RMT calls for talks – pickets call for a workers’ government!
RAIL UNION RMT yesterday issued a fresh call for further talks as members across the length and breadth of South Western Railway stood firm...
Right to attend your A&E being ended!
NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...
‘SEIZE OUR SHIPS!’ – demand sacked P&O workers outside Parliament
OUTSIDE Parliament yesterday a two hundred-strong rally of P&O workers and their supporters shouted: ‘Seize our ships!’ and ‘P&O we say no!’ The rally was...
Johnson refuses to rule out raising taxation!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson yesterday refused to rebut his Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s warning in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper that ‘very real shortages’ can be...
‘My task – open the economy’ – New Health Secretary Sajid Javid
‘MY TASK is to return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great,’ new Tory Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said in...
54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs
AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...
Massive Victory For Asda Staff!
THE GMB has hailed a ‘massive victory’ for 40,000 Asda workers in their equal pay claim after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour...
Johnson Relying On Labour To See Him Through!
WITH around 100 rebel Tory MPs expected to vote against the new three tier lockdown system in the House of Commons tomorrow, the government...
NAO TO PROBE GREENSILL! – and how it collapsed the UK steel industry
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...
CROYDON BUST! Councils across the UK to make savage cuts
CROYDON Council has gone bankrupt after racking up debts of £1.5bn. The council issued a rare Section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, on Wednesday...
War on workers & youth – National Insurance 1.25% hike, UC cut £20...
‘WE WILL FIX the long term problems of health and social care that have been so cruelly exposed by Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
NHS – 15% Rise Now!
PROTESTS took place outside hospitals yesterday morning after the call by unions to turn April 1st into a day of action for NHS staff...
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...
‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...
RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...
Victory To Ambulance Strikers!
STRIKING Paramedics, Emergency Care Assistants, call handlers and other ambulance staff across the country who are on strike again in England and Wales today,...
Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...
Reintroduce Covid restrictions now! NHS Confederation warns of looming winter crisis
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...
Darroch quits – ‘thrown under a bus by Johnson’ say ‘Remainers’
SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...
Birmingham Labour Council attacks striking binworkers
‘IF the council take out an injunction we have to stand strong. They are trying to kill our spirit,’ striking Birmingham binworker Ali Chidodo...
‘If the NHS is to survive we must get a new government’ – striking...
THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...
Stop BA Jobs Massacre
HILLINGDON TUC is holding a ‘Stop the BA Jobs Massacre’ Rally in Defence of Jobs at 12 noon in Cranford Park, near Heathrow Airport...
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...
Assange High Court decision today!
THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to...
‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson
‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
17 More Universities Vote For Strike Action!
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...
Labour scraps 4-hour A&E waiting time target
THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...
‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’
NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...
‘Remain’ MPs plan to occupy House of Commons!
CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has told MPs that he is determined to do everything in his power to stop the ‘catastrophe’ of a no-deal exit by...
Johnson’s mission to India fails
THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...
‘We’re in this for the long haul’ – insist NHS consultants as they announce...
CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...
International support for UK rail workers!
STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...
NEW ECONOMIC CRASH WILL DWARF 2008! – warn 58 economists
A GROUP of economists issued an open letter yesterday warning that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s planned financial deregulation bill will lead to an economic...
Portsmouth Uni to axe staff!
THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...
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...
‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and wage cutting
‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...
North Shropshire Disaster For Tories – Pm Johnson Facing Sack!
THE Tory Party has lost the ‘farming country’ North Shropshire seat’ that it has held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats, in...
UK abusing terrorism laws! says Amnesty International Secretary General
IN A MAJOR police state move, 29 demonstrators were arrested in London at a protest in support of Palestine Action on Saturday, the day...
‘It is illegal to leave home and travel abroad for leisure purposes!’
‘WE MUST take additional steps to strengthen our borders,’ said Tory PM Johnson in Parliament yesterday, outlining the new Hotel Quarantine system. The system means...
No To Cheap Labour Teachers!
TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...
RMT calls a march on Downing Street
RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...
700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
Rail & Busworkers Support Call For A General Strike
RAIL and bus workers are supporting the call for the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories. On the picket line...
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...
‘Call National strike now!’ – demand Birmingham binworkers
‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...
Sixteen and 17 year olds will be able to vote at the next general...
Democracy Minister Rushanara Ali said the ‘seismic’ change would ensure young people’s voices were heard. She confirmed the pledge would be part of a raft...