Monthly Archives: September 2022
Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’, the University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday. UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: ‘College staff deliver excellent education but over the last twelve years their...
BY ARVIN QAEMIAN Reprinted from Press TV QUEEN Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, was like an immortal icon, like Big Ben. Yet, as Shakespeare put it, the ‘ominous and fearful owl of death’ ultimately perched on Her Majesty’s knees at Balmoral Castle. Queen Elizabeth was the heiress of the British Empire’s...
WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II, over 3,000 workers and young people marched on Saturday from Parliament Square to the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Force (MPF) at New Scotland Yard...
KOLJA’S Long Walk for Assange is heading for London and will join the weekly Saturday Vigil at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday from 12pm-2pm to demand that journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is released and not extradited to the USA. Speaking after having left Canterbury, in Kent, yesterday afternoon, Kolja...
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament Square, with chants of: ‘If we don’t get any justice there won’t be any peace!’ At the rally ahead of the march, the local Labour MP...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD Grant) with the job seekers grant and household grant. SAFTU said: ‘Though these proposed grants target some members of the group that is currently...
THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave of royalist propaganda to cancel its Congress, where vital life and death issues facing the working class were due to be raised, including the organisation...
THE RMT announced yesterday that the ‘RMT joins the whole nation in paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth' and that ‘the planned railway strike action on 15th and 17th September is suspended.’ ASLEF announced that ‘We express our deepest condolences to her family, friends and the country.’ It added that in...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders at the upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) in Uzbekistan. ‘Intense preparations are now underway for the talks between our president and PRC President Xi Jinping that are planned to take place during...
‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100 workers and youth gathered spontaneously at Windrush Square to protest against yet another shooting to death of an unarmed black youth, then marching to Brixton...
‘WE’RE heading for a general strike,’ striking Royal Mail postal workers, members of the CWU told News Line yesterday. At the Fulham Delivery Office CWU rep Brian Miller said: ‘This strike is a tipping point, we’re heading for a general strike. ‘We need a government that is for the working people. ‘Privatisation...
TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more than the widely trailed pledge to cap energy bills for the average household at around £2,500-a-year for the next two years. While Truss was claiming that...
On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are two days of strike action for a pay rise and on the two strike days, 30th September and 1st October, we are taking action in...
PM TRUSS, with her new team in place after clearing out the discredited Johnson gang, is now seeking to save British capitalism from its complete and deserved destruction. They are to put billions at the disposal of the oil and gas bosses, and the banks, and impose an oil...
HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester on Tuesday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100 were outside the Supreme Court, Parliament Square, in London. Kristy Brimelow QC told News Line: ‘For the first three years of practice, junior criminal barristers...
HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100 were outside the Supreme Court, in Parliament Square, London. Kristy Brimelow QC told News Line: ‘In the first three years of practice, junior criminal barristers who...
AT least four Israeli soldiers have been injured after an improvised explosive device was hurled at a military post in the central part of the West Bank. The explosives were thrown at a post near the settlement of Halamish and the adjacent Palestinian town of Nabi Saleh, located 20 kilometres...
AN article in Monday’s Daily Telegraph by Sherelle Jacobs bluntly states: ‘Liz Truss has just two months to save broken Britain from terminal decline.’ Jacobs asserts that Truss will have to ‘face down the leftist elite if we are to avoid becoming an emerging economy.’ In fact, it’s not some mythical...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘After many weeks of high rhetoric and headline-grabbing claims, the new Prime Minister must demonstrate to the millions of people in the UK’s health and...
AN African American journalist and political analyst has said that ever since the inception of the police in the United States African people have been ‘subjected to brutality and death in the interests of the ruling class.’ Abayomi Azikiwe, an editor at the Pan-African News Wire, made the remarks in...
STOCK markets in the US ended the week sharply down following tough comments by Jerome Powell, head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve. He said the bank must continue ‘forcefully’ to raise interest rates to stop inflation from becoming a permanent aspect of the US economy. During his...
A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various acts of aggression in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year. The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights...
WITHOUT enough staff, the NHS is increasingly close to collapse,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Ambulances piling up, waiting lists through the roof and nursing staff on their knees is the nightmare reality in our NHS. Patients...
TEACHERS are increasingly seeing the devastating effects of the cost of living crisis on pupils, a survey by the NASUWT teachers’ union has revealed. Teachers are providing money, food and clothing to help children and families dealing with the deepening cost of living crisis. The survey also found that many teachers...
PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war against Russia. It is already well known that would-be PM Truss favours an immediate attack on the trade unions and one of the greatest gains of...
BERNIE SANDERS, US Senator for Vermont, addressed a packed ‘Save London’s Transport’ rally organised by the RMT railway workers union, at London’s TUC building on Wednesday night. Opening the meeting, Chair Alex Gordon RMT President said: ‘This is a critical moment. The transport system in London, one of the largest...
DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a review into her leaving her post. She quit in February when the mayor of London said he had lost confidence in her leadership. Home Secretary, Priti Patel...
ROYAL COLLEGE of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen has responded to NHS data showing nurse vacancies have jumped to a record level by urging ‘vote for strike action this year’. She said: ‘Two weeks before we open our strike ballot, these stark figures reveal what is happening in England's NHS...
IRAN’S foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says his visit to Russia will focus on efforts to facilitate a resolution of the Ukraine conflict. ‘The main purpose of the trip to Moscow is to try to resolve the Ukraine crisis based on a request made to the Islamic Republic of Iran,’ Amir-Abdollahian...
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and praise from the leaders of the imperialist nations who hailed him as a hero in the fight to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union. This popularity...
THE GPs’ magazine Pulse has published the results of a major survey of GP surgeries, showing the extent to which primary care has been run down under successive Tory governments. ‘A major Pulse investigation has revealed that 474 GP surgeries across England have closed in the past nine years without...
WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on the streets for a crust for themselves and their families. Organisations representing 169 food banks have told the Guardian newspaper that the poverty of the Victorian...
