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Serco Evictions!

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THREE hundred asylum seekers are threatened with eviction by private company Serco. It has already begun to change the locks, throwing them onto...

SA union wins victory against labour brokering

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THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, has ruled that an employer cannot employ a worker for more than three months without...

Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!

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HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

SA Working Class Summit to unite workplace and community struggles

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A NEW chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21st-22nd July 2018, when representatives from...

Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And...

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WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...

Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!

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MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a...

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THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...

Israeli drones fire on kite fliers

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ISRAELI drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon....

US National Grid lock-out – workers health benefits stopped!

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LOCKED-OUT United Steelworkers (USW) union members are blasting National Grid for stopping payment to their health care plans, but the company says it won’t...

Firefighters are angry about Grenfell too! – writes Matt Wrack FBU...

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WRITING in the Independent Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union posed the question: ‘Firefighters are angry about Grenfell Tower too –...

Withdraw suspension of 400 UNRWA workers in Gaza

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UNRWA Staff Union and UNRWA Head Union in Gaza warned the agency’s administration against taking unprecedented extreme measures and withdrawing from sent notices suspending...

Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!

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WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...

Defend The NHS–Get The Tories Out!

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‘WE CHANGE things in the NHS and make them better. But shortages of staff means patient care suffers. A&Es are closing, Hunt doesn’t care,...

‘We are ready to starve but will not be ready… to...

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MAHMOUD Aloul, deputy chairman of Fatah movement, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian people will not allow the humanitarian situation in Gaza to override...

‘DEREGULATION OF FIRE SAFETY CREATED GRENFELL TOWER DEATH TRAP’ says FBU...

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‘The deregulation of fire safety is essential in understanding how a death trap was created at Grenfell Tower,’ writes Matt Wrack, the General Secretary...

Greek hospital workers blockade against austerity! – as thousands of refugees...

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GREEK hospital workers on Monday morning blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square in an angry protest against...

Labour Traitors Dance To Billionaire George Soros’ Tune!

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AFTER their defeat in the House of Commons last Wednesday over the EU Withdrawal Bill, the billionaire George Soros’ ‘Best for Britain’ movement ...

Towers Threatened With Collapse

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TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...

Joint Justice4Grenfell-FBU demonstration

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‘THERESA May we don’t trust you, We trust the FBU,’ shouted over 3,000 marchers from Downing Street in London on Saturday. The joint...

Scrap Universal Credit and the Tory government with it!

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‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...

Grenfell Anniversary

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‘WE WANT the nation to keep Grenfell in their consciousness, member of the Justice4Grenfell campaign group Yvette Williams said on the anniversary of the...

SA power workers demand 15% wage increase 0% pay offer rejected...

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THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) have both officially rejected Eskom’s 0% wage offer, saying...

Grenfell Inferno–one year on!

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‘WE FEEL tomorrow is about remembering and honouring the 72 that died,’ Justice4Grenfell campaign co-ordinator Yvette Williams told News Line yesterday ahead of today’s...

Grenfell survivors abandoned by Council

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council’s response to the Grenfell Tower, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children was ‘badly flawed’ leaving...

Unite Day of Action against Universal Credit!

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THURSDAY was Unite’s National Day of Action against Universal Credit! There was a rally at 1pm in Old Palace Yard and a march to...

Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory...

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PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

Bereaved Grenfell relatives left out of UK!

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BEREAVED Grenfell relatives were unable to attend the start of public inquiry yesterday due to Home Office visa delays, with family members who have...

Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!

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THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...

Kellogg factory will be ‘delivered to workers’ says Venezuelan President Maduro

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AHEAD of this Sunday’s presidential election, the Venezuelan government has called on workers to occupy the Kellogg factory in Maracay after the firm announced...

‘We are going to hound you out!’ – FBU’s message to...

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‘OUR MESSAGE to May and the Tories is: We are going to hound you out! Justice for Grenfell!’ Lucy Masood, FBU, said, to the...

Met Gangs Matrix database is ‘racially discriminatory’ – says Amnesty

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THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...

New UCL rent strike –against rat and insect infestation

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INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...

May Day Marchers Demand ‘Kick The Tories Out!’

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THE LONDON May Day Rally of over 5,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London...

Windrush promises must have legal backing

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MORE than 200 MPs have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for government promises to Windrush migrants to be written into law....

UK arming Israel and supplying it with drones, sniper rifles and...

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DURING almost a month of Friday demonstrations in Gaza, called the ‘Great March of Return’, the Israeli army has used snipers to shoot dead...

No harassment! No discrimination! Demand students working for California University

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STUDENT workers from the University of California demanded the UC implement new anti-discrimination and harassment provisions at a union contract negotiation session last Thursday. UAW...

SA masses rise up against capitalist imposed poverty!

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SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC said on Friday it understands the anger of North West residents who took to Mahikeng’s streets last week in protest...

‘Don’t use Marikana victims for political gain’ says AMCU

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The victims of the Marikana massacre should not be used to mend relations between the ANC and the Economic freedom Fighters (EFF), Association...

Tories refusal to implement fire safety tests puts millions at risk...

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NINE months after the fire at Grenfell Tower that caused the horrific deaths of 71 people, all the Tory pledges that never again would...

Palestinian Syrians: Displaced Once Again!

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OVER a quarter of Syria’s Palestinian refugees displaced as a result of the long conflict are facing recurrent tragedies outside Syria, according to a...

Israel Pushing Settlement Expansion

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ISRAEL is pushing forward with its plans to construct over 100 new settler units in southern West Bank! This is in grave contravention of...

Building materials will not be fire tested!

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EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...

Numsa Takes To Streets Fighting Anti-Union Laws

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ANGRY members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), took to the streets of Johannesburg protesting...

PLO condemns Israeli colonisation and annexation

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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has strongly condemned the successive waves of colonisation and the frequent calls of extreme Israeli officials...

Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another...

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FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...