‘Million Moms March’
MOTHERS from across the United States poured into Washington, DC on Saturday, choosing Mother’s Day weekend to march for justice for the ‘epidemic’ of...
Sirte Drives Back Nato Mercenaries
LIBYAN government forces yesterday continued to heroically drive back the NATO- backed NTC counter-revolutionaries at Sirte, inflicting deadly blows on the mercenaries. Gadaffi loyalists have...
52 Palestinians killed!
ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...
Unite urges BA staff to accept pay cut
THE UNITE union has sent a ‘GSS UPDATE 17 SEPT’ to its below-wing ground staff members working at Heathrow to try and persuade them...
STRIKES WILL PROCEED DURING OLYMPICS – say unions
UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...
‘Down With Left Austerity’
TENS of thousands of workers, youth, students and professionals demonstrated on May Day in over 80 Greek cities and towns. In all marches, the...
‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama
American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
‘DOWN WITH TRAITORS’ – Declares defiant Saddam Hussein
‘Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Death to the occupiers! Death to Israel! Death to the traitors!’ shouted a defiant Iraqi President...
Greek farmers are staging mass motorway blockades – as well as blocking customs entry
GREEK farmers staged mass tractor motorway blockades on Thursday and Friday, while also blocking customs entry points into Greece from neighbouring Balkan countries, as...
4.5 million in insecure work
FOUR-and-a-half-million people in England and Wales are in insecure work, reveals new analysis by Citizens Advice. The national charity says insecure work – where people...
‘Victory to Palestine!’ demand hundreds of thousands on huge London march
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...
Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced
LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...
CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers
A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
Halt Israel’s genocidal Gaza displacement plan!
HAMAS has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to seize full control of Gaza, calling it an extension of his ‘genocidal and displacement...
Javid’s plan is to privatise the NHS
SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...
Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full
JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...
New junior doctors imposed contract is illegal
THE NEW contract being imposed by the Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt on junior doctors is ‘potentially illegal’, an equal rights watchdog reported yesterday. The...
‘We have to join with other unions’ say the firefighters
THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...
‘Thousands of firefighters face the sack!’ – thanks to Public Sector Pensions Bill
‘THOUSANDS of firefighters face the sack’ as a result of the Public Sector Pensions Bill, which imposes a normal pension age (NPA) of 60...
NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working
The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...
PCS Leader Purged By Labour!
THE leader of one of the country’s biggest trade unions yesterday hit back at Labour after being told his vote on the party leadership...
BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers
THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
DARZI WORKING FOR PRIVATISATION – BMA told
DOCTORS and other health professionals participated in a conference organised by the British Medical Association in London yesterday to discuss the government’s ‘Healthcare for...
Welfare State ‘Not For Sale!’
thousands of workers, trade unionists, students and youth are marching through London this afternoon, against 13 years of Labour attacks on public services and...
Stormont Crisis – Sinn Fein, Robinson Clash
By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...
‘Shrewsbury Conspiracy’ debate
BLAYDON Labour MP Dave Anderson has secured a parliamentary debate on behalf of the Shrewsbury 24 campaign this Thursday, 23 January, over the government’s...
HALT ATTACK ON BURSARIES – RCN, BMA, Unison, Unite, RCM urge government
LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...
Sacked Athens cleaners daily pickets
THOUSANDS of workers and students rally every evening to the ERT building (State TV and Radio corporation) in an Athens suburb demanding the withdrawal...
A Fifth Of Small Businesses Are Going Under
A FIFTH of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four...
SCRAP THE BILL! – and the Board says Unite
‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...
‘We reject compulsory redundancies’ – say Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, determined to win their rights, having been told on Wednesday that British...
US Defends Israeli Gaza Onslaught
The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop its daily murderous military strikes on...
EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013
THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
BLAIR ‘BREAKING’ ARMY – chief of staff urges withdrawal from Iraq
The Blair government was yesterday paralysed in the face of a mutiny by Britain’s Chief of the General Staff who demanded...
NATIONALISE BP NOW! – ‘stop tinkering at the edges’ demands Unite’s Graham
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...
Israeli genocide in Gaza tops 35,000!
THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least...
Miliband Hits Out At The Trade Unions
THE MILIBAND leadership of the Labour Party is to invite non-party members to vote for the party leader in future elections, in an attempt...
Venezuela will defeat the USA
ROCIO Maneiro, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Britain, yesterday launched a new booklet ‘Trump unblock Venezuela’, which details the economic blockade by the US against Venezuela...
Child benefit savage cuts
STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
Met Police Ban Rally At BBC For Palestine!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the...
Greek Vodafone strike ‘illegal’
AN Athens court declared ‘illegal’ the national strike called by Vodafone workers yesterday demanding a collective labour agreement. The Vodafone workers’ trade union refused to...
BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture
‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...
Food prices soar 80% in a year
WHILE Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures claimed yesterday that ‘real pay’ has fallen by just 2.3% in the last three months, a Which?...
Syria rejects rebel ‘peace plan!’
THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...
PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages
University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...