Rafah Warning – Israeli Attack Will Murder Thousands!
THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred...
100,000 besieged in northern Gaza!
ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...
‘NO REGRETS’ SAYS GOLDSMITH – over halting Fraud Office inquiry
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...
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...
370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!
370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...
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...
Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....
‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...
‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...
Woodley announces strike ballot for BA cabin crew
The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...
MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992
Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...
Israel Arrests Birzeit Students!
THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...
DETROIT GOES BUST – Democracy suspended! says US union leader Saunders
US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...
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...
JLR to shut for 9 days!
JAGUAR Land Rover is to shut its Halewood plant in Merseyside for nine days, in the latest development in the sharpening car manufacture crisis. Jaguar...
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...
‘The Tories have left us with a black hole of £22bn this year’ Labour’s...
LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF THE LEBANON’ say Gate Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...
Five US Troops Killed In West Iraq
A force of up to 2,500 US troops, supported by puppet Iraqi troops, moved into Iraq’s western Al Anbar province yesterday in the biggest offensive...
Music, drama & art axed from schools
MUSIC, languages, drama, PE, design technology and art, as well as vocational subjects including engineering, construction, and childcare, have all being axed from secondary...
STOPPED 25 TIMES! –Stuart Lawrence accuses police of racism
STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...
ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot
RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...
Universal Credit Attack On Poor
UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...
Pensions crisis–Coalition pays tribute to the TUC!
JUST AS LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alexander was thanking the TUC in the House of Commons yesterday claiming that the public sector...
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...
Israel’s Blockade Has Collapsed Healthcare
ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...
Students rise up against fees
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...
Students Erupt Again In Quebec
Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...
Powell Suffers Multiple Memory Failure!
WHEN Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1997-2007, Jonathan Powell, was questioned yesterday about the September 2002 dossier that took the UK to war...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
‘End the criminal Israeli occupation’ – Palestinian Foreign Minister al-Maliki addresses the UN
THE international community has a responsibility ‘to put an end to Israel’s aggression on our homeland, and to enable our people to establish our...
Sparks Battle 35% Wage Cut
MORE than 200 construction workers fighting 35 per cent pay cuts demonstrated on the Crossrail site at Farringdon Street in central London yesterday, brushing...
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...
200 steelworkers march on Parliament! – fighting to defend their jobs
OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...
Five Days Of Strike Action At Metroline
LONDON bus operator Metroline’s decision not to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign-on’ policy will lead to five days of strike action that will...
We Want Permanent Ceasefire
‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...
ANNEXATION! – Israeli plan to carve up Palestine
‘WE ARE already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the...
‘DEFEND STATE SCHOOLS!’ – ‘Trusts’ roll-out slammed
‘WE WILL never give up state education,’ a teachers union leader vowed yesterday, after the announcement of plans to remove more schools from elected...
ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU
‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...
Brutal Racism In Paris
WORKERS groups in France are considering legal action, after a shocking video emerged of black women and children being brutally dispersed by police in...
42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!
A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...
Osborne plans £20bn more cuts
SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...
Tory ambulance cuts kill – A&Es are in meltdown!
A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...
Over 100 Palestinian prisoners killed since Gaza war began
ISRAELI occupation forces shot dead 21-year-old Qasim Shuqairat during a raid on his home in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel al-Mukaber on Wednesday,...
Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well
GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January. They visited Greenford Council depot and...
STRIKE! – Don’t allow Royal Mail privatisation!
POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...