Tag: britain
Unite Leader Graham Condemns Lammy For Refusing To Support BA Striking...
THE leader of the Unite trade union has hit back at comments by David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, on Sunday, that he...
The Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down...
BORIS Johnson’s reaction to the Tory Party’s massive by-election defeats at Tiverton and Honiton and at Wakefield has been to reject the advice and...
Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson
WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...
Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something...
THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...
Tory Party Chairman Resigns – As Johnson Skulks In Rwanda!
THE Tory party has been hit for six by its two by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and in Wakefield.
Tiverton and Honiton
Lib Dem; Richard...
Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To...
DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...
‘If other workers want to come out with us they are...
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement.
John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To...
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike
OVER 40,000 workers are supporting the action and manning the picket lines again today as the RMT railwayworkers union takes this week’s second day...
Hospital protests across Sri Lanka
The All Ceylon Health Trade Union Federation (ACHTUF) held a series of protests opposite main hospitals across the country from 12 noon on Monday...
RAIL STRIKE SHUTS DOWN UK! – Labour MPs defy Starmer and...
‘The TUC should have called a general strike already. They’re too slow to act,’ was the message from the Waterloo Station picket line yesterday...
‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail...
‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...
Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...
‘The workers are with us and that’s why we are going...
‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...
‘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...
Trade unions must use their power to stop Assange’s extradition to...
HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...
An inflation-busting pay rise is needed to keep key NHS staff...
FOUR out of five NHS staff say pay is the main reason they would quit their jobs.
An exclusive poll of NHS staff yesterday revealed...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE! – bring down Tories – bring...
THE railways will be shut down for 3 days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, when workers from Network Rail and 13 train operating companies...
Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...
The world’s nine nuclear-armed countries spent $82.4 bn upgrading their atomic...
THE world’s nine nuclear-armed countries – led by the US – spent $82.4 billion upgrading their atomic arsenal in 2021, eight per cent more...
Shapps makes ‘disgraceful threats’ to rail workers jobs
TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps threatened rail workers’ jobs yesterday by saying: ‘Rail strikes will drive passengers away and threaten rather than protect rail workers’...
Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!
THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...
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...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
DESPERATE STATE OF CARE PROVISION IN UK –a catalogue of unmet...
PEOPLE with care needs are having to turn down support packages because they cannot afford them.
Backdated bills for care arrive without any explanation of...
Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters
HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...
Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....
‘The political people … have delivered incompetence and indifference towards us’...
FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...
‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN
‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...
Tuc Must Reply To Tory Threats And Call A General Strike...
THE TUC leaders will be meeting in Blackpool on Wednesday evening June 15th just three days before their huge 100,000 plus ‘March for Change’...
Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against...
PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...
TUC warns nurses of huge wage ‘hit!’ – says Johnson will...
NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...
Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Win The Rail Dispute And...
WITH a Civil War raging inside the completely split Tory Party there could be no better time for taking on the Tory regime, defeating...
‘Obscenely inflated prices paid for unusable PPE’ by the Tories
£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...
German economy crashing into recession
GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, is fast heading into recession according to economists who are growing increasingly fearful that inflation fuelled by the EU...
Boris Johnson being dumped – time for a general strike to...
BORIS JOHNSON is being dumped as prime minister, as Tory MPs held a vote of no-confidence in his leadership last night.
Yesterday morning, the chairman...
Met Police Still Taking Action Over Everard Vigil – Time To...
SIX people have been charged by the Met police for allegedly breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules while attending the Sarah Everard vigil in south London.
Many...
Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike...
THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...
Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’
AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...
Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...
Bank of America: Pound faces ‘existential crisis’ with outlook for...
THE BRITISH pound is facing an ‘existential crisis’ that is only going to get worse according to the Bank of America and the outlook...
A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only...
MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...
Zionists are on the march in Jerusalem. The UK trade unions...
NABIL Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the...
Benefit for International Youth Conference is a huge success
A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night.
It was held at...