FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers
CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...
TEACHERS STRIKE ‘A NOBLE PURPOSE’ – says NEU leader Courtney
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...
Postal Workers Will Not Accept Their Livelihoods Being Destroyed!
THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...
TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers
THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
TUC leaders refuse to call for resignation of Tory government!
TRADE union leaders were united yesterday in their refusal to call for the resignation of the crisis-ridden Tory government. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:...
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...
4.3m UK CHILDREN NOW IN POVERTY! – RAISE CHILD BENEFIT DEMANDS COMMISSION
THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...
3 Years Of Guards Strikes
HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
PCS Fights Tate Sackings
A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...
Tax hike for workers while rich pay zero! – 1.25% NI hike bulldozed through...
A VOTE took place last night, fast tracking the Johnson government’s 1.25% hike on National Insurance to pay for social care announced only on...
‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
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...
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...
Johnson is risking a second spike – warns BMA – While Unite wants permanent...
‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...
Tories Escalate War On NHS!
AS THE junior doctors ended their latest four-day strike at 7.00am yesterday morning, Tory Health Minister Will Quince kicked out at them and NHS...
‘Strike together against anti-union laws!’
INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...
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...
Six Palestinian Activists Win Legal Action – Finally Leave Jail After 547 Days Of...
FAMILIES of six Palestine Action activists have said the jury’s verdict marked a ‘monumental victory’, after their relatives were cleared at Woolwich Crown Court...
Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...
THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...
Scottish Water 2-Day Strike Action
WORKERS employed by Scottish Water are staging a two-day strike amid a continued dispute over pay. Members of the unions Unite, GMB and Unison are...
‘A KICK IN THE TEETH FOR PASSENGERS!’ – TSSA condemns above inflation fare...
TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...
Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’
THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss
BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...
Notts College Industrial Action Ballot
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...
Students unite with staff in pension battle
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...
EU Extension Decision Due Today!
PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...
‘Decade of cuts has undermined Fire Service’ – FBU
AN outbreak of coronavirus has left Surrey firefighters struggling to maintain fire cover after their brigade management failed to properly implement vital health and...
ENERGY COMPANIES ‘LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK’ says Unite
TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...
BRITISH STEEL SEEKING £100m LOAN
BRITISH Steel is seeking a £100m loan from the government in order to meet an EU emission rules attack. Previously, the company could have used...
Junior Doctors Want Their Pay Restored!
‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...
700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
NAHT industrial action ballot after 90% reject pay offer!
THE NAHT school head teachers union executive has announced that it will move to a formal industrial action ballot after a 90% membership vote...
Court case against Johnson dismissed!
YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...
‘One solution Revolution!’ says 40,000 crowd outside US embassy
‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...
Junior Doctors walk out today!
JUNIOR doctors are staging a full walkout in England beginning at 7am today, Thursday 27 June and ending at 7am on Tuesday 2nd July. The...
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...
Lively picket lines outside Imperial College campuses
THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...
Barristers Are On Indefinite Strike!
HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...
Patel approves Taser upgrades for police! – ‘Tasers kill’ warns Liberty
‘TASERS can kill, and they are disproportionately used against people of colour,’ Rosalind Comyn of campaign group Liberty said yesterday. She was responding to Tory...
Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’
WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...
‘OUR LIVES ARE NOT VALUED BY THIS SYSTEM’ – Chris Kaba family
‘TODAY, we are devastated. The not guilty verdict leaves us with the deep pain of injustice, adding to the unbearable sorrow we have felt...
Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...
A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...
Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!
ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...