‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK Parliament
‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...
TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned
THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...
British Steel – placing 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs at risk!
BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...
Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...
TORY PROTEST BAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE!’ – London marchers clash with police
At least 36 people were arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ after a march of thousands of protesters through central London came under attack by...
Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!
OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action
JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
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...
Huge victory for Filton 24!
Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...
Black Schoolgirl Was Strip-Searched By Met Police
A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...
‘We’ll do everything to avoid “No Deal” exit from EU’ says Corbyn
LABOUR leader Corbyn, appearing on the Sophy Ridge show on Sunday yesterday, was asked: ‘Can you guarantee that you’ll call a confidence motion before...
Victory To Striking Nurses!
‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...
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...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
London Transport Strikes Escalating!
LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...
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...
60 Unis Begin 8-Day Strike!
STUDENTS across the UK were on picket lines yesterday supporting their lecturers and support staff on the first day of their eight-day strike action...
‘Real value’ of pay in freefall
THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...
Parents demand judge-led inquiry
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...
Insufficient government spending pushing medical students into hardship!
THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...
Nationalise P&O says RMT
ON THE day the owners in Dubai are set to pay hundreds of millions in dividends, RMT has called for P&O Ferries to be...
1,000 NEWLY QUALIFIED GPs ARE FACING DEPORTATION!
‘Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is utterly appalled that up to 1,000 newly qualified GPs face deportation despite having completed their GP training in the...
Hospitals & Staff Under Extreme Pressures! Says NHS Boss Stevens
‘THE FACTS are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them, hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure,’ NHS...
‘Keep going to win your demands’ – says UCU President
STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...
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...
TUC must act to free Assange says father
JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
40,000 Railworkers Strike Today!
BRITAIN is in shutdown again today as 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies strike in defence of jobs, pay, conditions,...
Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport
‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
Capital City lecturers strike
STRIKING Capital City College Group (CCCG) lecturers rallied outside the CEO’s office in Victoria yesterday on the second day of their eight-day strike. The strikers...
‘Education needs more money NOW!’ – insists Courtney as 300,000 teachers strike today
HUNDREDS of thousands of members of the National Education Union (NEU) are on strike in 23,400 schools throughout England and Wales today and next...
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...
Blackburn College Sacking Staff But Boosting Bosses’ Pensions!
LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...
Corbyn calls emergency shadow cabinet meeting
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...
TUC must call strike action for Palestine on October 9th!
THE TUC Congress opened in Brighton yesterday afternoon with delegates supporting the Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby calling for strike action for...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
Junior doctors begin 72hr strike
THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...
‘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...
Corona spreading through England’s school system!
DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England. Five teachers at...
CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...
TORY MPs BOYCOTT CORBYN MEETING
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn convened a meeting yesterday with opposition MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists, Greens, Plaid Cymru and Change UK ‘independents’...
PCS Heathrow strike ballot launched! – while TUC and Unite stress that they support...
THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards
CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...
‘We are marching to defend the NHS’ say striking junior doctors
AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...
Labour in revolt against Starmer
DOWNING Street has signalled it is preparing compromises in a bid to quell a major rebellion by Labour MPs over welfare reforms, with more...