Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm
DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...
Right-Wing Mobs Take To Arms In Ukraine
As well as Lviv, the occupation of government buildings by anti-government activists and confrontations with police were reported yesterday in the western cities of...
HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action
Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...
‘We are all very angry with BP!’
OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...
2.7m people frightened of Universal Credit
A PAYMENT COUNCIL survey shows that more than 2.7 million people who are currently receiving benefits fear they will struggle when Universal Credit replaces...
Tories Transport Refugees To ‘Deathtrap Barge!’
REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...
Israeli Onslaught Targets Hospitals And Homes!
TANKS and armoured vehicles fired on family cars and buses in Gaza yesterday, slaughtering the occupants, while areas around al-Quds Hospital were continuously targeted...
‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm
EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
MAY QUITS! Now bring down Tories
AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...
NHS CATASTROPHE – BMA warning over developing crisis
THE chairman of the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee has written an open letter to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, warning that the NHS is...
PRIVATE CLINICENTA NHS CONTRACT SUSPENDED – after two patient deaths
‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...
RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow
‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...
McCluskey slams Blairite coupists – but calls on unions to broker a deal
Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’,...
‘SOLID, DETERMINED AND UNITED’ says RMT’s Mick Cash
CALLING for urgent talks, rail union RMT yesterday repeated its offer to suspend Southern strike action. RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘I have written...
Usa On The Brink! Of Economic And Financial Collapse
Both US President Barack Obama and the Republican leader in Congress John Boehner raised the spectre of a market crash today if the political...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Nottingham school strike!
NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...
Cameron must resign! – demands John Mann MP after tax haven scandal
LABOUR MP John Mann yesterday called for PM Cameron to resign in light of the ongoing scandal regarding Cameron’s father’s offshore bank account, exposed...
30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General Gromov
THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...
Shut Down The Israeli Embassy– Demand Downing Street Crowds
HUNDREDS of angry protesters gathered outside Downing Street at 2pm yesterday to condemn the Israeli massacre of 19 Freedom Flotilla volunteers. They demanded that ...
DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs at stake
Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...
Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’
OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...
Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!
BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...
Defend West London hospitals!
THOUSAND of angry hospital workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth are marching today determined to defeat the government’s plan to close four West...
‘GP collapse’ in North of Ireland! – put the Tories out on June 8th...
GENERAL Practice in the North of Ireland is close to collapse with the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) seeking to collect enough undated resignations to...
LEBANON ‘WAS OUR BREAKING POINT’ say Labour Party members in Beckett’s constituency
Thirty-seven Labour Party members in Foreign Secretary Beckett’s Derby South constituency yesterday announced their defection to the Liberal Democrats at a press conference at...
Remainers attempts to reverse Brexit defeated
REMAINER MPs were defeated in their attempts to reverse Brexit yesterday after the majority voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 on a ‘meaningful...
‘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...
MOSUL OFFENSIVE BEGINS – ‘The hour of our victory has come’ says Iraqi PM
THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...
Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action
ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...
Hunt agrees to talks!–as junior doctors call to scrap new contract
HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...
‘We’re fighting for our rights!’ say West Hendon tenants
OVER 250 tenants and supporters at the West Hendon estate in north London yesterday packed the community centre on the estate for a meeting...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
Crippling mental health beds crisis!
A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...
‘Take action to stop Maudsley closure’
UP to sixty trade unionists, patients, local residents and youth demonstrated outside the Maudsley Hospital, south London yesterday, against planned cuts including the closure...
‘Kill off no deal, kill off May’s deal forward to 2nd referendum’ – John...
‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...
Unite-Gmb Appeal To Tories To Save Workers’ Jobs!
THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...
General Strike Shuts Down Greece
GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...
Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...
Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...
NHS satisfaction down! – – since Tories took office in 2010
A KING’S Fund survey shows public satisfaction with the way the NHS is run fell from 70% in 2010 (the year that Tory...
300,000 march on Downing St calling for Victory to Palestine!
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
TUC demands recognise the state of Palestine and permanent ceasefire!
THE TUC unanimously passed Composite Motion C17 at its Congress in Brighton yesterday, demanding: ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine... end licences for all...
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...
Parents remortgage to pay uni fees
PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...























