Tories Refuse Additional Help To Gp Practices! – BMA
GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...
3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!
A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...
Resident doctors begin five day strike against falling pay
RESIDENT doctors formed a large picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital on Friday morning as they began a five-day strike over falling pay and the...
Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military
LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
Young Socialists lobby calls for general strike to bring down Starmer and bring in...
‘WE HAVE to call action here this week at the TUC Congress to support Palestine and stop the genocide,’ Susan Cook, a delegate from...
‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution
‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...
Labour Budget Hits Out At The Low Paid
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...
‘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...
‘INFLATION CAUSING HUGE DISTRESS!’ – no government can solve every problem – says Sunak
‘HIGH inflation is causing acute distress to the people of this country,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday. Making a statement to MPs in the...
NURSES DRIVEN OUT – Low pay & axing bursary has caused 37,821 vacancies
THERE are now 37,821 nurse vacancies in the NHS, NHS England confirmed yesterday, releasing the latest data. This is a rise of 1,738 from the...
Corbyn demands permanent Customs Union
‘ONE area that the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and I do not agree,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in the House of...
TORIES BREAKING APART! – Gove suspected of an anti-Johnson plot
SENIOR Tories sought to deny that the Tory government is breaking apart yesterday, with former Brexit Secretary David Davis congratulating PM Boris Johnson for...
Ealing strikers in high spirits
THERE were high spirits on the parking services workers’ picket line outside Ealing Town Hall in west London yesterday morning, with dhol drummers keeping...
Major police surveillance op – on tens of thousands of Xmas shoppers
POLICE are using cameras to scan the faces of tens of thousands of London Christmas shoppers, testing facial recognition technology, in a move that...
Teachers ready for further strike action from July 3rd
THE NEU (National Education Union) has written to the Secretary of State for Education ahead of its National Executive meeting on the 17 June. ‘We...
TORIES SPLIT – Johnson faces revolt over new restrictions
‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...
Barristers Strike Growing In Strength
HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...
Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!
ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...
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...
Mass picket at British Library
‘What do we want? Fair Pay!’ ‘When do we want it? Now!’ chanted a mass picket of over 150 PCS strikers outside the British...
Chinese Rover sends back Mars ‘selfie’!
LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...
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...
BA Boss Cruz Sacked
ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...
Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults
THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
Junior doctors condemn PM Sunak for ‘trying to intimidate & bully them’
AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...
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...
115,000 postal workers out today!
115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...
Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners
THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...
Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...
SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
Landlords Can Grab The £400 Energy Bill Rebate
LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...
‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’
THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...
Tata steel workers vote to take strike action!
TATA Steelworkers have overwhelmingly voted to strike with three quarters of them backing industrial action, the GMB union announced on Monday. The ballot ended with...
‘Something rotten at the heart of Labour’ – Labour disaffiliation: Bakers to consult members
THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...
‘THERE COULD BE A MILLION PEOPLE ON STRIKE VERY SOON!’ – but Unite’s Graham...
‘THERE could be up to a million people on strike very, very soon,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said yesterday morning. On the eve of...
Striking Consultants & Junior Doctors Picket
STRIKING consultants and junior doctors held mass pickets outside hospitals around the country yesterday in a show of strength in defence of the NHS...
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...
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...
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...
Capita Closing Third Of Offices
OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...
RATP busworkers reject ‘fire and rehire’ deal
THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...
Labour in crisis after shock Runcorn defeat
REFORM UK’s shock win in Runcorn & Helsby has plunged Labour into crisis. Nigel Farage’s candidate Sarah Pochin snatched the seat by a mere six...
FBU demands emergency funding – London Fire Brigade is facing £20m cuts
PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...
‘Labour won’t be able to spend its way out of the mess!’ – Starmer...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...
FBU condemns Tory hulk deathtrap for asylum seekers!
‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....
Labour split over Scottish Referendum!
SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...