Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire
THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...
Birmingham bin strikers bring their fight to London
STRIKING Birmingham binworkers are holding a London rally outside Parliament today where their Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham will deliver a speech calling...
Nationalise P&O now!
‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...
Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!
THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...
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...
RCN raises the alarm!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...
‘MAKE CREDIBLE OFFER’ – Junior doctors tell Health Secretary Barclay
JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...
More Unite ambulance workers to take strike action on May 2
MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...
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,...
Brighton & Hove Schools Are Staying Closed Says Council
BRIGHTON and Hove primary schools in Sussex are staying closed today after the city council held an emergency meeting and ordered all primaries to...
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...
‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets
NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...
Maudsley strikers to march on Downing St! ‘– End all NHS outsourcing’ demands GMB
SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union...
‘The Met took my son’s life’
‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...
Police attempt to silence journalists
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland yesterday condemned an attempt by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Durham...
‘Unite Must Call All Of Its Members Out!’
‘CALL the airport out!’ striking worker Carlos Rodriguez said at the rally outside the union Unite’s headquarters on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport yesterday. 4,000...
Starmer unveils his ‘Plan for Change’!
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer yesterday unveiled a ‘Plan for Change’, setting out a series of ‘milestones’ his government pledged to achieve over the course...
Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts
STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...
Six million waiting for NHS treatment – Highest since records began
ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...
Royal Mail lands an anti-union blow at the High Court
ROYAL MAIL has won a legal battle against the CWU to prevent a postal strike over Xmas after the High Court backed its application...
‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – says Anna Athow,...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...
‘Strike together against anti-union laws!’
INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...
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...
‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN
‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...
PM Johnson reaches out to Labour!
‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...
Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
‘WINTER CATASTROPHE!’ warns RCN
‘EMERGENCY departments should be places of safety for those in crisis, but this report shows they have become places of prolonged and unnecessary suffering.’ Royal...
‘Avanti West Coast Want Drivers To Work With A Real Terms Wage Cut!’
AHEAD of the powerful one-day strike at nine major train privateers this Saturday, Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan has accused one of them, Avanti...
Unite Claims Rolls Royce Jobs Victory!
THE long-running campaign to secure the future of the historic Rolls-Royce factory of Barnoldswick in Lancashire has finally ended. Following a ballot the workers at...
‘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...
Big Support for WRP Candidates
WRP PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE for Kensington, Scott Dore campaigning outside the busy Ladbroke Grove tube station yesterday gained the support of local residents. Kathleen Jones who...
EXPROPRIATE P&O – Shapps fails to stand up to the bandits
MICK LYNCH, RMT General Secretary said yesterday ‘Despite all the bluster, Grant Shapps has failed to grasp the opportunity to adequately stand up to...
Bank Raised Rates To 3% Predicts 2-Year Slump & Double Unemployment
THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...
30,000 university staff jobs at risk!
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday launched action to support casualised staff. Over a third of all staff are on ‘fixed-term contracts’ rather than...
115,000 postal workers out today!
115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...
Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil
THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...
KHAN CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – Corbyn only one of the options
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...
Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters
HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...
Honda Swindon Plant Axed – 3,500 Car Workers’ Jobs To Go
THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...
Strike-Breaking Regulations Ruled Illegal By High Court
MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...
40,000 NHS Staff Off Work Sick – In A Single Day
YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...
NHS HANDS OVER £26m TO PRIVATEERS
A NEW investigation carried out by the BMA has discovered that private consultancy firms have been paid at least £26m by the NHS as...
Johnson-Sunak Are Criminals Say The Met Police!
PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak are criminals according to the Police! Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be issued fines – officially known as fixed...
Ealing strikers in high spirits
THERE were high spirits on the parking services workers’ picket line outside Ealing Town Hall in west London yesterday morning, with dhol drummers keeping...
RMT calls National Rail Strike!
THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...