Murder of Sarah Everard: PC Couzens pleads guilty – Commissioner Dick refuses questions
METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...
GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...
Liberty to sell steel plant 5,000 jobs in the balance – Nationalise the entire...
FIVE THOUSAND steel jobs hang in the balance as steel giant Liberty announced plans to sell its plant in Stocksbridge, Sheffield, as part of...
Patel: More Police Powers – Despite Sarah Everard’s Murder!
‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...
Doctors fear NHS collapse this winter! – Another 12 deaths in Wales’ Royal Glamorgan...
THOUSANDS of doctors in England have told a BMA survey they have little or no confidence in the NHS being able to cope this...
2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
MAY GOES TO GROUND! – Johnson & Gove are battling for her job
PM MAY was holed up in crisis talks with senior Tories including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at Chequers yesterday, with rumours that a...
TORIES TO USE ARMY TO BREAK STRIKES! – PCS leader condemns strike-breaking plans
THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...
2,200-strong bus drivers strike solid – Bus drivers demand renationalisation
THE BUS strike by 2,200 Unite members employed by the privateer RATP at eight London garages was solid yesterday, with strikers demanding that the...
Postmasters Convictions Quashed
JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...
Corbyn urges reject May and embrace EU
‘PARLIAMENT should do its job today and say No to the Prime Minister,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said during yesterday’s debate and vote on...
Ambulance staff at breaking point
AMBULANCE staff are at breaking point, with the union Unison raising the alarm yesterday that services are facing unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable...
Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!
WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...
UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...
RMT and Unite leaders pledge to defeat Tory attack on right to strike
THE LEADERS of the Unite and RMT unions warned yesterday that they will mobilise their full power to defeat Tory plans to ban the...
Birmingham massacre of service
BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...
Liverpool Dockers Begin 2-Week Strike!
FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...
FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!
THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...
Liverpool City Council ‘in partnership’ with army! – over testing crisis
FLANKED by Brigadier Joe Fossey, Tory PM Johnson set out the mass testing programme trialled in Liverpool in which 2,000 troops have been sent...
TORIES WANT MASSIVE CUTS – GENERAL STRIKE NOW! – urge Euston RMT pickets
‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...
FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs
HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...
No beds! Intensive Care Units at 100% capacity!
ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...
British Gas to sack its entire workforce
BRITISH Gas is to sack its entire 10,000-strong workforce today, in a vicious attack which has been met with strike action over months by...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
Fresh Rail Gourmet strikes called
TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...
Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins
THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...
Nursing Staff Are Quitting NHS Pensions To Make Ends Meet!
NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...
UK protest against Nigeria’s police killings
OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...
No demolition without our say so – Grenfell families
‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...
‘Go North West’ buses continuous strike today! – Company plans strikebreaking force
THE UNITE trade union, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,...
TUC calls November 2 lobby of Parliament
TUC leader Frances O’Grady welcomed delegates to the TUC Congress yesterday saying: ‘Welcome to the TUC, our parliament for working people. ‘Represented, here in the...
‘HISTORIC WIN’ FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS – tens of thousands entitled to Uber compensation
THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...
Sunak Extends Furlough
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he will extend the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March. Sunak said the scheme...
Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...
Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband the police!’
THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...
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...
‘There was no chase!’ – before Met police shot and killed Chris Kaba
‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...
Corbyn will not have the whip restored! – now not officially a Labour MP
FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...
FORGEMASTERS NATIONALISED – as Honda Swindon is closed
UNITE yesterday welcomed the news that the government will bring Sheffield Forgemasters into public ownership. The news came as the giant Honda plant in Swindon...
Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...
GUAIDO SETS THE SCENE FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION
VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...
AMBULANCE CRISIS – Handover delays put patients at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm
PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...
Restore junior doctors’ 25% pay cut now!
TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...
‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss
BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...