NO TO KING GEORGE HOSPITAL CLOSURE – demand marchers
 Over two hundred workers and youth marched and rallied against the planned closure of King George Hospital, Ilford on Saturday.  News Line spoke to participants...
BA pensioners fury at Ascot meeting
 TWO THOUSAND furious Airways Pension Scheme (APS) members attended meetings at Ascot Racecourse on Monday, where they tore into the BA-appointed trustees who have...
‘Oval Quarter’ residents are very angry with profiteer developers!
 Residents living on the Myatts Field North PFI (Private Finance Initiative)  ‘regeneration’ scheme, situated between Brixton and the Oval in south west London...
‘WE WANT THE PERPETRATERS PUT AWAY’ – Janet Alder tells ‘No...
 ‘Tony Blair we want justice!’ shouted over seven hundred bereaved families and supporters outside Downing Street last Saturday.  They had marched from Trafalgar Square on...
‘YOU WON’T BREAK MERSEYSIDE FBU’ – say strikers and supporters
 Over 7,000 striking Merseyside firefighters and their supporters marched through Liverpool last Saturday in a show of strength to demonstrate their determination to defeat...
SOUTH EAST LONDON HOSPITALS ‘SERVICE RECONFIGURATION’ – a closure and privatisation...
 A ‘service reconfiguration’ for  Outer South East London Service is being proposed.  Outer South East London comprises the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley....
Greece quarantines Ritsona camp refugees
 GREECE has quarantined a refugee camp in the country’s mainland – home to 2,300 people – for at least two weeks after 20 of...
‘Hands Off Syria’ – Trade Unions Must Take Action!
 OVER 7,000 workers, youth and middle class protesters shouted Hands off Syria! as they marched in central London to a Stop the War rally...
Delphi workers rally against cuts in jobs, pay and healthcare!
 UAW members in Flint, Michigan, announced last Tuesday they will be marching through the town against Delphi autoparts maker’s attack on their pay, healthcare...
SADDAM WAS ASSAULTED AT THE COURT HEARING – insists his defence...
 ABD-AL HAQ-AL ANI, counsellor for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s defence panel, has revealed that an assault took place on the Iraqi leader at...
Hundreds Of Thousands Of NHS Workers Take Strike Action!
 HUNDREDS of thousands of NHS workers in England and the north of Ireland went on a four-hour strike on Monday morning.  Nurses, cleaners, porters, midwives,...
‘Psychologists And Psychiatrists Should Not Participate In Torture’
 Psychologists and psychiatrists should not be expected to participate in torture as they do not have the expertise to assess individual pain or the...
END CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION – says GMB lobby
 Calling for victory over ruthless employers, Construction and Engineering workers from many parts of Britain, rallied 100 strong outside the Houses of Parliament on...
‘We Will Keep Chase Farm Open’
 A SUCCESSFUL picket to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital took place outside the hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, attended by over 50...
‘The Ltte Is Ready To Implement Every Clause Of The Cease-Fire...
 TAMILNET has reported that the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General Lars Johan Solvberg, met Liberation Tigers (LTTE)2 political chief B...
HEWITT MUST GO! say junior doctors
 THE British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in London on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of health secretary Patricia Hewitt and health...
CARILLION MUST COMPENSATE 224 BLACKLISTED WORKERS says GMB
 THE GMB has called a meeting in Stafford on November 13th to mobilise opposition to the outsourcing of Staffordshire Education Support Services (ESS) and...
‘Cliques Brought In By The Occupiers Are Assassinating Iraq’s Scientists’
 ‘stray cliques brought in by the occupation’ are assassinating Iraq’s scientists and intellectuals, Dr KhUdayir al-Murshidi, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Baghdad...
Irish government ‘must prioritise services to children and families’
 IMPACT trade union’s civil service conference has passed an emergency motion on the  report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse –...
All-Ireland Electricians Strike
 Striking electricians vowed to keep up their all-out stoppage on its third day, Wednesday, as union leaders re-entered talks with employers regarding a pay...
‘DO WHATEVER IT TAKES’ – to save the Whittington, say demonstrators
 MOTORISTS and shopkeepers showed their enthusiastic support and passers by joined in, as the march to save Whittington Hospital went through Holloway in north...
‘COMPANY DIRECTORS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE’ – Corporate Manslaughter Bill ‘a...
 DRAFT CORPORATE-killing legislation to be debated in parliament today would have made no practical difference to the four major railway disasters since 1997 had...
WE WILL FIGHT WAGE CUTS IN 2008 say NHS unions –...
 THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over one million health workers have...
AL-GHAJAR OCCUPATION A ‘TIME-BOMB’ – warns Lebanese Foreign Minister
 Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Na’im Qasim said last Thursday: ‘We proposed the national unity government as a positive concept.’  Speaking on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television, Qasim continued:...
French And British Workers Unite To Fight Ryton Closure
 Over 400 French and British workers lobbying the Peugeot shareholders’ Annual General Meeting in Paris on Wednesday declared they are determined to fight the...
Houston Janitors Condemn Mounted Police Attack
 Following on the heels of two days of record-breaking acts of non-violent civil disobedience in Houston, last Friday janitors and their supporters spoke out...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ says CWU Eastern Region Secretary
 ‘THIS conflict could be resolved very easily. Lift the sackings and we can all go back to work,’ declared Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general...
Cwu Ready To Accept End Of Final Salary Pensions
 ‘We are unlikely to vote “Yes” unless Royal Mail changes its proposals’ to end final salary pensions, Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary...
Dale Farm residents resist eviction & demolition plan
 A Thousand travellers and gypsies face the biggest mass forced eviction in recent history.  They are all being threatened with eviction from a town that...
Thousands March To Honour Saddam Hussein
 AMONG the towns and cities where Iraqis have been marching in funeral processions to honour President Saddam Hussein is Al Dujail.  This is where the...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 2: Capitalist state...
 NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts.  In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...
TULKAREM ASSASSINATIONS – undercover Israeli troops kill Islamic Jihad leader
 An undercover unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) backed by 15 military vehicles stormed into and imposed curfew on the northern West Bank...
California Workers Fight Kaiser Job Cuts
 California health workers have given the giant Kaiser health corporation notice of strike action over 1,300 job cuts.  Trade unionists from Service Employees International Union...
Marx And The Permanent Revolution
 BY MIKE DRIVER  PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’  AS French and European workers...
EDUCATION NOT FOR SALE! – 100,000 students march against tuition fees
 OVER 100,000 students from all parts of Britain joined a massive demonstration against tuition fees in Westminster on Wednesday.  The march called by the National...
BBC Panorama exposes HC-One – UK’s largest care-home operator!
 MONDAY night’s BBC Panorama documentary exposed the operations of HC-One, which, with 265 facilities and a bed capacity of 16,116, is the UK’s largest...
EUROPEAN WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE – a tool for increased exploitation and...
 ‘THIS major change to junior doctors’ hours is probably the biggest challenge hospitals will face in 2009.’  This is the view of Dr Jonathan Fielden,...
ROYAL MAIL IS NOT FOR SALE! – say 1,000 marchers
 ‘If Royal Mail managers don’t back off we are going to have to ask our members again to take strike action,’ Communication Workers Union...
‘WE CAN’T DEFEND JOBS PIECEMEAL’ – say postal workers facing mass...
 More than 800 postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester on Monday.  They were joined by disabled Remploy...
CHASE FARM FACES PRIVATISATION AND CLOSURE – Chase Farm and Barnet...
 ENFIELD residents’ anger over further cuts at Chase Farm Hospital being kept secret are rightly justified, as Trust board letters reveal management plans to...
Egypt’s New Trade Union Law Within Days
 THE Egyptian Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days.  The new legislation would eliminate many of...
STUDENTS PRICED OUT OF ‘POSH’ UNIVERSITIES – says Push survey
 Responding to the latest Push survey of students’ cost of living, Wes Streeting, NUS Vice President (Education), said on Thursday: ‘This survey shows how...
Prisons Inspector Condemns Global Solutions ‘Failures’ At Oakington Removal Centre
 Privateer Global Solutions Ltd (GSL) has been criticised again for its management of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).  Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers published today...
NATO war criminals used depleted uranium weaponry in Libya!
 JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya  including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...
US WAR CRIMES REVEALED – as ACLU wins release of thousands...
 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has just released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces...

































