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Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins

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MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...

Imperial College No Confidence Vote Against Gast & Sanderson!

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STAFF at Imperial College London have voted ‘no confidence’ in the university’s President Alice Gast and Muir Sanderson Chief Financial Officer demanding that they...

Labour Government votes for disability cuts!

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THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...

Tory Party Chairman Resigns – As Johnson Skulks In Rwanda!

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THE Tory party has been hit for six by its two by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and in Wakefield. Tiverton and Honiton Lib Dem; Richard...

Israel opens fire on Palestinians – dozens killed and wounded!

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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on civilians gathered near its GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) site in Rafah, southern Gaza again yesterday, killing at...

Zionist snipers shoot three at Nasser Hospital

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THREE Palestinians sheltering inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s biggest health centre, were shot dead by Zionist snipers yesterday, with another...

NORTHERN GAZA CRISIS! – children suffering from the life-threatening drought & malnutrition

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In the northern Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis of alarming proportions is unfolding as infants grapple with the life-threatening consequences of drought and malnutrition. The...

14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...

‘This war is America’s war against people of Palestine!’

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THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to...

‘Ignore us at your peril!’ – nurses warn Tories

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SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...

‘Tory Sleaze Bigger Than Ever!’

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‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...

4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!

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THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...

Palestine coalition condemns false claims of riot & disorder

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TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...

‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis

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‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...

100,000 on London march for Palestine

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OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...

Super-exploitation in Covid-infected meat factories!

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THE LINK between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts...

No Windfall Tax On Gas & Oil Companies

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PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...

Israel – 5 massacres in 24 hours

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...

RATP busworkers reject ‘fire and rehire’ deal

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THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...

Gaza ceasefire deal ‘at closest point yet’

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‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...

Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!

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DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...

Teachers ready for further strike action from July 3rd

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THE NEU (National Education Union) has written to the Secretary of State for Education ahead of its National Executive meeting on the 17 June. ‘We...

Israeli tank deliberately runs over an injured Palestinian mother!

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A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...

Three-day general strike action brings Belgium to a standstill

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A GENERAL strike in Belgium, on its third day on Wednesday paralysed major transportation and public services, including the construction sector, said the Building...

‘If the NHS is to survive we must get a new government’ – striking...

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THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...

Working class kids denied education!

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THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...

Bring us back ‘in-house’ – demand Barts SERCO strikers

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BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...

RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...

FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court

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‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

GAZA CITY MASSACRE! – 29 killed and 80 missing

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‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...

Rafah Warning – Israeli Attack Will Murder Thousands!

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THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred...

41 Heathrow Airport Limited strikes

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UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...

Survivors of the Pylos shipwreck where 600 men, women & children drowned march in...

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REFUGEE survivors of the Pylos shipwreck off the western shores of Greece, where approximately 600 children, women and men were drowned on 15 June...

Hamas condemns Israel’s brutal and treacherous aggression!

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HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...

Bankers’ Man Hunt Imposes Tens Of Billions In Tax Rises & Savage Cuts

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CHANCELLOR HUNT yesterday announced tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts in his Autumn Statement. Hunt acknowledged that the UK was in recession...

TUC will not be considering a general strike says Nowak!

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NEW TUC leader Paul Nowak has insisted that tomorrow’s meeting of the TUC General Council in central London will not be considering calls for...

Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...

Labour’s Starmer offers Johnson support for the ‘national effort’

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‘LATER this week we will announce which areas will fall into which tiers,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, speaking from Number 10, where...

Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’

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‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...

PCS Heathrow strike ballot launched! – while TUC and Unite stress that they support...

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THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...

UK MUST DO WHAT IT IS TOLD! – or no deal say the EU...

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EU LEADERS France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel – have been told the EU is unlikely to get a trade deal with the...

FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers

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CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...

‘PALESTINIAN STATE NOW’! – demands Ambassador to UK Husam Zomlot

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‘WE need the recognition of the State of Palestine immediately, Mr Starmer, don’t wait one more day,’ Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador the UK said...