Birmingham bin strikers bring their fight to London
STRIKING Birmingham binworkers are holding a London rally outside Parliament today where their Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham will deliver a speech calling...
Huge Tax Cuts For The Bosses – In Sunak’s War Against Workers!
‘FAMILIES hit by the cost of living crisis, business hit by a supply chain crisis, those who rely on our schools and our hospitals,...
No To Cheap Labour Teachers!
TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...
Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!
THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...
Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10
A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...
‘CALL THE AIRPORT OUT’ – demand Heathrow strikers
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are taking the fourth of four days strike action today against the company’s imposition of twenty-five per...
END OCCUPATION – demands the Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtay-yeh yesterday called for a serious track to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and establish the Palestinian...
Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!
LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...
Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs
THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...
‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
Chinese Rover sends back Mars ‘selfie’!
LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...
NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis
‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza TODAY! – warns UN’s Tom Fletcher
FOURTEEN thousand babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them,’ United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs...
Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!
ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
Met Police take charge of regime change op!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
Starmer warmongering ‘doomed to failure’ warns Moscow
‘IT IS high time to make it clear to London that its efforts to ignite a conflict are doomed to failure,’ the Russian Foreign...
Israeli Army Continues Massacres!
IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for...
TUC delegates speak out in favour of an anti-Tory general strike!
DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...
Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport
‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
Racists driven off the streets!
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...
NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Greek students march against riot police
SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...
Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade
Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’
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...
‘I refuse to accept that I live in a country where child poverty ...
‘I REFUSE to accept that I live in a country that accepts that child poverty is normal,’ Apsana Begum, suspended Labour MP for Tower...
Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...
Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!
DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...
Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!
‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
British Steel – placing 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs at risk!
BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...
YOU DID IT! – BMA congratulates resident doctors on 90% strike vote
‘YOU did It!’ the British Medical Association said in a message to resident doctor members yesterday. ‘A resounding majority of you voted in favour...
Israeli army commits nine massacres in 24 hours!
THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB
‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...
DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!
TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...
Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens
THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...
Global support for Palestine is splitting the Tories!
THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing...
Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’
THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...
‘Cold War mentality’ – China slams UK, US & Australia’s new imperialist alliance
THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...
Strikes will grind Heathrow to a halt
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...
PCS Fights Tate Sackings
A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...
‘UN under attack by Israel on all fronts’ says Borrell!
THE High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that the United Nations is under...
Harland & Wolff occupied!
SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...
G4S driven out of immigration!
PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...
FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions
FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...