the situation...
Corbyn Not Pledging To Deliver Brexit!
LABOUR leader Corbyn gave himself room for more manoeuvres when he told The Andrew Marr Show yesterday: ‘We will table a motion of no...
Labour split over Scottish Referendum!
SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...
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...


















