Tag: unions
‘Renationalise!’ Urges RMT
AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...
Tory war against GPs must be answered by the entire working...
THE TORY government has launched a vicious war against GPs.
778 GP surgeries have closed in the last eight years alone, forcing patients to move...
Cease the scrapping of BTec demands the Sixth Form Colleges Association
A KEY education union campaign to stop BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won backing from both MPs and even lords...
GP fury at new Tory ‘name and shame’ regime
THE TORY government turned its fire onto GPs yesterday provoking an angry response from the trade unions.
Under new measures announced yesterday GPs will be...
South African steel & engineering strike into 2nd week
EMPLOYERS in the steel and engineering industry have upped their salary increase offer to striking workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of...
UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’
THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph.
This major...
Current Public meetings
BRIXTON
Tuesday 26 October, 7.30pm
St Paul’s with St Saviour’s Community Centre
24 Blenheim Gdns, SW2 5PZ
speakers: Sheila Torrance WRP Cen Cttee
Cheryl Sanchez Julian Assange...
British Capitalism Is Bankrupt – TUC Must Defend Wages And Jobs...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to mount a billion pound rescue operation to postpone energy-intensive British basic industries from going under, as gas...
Italian All-Out Strike!
A 24-HOUR general strike paralysed Italian towns and cities on Monday, while 127 Alitalia flights were cancelled and public transport ground to a halt.
The...
Tories agree C02 industry bailout! Unite wants to join talks with...
WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...
Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins
THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike.
At the College...
Nationalise The Energy Companies – The TUC Must Call A General...
MICHAEL Saunders, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), is warning that households, and million of workers must brace themselves...
Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’
CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...
Global gas crisis busting EU and NATO apart! Forward to United...
A MAJOR global gas crisis has brought the crisis of the EU and the NATO military alliance to a head.
The wholesale cost of gas...
‘Call general strike’ UCU CONEL chair Anglin tells mass rally of...
‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...
TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general...
PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...
South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
Johnson speech a bombastic cover-up of Tory class war preparations
PM BORIS Johnson delivered a speech to the Tory faithful yesterday that was immediately dismissed by Matthew Lesh, head of the research at the...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13.
The Texan San Antonio...
Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers...
THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers.
The powers will stop the...
Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...
The TUC Must Take Action T0 Defeat Johnson’s Savage Cuts And...
PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...
Sack Commissioner Dick and disband the Met police NOW! Forward to...
THE METROPOLITAN police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after it was proven in court that on March 3, 2021...
Furlough ends, Universal Credit slashed – Socialist Revolution the only way...
FURLOUGH ended today, with 1.6 million estimated to be still on the scheme while next Wednesday, the Tories will slash Universal Credit by £20...
Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military
LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...
Labour Conference resolves to sanction Israel’s illegal occupation
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel for perpetrating an ‘ongoing Nakba’ in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The motion, brought by...
Labour conference votes for £15-an-hour minimum wage. Bakers’ union disaffiliates from...
THE BAKERS’ union (BFAWU), which was one of the first unions to fight to set up the Labour Party in 1902, disaffiliated from the...
College strikes
‘WE ARE taking action as part of national co-ordinated action for a pay rise of at least 5%,' Julia Roberts, Lambeth University and College...
Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A...
DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march.
Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...
British capitalism hit by unending crisis – put it out of...
WITH the petrol stations closing, British capitalism suffered another shock yesterday when it was announced that the UK’s second biggest oil refinery is on...
‘Isolate Swaziland’s Monarchy’ – Cosatu
COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) has vowed to ask the African National Congress (ANC) government to isolate the Eswatini (Swaziland) monarchy...
‘EXTEND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP’ – LP Conference rejects Starmer line
A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...
‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut...
THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...
Put an end to bankrupt capitalism! Forward to the victory of...
THE CRISIS of capitalism is now acute. It has reached the point of explosion, with its very life blood – gas and electricity now...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big...
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse...
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
Only nationalisation under socialism can provide a solution to energy crisis!
IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...
Strike ballots will open at UK universities on October 18th
The University and College Union (UCU) has confirmed that strike ballots will open at UK universities on Monday 18 October in rows over USS...
Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of...
NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...
Oppose all cuts to ticket office hours at LNER – demand...
A coalition of organisations joined together on Monday to oppose train operator LNER’s proposed cuts to ticket office opening hours at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Darlington; Doncaster;...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care...
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
UK capitalism crashes under impact of energy crisis – put it...
TORY ministers were locked in crisis talks with energy suppliers yesterday as the threat of gas shortages in Britain are so huge that they...
A further half a million will be in fuel poverty! warns...
‘THERE is absolutely no question of the lights going out,’ Kwasi Kwarteng, Tory business secretary claimed yesterday
He was making a statement after a number...