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Sunak calls for ‘British homes for British workers’ in a backward...

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THE Guardian newspaper yesterday revealed that the Tory government is preparing to launch a consultation in the coming weeks on implementing a ‘British homes...

Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...

FBU rally condemns 13 years of austerity and launches ‘Firefighters Manifesto’

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OVER seven hundred firefighters and control staff assembled in Westminster on Wednesday to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and...

TUC calls for Israeli boycott but sets no date for action

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TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum...

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THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

Tories Transport Refugees To ‘Deathtrap Barge!’

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REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...

FBU condemns Tory hulk deathtrap for asylum seekers!

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‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....

‘There must be prosecutions, there’s got to be accountability’ says Manchester...

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WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...

‘WE WANT PROSECUTIONS! – We want to see the guilty behind...

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TODAY is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, when 72 Kensington and Chelsea Council tenants and residents were burnt to death in...

Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote...

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A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...

Capitalism bankrupt worldwide – forward to world revolution! – WRP General...

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‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying...

Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making...

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Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...

Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says...

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COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...

GRENFELL – ‘Change the law so that those who are considered...

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As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close...

Grenfell Tower Inquiry Ends This Week

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THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing...

Powerful 5th Anniversary Grenfell Silent Walk’

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THERE were more than 5,000 people on the Grenfell Tower Fire 5th Anniversary Silent Walk, organised by Grenfell United on Tuesday 14th June. The walk,...

Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters

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HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...

‘The political people … have delivered incompetence and indifference towards us’...

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FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...

FBU condemns Tories for ignoring Grenfell findings

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THE Fire Brigades Union has written to the government to demand it rethinks its decision to reject a key Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation, on...

Benefit for International Youth Conference is a huge success

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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...

‘I was threatened with arrest while searching for family members’ bereaved...

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‘I WAS threatened with arrest while searching for family members,’ said bereaved Grenfell relative Nabil Choucair, speaking at Monday’s session of the Grenfell Tower...

FBU ‘remains humbled’ by the suffering of bereaved Grenfell survivors &...

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THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has said that it ‘remains humbled’ by the suffering of the bereaved, survivors and residents (BSRs) of the Grenfell...

Government officials knew cladding would go ‘whoosh’ when exposed to fire,...

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A SENIOR civil servant ‘ignored’ a ‘red alert’ warning about the ‘widespread, historic and ongoing’ use of a highly combustible cladding product on UK...

Governments from 2002 knew Grenfell cladding was violently combustible

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GOVERNMENT officials knew of the dangers of flammable cladding 15 years before the horrific Grenfell Tower fire which on June 14, 2017 claimed the...

Disabled angry at Grenfell ‘safety advisor’ appointment – ‘legitimised a discriminatory...

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DISABLED Grenfell campaigners are shocked and outraged at the reappointment of the very same firm that wrote fire safety guidance before the Grenfell Tower...

Grenfell disaster was caused by private companies and government – the...

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FIRE BRIGADES Union lawyer Martin Seaward has told the Grenfell Inquiry that the disaster was caused by individual private companies and the government! He insisted:...

BUILDING SAFETY FUND SCANDAL – not one social housing block remediation...

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NOT ONE of the social housing blocks granted building safety funding have had their remediation work completed yet, the latest figures from the Ministry...

Grenfell fury over new ‘fire risk’ skyscraper! – 40% of cladded...

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THE GRENFELL community spoke out in furious anger yesterday that a building almost two and a half times taller then the Grenfell Tower is...

‘No cover-ups, no concealments’ – demand bereaved families fighting for justice

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BEREAVED families, were joined by speakers from academia, sports, journalism and the arts at an event last Friday for a ‘Hillsborough Law Now’ event...

Grenfell campaigners step up fight! – cladding protests at Ipswich and...

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ON TUESDAY 14th December exactly four years and six months since the Grenfell Tower inferno campaigners stepped up their demand for justice. Grenfell Community Campaigners...

Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the...

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THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...

PROSECUTIONS NOW! – demand Grenfell survivors

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GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...

‘Prosecute now’ demand Grenfell campaigners

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MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...

Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears

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THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...

QC accuses Tories of ‘unbridled passion for deregulation’ and cover up...

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THE PUBLIC inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, that claimed 72 lives in June 2017, entered its second phase yesterday to examine how the...

‘Massive building safety crisis in UK!’ – says FBU after...

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PUPILS were quickly ushered out of Rosemead Preparatory School in Dulwich, south London, yesterday morning after a classroom ceiling collapsed. The London Fire Brigade (LFB)...

Social housing projects cancelled after costs to make buildings fire safe...

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MORE than one in ten ‘affordable’ new homes planned by housing associations can no longer be built due to the costs of making buildings...

Value Engineering Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry A new play...

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Value Engineering Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry By Richard Norton-Taylor Produced and directed by Nicolas Kent The Tabernacle Powis Square, London W11 13 October-13 November 2021 Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham 16 November- 20...

FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!

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THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...

Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy

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THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...

400 angry leaseholders rally at Parliament – they demand property owners...

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OVER 400 angry leaseholders from the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign, the National Leasehold Campaign rallied in Parliament Square last Thursday demanding an end...

Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be...

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THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...

No demolition without our say so – Grenfell families

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‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...

Milan cladding blaze on scale of Grenfell!

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A BLAZE on the scale of the Grenfell Tower Fire broke out around 5:30pm local time on Sunday at the Torre dei Moro building...