‘Say No’ To Academies
ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...
Emergency!
THE floods crisis in central and western England continued yesterday with tens of thousands of homes stranded without water and electricity supplies. Up to...
Doctors condemn £55 ‘bounty’
DOCTORS have condemned a ‘bounty’ scheme launched by NHS England at the beginning of this month under which GPs receive a payment of £55...
Great Response In Hackney And Kensington
STUDENTS gave their full endorsement to WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch Jonty Leff yesterday as a campaign team worked hard fighting for...
Assault on Al-Aqsa is a ‘declaration of war’ on Palestinians!
THE ASSAULT on the Al Aqsa Mosque is equal to a ‘Declaration of War on the Palestinians’, said the spokesman for the President of...
Unlimited Stop & Search Powers For Police!
TORY PM Johnson’s new police state measures allowing police unlimited stop and search powers have been condemned by Stopwatch, while Shadow Home Secretary Diane...
UNITY IN ACTION – German & British Gate Gourmet workers picket Texas Pacific
TWENTY SIX Gate Gourmet strikers and supporters from Düsseldorf, Germany, arrived in London yesterday to join Gate Gourmet locked-out workers from Heathrow. They met at...
UNIVERSITIES WALKOUT! – over 1% insulting pay offer
ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...
Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...
Second youth shot in Greece
The Greek university students’ occupation committees have called for a mass demonstration next Tuesday in Athens. Marches are to be held in other cities...
RMT SUPPORTS VESTAS OCCUPATION! – Crow calls for nationalisation
RMT leader Bob Crow yesterday called for the nationalisation of the occupied Vestas wind turbine factory at Newport, Isle of Wight. In their occupation statement...
PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH
‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...
‘SAVING EALING MATERNITY IS VITAL!’ – workers tell the News Line
AT EALING Hospital yesterday morning, midwives, nurses and other workers told News Line that they want trade union action to stop the closure of...
Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!
AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...
Vote Anna Athow To Keep Chase Farm Open
A LIVELY North East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital won big support yesterday for its determination to keep...
MORGAN MUST GO! – Demand 10,000-strong petition & NUT
TORY Education Secretary ‘Nicky Morgan has failed and must resign!’ teachers union NUT demanded yesterday. Teachers, parents and school students are furious at the chaos...
Forward to a workers government in Greece
THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...
HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release
ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...
Ucl Rent Strike
OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...
‘THEY ARE PLAYING WITH OUR LIVES’ say Gourmet pickets
GATE GOURMET pickets were angry yesterday that they have still not been told who is to be offered their jobs back, or who is...
Union solicitors urging members to sign deal
‘WE are asking all trade unions and all trade unionists to join our march and rally in Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March,’ Sharanjit...
Largest police corruption probe in 40 years
THE MET Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS), the body which is meant to ‘root out misconduct’, is itself under investigation for ‘serious corruption...
Hands Off Our Pensions! National Fire Strike Today
FIREFIGHTERS are on strike in defence of their pensions from 12noon until 4.00pm today with pickets outside fire stations and mass demonstrations in towns...
FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers
CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...
Junior Doctors Ready To Strike
TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...
BLAIR PEACH – NO POLICE TO BE CHARGED! – after 31 years of cover-up
‘We always said that Blair had been killed by a policeman. I feel that we’ve really been vindicated,’ Celia Stubbs, the partner of Blair...
Civil Servants Out Solid
Thousands of HM Revenue and Customs members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took part in a half-day strike yesterday, coinciding with...
Factory Price Inflation Spurs Jobs Crisis!
Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...
PAKISTAN CLOSE TO COUP! – as bomb blasts rock Baghdad
PAKISTAN’S Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that conspirators are plotting to bring down his government. He has also accused the military of being...
Riot Police Put Down Migrant Uprising
RIOT police put down an uprising by immigrants imprisoned at Amygdaleza detention centre, near Athens, who rose up at around 10.00pm on Saturday night. They...
UK STOP STARVING THE PALESTINIANS – Recognise the Hamas government!
Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories. Thousands...
CWU to boycott privateers! – demands decent pay & conditions across sector
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday launched a campaign to highlight the threat to the UK’s universal postal service and jobs. Calling for the postal...
‘Slippery Slope To NHS Privatisation’
‘THIS SORT of service is the slippery slope towards the privatisation of the NHS,’ Dr Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee warned...
Rbs And Criminal Activity!
ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Ross McEwan has been accused by MPs on the Treasury Select Committee of withholding information about an...
CWU demands ‘criminal investigations’ – into the postmaster jailings
‘HEADS must roll for the humiliation and misery inflicted on decent, upstanding people,’ the CWU (Communication Workers Union) insisted yesterday. It is demanding criminal investigations...
NHS unions demand pay rise!
THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...
Mass Delhi rally called against power privatisation!
WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...
Israeli bombers target schools
THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...
Blair Refuses To Name Day!
Prime Minister Blair yesterday refused once again to name the day when he will begin the transfer of office to his successor, who is...
1.92 Million Unemployed
UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...
Williamson & Jenrick Sacked
GAVIN Williamson was the first to go in Tory PM Johnson’s reshuffle yesterday as he was sacked from his post as education secretary. Then...
Heads Denounce Ofsted ‘Bully Boys’
Head teachers yesterday denounced Ofsted’s ‘bully boy tactics’ and sent a strong message to the chief inspector (HMCI) of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, in...
3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB
‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...
B of E fears housing bubble
HOUSE-BUILDING giant Baratt Homes’ share price crashed by ten per cent yesterday in an immediate response to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s announcement...
Overthrow Government keep hospitals open! say Greek medical workers
HUNDREDS of hospital workers staged a rally outside the Greek Health Ministry in Athens last Thursday morning against the planned closure by the coalition...




















