PM Johnson refuses to resign despite damning Gray report!
TORY PRIME Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign yesterday despite calls to do so from MPs of all parties across the House of Commons,...
‘Hand on heart I did not lie to the House’ says Johnson – as...
THE HOUSE of Commons yesterday late afternoon by 569 votes to 29, a majority of 486, decided to approve the ‘Stormont Brake’ – part...
Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...
HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
Barts & St Thomas’ solidarity action!
UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...
TUC stands with Palestine – TUC statement declaring solidarity with Palestine
THE TUC stands in solidarity with all Palestinian workers and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) who on Tuesday took part in...
Military Testing In Three Towns!
THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
NHS England blockaded! No contracts with Israeli military supplier
HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...
CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST
THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...
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...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!
WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
Truss announces crackdown on the rail trade unions
TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...
‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’ – say defiant...
‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...
Tories on collision course with nursing staff
‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over...
200,000 on London March for Palestine!
A HUGE rally of over 200,000 people marched from Russell Square to Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 30th March, Palestinian Land Day, to...
‘CULTURAL VANDALISM!’ Free TV licences for over-75s axed
‘TO HOBBLE the BBC in this way is, as one MP has already described, a piece of cultural vandalism. The government must face up...
Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge
THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
Barclay threatens striking nurses with deregistration!
‘HOW low can a government stoop?’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen asked yesterday in response to Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay’s...
University pickets call for a general strike!
Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...
2.7% Fare Hike – Amidst Rail Chaos
COMMUTERS were up in arms yesterday as above inflation 2.7% increases in rail fares set in, while services across the country have been in...
‘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...
‘Outlaw fire and rehire’ – demands TUC, warning the tactic is widespread during the...
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that ‘fire and rehire’ tactics have become widespread during the pandemic, with new polling finding that nearly...
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!’...
‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite
‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
1,000 Barts workers voting to strike – no 2-tier NHS!
Over 1,000 NHS workers at Barts Health NHS Trust in the City of London began voting for strike action yesterday in a fight against...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square
OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...
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 –...
Royal London Hospital Serco strike!
WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...
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...
GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis
THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...
MASS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN – pushed by desperate Tories!
THE UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up...
MI5 carrying out serious crimes is lawful rules Judicial Tribunal
FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...
British Gas to sack its entire workforce
BRITISH Gas is to sack its entire 10,000-strong workforce today, in a vicious attack which has been met with strike action over months by...
Corbyn calls for Customs Union and Single Market
‘IT IS TIME for Parliament to take control,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s statement to Parliament on the...
Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!
DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...
GMB pledges to defeat new strike-breaking laws!
‘Butt Out!’ the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday, after it overturned a Welsh law on Monday night banning the use of agency...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
RAISE STAFF PAY OR WE STRIKE! – UCU tells six college administrators
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday told the bosses of six colleges in the North West to urgently raise staff pay if they...
STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift
‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...
Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’
THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...
Johnson Hands Power To Decide To Bosses
‘WE ARE going to give employers more discretion, and ask them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely,’ Tory PM Johnson...
Serco hospital workers are set to strike!
PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...
Unite-Rolls Royce jobs deal – includes a 10% pay delay for 1 year
THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...