Chancellor Reeves in a crisis as pound plummits to 14-month low

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has come under intense scrutiny after a turbulent period in the financial markets sent the pound plummeting to a 14-month low...
London marchers made clear their contempt for the government’s 1% ‘pay offer’

‘We’re tired of annual pay cuts!’

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TWO million public sector workers took one-day strike action yesterday, against pay cuts and government attacks on pensions. There were rallies, and protests all...

Renationalise the buses – demand drivers on eve of strike

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LONDON bus drivers are preparing for strike action starting next Monday. Unite has called a series of strikes against massive attacks on pay and conditions...
The Secretary of the Greek Cinema and TV Technicians trades union Chrysa Daponte and her friends at the Syntagma rally. Daponte is showing the newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Greek Section of the ICFI, with the headline ‘for an indefinite p

Greek Workers March Against Merkel!

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OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

‘Ofqual insulting teachers’

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TEACHERS and heads unions yesterday slammed a report by regulator Ofqual that claimed teachers ‘marked GCSE coursework too generously’ and this is why results...

Johnson-Sunak Sought To Avoid Self-Isolation

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PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...

FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions

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FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...
Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry

Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry

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About 100 Greek radio and TV technicians and journalists gathered outside the building of the Ministry for Labour in central Athens at midday on...
PAUL KING, stepson of Ian Tomlinson, addressing the press outside the office of the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday

G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge

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‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

Storms And Floods Batter Gaza!

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HUNDREDS of displacement tents across Gaza were flooded from Thursday night into Friday morning as a powerful winter storm battered the besieged enclave, worsening...

Israeli airstrikes killing a record number of humanitarian workers

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SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent...

Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!

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‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
Unite members marching against pay cuts during July’s national strike by local government workers

STRIKE ACTION AGAINST LOW PAY! – at Gatwick and Stansted airports

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strike action against low pay was announced by Unite and the GMB unions at Gatwick and Stansted Airports yesterday. Unite head of Civil...

Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’

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AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...

Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults

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THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...

Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!

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SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

Southall Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 24th, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

‘We must come together to stop no-deal’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...

Hamas Leader Escapes Assassination Attempt

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Palestinian prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. Haniya was unhurt after his convoy came under heavy gunfire in Gaza, witnesses...
Gate Gourmet pickets on the hill at Heathrow yesterday determined to defeat mass sackings

‘We’ve been sold out’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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ANGRY Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday after Wednesday’s sell-out deal between the Transport and General Workers’ Union leaders, TUC leaders...

Patel: More Police Powers – Despite Sarah Everard’s Murder!

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‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...
Midwives and nurses on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital during the the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

£30bn MORE NHS CUTS!

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THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...
Scott (second on the right) the WRP candidate for Acton and Ealing Central, plus supporters made a big impact in Acton yesterday

Miliband Doesn’t Blame The Banks

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would abolish the non-domicile rule that allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax...

British pilots flying US drones

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BRITISH pilots have been flying drones from a US base responsible for covert strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, considered by many to violate international...

Train chaos – Heathrow expansion – Grayling must go!

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‘THE ONLY reason that the secretary of state (Chris Grayling) is at the dispatch box today is that the Prime Minister is too weak...

‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners

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PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were...

Teachers Will March On Tory Party Conference!

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TEACHERS will march on the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in early October, with all teaching unions on strike together at the time, to...

Inflation Leap Slashes Wages & Pensions

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‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...

DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival

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OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
The National Union of Journalists staged a protest against the takeover of BSkyB in March this year

STOP BskyB TAKEOVER!

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been forced to delay any decision on the BSkyB takeover by News International until September, it emerged yesterday. This was...

ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby

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IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...
Determined locked-out Gate Gourmet workers are lobbying the TUC today demanding action to win their jobs back

‘WE NEED PLAN FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet strikers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were sacked four weeks ago today and were very angry yesterday morning that they have been out so long withtheir union...

IT’S PAYBACK TIME! – as Home Secretary Smith urges harass youth

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...
Demonstrators against the war on Lebanon condemn Blair and Beckett for supporting Israel’s ‘blitzkrieg’

LEBANON ‘WAS OUR BREAKING POINT’ say Labour Party members in Beckett’s constituency

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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...

School And Market Targeted As Israeli Genocide Escalates

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‘BOMBARDMENT is overwhelming the entire Gaza Strip, with no respite since the early hours of this morning,’ Palestinians reported from Gaza yesterday. At least nine...
Hands off Syria’ demonstration in London in 2013 when former PM Cameron’s vote for bombing was defeated in Parliament – PM May has bypassed Parliament to authorise military action

‘PM accountable to Parliament not U.S.’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THIS STATEMENT serves as a reminder that this Prime Minister is accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the US President,’ Labour...

Corbyn demands that May resign!

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SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election...
Local government workers on the May Day march in Athens organised by the Coalition of the Radical Left

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...
Postal workers marching along the embankment carrying a giant postcard to Business Secretary Mandelson demanding he stop destroying a great public service

‘NATIONAL ACTION CALLED’ – demand striking London postal workers

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Over four hundred striking Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) postal workers yesterday heard calls for a national strike at a rally in Central Hall, Westminster....

NHS WHITE PAPER – BMA leader writes to GPs and students

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BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, wrote to doctors and medical students yesterday, following publication of the health White Paper for England, which proposes...

10 QUESTIONS FOR KIEV COUPISTS – from Russia’s deputy Defence Minister

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MOSCOW – Western states and Kiev have rushed to find Russian involvement in the MH17 crash having no evidence to back their claims, Russia’s...

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...
Statue erected in Tripoli of a giant Libyan fist crushing an American warplane, following the  US-UK bombing of Libya in 1986

‘Halt Nato Barbarism’ Libyan Government Calls For Ceasefire!

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LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...

Itv Strike Ballot!

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ITV staff are to ballot for strike action over pay. BECTU said: ‘Union officials at ITV have rejected the company’s latest pay offer for 2015...