Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits – to fund tax...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...
Youth Services Devastated
ANOTHER round of council cuts is set to devastate services for young people in London, with more than £1 million of cuts planned for...
Renationalise the buses – demand drivers on eve of strike
LONDON bus drivers are preparing for strike action starting next Monday. Unite has called a series of strikes against massive attacks on pay and conditions...
Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...
DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival
OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’
THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...
Court of Appeal finds for Bell Hotel asylum seekers!
THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...
Streeting announces 18,000 NHS sackings
THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
125,000 workers, students & youth march for Palestine
THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...
Labour Defeats The Snp Nationalists!
THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...
‘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...
‘The worst public health response in UK history’ – No test & trace –...
THE TORY government’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early on in the pandemic was one of the ‘worst public health failures’...
JOBS COLLAPSE – worst unemployment since crash
THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
No joint press conference in Luxembourg – ‘We’re ready for no-deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel. After the meeting, Johnson...
British Gas 5,000 job cuts! – GMB has vowed to fight for every job
‘GMB will fight for every single job,’ the GMB union said, reacting yesterday to the news of yet another 5,000 job cuts at British...
A breach of human right
THE TORIES’ ‘right to rent’ checks are a breach of human rights, the High Court ruled yesterday. These are rules which force landlords to do...
Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay
Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...
‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened
THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...
NHS ‘more than 10,000 doctors needed!’
THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big shocks to come
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
Hunt turns his fire on the sick the disabled and the mentally ill –...
TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW! – demands High Court protest
THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon...
‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC
TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: ‘The...
Defeat Tory onslaught on rail workers!
‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...
Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis
THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...
MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated
MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...
Starmer ignores calls to resign
‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...
Lively picket lines outside Imperial College campuses
THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
‘EXTEND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP’ – LP Conference rejects Starmer line
A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...
Assange wins High Court ruling
THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...
NI Nursing Strike Actions Continue
THE DIRECTOR of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says she has not had enough reassurance about safe staffing to propose an end to...
GMB denounces May’s NHS plan
‘How does the government expect to deliver everything promised in the plan without the staff to deliver the services,’ asked GMB union yesterday in...
Safe staffing levels now! demands RCN
NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...
May and Corbyn capitulate to EU
REFERRING to PM May’s letter sent to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said yesterday: ‘Yes. I think she feels, as...
NHS pay fury at 3% pay rise – unions consider strikes
HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...
McDonnell courts nationalists – and vows to defend Corbyn
LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...
Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!
DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...
Johnson not aiming for No Deal
BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership,...
FBU condemns Tory hulk deathtrap for asylum seekers!
‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....
Youth demand at least £10 an hour
‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...
HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS! – 37 Universities to strike!
STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...