Health workers petition PM to kick Palantir out of the NHS!
HEALTH workers and campaigners protested outside Downing Street yesterday as they handed in a petition, signed by more than 200,000 people, demanding that the...
Young people to lose disability benefits!
YOUNG people will be barred from claiming personal independence payments (PIP) and the health element of universal credit under further welfare cuts to be...
25 Protesters arrested at Palestine Action appeal
POLICE arrested 25 people outside the Supreme Court yesterday as five justices began hearing Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori’s challenge to the group’s proscription...
Mahmood steps up attack on migrant workers
HOME Secretary Shabana Mahmood stepped up Labour’s attack on immigrant workers yesterday, extending the wait for permanent settlement from the current five years to...
Labour is making huge public service cuts in order to fund defence
LABOUR Chancellor John Healey has told every government department to find a further 1% cuts in their capital budgets to fill a £4.7 billion...
Healey’s budget – nothing for the working class but £10 billion for Ukraine!
LABOUR Chancellor John Healey delivered a bosses’ and bankers’ budget yesterday, opening with a warning that ‘what we face today are global economic storms’. Fearful...
‘Hands off the West Bank!’ – demands 200-strong Downing Street protest
A 200-strong demonstration outside Downing Street on Monday evening, demanded that the Burnham-led Labour government stop supporting Israel’s genocide, brutality and starvation in occupied...
St Thomas’ strikers march on Downing St demanding an end to poverty pay!
OVER A HUNDRED striking porters, cleaners and catering staff at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing...
43,000 care home deaths – the Covid Inquiry finds
MORE than 43,000 deaths involving Covid were recorded in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022, after government left the sector without...
Victory to Palestine! – 300,000 on London march
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London for Palestine on Saturday, marking the third anniversary of the 7th October 2023 launch...
‘London weighting needs inflating’
UP TO 1,000 school support staff from Merton to Greenwich and Woolwich rallied outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday chanting ‘London Weighting Needs Inflating’. They...
5,000 march on Battle of Cable Street 90th Anniversary
UP TO 5,000 workers, local families and youth gathered outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall on the Whitechapel Road in east London for the march...
NHS England must end its £330 million Palantir contract
OVER 100 people protested outside St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge yesterday to demand that NHS England end its £330 million contract with the...
Grenfell prosecutions are planned for 2029
SCOTLAND Yard yesterday passed files on 54 people and 20 companies and organisations to the Crown Prosecution Service over the Grenfell Tower fire, which...
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes & vehicles
ISRAELI settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles across the occupied West Bank at dawn yesterday, as hundreds more stormed the Aqsa Mosque...
Labour was wrong on Gaza admits Miliband!
SPEAKING at the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband denounced the previous Starmer regime’s full support for Israel’s genocidal regime, saying there...
Fire & rehire at Glasgow Council – 23,000 staff will face the sack!
GLASGOW City Council is set to dismiss more than 23,000 non-teaching staff and rehire them on new contracts from 1 January after talks with...
Big support for striking V&A workers
STRIKING PCS and Prospect union members were getting plenty of support on their picket lines at the V&A museum in South Kensington yesterday morning. Both...
Solidarity demonstration for the Filton 25
THERE was a crowd of over 50 people outside Woolwich Crown court demonstrating in solidarity with the Filton 25 yesterday. The court is considering in...
Burnham commits RAF to support Saudi terror
PRIME Minister Andy Burnham has committed an RAF Voyager tanker to refuel Saudi warplanes for several weeks. The decision comes as Saudi air strikes on...
‘We are ecstatic!’ – Victorious ICR strikers mass walk-in at 8.30am today
THE ICR (Institute of Cancer Research) strikers have accepted a victory deal after 68 days on strike in which the lowest paid will see...
TUC backs boycott & sanctions on Israel
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Brighton passed a composite motion on Palestine on the conference’s final day yesterday, alongside further motions on military...
TUC delegates vote for co-ordinated strike action
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton yesterday backed motions demanding better public sector pay and the right to coordinated strike action. Moving Motion 34,...
TUC delegates demand better wages & conditions in schools & healthcare
AT the Trades Union Congress yesterday morning there were motions demanding more funding for education, and better wages and conditions for all staff working...
TUC must call strike action for Palestine on October 9th!
THE TUC Congress opened in Brighton yesterday afternoon with delegates supporting the Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby calling for strike action for...
Third day of strike at St Thomas’ Hospital
WORKERS from 6 departments at St Thomas’ hospital on Westminster Bridge Road were on the third day of their strike action yesterday, when they...
Miliband defends ‘two-state’ solution as Israel closes UK consulate
FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband said yesterday that Britain ‘could not simply stand by because we feared Israeli reaction’. This was after Israel ordered the closure...
V&A strikers fighting for their rights
THERE was another very well-attended picket line outside the Young V&A Museum in Bethnal Green on Saturday, with loud chants of: ‘What do we...
Labour warns of food shortages
LABOUR issued dire warnings of imminent food shortages in the UK yesterday, warning people that they need to ‘stock up’ if they want to...
V&A strikers are demanding fair pay
THERE was a very loud and lively picket outside the Young Victoria and Albert Museum in Bethnal Green east London yesterday, with chants of:...
V&A strikers determined ‘We won’t accept low pay!’
A RALLY of over 100 Victoria and Albert Museum workers was held in Exhibition Road in South Kensington at 8am yesterday morning, ahead of...
Protesters condemn Labour ministers for not sanctioning Israel!
MORE than 100 protesters gathered outside Downing Street yesterday to confront Labour ministers over their failure to sanction Israel and to alleviate the suffering...
Arriva bus drivers strike for much better conditions
AROUND 50 Arriva bus drivers picketed the Stamford Hill garage yesterday morning, with a strong turnout at Wood Green as well. Nick Leon, a Unite...
Cancer strikers win growing support
INSTITUTE for Cancer Research (ICR) strikers welcomed great support, including from abroad and other unions as they held a rally outside South Kensington Tube...
Cancer Research Strikers Meet Up At Sutton
STRIKERS from the Institute of Cancer Research at its Chelsea and Sutton sites met at Sutton railway station yesterday as part of their ongoing...
Cancer Research Strikers Are Confident Of Victory!
UNITE members on strike at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea say they are confident of winning their pay dispute. ‘We rejected the management’s...
1,500 Arriva Bus Drivers Strike Over Conditions!
ARRIVA bus drivers mounted another strong picket at Wood Green garage in north London yesterday on the second day of their strike over terms...
‘It’s too hot’ say Arriva bus drivers
A LARGE and busy picket line stood outside Wood Green bus station yesterday morning as more than 1,500 Arriva North London drivers began strikes...
‘Free free Palestine – BBC shame on you’ says mass picket
‘FREE free Palestine! BBC shame on you, your hands are bloody too!’ chanted 100 protesters outside the BBC in central London yesterday. The vigil marked...
‘Pay is falling and workers are rising!’
MORE than 200 workers from the Institute of Cancer Research rallied outside South Kensington tube station yesterday, joined by delegations from UCU, Unison and...
No Action Against The Police Over The Chris Kaba Killing
THE Independent Office for Police Conduct announced yesterday that it has dropped gross misconduct proceedings against Martyn Blake, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who...
Burnham prepares massive budget cuts
LABOUR PM Burnham and his former Defence Secretary Chancellor John Healey have written a joint letter to Cabinet ministers telling them that their job...
Bus workers join Maudsley strikers on picket line
MAINTENANCE and estate workers striking at four south London mental health hospitals were joined on the picket line yesterday by bus workers, who arrived...
Police arrest demonstrators for defying Terrorism Act
POLICE arrested demonstrators outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where hundreds gathered in defiance of the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. The...
Cancer research strikers join Maudsley picket
THERE was a lively picket, at the Maudsley hospital in Camberwell, south east London yesterday of over 50 estate maintainance workers. They were joined, by...