Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!
TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...
TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General
Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...
‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member
EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...
Israeli Forces Severely Beat Palestinian
ISRAELI forces transferred a Palestinian man to a hospital after severely beating him in his house in Abu Shkheidim village, northwest of Ramallah,...
Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!
HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...
‘Call National strike now!’ – demand Birmingham binworkers
‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...
SWINDON NHS STRIKE ACTION – Against Bullying and Harassment
150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western NHS Hospital in Swindon are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and...
Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’
THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...
‘NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ – Blair-Goldsmith indicted by judgement
‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...
JOIN OUR MASS PICKET ON 10th FEBRUARY
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are inviting all their supporters to join them on their six-month anniversary picket on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout,...
3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite
DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...
Support growing for National Gallery strikers
OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...
Greenspan Lashes Bush
Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...
McDonnell advocates Customs Union pact with PM May!
LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...
BLAIR WARNING FOR CHAVEZ AND EVO MORALES – at EU-Americas talks
UK Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked the Bolivian and Venezuelan presidents over their moves to end the foreign exploitation of their countries’ gas...
EMERGENCY SPECIALISTS NOT POLYCLINICS – urges College of Emergency Medicine
THE College of Emergency Medicine yesterday urged the government to invest in more emergency medicine specialists rather than polyclinics. Dr John Heyworth, incoming President of...
Firefighters right to strike under threat
THE FIRE Brigades Union has responded to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services State of Fire and Rescue 2021 report...
No protection from unfair dismissal–for 7.5 million!
THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...
Lecturers Take Strike Action!
AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...
Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!
AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...
‘Heathrow sits on mountain of cash while sacking 4,000’ says Unite as strike ballot...
‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...
Brexit Turncoats Rally Behind May
ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said...
‘I WILL NOT SET A DATE’ – Blair defies Brown and unions
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...
BofE & speculators drive £ down
STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...
‘we Need Total Victory!’
‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...
RENT IS 41% OF INCOME –young people face ‘unaffordable housing costs’
YOUNG people across the UK have told the TUC and Generation Rent that they face unaffordable housing costs, insecurity of tenure and exploitation by...
Corbyn reprimands Chief of Staff
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called for disciplinary action to be taken against Britain’s top military commander, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, over political interference. Corbyn...
KICK PRIVATEERS OUT OF NHS! – Unison condemns Hinchingbrooke privatisation
‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...
Israel launches major offensive!
THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
Only three towers re-clad out of 160!
ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...
Barnet Libraries Not For Sale!
BARNET Unison, members of Unite Community and local supporters were out on strike all over the north London borough yesterday in defence of public...
North London bus workers strike today!
Over 2,000 bus drivers from nine garages across north London will take 24-hour strike action from 3am today following Arriva North’s decision not to...
Anti-tank missiles used against Palestinian home!
MOHAMMED Faqih’s body came out of a Hebron house in an army bulldozer bucket on Tuesday night, after the Israeli Army killed him and...
‘OUTSOURCING OF TORTURE’ condemned by Swiss MP Marty
The Council of Europe’s interim report yesterday said it is ‘highly likely’ that European governments know of the secret transport by the CIA of...
Three Raf Airmen Killed In Iraq
Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...
Occupy Chase Farm Hospital To Stop Closure
HEALTH Secretary Lansley and the coalition have decided to close Chase Farm as a District General Hospital and move out its A&E. Maternity and...
LABOUR SAVAGED! – Party pays the price for Blair-Brown policies
LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...
Vote Wrp Vote Arj In Southall
CAMPAIGNING on the big Golf Links council estate, five minutes walk from Ealing Hospital, the Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall canvas...
The Mujahideen Will Win Says Carroll
US authorities were still guarding freed hostage Jill Carroll in Iraq on Friday, after insurgents released her from nearly three months of captivity and...
Medical students support Junior Doctors
MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...
‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak
MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...
House prices up by 40% –100,000 eviction notices issued
HOUSE prices in much of London as well as the UK’s southeast have increased by more than 40 per cent, instilling fears of...
No Benefit Cuts!
campaigners lobbied the House of Lords yesterday demanding ‘no going back to Dickensian days’. They also chanted ‘Defend Child Benefit for all’, ‘Oppose all benefit...
IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned
‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...