Release Talhar Ahsan
MORE than 40 people picketed Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court yesterday to demand the release of Talha Ahsan and the repeal of the extradition treaty...
Osborne Targets Eu Welfare
CHANCELLOR Osborne has called for an all-out EU-wide War on Welfare, demanding yesterday that the European Union must ‘do more’ to ensure economic competitiveness...
Global Climate Change Strike
HUNDREDS of thousands of school youth are walking out on strike today in more than 100 countries around the globe over climate change. School youth...
JUNIOR DOCTORS DOG-TIRED 63,000 contract breaches
TENS of thousands of junior doctors are working beyond contracted hours without a break, making them extremely tired which, in turn, puts patients’...
UCU Fights Mass Sackings
The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...
Prisons Handed Over To Privateers Says Poa
THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...
Greek General Strike Called For Next Wednesday
THE Greek right-wing government have intensified their ‘reforms programme’ as trade unions are preparing a general strike set for next Wednesday 12 December. Last...
Ukraine to halt aid convoy
UKRAINE''S coupist regime says it will stop a 280-truck Russian aid convoy containing 2,000 tons of goods including baby food and sleeping bags from...
Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees
UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...
80% don’t trust Tories over NHS!
THE vast majority of the public are worried about the future of the NHS and a majority believe it is heading in the wrong...
TUC must respond to Tory ‘insult’ by calling a General Strike!
TRADE union leaders are meeting at the TUC in central London today to discuss their response to meetings held yesterday with Tory ministers where...
Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!
THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
Call A General Strike Says Poa
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth yesterday, to calls from the Young Socialists lobby and delegates for a General Strike, to bring...
Royal Mail Xmas Strikes Against Mass Sackings
NEW Christmas strikes have been called against the destruction of postal workers’ livelihoods Following further attacks on the terms and conditions of postal workers, the...
STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!
‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...
B of E raises its Bank Rate to 4%
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting ending on 1 February 2023, voted by a majority of 7-2 to increase...
Hawking slams Tories over NHS privatisation!
PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has attacked the government’s NHS policies, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt in person, and warned they are seeking to bring in...
CORUS SHUTDOWN OUTRAGE – 3,000 jobs threatened
Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...
HONDA – 500 JOBS TO GO –wage cuts used to finance redundancies
Honda announced 500 job cuts at its Swindon factory yesterday, just months after union leaders agreed to pay cuts in a deal to save...
Justice For Marikana!
‘LONMIN – Blood on your hands! Justice for Marikana now! Amandla!’ shouted a lively protest outside the London-listed mining company’s office in Mayfair yesterday...
‘They won’t tell us if our block will be demolished’ – Tangmere resident
‘THEY haven’t told us how long we are moving temporarily. They haven’t even told us whether they will demolish the block,’ Cisem Staines from...
Israel Getting Ready To Annex West Bank
ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...
Police Mass Arrests!
Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...
Firefighters Responding To Medical Emergencies!
CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...
Call Inquiry into Orgreave police violence
A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...
‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’
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...
TORIES ARE FORCING NURSES TO STRIKE – says Cullen
NURSES will strike across Britain on Thursday 15th & Tuesday 20th December, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced yesterday. ‘Strike action will happen in...
Arab states condemn Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ plan
THERE has been widespread condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments to an Israeli news channel on Tuesday night that he feels ‘very...
BRITISH TROOPS FOR JORDAN! – Stop the War demands issue be put before parliament
2,000 UK troops and a RAF spy plane are bound for Jordan to ‘combat ISIS’ it emerged yesterday. The UK will send the ‘specialist troops’...
LABOUR MUST DELIVER A REVOLUTION – says Matt Wrack on eve of FBU conference
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) annual conference opened in Blackpool yesterday. On the eve of the conference union leader Matt Wrack said, ‘No one in...
Israel still committing war crimes in Gaza
HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...
UN condemns Israel’s man-made famine as a ‘war crime’
THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s...
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT RESIGNS – Medvedev to be deputy head of Russian Security Council
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly yesterday. According to Putin, the birth rate in the...
Doctors demand £10.3bn for NHS
DOCTORS are calling for an extra £10.3bn to be put in to the NHS, ahead of Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget tomorrow. This, doctor’s union...
Irish Privatisation Disaster!
FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...
EU SET TO DUMP GREECE! – as Moody’s downgrades German capitalism
GERMANY’S AAA credit rating was cut to ‘negative’ by ratings agency Moody’s yesterday, the first step towards a downgrade. The agency acted after a ...
US FORCES WILL NOT ENGAGE IN UKRAINE! says President Biden
PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...
Tories ‘declaring war on Organised Labour’
THE TORIES ‘are declaring war on organised Labour in this country’ Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected leader of the Labour Party, told delegates at the...
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,...
Tens Of Thousands Of Youth March In Greece
Tens of thousands of Greek school and university students, young workers and unemployed youth participated on Sunday in mass and militant rallies in all...
McDonnell offers cooperation if Osborne drops Credits Bill
AHEAD of today’s debate in the House of Lords, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Labour would ‘co-operate’ in future efforts to review the...
Poorest children hit the hardest by education cuts
NUT/CPAG research confirms that schools with the poorest children will be hit hardest by the May government’s school funding proposals The research using DfE data,...
KEEP NHS A&Es OPEN!
The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...
May declares war on the pensioners!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday declared war on pensioners and their children yesterday with the launch of her party’s election manifesto. This includes means testing...