Manchester fire service massacre! – 6 stations, 100 staff, 9 engines
‘THE SAFETY of firefighters and our communities is the Fire Brigade Union’s greatest concern,’ Gary Keary, FBU Brigade Secretary for Greater Manchester, said yesterday,...
Stop the War condemns Starmer’s ‘grotesque’ warmongering
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer banged the war drums against Russia yesterday and claimed that he intends to make Britain ‘battle-ready’. ‘Russia is already menacing...
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...
Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing
FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...
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,...
‘The Police Have Tried To Silence US!’
OVER 3,000 people massed around the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday afternoon for a vigil in respect of Sarah Everard who was abducted and...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
£300m more arms for Ukraine – nothing for struggling households
TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...
Fresh Intifada erupts over Jerusalem
RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...
74 Universities – 14 Days Of Strike
STAFF at 74 universities across the length and breadth of the country and in the north of Ireland are to strike in February and...
Unite Leader Graham Condemns Barclay For A ‘Blatant Lie!’
STRIKING ambulance workers and their union leaders responded with fury at Tory Health Secretary Barclay’s article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, in which he...
‘HE’S SHIFTED DEFICIT ONTO THE POOREST!’ – McDonnell condemns Hammond
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond promised in his Spring Statement to MPs yesterday in Parliament to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the...
‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU
IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...
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...
NHS staff ‘exhausted & on the brink!’ – BMA
A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...
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...
‘National action to defend university jobs’ demand London Met strikers
LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers are back on their picket lines today and tomorrow, having picketed yesterday to emphasise they are stepping up the fight...
‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – says Anna Athow,...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...
Emergency debate on Parliamentary sleaze
‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...
Four pro-Palestine activists jailed by Woolwich judge
OVER a thousand people gathered outside Woolwich Crown Court, near Belmarsh, in south east London yesterday, as supporters rallied ahead of sentencing in cases...
Heathrow strike vote!
THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...
UK unemployment soars to 5%
The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...
Firefighters pensions victory
FIREFIGHTERS have won back their pensions, dealing a mighty blow to the government with far reaching implication for all public sector workers, in particular,...
Junior Doctors Taking 5 Days Of Strike Action
JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...
10,000 Tube strikers fighting 600 job cuts
10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay Dispute!
RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...
Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
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...
MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot
ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
Resident Doctors staging a full walkout from 7am today
RESIDENT doctors across England are staging a full walkout from 7am today until 6.59am tomorrow. The British Medical Association says years of pay erosion and...
‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!
‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...
‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff
THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...
More than 60,000 junior doctors taking strike action!
AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...
Striking Doctors Besiege Tories In Manchester
STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...
Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over! – ‘people won’t be taken for granted’
POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...
May Put On 3 Days Notice
THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...
Railworkers strike for pay! – no rise since 2016
ASLEF and RMT railworkers are striking again this week in defence of their jobs, their working conditions, their pensions and pay. Aslef train drivers are...
Corbyn moves against Brexit! – towards government of national unity
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill asking him to rule out a no-deal Brexit on October 31, reneging on...
250,000 workers & youth march for Palestine!
MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place...
Ventilator Rationing!
VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...
Huge Tax Cuts For The Bosses – In Sunak’s War Against Workers!
‘FAMILIES hit by the cost of living crisis, business hit by a supply chain crisis, those who rely on our schools and our hospitals,...
Tube workers out solid again
Picket lines were mounted at depots and stations across London yesterday as RMT members walked out for the second time this week in their...
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...
UK faces further tax increases within months
BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...
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...