‘General strike for Palestine!’ – urges London May Day march
OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...
Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’
THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...
High risk of harm on shift due to nurse shortage – RCN conference...
A QUARTER of registered nurses say that their number is so far below what is required that there is now a ‘high risk’ of...
Police arrest demonstrators for defying Terrorism Act
POLICE arrested demonstrators outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where hundreds gathered in defiance of the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. The...
‘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...
SEND families take Tories to High Court over funding
PARENTS taking the government to court over SEND funding were cheered by a crowd of over 40 as they entered the High Court yesterday...
‘We’ll fight cuts with national strike action’ – FBU leader Steve Wright
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...
Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson
‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...
Nottingham City goes bust while HSBC makes £24bn!
THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114...
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...
NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
NATIONALISE BP NOW! – ‘stop tinkering at the edges’ demands Unite’s Graham
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...
‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis
‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...
‘Cold War mentality’ – China slams UK, US & Australia’s new imperialist alliance
THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...
BMA Wales 3-day February strike
British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...
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...
‘Hospitals don’t have the capacity to cope’ says BMA
HOSPITALS ‘do not have the capacity to cope’ said the British Medical Association (BMA) in response to Emergency Medicine Journal findings about longer waits...
‘WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH MAY’ says McDonnell
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...
‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
Assange Must Be Freed Now!
ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...
5,000-strong London Al-Quds Day rally!
A POWERFUL Al-Quds Day 5,000-strong rally took place on the Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames yesterday afternoon from 1pm-3pm. The...
Teachers battling ‘fire and rehire’ tactic to slash their pensions!
THE NEU National Education Union’s 2021 Annual Conference yesterday debated calls from members working in the independent sector for a national campaign to protect...
Stop arming US police – demands 250,000-strong petition to UK government
AFTER last Wednesday’s massive march demanding justice for George Floyd, over a quarter of a million people in the UK have intervened in the...
Stop ‘Uberisation Of Universities!’
OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...
Johnson’s brother stabs him in back
TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...
Labour Budget Will Drive 250,000 Into Poverty!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a vicious £4.8bn cuts onslaught on the working class and poor in her Spring Statement yesterday. According to the government’s...
Museum workers strike across UK
STAFF from top science museums around the country launched strike action yesterday to demand the Living Wage. The dispute involves tourist attractions, including London’s Science...
London housing crisis is spiralling out of control!
LONDON’S housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’, warns the Centre for London (CfL). Last Wednesday, the independent think tank hosted the London Housing Summit,...
Tories refuse to repeal draconian corona laws
MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...
All tube lines out on March 1st and 3rd!
TRANSPORT union RMT announced strike action yesterday on all lines of the London Underground (LU). The announcement comes in the wake of a recent ballot...
Strikes will grind Heathrow to a halt
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...
Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job
PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...
Reeves scraps Winter Fuel Allowance – Pensioners to freeze in their homes
NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...
Rail Delivery Group RMT members to strike June 2
RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...
GO NOW! Scottish Labour leader demands of Starmer
SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded PM Keir Starmer stand down yesterday, saying: ‘The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street...
Lewisham College 2-day strike Lecturers on poverty pay
‘THE MONEY’S there. We want our share!’ said striking lecturers at Lewisham Southwark College in southeast London yesterday morning. Members of the University and...
Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves
FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...
Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months
THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...
Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson
WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...
Russia Today fined £200,000!
BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...
Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...
Labour will keep refugees on barges says Kinnock – while Braverman threatens lawyers
A LABOUR government would continue with the reactionary Tory policy of incarcerating refugees aboard barges moored offshore, according to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock...
Over 100,000 March On The US Embassy!
MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...