20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis

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THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...

Thompson Out! Chant 17,000 Striking Postal Workers!

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‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...

BA steps up industrial thuggery

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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...

Israeli forces carry out raids across West Bank and Gaza

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ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

Investors Dump Stocks As Capitalism Crashes!

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INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...

Mail Centres Take Strike Action Today

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Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...

‘WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet Branch Secretary

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‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...

Harland & Wolff in administration

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WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
Libyan women took part in last Saturday’s TUC demonstration and urged British workers to stop the war on their country

Savage Air Attacks On Libya!

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‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...
A picket of the Zimbabwean embassy in central London last year against repression of trade unionists that was joined by British trade union leaders

PASSPORT RETURNED – to MDC leader Tsvangirai

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MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...

‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves

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UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...

‘STAR CHAMBER’ TO PUSH THROUGH £60bn CUTS

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CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...

LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion

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HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...

DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at St Paul’s Medical...

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THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...

Reeves launches vicious war on all benefit claimants!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...
The North East London Council of Action on the the recent march to defend Ealing Hospital and to stop the NHS from being privatised

HARMONI – ‘SHORT STAFFED AND UNSAFE’ – NHS privateer is slammed

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HARMONI, the out-of-hours GP services privateer, is often so short-staffed that it is unsafe. Managers regularly send out desperate texts to doctors and nurses...
Student and lecturers came out in support of cleaners at SOAS during yesterday’s mass picket

Cleaners mass picket at SOAS

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THERE was a lively mass picket at SOAS University, Central London, yesterday at the start of a two-day strike by cleaners. SOAS Unison Assistant Branch...
London postal workers along with MP Kate Hoey (right) demonstrated outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday

STRIKE ACTION WILL SPREAD – warns Dave Ward

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‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...
Bank of England workers began their first strike for fifty years yesterday morning

Bank of England begin 3-day strike

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STAFF at the Bank of England kicked off their three-day strike yesterday with a big picket and demonstration addressed by Labour shadow chancellor John...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow last week determined to win their fight for reinstatement

We Are Fighting Until We Win

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LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...
The North East London Council of Action is continuing to fight for the reopening of Chase Farm A&E whose closure has already cost lives

HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE AFTER 2015 ELECTION! – warns King’s Fund charity

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THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...
Campaigners fighting to stop the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals at a lobby of the council last Wednesday

Halt NHS Privatisation By Stealth!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...

PALESTINIANS PAYING THE ULTIMATE PRICE! – seeing their children die of hunger

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UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern over the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the so-called relief organisation created by Israel and backed by the...
The banner of the Coordination of Trades Unions at last Friday’s Athens demonstration. It reads ‘Down with the government and with any government that carries out the orders of the IMF-EC-Capital’.

Eu Jackboot Over Greece

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THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...

Greenford Bus Workers To Join Mass Picket

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...

Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi Freed

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SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...

66% Of Students Refused Grants

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Two-thirds of university entrants in England and Wales who applied for maintenance grants – designed to assist poorer students – were turned down, according...

‘WE ARE NOT THE AGGRESSORS’ – Putin condemns US support for Georgia

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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...

‘Life or death’ ambulance crisis

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AN ACUTE lack of ambulances and paramedics has created a situation where 999 patients classed as ‘life threatening’ are waiting for up to...
Palestinian funeral – there are going to be many more after Israel’s barbaric attacks on the Great March of Return on the Gaza border

8 Killed & over 500 injured – by Israeli troops and tanks in Gaza

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ISRAELI forces opened fire on Friday afternoon at thousands of Palestinians who participated in the Great March of Return along Gaza borders, killing at...

Tory NHS Funding Scandal

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THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...

Government Rushes To Placate Angry Generals

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THE government has ruled that millions of pounds of compensation will be paid to British troops wounded in Iraq after May 2003, when the...
Defend the NHS demo at Barts Hospital in central London

Unison condemns A&E charges for migrants

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TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...

Israel plans to forcibly expel all Palestinians from Gaza

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THE Israeli minister of military affairs said yesterday that the occupying regime will forcibly expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip by every way possible as...

PCS put on war footing!

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FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...

Israel prepares for war against Hezbollah

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THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...

BA WANTS A WAR! – says Tony Woodley

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

‘INTIMIDATION!’ –Labour threat to impose costs on Reprieve

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Legal charity Reprieve has accused the Brown government of attempting to intimidate it into dropping legal action on behalf of torture victims. Reprieve said in...

No retreat until complete US defeat – insist Iran’s armed forces

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THE General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces has vowed not to back down until securing the country’s legitimate rights and delivering a complete defeat...

Facilities Staff Battle On!

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OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...

ACCEPT MAGNA DEAL OR FACE CLOSURE – Luton workers told

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Workers attending the morning shift at the GM van plant in Luton yesterday were presented with a Unite union leaflet, informing them of a...

14 Palestinians starve to death!

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FOURTEEN more Palestinians, including two children, died from starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the 24 hours to yesterday, reports the Palestinian Ministry of...

North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!

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FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

Stop ‘bedroom tax’ evictions

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The Bedroom Tax will lead to massive rises in rent arrears and homelessness, hitting the poorest people the hardest, Margaret Hodge, Chairwoman of the...
Firefighters and other workers condemning bankrupt and corrupt capitalism – they are demanding no bail-out for the bankers

Massive Irish Strike Action

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‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...