Monthly Archives: November 2022
IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that a Home Secretary should make such an attack on asylum seekers, calling them ‘invaders’ whose only crime is that they were seeking a better life,...
THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by 0.2% during the three months, as soaring prices hit businesses and households. The Bank of England has forecast a ‘very challenging’ two-year slump, as prices rocket...
THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity services, according to the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). Many of the deaths cited in the report are linked to mental health issues and although improving,...
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its 142 year history. The College, which represents most midwives and also maternity support workers (MSWs) in the UK, is calling on its members to vote ‘yes’...
HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general strike. This government is not elected its definitely time for change. ‘My sister’s a nurse and she will be on the picket line in Sheffield where...
STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For months, workers in all professional sectors have been mobilising to obtain general wage increases.
‘For months, in the face of galloping inflation, workers in all professional...
MEMBERS of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be angry that the historic vote by the overwhelming majority of nurses throughout the UK for strike action over pay and patient safety will not apply across the board in every hospital and NHS trust. In fact, the vote was split...
NURSING staff have voted to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK. Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the UK have voted to take strike action over pay levels and patient safety concerns, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) can confirm. Action will take place...
As the phase 2 of the public inquiry in the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the life of 72 residents draws to a close this week, lawyers for the bereaved have accused a ‘rogues gallery’ of firms of responsibility. After more than 300 days of evidence, final addresses were made...
NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on the public to demonstrate support for the nursing staff. Workers must respond to this call. The statement continued that nursing staff at the majority of NHS...
‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced joint strike action at the Fawley Oil Refinery near Southampton. The strike, which will begin on Monday 21st November, involves hundreds of Unite and GMB members...
PRESIDENT Daniel Ortega, as he went to vote in the municipal elections on Sunday, emphasised that people were voting for Nicaragua and by doing so they were also voting for peace. In statements to the media, together with Vice President Rosario Murillo, Ortega said that ‘Nicaraguans know that this vote...
THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing statements from lawyers representing survivors and the bereaved. The lawyers presented to the inquiry a ‘minimalist rogues gallery’ of organisations, key organisations and companies that were...
‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England and Wales yesterday. CSP members in Scotland already voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action last week. Nurses, junior doctors, midwives, paramedics, emergency call workers and other...
THE US administration of Joe Biden is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reports. The paper quoted unnamed sources ‘familiar with the discussions’...
YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on their departments. Hunt has the job of pushing through cuts of at least £35 billion in public spending out of a total of £60...
A HOME OFFICE whistleblower has revealed that the Tory government is recruiting supermarket customer services reps and employing them as asylum claim processors with effectively just two days training. Meanwhile, the PCS announced yesterday that it is taking legal action against Suella Braverman on behalf of its Home Office members,...
Over 10,000 workers and youth joined the ‘Britain is Broken’ march through London on Saturday, called by the People’s Assembly, with big delegations from the trades unions, most notably the RMT. The Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists, with their banner, called on the trades unions to organise a...
THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring down the Tory government. It is in fact, the Tory government and the capitalist system that is high on inflation, is heading for a crash and...
THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a warning, that UK capitalism is facing its longest recession since records began, and that the UK faces a ‘very challenging’ two-year slump with unemployment set...
THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea last week. Russia says the UK provided support to Kiev to carry out the attack.
‘Such confrontational actions of the English carry a threat...
THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since 1814. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he wanted to ‘resolve all outstanding issues’ over the archipelago. The effective operation of the joint UK-US military base on Diego...
SYRIA’S top legislative body says the 1917 Balfour Declaration, through which Britain executed its plan of establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine, is primarily responsible for war crimes and unrelenting aggression by the Israeli regime against Palestinians. ‘What is currently taking place in Palestine is the upshot of the entitlement then-UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour...
An official report published on Wednesday presented in devastating detail the ‘prevalent’ culture of thousands of police officers in England and Wales who are ‘predatory’ towards women but are allowed to join and to stay in the ranks. The report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue...
POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a vote of no confidence in Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) – the union for Royal Mail workers – has announced that...
LIBERTY campaigners, alongside Greenpeace UK staff and volunteers and representatives from other civil rights groups demonstrated outside Parliament on Tuesday as the Tories’ Public Order Bill, aimed at curbing protests, went through its second reading in the House of Lords. The bill’s measures have survived three changes of Tory leadership,...
THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds of millions of pounds of military aid to fight and weaken the arch enemy of the UK ruling class, Russia. The second front in the government’s...
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit over the same three months last year. The cumulative takings for the seven biggest private sector oil drillers during the first nine months of 2022 could...
THE COLLECTIVE West is using the dirtiest of tricks against Moscow and Beijing in a bid to maintain its hegemony, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. His remarks came in a video address to participants in an international conference dubbed ‘The Role of Public Diplomacy in the Establishment,...
TODAY’S lobby of Parliament called by the TUC represents a complete avoidance of the real fight to the finish between the working class and its unions against a Tory government and bosses determined to dump the economic crisis squarely on the backs of workers and their families. The slogan of...
53rd Anniversary of the News Line Saturday 19th November, 2pm, Wheatsheaf Community Hall, Wheatsheaf Lane SW8 2UP Wage increases & benefits must rise with inflation!
Force TUC to call a general strike!
Bring down capitaluism, forward to socialism!
Victory to world Socialist revolution!
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers at the Manston Centre in Kent and the illegal use of a personal email account. Braverman made a statement to the House of Commons at 5pm,...
Workers at a combined Starbucks and Amazon store in Times Square filed a petition for union recognition last Friday, saying they’re being required to do two jobs for the pay of one. This is the first petition filed at a Starbucks-Amazon combination store – the two companies opened their first...
THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same British military specialists had helped Ukraine plan the drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet. In a statement on Saturday, the Russian defence ministry said: ‘Today...