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Ryhurst driven out of Whittington Hospital

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WHITTINGTON NHS Trust has had to abandon plans to put the company responsible for installing the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower in charge of...

Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’

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EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...

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,...

Tory Civil War Rages!

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THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...

Celebrate 70 years of the NHS! –by bringing down the Tories

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70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...

The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!

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‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

‘Stay put’ failed as soon as flammable cladding was installed FBU’S...

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FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack has issued the following statement, commenting on the testimony given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by...

Only a Socialist Revolution can force the break with the bosses’ and...

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NOTHING summed up the crisis that is gripping the leadership of the trade unions like the TUC’s joint statement this week, with the bosses...

‘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...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

‘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...

BMA rejects NHS privatisation

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ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...

‘This story involving chemical weapons is a pretext for direct military...

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ACCORDING to the Syrian president, Syria destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons back in 2013, but the West was still using ‘fairy tales’...

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 ...

Workers must break Fortress Europe with Socialist Revolutions!

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REFUGEE Day, last Wednesday, highlighted the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War with the number forcibly displaced reaching its highest for the...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...

‘UK government deeply complicit in some of the most devastating...

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London-based charity War on Want has said the British government is ‘complicit in the violence’ perpetrated against Palestinians as it continues to provide arms...

Thousands march in Ontario for $15 minimum wage!

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JUST nine days after the Ontario election, thousands flooded the streets outside the Ministry of Labour and marched to Queen’s Park on Saturday in...

Refurbishment to blame for fire deaths – Fire expert tells Inquiry

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FIREFIGHTERS were not to blame for the stay-put strategy in the Grenfell Tower, fire expert Dr Barbara Lane told the Inquiry, it is...

Vital local council services collapsing

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VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...

Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will...

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THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...

US separates 2,000 children from their families as they cross the...

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ALMOST 2,000 children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say. Following a Trump administration crackdown on ‘illegal’...

Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of...

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THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...

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...

15,000-strong Grenfell anniversary march

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15,000 workers and youth took part in an emotional silent march through west London on Thursday evening to mark the first anniversary of the...

4,600 Rolls Royce ‘jobs devastation’ – Unite & GMB

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FOUR thousand six hundred jobs have been axed at Rolls-Royce which ‘will not only have a devastating impact on workers but also on the...

Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...

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...

The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!

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LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...

ACTU fights ‘disgrace of racial discrimination’

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‘This programme is a disgrace to all Australians and must be scrapped,’ ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) Indigenous Officer Lara Watson said on...

Remainers attempts to reverse Brexit defeated

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REMAINER MPs were defeated in their attempts to reverse Brexit yesterday after the majority voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 on a ‘meaningful...

Ryanair cabin crew win historic union recognition agreement!

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TRADE union Unite has signed a historic union recognition agreement with Ryanair, which is infamous for fighting to stop the unionisation of its workforce. This...

Restore student grants demand UCU and NUS!

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‘THE POOREST students will graduate with the largest debt. We concur that the reintroduction of grants is essential,’ Emily Chapman, NUS Vice-President (Further Education)...

‘Every square inch of Palestine must be liberated!’

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‘EVERY square inch of Palestine must be liberated,’ Palestinian born in Lebanon Sandra Wafta told News Line on Sunday as hundreds of people lined...

French rail workers rolling strikes

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FRENCH rail workers walked out on another day of strikes on Thursday June 7th. Rail unions have carried out a series of two-day rolling...

‘THE HEART OF REMAIN!’ – Boris Johnson condemns Treasury

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FOREIGN Secretary Boris Johnson has declared civil war in the Tory Party and savaged Chancellor Hammond and the Treasury as being the main...

NHS 70 years on battles for funding

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ON JUNE 30th, hundreds of thousands of people will be marching to celebrate and defend our National Health Service. The NHS is facing many problems...

Only Socialist Revolution can achieve Brexit

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TORY prime minister Theresa May is this week teetering on the brink of political annihilation as it emerged that her Brexit secretary, David Davis,...

Grenfell Tower ‘a highly combustible deathtrap’ – –Seaward representing FBU tells...

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THE LONDON Fire Brigade (LFB) and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) gave evidence on Day 11 of the Grenfell Inquiry, answering media slurs at...

Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the...

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THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...

Saftu Condemns Energy Privatisation!

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has condemned the privatisation of energy generation to ‘capitalist companies’ and expressed its support for...

Workers must take action to put an end to rail privatisation!

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TORY MP Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday, that the Rail Industry...