JohnThe situation has reached a point where male jails in England and Wales are more than 98% full, with only around 1,500 spaces reportedly available. Draconian charges for posting independent…
JohnLondon is sending to Russia all the wrong messages and its options for minimizing are limited. Russia just pulled its ambassador to the UK, as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham…
JohnThe Labour-run city council in Edinburgh has been prioritizing homeless migrants for social housing, while putting thousands of requests from Scottish nationals on hold, the Telegraph has reported, citing the…
JohnLabour’s continued lead in the opinion polls has fired new talk of a snap election next year to give Andy Burnham a proper mandate to carry out his “Manchesterism” agenda.…
John24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties The Communist and Workers’ Parties participating in the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP), organised by the Communist Party…
JohnPictured: Three alleged members of the Rochdale grooming gang pictured outside Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, England, 14 January 14, 2025 Six Pakistani men are accused of abusing children…
JohnWhile national pay talks are only just starting, health visitors in Cym Taff (Valley of the River Taff) Health Board that serves the good people of Glamorgan are involved in…
JohnMany readers will have memories, fond or otherwise, of summer at Butlins camps where cheery, red-coated staff dragooned holiday-makers into knobbly knees competitions away from the disapproving eyes of Blackpool…
JohnPictured: Jeremy Corbyn calls for solidarity. NCP leader Andy Brooks joined over 200 diplomats, union leaders, parliamentarians, academics and long-standing friends of Cuba to reflect on Fidel Castro’s legacy and…
JohnThe victims of the criminal nuclear attack on Japan in 1945 were honoured at a moving ceremony in the heart of London for the annual London Region CND Hiroshima Day…
JohnOn 15th August 2026, activists from International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity – IUAFS, NO2NATO-NO2WAR and the Workers Party of Britain – WPB, protested outside the Ministry of Defence in London…
JohnWhile there are no major industrial disputes taking place at present, all is not quiet on the health front under the new Health Secretary, who must still be seething from…
JohnAbout 100 firefighters are tackling a massive blaze at a waste facility in south-east London. Fifteen fire engines were called to Landmann Way in Bermondsey shortly before 20:00 BST after…
JohnMoscow has accused London of deliberately escalating the Ukraine conflict by supplying weapons used to strike Russian territory. The UK is deliberately escalating the Ukraine conflict and acting as an…
JohnArmy chief Amir Hatami has offered double the reward up to $60,000 to Iranian women who kill or capture American troops. Tehran will pay out cash rewards to any Iranian…
JohnA week after Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced plans for a National Care Service and praised the migrant workers who cared for his Alzheimer disease-stricken father, the Royal College of…
JohnThe Israeli PM’s remark comes as the new Labour government weighs taking measures against the Jewish state following months of strained relations. Israeli Butcher and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has…
JohnPictured: A portrait of Agnes Wanjiru, who was allegedly murdered by British military personnel in Kenya in 2012, held by her sister. Thomas Mukoya / Pool via AP ; …
JohnPictured: A demonstration in Warsaw honoring Polish civilians killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II, on July 12, 2026. © Marek Antoni Iwanczuk / NurPhoto via Getty Images Ukraine must stop…
JohnOn 8-th August 2026 activists from the Anti Imperialist Front (AIF) and International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) protested at the Ukrainian embassy in London. Protesters expressed solidarity with thousands…
JohnMuseums are not normally at the forefront of the class struggle, but recently a number of disputes have taken place at Britain’s leading museums. Brighton Unison have secured a pay…
JohnCommander Fidel Castro Rus, supreme leader of the Cuban Revolution, was born on 13th August, 1926. He is remembered with great respect and admiration for the historical legacy he left…
JohnThe Met police arrested over 100 anti-genocide supporters outside Westminster Magistrates Court at the Defend Our Juries Graduation Day that began at midday on 30th July. Sir Jonathon Porritt, advisor…
JohnCorruption involving high-ranking officials in Ukraine continues to flourish, corroding various government agencies. Four suspects diverted donations intended to support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Senior Ukrainian diplomats siphoned…
JohnPalestinian rights campaigners have plastered tube trains in London to make sure that tennis fans travelling to Wimbledon this week know the truth about Barclays, the tournament’s sponsor. Campaign poster…
John…UCU has won a dispute at Sheffield Hallam University, where plans to force staff into a phony subsidiary company and out of their pension scheme (TPS) have been halted after…
JohnThis week staff members at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) will be on strike over job cuts and redundancies at the university where former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was once a…
JohnNCP leader Andy Brooks joined other comrades at a protest picket outside the American embassy in London last weekend. Braving the abnormally hot weather to show solidarity with People’s Korea,…
JohnThe Scottish Labour Party is holding a post-mortem into its defeat at the Holyrood elections that saw them sink to just 17 seats, level with Reform. This pattern of decline…
JohnSir Keir Starmer, who is stepping down following a revolt within his own party, is interested in becoming the next secretary-general of NATO, the Observer reported on Sunday. The newspaper…
JohnBy New Worker correspondent Venezuela was struck by two back-to-back earthquakes last week. La Guaira, a densely populated coastal strip just north of Caracas, has been declared a disaster zone.…
John‘100 per cent. will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent., and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk…
John…we’d all cast nets, they used to say, Now all we hear in the Westminster bubble are the odds on the gravy-trainers lobbying for jobs in the new Burnham government…
Johnby New Worker correspondent At 9.35 on last Monday morning a couple of fireworks were heard to go off near this correspondent’s house when Sir Keir Starmer MP KC announced…
JohnBecause it could reveal a very unconvenient truth. Look at the images above. 1st line: Father, Prince William, and Rothschild. 2nd line: Father, Prince Andrew, and his mother’s riding instructor.…
JohnAn exclusive interview with Veteran Marie Rochlina (102 years old), who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (near Prokhorovka), and the Battle of the Dnieper,…
JohnAndy Burnham has proposed a “No.10 North” in his first major speech after being elected as a Member of Parliament. “No.10 North” will be “an extended operation” of the prime…
JohnIt didn’t take long to get rid of Starmer after all. His pathetic resignation speech marked the inevitable end of his dismal two years in office spent crawling to the…
Johnby Peter Hendy Far-right anti-immigrant protesters clashed with anti-fascist and anti-racist counter-protesters organised by Stand Up to Racism in Liverpool on Saturday 13th June. The march called for “No More…
Cuba2025We give here a typical example of how the government blames a pacifist. Nikolay Yarovoy is a 55 years-old Ukrainian. He lived in the small Ukrainian town of Korostyshiv. He…
Cuba2025Racist gangs were stopped in their tracks in Brighton last weekend when thousands of anti-fascist protesters took to the streets to stop the far-right marching. The motley crew of a…
Cuba2025by New Worker correspondent. Maybe, maybe not…this week the focus is on the NHS. We start off in the red rose county of Lancashire, where biomedical staff at Blackburn and…
Cuba2025Members of seven different organisations joined activists from International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) in Central London to demand that the British government stop sending missiles, shells, tanks, planes and bullets to…
Cuba2025The recent knife attack in Belfast has shocked communities across Ireland. Our thoughts are with the victim and their family, and those responsible must face the full consequences of the…
Cuba2025Loyalist mobs are rampaging through Belfast, spreading terror amongst the black and immigrant population in the run-up to Orangemen’s Day on the “Glorious Twelfth” of July. But attempts to spread…
JohnThe reality of resistance was brought to the stage of the Theatre503 on the first floor of the Latchmere pub in south London last week in an evening that reflects…
JohnNCP leader Andy Brooks joined other Korea solidarity campaigners outside the Foreign Office in London last weekend to protest against the unjust sanctions imposed by the British government on the…
JohnNO MORE BRITISH MONEY AND MISSILES FOR CORRUPT BANDERITE ZELENSKY! BRITISH WEAPONS ARE KILLING CIVILIANS IN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA! PROTEST IN WHITEHALL, OPPOSITE DOWNING STREET, 2 PM ON SATURDAY 13…
JohnMark Bonnick, the Arsenal kitman who had worked for the club for 22 years, was sacked for posting on social media in support of Palestine. He broke no FA rules.…
JohnDear Comrades! It’s not a surprise to many of us that our party going through some of its most difficult times. The Zelensky government has commited numerous crimes against Ukrainians…
JohnOn Monday 25th May the remains of Andrei Melnyk and his wife, Sofia Fedak-Melnyk, were reburied at Ukraine’s National Military Memorial Cemetery in the Kiev region. Their remains had been…
John…or not in the case of Sir Tony Blair, whose comments on the current turmoil within the Labour Party were splashed all over the bourgeois press last week. Whatever he…
JohnPictured below: A map showing the location of Ukraine’s secret nuclear enrichment plant ‘Vector’ in the Chernobyl zone. At the end of May 2026, the Ukrainian carried out a reckless…
Johnby New Worker correspondent At the time of typing a strange orange object was seen in the sky over this correspondent’s abode. According to astrologers, this is a sign that…
John…all eyes are on the battle for Labour’s top job. Whoever gets it it’s a win-win for the Common Market. Streeting is openly calling for a return to the European…
John“BRITISH complicity in the dispossession and mass murder of Palestinians is not only a story of the past—it is still the reality today” said Ryvka Barnard, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
JohnTHE RACE for the Labour leadership has begun. Not officially. No leadership challenge has beenformally made. No election under rules has been set. Sir Keir Starmer is still at the…
Cuba2025Newcastle City Council has voted to erect a memorial honouring the victims of the genocide in Gaza. The stone tribute is expected to be installed within the Peace Garden at…
Cuba2025“BRITISH complicity in the dispossession and mass murder of Palestinians is not only a story of the past—it is still the reality today” said Ryvka Barnard, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
Cuba2025By New Worker correspondent NCP members held an online meeting with five comrades from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) on Saturday. The main Russian communists’ speaker for…
Cuba2025The knives are out. The back-stabbers are at play as the struggle begins anew in the corridors of power within the Labour Party for the key to Number Ten. Sir…
Cuba2025Why is Starmer’s government so unpopular? Voters have taken out their frustrations on the British prime minister after two years of failure and broken promises. Sir Keir Starmer led the…
Cuba2025By New Workercorrespondent Pictured: Andrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador, pays tribute to the fallen. Millions of Russians took to the streets on Saturday to celebrate Victory Day and the surrender…
Cuba2025by New Worker correspondent As part of the Russian embassy’s ongoing memorial activities, Russian diplomats laid flowers on the graves of Soviet servicemen buried in Shaftesbury, Tidworth and Aldershot on…
Cuba2025by New Worker correspondent Activists from International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) and members of the Workers Party of Britain held a vigil outside the Ukrainian Embassy in London on Saturday…
Cuba2025It looks like the long-running strike by Birmingham bin workers is, at last, drawing to a close. This is the strike that began on 11th March of last year, long…
Cuba2025The Ottery Palestine Support group held a silent vigil in Ottery St Mary on Saturday in the smallDevon town centre, where political demonstrations are very rare. Local campaigner Trevor Leahong…
Cuba2025by New Worker correspondent “I am absolutely horrified by the appalling attack on two Jewish Londoners,” said Jeremy Corbyn on hearing the news that two Jews had been stabbed in…
Cuba2025by our Scottish political affairs correspondent Supporters of the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine joined a several thousand-strong march through the streets of Glasgow on May Day under the banners of…
JohnMay Day Aggression: Trump’s Escalation Against Cuba Signals Failure, Desperation, and the Danger of Military Aggression -Isaac Saney, May 1st, 2026-* By Isaac Saney, Canadian Network On Cuba On May…
JohnBy NewWorker. May Day is workers’ day – but its origins go back to the rituals of hallowed antiquity. Long before the emergence of trade unions, May Day was a…
JohnActivists from International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS), and members of the Workers Party of Britain, held a vigil in memory at the Ukrainian Embassy in London today, 2 May…
Cuba2025London’s Irish republican community joined thousands of others taking part in the capital’s May Day march held on bank holiday Monday to mark the start of the historic General Strike…
Cuba2025Starmer may not be in the Trump league but nobody believes a word he says these days. He says he knew nothing about Peter Mandelson’s security status. He claims the…
Cuba2025by New Worker correspondent Scrapping fares on public transport is an ideal way to respond to the soaring fuel prices caused by the war in the Gulf, Fare Free London…
Johnby New Worker correspondent MPs, civic society leaders and artists handed in a letter to Scotland Yard this weekdenouncing the London police for favouring far-right extremists over Palestine. Signatories included…
JohnCND has condemned Israel’s brutal escalation in Lebanon killing hundreds of civilians. The targeting of residential areas and infrastructure are war crimes. This is a breach of the ceasefire agreement…
Johnby New Worker correspondent The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) is sometimes known as Useless Seven Days A Week. Some evidence of this unflattering description comes from…
JohnFourteen peace campaigners were arrested during a six-hour blockade of the main gates at RAF Lakenheath last week. RAF Lakenheath is used exclusively by the United States Air Force (USAF)…
Johnby New Worker correspondent The TUC says we should be grateful to Sir Keir Starmer for the latest instalment of the Employment Rights Act 2025, which came into force on…
JohnBy Benny Schaft A historic resolution was passed on 25th March 2026 (A/RES/80/250) when 123 member states voted “Yes” during a United Nations General Assembly to recognize the transatlantic slave…
JohnAndrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador in London, was interviewed by RIA Novosti, the Russian international news agency, last week. Recently, the UK authorities announced their intention to seize civilian vessels…
JohnBy New Worker correspondent Unison, the major NHS union, says members handling urgent medical calls on the NHS 111 service are leaving in droves due to heavy workloads, staff shortages…
JohnThe British Medical Association (BMA) is, once again, at logger-heads with the Government over pay. Resident Doctors (formerly Junior Doctors) in NHS England are poised to take strike action for…
JohnBy New Worker correspondent Two leading pro-Palestine campaigners were found guilty of breaching protest conditionsthis week. Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and Chris Nineham, the vice-chairman…
JohnBen Jamal of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign arrives at at Westminster Magistrates’ Court (Photo: Getty) Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham have been…
JohnLondon comrades joined other protesters outside the American embassy on Saturday calling for an end to the imperialist blockade of Cuba. The Hands Off Cuba demo was organised by the…
JohnPalestine solidarity campaigners were out protesting at Elbit Systems in Bristol last week. Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, supplying the Israeli military with armoured drones, bombs and missiles.…
JohnBy New Worker correspondent NCP leader Andy Brooks joined other anti-fascist activists protesting opposite the residence of devoted Zelensky fan Sir Keir Starmer in Whitehall calling for an end to…
JohnIn a recent exchange of missile strikes, Iran successfully hit and destroyed a US Boeing E-3 ‘Sentry’ Aiborne Early Warneing and Control (AEW&C) aircraft. The value of each aircraft exceeds…
JohnBy New Worker correspondent A postman’s lot is not a happy one as WS Gilbert might have said. The main union for postalworkers, the Communication Workers Union (CWU), has a…
JohnBy New Worker’s Arab correspondent The Middle East war enters its third week as waves of US and Israeli missiles strike Iran and the Islamic Republic hits back at the…
JohnThis week we saw a minor victory for free speech when the High Court ruled in favour of the Guardian journalist Owen Jones in the Raffi Berg libel case. Jones,…
JohnKeir Starmer, along with his friends Trump and Netanyahu, is directly envolved in the inhumane murder of innocent children in Iran. There is no doubt that the State of Israel…
JohnOn 20 march 2026 protests against political repressions took place in London. An emergency protest calling for the release of the Kononovich brothers Alexander and Mikhail was held at the…