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...
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...
CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping
ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...
Tories threaten councils – to try to force reopening of schools
THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...
Residents charged £3.5m to remove flammable cladding – plus £5.4m to pay for fire...
LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...
96-hour walkout by the junior doctors!
THE BMA yesterday announced dates for a new 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England after the government’s failure to make any credible offer...
Stop the gap between rich and poor!
UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...
‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson
TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...
LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...
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...
FBU strike ballot opens on December 5th!
LAST week the FBU said it would formally issue notice of ballot if ‘a substantial pay increase that takes into account the current level of inflation...
Parliament to forcibly evict Westminster rough sleepers
HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
Harland & Wolff in administration
WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
RAIL CHAOS AFTER NEW TIMETABLE IMPOSED – TSSA calls for renationalisation
RAIL CHAOS rapidly spread across the length and breadth of the UK as new train timetables coming into force yesterday hit serious problems, leaving...
‘We are stronger than ever and united like never before’ UCU leader Grady...
THE UCU (University and College Union) lecturers union held a national rally at the front of Kings Cross Station yesterday, completely taking over the...
Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB
‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...
Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers
EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!
PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...
80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!
MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...
Stella Assange denounces the US case as ‘pathetic, founded on lies’
ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...
Wildcat Postal Strikes
WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
Savage Cuts On The Way!
THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...
NHS must run vaccinations! Unison warns of private firms using unqualified staff
CORONAVIRUS vaccinations must be managed entirely by the NHS and public bodies, and not allow the involvement of private firms and the use of unqualified staff,...
150 Unis ballot for strike action!
THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...
50 Workers Chasing Every Job
AROUND 20 unemployed workers are chasing every job vacancy in poorer parts of the UK, with that number rising to 50 in the areas...
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...
Four Day Strike At Maudsley And Bethlem Hospitals!
FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...
Pm Johnson Facing Defeat On Foreign Aid Budget Cut
THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...
Bma Condemns ‘Cruel And Vindictive’ Whorlton Hall
THE BMA has condemned the ‘cruel, vindictive and abusive’ behaviour exposed by Panorama at the private Whorlton Hall hospital. Responding to last night’s Panorama programme,...
Youth are marching against capitalism!
OVER 10,000 school youth from around the South East of England descended on London’s Parliament Square yesterday shouting: ‘Solution not pollution! We want change!’...
Manchester indefinite bus strike!
MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...
University staff step up struggle
MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...
‘ABHORRENT BEYOND WORDS!’ – RCN & BMA condemn Farage threat to deport thousands
‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...
‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand
UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...
McDonnell wants secret talks!
YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...
‘Stay Off Work From Next Monday’ Say Neu Leaders!
MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...
NHS Backlog Plans Delayed
A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...
‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch
‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...
Sunak Has Questions To Answer – Says Labour
CHANCELLOR Sunak has ‘a series of questions to answer’, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said yesterday, as the Tory tax scandal developed. Last week,...