Savage Cuts On The Way!
THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
Priti Patel ramps up police enforcement!
‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...
Free Palestine! No war on Iran! – demand 350,000 on London march
OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...
SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
RCN Announces A New Strike Ballot
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a new strike ballot which will ask members employed by the NHS in England if they’re...
No Windfall Tax On Gas & Oil Companies
PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...
CORBYN CONDEMNS LABOUR APOLOGY! – and payment of 6-figure damages
EX-LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Labour’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and award damages to party whistleblowers who took part in...
Anti-racist protesters who deface statues could get 10 years under Tory legislation!
ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...
JOHNSON FACING REBELLION – 60 Tories preparing to vote against Plan B
THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...
Forty universities infected by Covid
AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...
Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
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...
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...
‘We’re in this for the long haul’ – insist NHS consultants as they announce...
CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...
Starmer declares – ‘This is not our war!’
‘IT IS now clear that the impact of this war will affect the future of our country... I do have to level with people....
Construction workers submit 10% pay claim
TRADE UNIONS led by Unite, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in...
‘Charge sheet against Hancock grows by the hour!’ says Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...
NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...
UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...
Stella Assange denounces the US case as ‘pathetic, founded on lies’
ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...
WITHDRAW FIXED PENALTY NOTICE! – Patsy Stevenson to issue proceedings against Cressida Dick
PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...
Bank of England raises rates to make workers pay for the crisis
THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...
‘THEY WANT US ALL TO BE GIG ECONOMY WORKERS!’ – 70,000 UCU members strike
OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...
PROBATION PRIVATISATION COSTS ELECTORS £500m!
THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...
Banfield urges Tories –‘No more excuses – make credible offer!’
WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...
Birmingham bin strike escalates! – Unite condemns ‘disgraceful use of unlawful labour’
NEARLY 400 Birmingham refuse workers began indefinite strike action yesterday over the scrapping of the waste collection and recycling officer role (WRCO), which has...
‘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...
GPs at breaking point! – While big pharma fleece the NHS
THE ROYAL College of GPs (RCGP) has sounded the alarm over the crisis in general practice, calling yesterday for an urgent emergency rescue plan. Professor...
UCL Condemned For Going To The Law Courts!
‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and...
UK unemployment surges! – while IFS predicts debt to GDP of 110%
THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...
Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
‘SEIZE OUR SHIPS!’ – demand sacked P&O workers outside Parliament
OUTSIDE Parliament yesterday a two hundred-strong rally of P&O workers and their supporters shouted: ‘Seize our ships!’ and ‘P&O we say no!’ The rally was...
ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...
ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...
Massive ASLEF vote for strike action over pay!
ASLEF train drivers’ trade union members have voted overwhelmingly for more strike action, having not had a pay rise for five years. Mick Whelan, general...
Barclays Sacking 1145!
UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...
Hundreds of students join lecturers’ struggle at Goldsmiths!
HUNDREDS of students have joined their lecturers at Goldsmiths University fighting the cuts to education and the introduction of casual labour. The students and lecturers...
Inquiry into police spying on unions – union heads demand transparency
LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...
‘Call National strike now!’ – demand Birmingham binworkers
‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...
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...
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...
Labour MPs rebelling against Starmer’s brutal austerity cuts programme
LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...
Record redundancies! – JobCentre claimants rise to 2.7m
NEW OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) figures released yesterday show a record rise in redundancies of 370,000 and a fall in the number of...
Youth demand at least £10 an hour
‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...
‘Treated appallingly by Home Office’ – had passport taken and threatened with forcible removal
A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...
‘OUR FAMILY CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER!’ says Kaba family six months after police killing
‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...