STATES MUST REAFFIRM EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO ASYLUM – urges Amnesty International
In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...
‘Stop UK Bombs Fuelling Yemen Crisis’
STOP British bombs from fuelling the crisis in Yemen, demands Oxfam. The charity warns in a statement: ‘The war in Yemen has been brutal....
GATE GOURMET DüSSELDORF ON STRIKE – after 3 years of harassment...
THE Gate Gourmet workers on strike at Düsseldorf airport continued their picket throughout the year-end holiday season supported by their union, the NGG, their...
Greek Telecom Pensions Crisis
Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...
‘This government is all about vilifying Teachers’ NUT LEADER CHRISTINE BLOWER...
OVER two thousand teachers held a ‘March for Education’ organised by the London Region National Union of Teachers in central London on Tuesday...
‘White Paper Like Floating NHS On The Stock Exchange’
THE future of the NHS is at stake, delegates to the TUC conference in Manchester were warned in a debate on Tuesday. However, the TUC...
JUSTICE FOR GAZA! –demand Jewish Holocaust survivors
Jewish Holocaust survivors from around the world call for justice in Gaza. Forty Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and 287 descendants of survivors and...
Appeal Against Fox’s Refusal To Hold Public Inquiry Into Torture Of...
THE Court of Appeal will on Monday 18th July 2011 commence a three-day hearing to consider the lawfulness of the refusal by Liam Fox,...
Freeze settlements – Abbas appeals to Bush
PALESTINIAN president Mahmud Abbas is set to meet US president George Bush in Washington this Thursday for an urgent summit. The Palestinians said this is...
‘WE WILL NOT BE EVICTED!’ – insist St Paul’s occupiers
‘We will not be evicted!’ was the clear message from the occupiers outside St Paul’s as they defy new attempts by the Corporation of...
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF GREEK, SPANISH AND EGYPTIAN WORKERS – say...
IN the international debate on Wednesday afternoon, delegates at the Unison National Delegate conference in Manchester said the best way to show solidarity with...
End The Ppp On The London Underground
TUBE passengers and taxpayers remain exposed to an unacceptable level of financial risk and could face another ten-figure bill if the Tubelines consortium were...
KEEP TO NATIONAL PAY BARGAINING OR FACE UNREST – –UCU warns...
The University and College Union (UCU) warned on Friday that universities risked unnecessarily provoking serious industrial unrest in 2009 if they took up the...
UK ‘PRACTISING DELIBERATE POLICY OF DESTITUTION’ OF ASYLUM SEEKERS – ‘The...
‘The act of claiming asylum is not a criminal offence and should not be treated as such,’ say MPs and peers in a scathing...
‘NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PUNISH PARENTS’ – One Parent...
Now is not the time to introduce legislation that will punish those parents who fail to make their way in a tough jobs market,...
‘CWU must call an indefinite national strike to defend Royal Mail’
CWU leaders and reps are meeting today and tomorrow at Logan Hall, London for a policy forum to discuss the CWU’s response to the...
‘WE SUPPORT YOUR RIGHT TO RETURN’ – TUC leaders tell Chagos...
‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...
Teamsters demand Sotherby’s end its five-month lock-out
The Teamsters Union, which represents art handlers at Sotheby’s Auction House, has created an online petition that asks Sotheby’s to end its five-month-long lock-out. Sotheby’s...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
‘ISRAEL IS TERRORIST – FREE PALESTINE!’ says Israeli Embassy picket
Over a thousand demonstrators, gathered outside the Israeli Embassy for the second day running on Monday, determined to show solidarity with the besieged people...
7-Day Working Proposed For Hospital Consultants!
BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS are being made by clinical leaders to bring in 7-day working for hospital consultants. These proposals are laid out in a...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – PART 8: Lenin studies the...
WHEN Lenin saw, on his return to Russia in April 1917, that the ‘democracy’ in Russia proved even less capable of assuming the power...
US-UK’s man in Uzbekistan ‘slaughtering protesters like rabbits’
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary Straw condemned the repressions by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. It has already killed 500 Uzbeks and is getting...
PNA CLOSES GAZA/EGYPT BORDER – Abbas wants international agreement
THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...
Defend the NHS and the Welfare State!
YESTERDAY key Blairite cabinet ministers, Blunkett and Hewitt, launched a massive attack on the Welfare State. Hewitt promised to use the NHS budget to...
Dr No Becomes Dr Go
BY JOHN COULTER IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST WITH the former Dr No of Unionism ‘Rev Ian Paisley’ now becoming the self-confessed Dr Go, Irish political commentator...
‘DON’T DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OVERSEAS DOCTORS’ – BMA tells trust bosses
The British Medical Association (BMA) last Wednesday, raised that overseas doctors are experiencing discrimination as a result of new immigration restrictions. Since last month, NHS...
‘DEFEND COUNCIL HOUSING!’ urges SE London Council of Action march
One hundred workers and youth won big support as they marched through south east London in defence of council housing on Saturday afternoon. The march...
West Bank settlement expansion ‘undermines Gaza gains’
PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed Rabbo has called on the European Union to take a firm stand against moving the Zionist settlers evacuated...
Ira End Armed Struggle!
The IRA yesterday announced the end of its armed struggle against British imperialism. The IRA statement said: ‘The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally...
‘A SMOKESCREEN FOR MORE PRIVATISATION’ – ‘Unite warns over NHS constitution
TWO major health unions have reacted cooly to the Labour government’s new NHS Constitution, launched last Wednesday, which contains ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ for both...
‘Stand up against the South West Pay Cartel’ –and stop pay...
UNISON is calling on MPs from the South West of England to give their backing to local health workers including nurses, therapists, porters, and...
‘The US has lost 240,100 automotive jobs since 2000’
THE UAW President Ron Gettelfinger has made a submission to the Congressional Roundtable on the Crisis in the US Auto Industry. He told the Commission:...
London Met Governors Must Resign Now!
HUNDREDS of students and lecturers demonstrated outside the meeting of the Board of Governors of London Metropolitan University on Tuesday night, demanding: ‘RESIGN NOW!’ Calling the demonstration,...
1,000 March In Norwich Against Arts Cuts
On Saturday, Norwich saw an impressively large, cheerful and determined demonstration as a thousand arts workers marched against the funding cuts imposed without consultation...
Afl-Cio Condemns Bush Trade Deal With Colombia
US trade union federation AFL-CIO last Saturday condemned the Bush administration for seeking a free trade deal with Colombia, the most dangerous country in...
‘BRING DOWN THIS GOVERNMENT WITH A GENERAL STRIKE’ – YS editor...
It is young people who are leading the struggle. Young people demand a future and the only way is socialism. The Young Socialists stand...
Athens transport workers launch total ‘rolling’ strike
IN mass general meetings last Tuesday the Athens transport trade unions in the Metro system, buses, trolley-buses, and trains decided on a total ‘rolling’...
‘Re-colonisation of Africa will never be allowed’ – says ANC Youth...
NATO has blatantly overstepped its UN resolution mandate in Libya by engaging in offensive military support to the Libyan rebels beyond the UN mandate,...
CONFUSE AND CONCEAL! – the NHS and the independent sector treatment...
THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...
FBU condemns AssetCo’s ‘provocative manoeuvre’
‘AssetCo have taken 27 fire engines off station,’ London FBU official Ian Leahair told News Line. The private company AssetCo was awarded a 5-year...
‘I want to meet bush face to face’ says Cindy Sheehan
‘I want to meet with Bush face-to-face’, says Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq. She vows to camp outside the...
’REBUILDING WORKER POWER’ – Global union UNI 2nd World Congress 22-25...
Union Network International (UNI), a federation of unions from across the globe, will convene more than 1,500 delegates from six continents, 140 countries and...
Menezes Family sidelined by Metropolitan Police Authority
MEMBERS of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) were today made aware of a complaint by The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign about...
‘FORWARD TO WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION’ –News Line Anniversary Rally told
‘TODAY the greatest crisis ever of the capitalist system is driving forward revolution in every country, as the workers of the world decide that...