Kwarteng Accused Of ‘Making Up’ Aid For Industry Plan
Treasury officials accused Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng of ‘making things up’ when he appeared on TV yesterday morning. With PM...
Fury at Labour’s attack on disabled
DEMONSTRATIONS are taking place outside Parliament from 1.00pm today, and in towns and cities around the country, as the Labour government seeks to pass...
London, Essex and York tough restrictions imposed – while Liverpool intensive care beds reach...
MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said...
‘Treated appallingly by Home Office’ – had passport taken and threatened with forcible removal
A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...
Maudsley & Royal Bethlem Hospital workers on their 3rd day of strike action!
FACILITIES staff are on the third day of their four-day strike action today at Maudsley and Royal Bethlem Hospitals. Lois Gyabi, striking GMB member, told...
Junior Doctors Are On Strike Today!
JUNIOR doctors in England begin five days of strike action at 7am this morning, until 7am next Tuesday morning. Strike leaders Dr Robert Laurenson and...
More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
The TUC must call a general strike! say Barts Hospital strikers
STRIKING Royal London Hospital ancillary workers rallying outside Barts Hospital in their fight for pay and improved conditions yesterday demanded that the TUC Special...
Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults
THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty
WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...
Postal Workers Call To ‘Bring Down Tories’
ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...
Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!
OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...
Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10
A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...
Doctor forces Tories to publish Cygnus in full!
A SIX-MONTH campaign led by an NHS doctor to have the full report into a pandemic preparation exercise published has successfully forced the Health...
RMT East Mids Strike Is On
THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...
‘Tory Sleaze Bigger Than Ever!’
‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...
Johnson Imposes Tier 3 On Manchester
TORY PM Johnson announced yesterday the government will impose the strictest measures – a Tier 3 lockdown – on Manchester, despite Greater Manchester Mayor...
Johnson surrenders – kneels before ‘Surrender Act’
A SCOTTISH judge was to be asked yesterday to consider whether Boris Johnson could be jailed if he takes the UK out of the...
ASLEF Strike Action Today
TRAIN drivers belonging to ASLEF – the train drivers’ trade union which represents 96% of the train drivers in England, Scotland, and Wales –...
Assange Must Be Freed!
ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning
‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...
Night Tube Strike Rock Solid! – RMT
STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...
Working class kids denied education!
THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...
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...
Childrens’ speech and language services slashed
SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...
Police and private security failed to apprehend Manchester bomber
MANCHESTER Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi should have been identified as a threat on the night of the atrocity by those in charge of...
‘WE’RE ON LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE’ – barristers tell MPs
BARRISTERS lobbied parliament yesterday and raised with MPs the demand of an urgent injection of funds into Legal Aid. Lucie Wibberley, the Criminal Bar Association...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
‘No’ to Labour’s ‘two-tier welfare!’
Starmer has announced hurried alterations to the Labour welfare bill after more than 120 Labour MPs signalled their intention to vote against it, threatening...
‘Hand on heart I did not lie to the House’ says Johnson – as...
THE HOUSE of Commons yesterday late afternoon by 569 votes to 29, a majority of 486, decided to approve the ‘Stormont Brake’ – part...
1,000 face eviction during lockdown!
CITIZENS Advice (CA) has confirmed that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related to...
100,000 on London march for Palestine
OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...
Unlimited Stop & Search Powers For Police!
TORY PM Johnson’s new police state measures allowing police unlimited stop and search powers have been condemned by Stopwatch, while Shadow Home Secretary Diane...
WITHDRAW FIXED PENALTY NOTICE! – Patsy Stevenson to issue proceedings against Cressida Dick
PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...
Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...
Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned
YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...
Racists driven off the streets!
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...
TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned
THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...
Corbyn demands permanent Customs Union
‘ONE area that the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and I do not agree,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in the House of...
Dismissal of consultant is unacceptable says BMA
THE BMA says the dismissal of a consultant from Hampshire for whistleblowing is unacceptable and further highlights the need for cultural and legal reform...
Rail Unions Taking Strike Action!
TRAIN drivers at more than a dozen companies will strike on Friday, 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday, 2 September, their...
‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis
‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...
NHS staff ‘exhausted & on the brink!’ – BMA
A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...
Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...