Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

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PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...
Demonstrators against Identity Cards outside parliament on February 13th this year

The Mujahideen Will Win Says Carroll

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US authorities were still guarding freed hostage Jill Carroll in Iraq on Friday, after insurgents released her from nearly three months of captivity and...

Milwaukee uprising after police shooting

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CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...
NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...

Tories Moving To Dump Truss!

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YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...

Starving Palestinians storm US-Israeli GHF ‘aid’ centre

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The first day of the Israeli-US ‘aid’ distribution mechanism in Gaza ended in abject failure yesterday. The ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) distribution centre in Rafah...

SECRET INQUESTS PLAN! – No juries! – to cover up deaths in state custody

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Legal charity INQUEST yesterday condemned government proposals in the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 which ‘give unprecedented powers to the Secretary of State to intervene in...
Firefighters demonstrating outside the London Fire Authority on February 11 against plans to close 12 fire stations in London

Firefighters plan to strike

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FIRE Brigades Union reps met yesterday to prepare for a national strike ballot over changes to the firefighters’ pension scheme. The FBU National Conference begins...

‘Putting out forest fires with water pistols’

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‘LIKE putting out forest fires with a water pistol,’ is the way the GMB union branded the Taylor Review released yesterday which looked into...

Russian trucks cross border!

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RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...
Trade union banners and placards demanding defence of the NHS and no cuts – these will be key demands on May Day

Stop NHS Cuts And Closures

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Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...

9,000 Gm Jobs To Go!

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GM Europe will keep all four of its German Opel plants open, interim chief executive Nick Reilly revealed yesterday. GM issued the following statement: ‘Opel/Vauxhall...

UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK

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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...
Unison healthworkers from St Georges Hospital on a TUC demonstration – they demand more staff or patients will die

Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!

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‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

GP fury at new Tory ‘name and shame’ regime

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THE TORY government turned its fire onto GPs yesterday provoking an angry response from the trade unions. Under new measures announced yesterday GPs will be...

Israel Targets Families Trying To Leave Rafah

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A YOUNG girl was shot in the face as her family attempted to return to north Gaza on Sunday, footage posted on social media...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...

US jets bomb Syria hospital

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WARPLANES of the US-led international coalition shelled a hospital and perpetrated a new massacre in Syria on Saturday, claiming the lives of six civilians...

STARING DEFEAT IN THE FACE! – in Iraq and Afghanistan

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BRITAIN is staring defeat in the face in Afghanistan according to Paddy Ashdown and Lord Inge, the ex-Chief of Staff, British army. In a House...

Massive ASLEF vote for strike action over pay!

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ASLEF train drivers’ trade union members have voted overwhelmingly for more strike action, having not had a pay rise for five years. Mick Whelan, general...
Supporters of Babar Ahmad outside the High Court in London fighting his extradition to the US. They fear Babar could end up in Guantánamo Bay

Labour refusing Guantánamo Bay British residents

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The lawyer acting for ten UK residents being held at Guantánamo Bay has said the US authorities would send them home now if the...
The front of last September’s 10,000-strong march from Southall to Ealing to defend the NHS and demanding that Ealing Hospital be kept open

BOYCOTT COMMISSIONING! – BMA GPs hit out at Coalition

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A SURVEY of GPs has shown that over half support the BMA organising a boycott of commissioning, with a sizeable minority supporting strike action...

Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs

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THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...

£9,250 tuition fees at Exeter – rise for current & future students

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EXETER University has been condemned both by its students’ guild and lecturers’ union after announcing yesterday that tuition fees are to increase to £9,250...
Demonstrators in Trafalgar Square last June demanding immediate action by the Brown government to secure the release of British resident Binyam Mohamed from imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay

BINYAM MOHAMED ‘IS SKIN AND BONE’ – warns US military lawyer Bradley

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A team of British officials have travelled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit detainee Binyam Mohamed and make preparations for his expected release. A Scotland...
Bob Crow, RMT members and commuters rally at Waterloo Station yesterday to denounce double inflation rise in rail fares and call for re-nationalisation

No fare rises – re-nationalise!

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RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...

SHELL TANKER DRIVERS OUT – from 6am Friday June 13th

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SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...
Young Syrians on a march called by Stop the War – UK special forces are now ‘illegally’ fighting on the front line in Syria

UK forces fighting in Syria ‘illegal’ – warns Stop the War

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UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...
Trade unionists, community groups and musicians rallied outside parliament yesterday against the abolition of public bodies

Unions Fight ‘Political Vandalism!’

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Westminster MPs heard calls for the government to ‘Stop, Listen and Think Again’, as trade unionists and community groups lobbied Parliament asking them...

Swinson – New Attack On Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...
The world’s media is starting to take a much greater interest in the struggle of the Diego Garcia Islanders to return to their homeland – picture above shows South Korean television interviewing HENGRIDE PERMAL

‘We will not be silenced’ say Diego Garcia Islanders

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‘WE will not be silenced’ is the message from Diego Garcian islanders who will be marching to Crawley Town Hall today, to protest against...

STOP £3bn of education cuts!

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TEACHERS’ and heads’ unions, the NUT, ATL and NAHT, are asking every candidate in every constituency in England and Wales to promise that they...
Workers marching in London last September in defence of the NHS

Private Companies Taking Millions Out Of The NHS!

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‘UNISON warned from the beginning that ISTC (Independent Sector Treatment Centre) contracts were too rigid and expensive and would destabilise local NHS hospitals’, said...

64% Say End Afghan War

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A total of 64 per cent want all British forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘as quickly as possible’, with 33 per cent in...

NHS 32,000 Beds Loss!

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‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at the picket in Heathrow yesterday want to see action from the TGWU to get their jobs back

WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER! – WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney tells the News...

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‘The only way to solve the problems facing the working class today is for the working class to take state power and smash...

Zionist snipers shoot three at Nasser Hospital

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THREE Palestinians sheltering inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s biggest health centre, were shot dead by Zionist snipers yesterday, with another...

Blair at Inquiry on Monday

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...
Junior doctors on the picket line during their strike in 2015 – they are often exhausted says the General Medical Council (GMC)

Junior doctors ‘burned out’ GMC

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NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...

Priti Patel ramps up police enforcement!

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‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...

‘We will work with Brown’–Prentis

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‘We demand fairness and justice for our members – and we are prepared to fight and, if necessary strike, to get it,’ UNISON general...
Queue outside the Northern Rock bank in Harruw on Tuesday of savers determined to take out their money

NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...

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SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...

Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!

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A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
The North-East London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm

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Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...
500 angry firefighters lobbied against fire station closures outside the Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark yesterday

‘OCCUPY FIRE STATIONS!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack

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‘THESE fire stations belong to the people of London and it’s the people of London who say that these buildings are ours and we...