‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse
JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...
‘Unite against hunger!’ – Bakers union leader Woolley
‘BELFAST, Liverpool and London must unite against hunger during the Right To Food Week 2023’ says Sarah Wooley the general secretary of the Bakers...
HEALTHCARE WORKERS RISKING LIVES! – without ‘death in service’ benefits guaranteed says BMA
THE BMA (British Medical Association) said yesterday that ‘frustration grows’ over the government’s failure to guarantee that the families of healthcare workers who lose...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
85,000 deaths across UK this winter predicted
A LEAKED government report suggests a ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ of 85,000 deaths across the UK this winter due to Covid-19. The document also says...
3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid
PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...
Patel: More Police Powers – Despite Sarah Everard’s Murder!
‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...
Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel
UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...
KHAN CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – Corbyn only one of the options
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...
Johnson under pressure to sack Raab!
PM JOHNSON is facing growing pressure to sack his Foreign Secretary Raab, or if he won’t to resign himself. It has now emerged that neither...
Tories drop debate and vote
THE GOVERNMENT has dropped the debate and vote on The Financial Services Bill which seeks to secure funds that can be released if there...
TORIES WANT MASSIVE CUTS – GENERAL STRIKE NOW! – urge Euston RMT pickets
‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...
McDonnell courts nationalists – and vows to defend Corbyn
LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...
South African variant spreading across UK
THE SOUTH African variant has begun to spread across the UK, the Tories confirmed yesterday. Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the 5.00pm briefing: ‘We...
London Hospital strikers demand safe staffing and a decent wage!
THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...
‘Victory to Palestine!’ demand hundreds of thousands on huge London march
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...
FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!
THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...
Great Support For WRP Candidates
THE VOTE Hassan Zulkifal Workers Revolutionary Party Ealing Southall campaign got great support at Greenford Bus Depot and Hanwell Royal Mail Delivery Office yesterday...
Bring All Airport Workers Out Now!
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...
2nd wave more deadly than first! Labour pledges to push through Johnson’s national lock...
DEATHS from coronavirus will be twice as high this winter than in the first wave of the pandemic, Tory PM Boris Johnson told Parliament...
Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place
POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...
GMB oppose Asda merger
THE GMB union, ‘the trade union for Asda workers’, has come out in complete opposition to the proposed Asda/Sainsbury’s merger as the Competition and...
TUC demands recognise the state of Palestine and permanent ceasefire!
THE TUC unanimously passed Composite Motion C17 at its Congress in Brighton yesterday, demanding: ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine... end licences for all...
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...
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...
Tory Party Civil War Set To Continue
‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...
Patel ratchets up enforcement
‘THERE is still a small minority who refuse to do the right thing and to them my message is clear: if you don’t follow...
‘Stop Pandemic Profiteering!’
‘PANDEMIC PROFITEERING has to stop’ says RMT as FirstGroup ann-ounces a £500 million shareholder payout and boasts that new National Rail Contracts will ‘support...
FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs
HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...
‘We are striking because people are dying!’ – says RCN’s Cullen!
‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...
Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...
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...
‘STOP LOOTING OUR PENSIONS!’ – demands FBU, PCS, GMB and POA
THE POA has joined the FBU, PCS and GMB in a Legal Challenge to ‘stop the looting of their pensions!’ The POA, along with the...
Scrap Tories’ ‘Hostile Environment’ – demand Human Rights lawyers on 72nd anniversary of Windrush
YESTERDAY, campaigners marked the 72nd anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush, bringing hundreds people to live and work here from the Caribbean,...
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...
Johnson Faces Calls To Resign
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...
‘Free Palestine! We are not terrorists!’
ARRESTS were made as over 100 people protested outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster in central London yesterday in support of the...
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...
TORIES HAVE NO PLAN! – Marr asks if Labour would accept Bercow as PM
BREXIT Secretary Stephen Barclay made clear to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the Johnson Tory government has no ‘cunning plan’ to avoid...
FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court
‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
RCN SETTING UP A £35m STRIKE FUND
FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...
Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...
‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff
STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...
‘Patients treated on trolleys’ – crisis intensifies
‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...
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...

