Tag: britain
‘100,000 PCS MEMBERS TO STRIKE IN JANUARY!’ says Union leader Serwotka
‘COORDINATED’ public sector strike action will escalate significantly in January and continue right up until May, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned yesterday in...
SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...
Angry Nurses To Escalate Strikes!
NURSES’ strike action will escalate and spread across the UK in the new year, after RCN Scotland members overwhelmingly voted to reject the Scottish...
Police assault and crime rate continues to climb – time to...
A SERVING British Transport Police (BTP) officer has been dismissed without notice, after sexually assaulting a colleague at London Bridge station. Police Sergeant Tristan Davis...
Workers are giving 100% support to the ambulance service strikers –...
THE GMB has suspended its Christmas Strike date for ambulance service workers, right at the time when the Tories are reeling from their deadly...
‘The sole intention is to destroy the jobs of postal workers’...
CWU members braved the continuous pouring rain yesterday morning at the Greenwich, Blackheath and Charlton delivery office London SE10. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward told...
Netanyahu fills new Israeli government with racists and fascists for a...
On Wednesday, the recently elected president of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, finally announced that he has assembled a ruling coalition cabinet between his Likud party...
‘Huge support from public’ – say striking ambulance strikers
Thousands of ambulance workers, paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members in Britain held a one-day strike on Wednesday. Ambulance staff...
Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife...
YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...
Massive Support For Nurses Picket Lines
THE RCN picket outside St Thomas’ hospital opposite Parliament in central London on Tuesday was joined by hundreds of nurses, hospital staff, doctors, and...
Unite Leader Graham Condemns Barclay For A ‘Blatant Lie!’
STRIKING ambulance workers and their union leaders responded with fury at Tory Health Secretary Barclay’s article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, in which he...
‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses
THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
Tories declare class war to the finish – time for trade...
ON THE EVE of the unprecedented strike by nurses and ambulance workers, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak said that he will not ‘back down’...
Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is...
THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...
Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall...
PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...
Junior doctor pay has ‘fallen off a cliff since 2008’ –...
THE DIRE state of junior doctors’ finances has been revealed in a British Medical Association survey. Junior doctors are cutting back on buying food and...
TORIES CONDEMN NHS WORKERS PAY CLAIMS – ‘unreasonable’ says Cabinet Secretary...
THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...
Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall...
PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...
NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general...
THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...
Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make...
THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...
Palestinian leadership condemns international community after fatal shooting of teenage girl...
THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...
‘WE HAVE GOT A REAL FIGHT FOR THE MEMBERS’ JOBS!’ says...
‘It’s an astonishing level of support you are giving to the union, you care about the service you are giving to the public, you...
Meet Tory preparations to fight it out with working class by...
30 MILLION people in Britain will be unable to afford a decent standard of living in the coming year according to a study published...
RMT pickets call for general strike!
MICK LYNCH issued a defiant message from the RMT picket line at Euston Station in central London yesterday morning, saying: ‘I’ve just heard Huw...
Chancellor Hunt promises ‘it’s going to get worse’ for the working...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday morning admitted that the UK economy is ‘likely to get worse before it gets better’ although he went on...
ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down...
NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...
Tories Ignore RCN Offer To Talk!
TORY Foreign Secretary James Cleverley yesterday rejected talks with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), whose members are coming out on strike this Thursday...
Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working...
THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...
Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban...
AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...
UK ‘The Sick Man Of Europe!’ Say Nurses
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...
German coup attempt, a warning to UK workers as the Tories...
TWENTY-FIVE people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. The group of fascists and far right military...
Sunak Is Silent Over Procurement Scandal
AT PRIME Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday PM Sunak sought to divert questions away from the developing Tory PPE procurement...
‘A generalised attack on working people’ – RMT leader Lynch
THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets...
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
More sanctions on Russia drive up inflation while Tories blame strikes...
YESTERDAY an embargo on seaborne Russian oil exports came into force, a move that will drive up the price of oil internationally and add...
UK needs a real general strike to bring down Tories and...
THE DEEPENING crisis of British capitalism sees the UK ruling class at least 100 times more interested in provoking regime change in Russia through...
‘NATO directly participating in Ukraine’ says Lavrov
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war by supplying the country with weapons and...
Tory Plan To Use Troops To Break NHS Strikes Condemned
NHS TRADE unions, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Unison and Unite condemned Tory Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi’s announcement yesterday morning that he is...
Doctors raise the alarm over UK’s poor health care after ‘years...
DOCTORS have raised the alarm on the misery of the nation’s poor health caused by years of Tory government neglect and funding cuts! In a...
Israel continues its all-out assault on the rights of the Palestinian...
A PALESTINIAN-FRENCH human rights lawyer whom Israel has stripped of his Jerusalem residency is at imminent risk of deportation, an Israeli group says. The HaMoked...
FBU strike ballot opens on December 5th!
LAST week the FBU said it would formally issue notice of ballot if ‘a substantial pay increase that takes into account the current level of inflation...
Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!
A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...
Force trade union leaders to call a general strike – this...
YESTERDAY saw major unions taking national strike action across the country in one of the biggest walkouts of workers on the same day. Three main...
China ready to forge closer links with Russia – ...
CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...
Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a...
With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...