Greek 48-Hour General Strike
The GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sector unions) yesterday called a 48-hour strike for today and Saturday in protest at a savage government...
INFLATION RIPS! – unions slam calls for pay ‘restraint’
Soaring food and energy prices could push the government’s preferred consumer price index (CPI) inflation above 4% this year, the governor of the Bank...
Oxford Youth Workers Take Strike Action!
Prime minister Cameron’s ‘zero tolerance’ attack on youth comes as government cuts are decimating youth services. Unite the union announced at the weekend that youth...
DEFEND NHS BEDS! – Managers confederation urges axe thousands
The latest hospital trust to announce staff cuts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, has said it plans to axe up to 150 jobs. The trust,...
Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp
FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...
Al-Araqib Village Stormed By Israeli Police
Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...
Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...
GPs reject privatisation
AT THE BMA Local Medical Committees (England) conference yesterday, GPs voted against a proposal to allow privatised GP services in England. The motion stated:...
SETTLERS MURDER CHILD! – ‘International Criminal Court must act’–Abbas
‘WE hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha,’ PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a...
Greek Banks Downgraded!
Three of the top Greek banks have been downgraded by the economic agency Moody’s, after losing 70 per cent of their share price in...
Rock-solid college strike!
‘THIS is a national one-day pay strike. We haven’t had a pay rise for six years – which represents a 17 per cent pay...
STOP NHS CLOSURES – say lobbying NHS hospital groups
HEALTH workers and campaigners descended on Parliament from many parts of the country yesterday, to defend their hospitals. ‘My hospital is under threat. It’s a...
Farmers warn of ‘humanitarian crisis’– if Family Farm Tax not scrapped
ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...
Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...
UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm
The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...
Barristers Are On Indefinite Strike!
HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...
UK Troops In Iraq Made Britain A Terror Target
There is ‘no doubt’ that support for the US-led war on Iraq ‘puts the UK more at risk’ of terrorist attack. This is one of...
May Put On 3 Days Notice
THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...
GENERAL HOSPITALS MAY HAVE TO CLOSE says NHS Chief Executive Sir Ian Carruthers
Health service union UNISON yesterday condemned the suggestion by the acting NHS chief executive that whole district general hospitals will face closure. Warning of...
Turkish workers strike – as deputy PM Arinc apologises
The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...
COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action
OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...
‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!’ – GPs condemn the Care Quality Commission
THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection regime aimed at GP practices is damaging patient care by diverting resources and GP time away from treating...
NHS England blockaded! No contracts with Israeli military supplier
HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...
Royal Mail Deal Sell-Out!
‘IT’S A bad deal. I think it should be thrown out.’ That was the reaction of one delegate, Tam Dewar from Scotland, after a national...
Woolwich Hospital two-day strike
WORKERS at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich in south east London were on strike yesterday and are striking again today in a bitter struggle...
Right-wing beaten at Labour Conference
LABOUR right-wingers were resoundly beaten yesterday in their attempt to reject Brexit and push the Labour Party conference to accept that Britain should remain...
$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump
Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...
BONANZA – big profits for private treatment centres
Private treatment centres are treating as few as a quarter of the National Health Service patients they have been paid to handle. In the worst...
TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM
DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...
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...
School Strike Solidarity
ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’
ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...
Record Unemployment!
UK unemployment rose to 2.261 million in the three months to April, the highest since November 1996, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...
STRIKE BALLOT – by Scottish doctors
SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...
NEU teachers – Two further strike days!
THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) has announced that its members in England will take two further days of strike action this term – on...
Series of 48 hour postal strikes
POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...
SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m
The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...
Corbyn demands permanent Customs Union
‘ONE area that the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and I do not agree,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in the House of...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
Nuj Defends Bbc Jobs!
The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...
BA steps up industrial thuggery
FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...
Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool
STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...
Syriza Ready To Accept 70% Of Austerity Programme
THE Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Monday evening ended without agreement between the EU and Greece, after the Greek Finance Minister...
POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE –against unacceptable changes
OVER 12,000 postal workers across the UK will be striking today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and executive action by Royal Mail....
BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead
‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...