Defend NHS!

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GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

Tuc Joint Statement With Cbi And Eu Bosses!

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AHEAD of this week’s European Council meeting, the Directors General of Business Europe and the CBI, Markus Beyrer and Carolyn Fairbairn, and the General...

‘Unfunded and unsafe!’ –BMA condemns Tory plan for 7 day working

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DOCTORS will not sign up to the Tory government’s proposals for a seven-day-a-week, 24-hours-a-day NHS service because the plans are ‘unfunded, undefined’, ‘wholly unrealistic’...

JCB AXES MORE JOBS! – despite £50 a week GMB wage cut deal

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more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at Southall station winning support campaigning for their conference

Gate Gourmet campaign team at Heathrow

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A CAMPAIGN team was out fighting for the locked out Gate Gourmet workers conference yesterday. They visited Heathrow Airport and saw British Airways checking staff,...
Peugeot workers from Ryton taking part in the May Day march in London

FRENCH AND BRITISH WORKERS UNITE – to keep Peugeot Ryton open

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‘Save Peugot Jobs!’ demanded over 400 French and British workers in Paris yesterday. Peugot workers and a delegation of Renault workers from across France joined...

Bhutto Demands Exact Election Date

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In a bid to defuse a developing insurrectionary situation, Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharraf said after chairing a meeting of the National Security Council...

WE WILL STRIKE TO STOP JOB CUTS – BECTU Assistant General Secretary

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‘If the job cuts are still on, the strikes will be reinstated,’ BECTU assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey told News Line yesterday. Speaking after the...
School students marching in Athens the banner reads ‘They have killed Alexis, they are stealing our life – struggle for their overthrow!’

‘We Will Have The Last Word’ Say Greek Youth

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THOUSANDS of school students in all Greek cities participated in militant mobilisations against the government’s austerity laws and police violence on Thursday, the fourth...
Young Socialists marchers received an enthusiastic response in Birmingham last Saturday for their stand against ASBOs and Dispersal Orders

NO TO CITY ACADEMIES! – TUC rejects Blair ‘flagship’ policy

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THE TUC yesterday voted unanimously to oppose city academies. The National Union of Teachers President Hilary Bills urged the TUC to step up a campaign...
Last March a demonstration hit central London against spiralling rents, the destruction of council housing and mass evictions

Housing crisis: ‘national emergency’

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HOUSING has become a ‘national emergency’ as it emerged the proportion of home ownership has fallen to the lowest level since 1986 and, as...

NHS – Unison Serves Strike Notice!

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UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland. Phase 1 of the Unison...

Israeli tank fire kills scores of Gazans

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THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...

Maude threatens 120,000 civil service jobs!

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CABINET Office Minister Francis Maude launched a vicious onslaught on civil servants, their jobs and their trade union yesterday. He pledged to scrap up...

Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...

British Officers For Libya!

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TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

Down with the US-Israeli aggressors! – chant tens of thousands in Tehran

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THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing Hospital early yesterday morning – they are determined to keep it open and defeat the policies of the Coalition

Stop A&E Closures!

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THE British Medical Association yesterday warned against mass A&E closures implicit in a review of emergency services being carried out Professor Sir Bruce Keogh,...

Bank Raised Rates To 3% Predicts 2-Year Slump & Double Unemployment

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THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts

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‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...

TURKEY CLOSE TO IRAQ INVASION! – after border clashes

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TURKEY was very close to an invasion of northern Iraq yesterday after a number of Turkish troops were killed and wounded in PKK attacks. Kurdistan...
Part of the delegation of local government short-contract workers from Salonica. Banner reads

Greek Workers March For Jobs

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Greek public sector workers on short contracts staged a successful 24-hour national strike last Thursday demanding permanent jobs and full labour rights. Their struggle was...

Storm Disaster Anger Erupts!

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STORM Angus, after ripping through the UK, has caused torrential downpours and flash floods that have destroyed homes, turned roads into rivers and left...

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...
Marchers in London this month to defend the rights of disabled people, demanding ‘Don’t disable us – enable us!’

‘PATIENTS TORTURED’ – at a charge of £3,500 a week

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A STORM of anger has erupted following the broadcast of Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama programme, which revealed terrible abuse of vulnerable adults at a...
Tens of thousands joined a mass demonstration outside parliament yesterday demanding immediate action from the Brown government to stop the slaughter of Tamils by the Sri Lankan army

‘brown Must Act To End Slaughter’

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‘Stop killing Tamils! Brown wake up! Rajapakse – terrorist!’ shouted tens of thousands of Tamils holding a sit-down protest in the road opposite Parliament...

Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’

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THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...
Ealing mothers and their babies lobbying the Clinical Commissioning Group demanding that their hospital’s Maternity Department is kept open

KPMG paid £10m to recommend NHS closures

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LABOUR has demanded the publication of reports costing £10 million, paid by the NHS to management consultants KPMG, which recommended closing hospitals and axing...

UK SOCIAL CARE IS A ‘SOCIAL DISGRACE’ says GMB union

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THE GMB said yesterday that social care in this country has become a social disgrace, as it objected to Lord Hanningfield’s membership of a...

BMA ‘WHITE PAPER’ CRISIS! – ditches its unconditional support

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THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...
Thousands marched through east London in 2006 to protest at a massive police raid on homes in Forest Gate, in which one young man was wounded, before being detained with his brother. Both were eventually released

NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights groups

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MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...

Private Sharks Circling The NHS!

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LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday.   The union is calling on the government to...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...
SUSAN ALEXANDER, mother of Azelle Rodney,  (centre, holding banner) and supporters outside yesterday’s hearing

‘WALL OF SILENCE!’ – Rodney inquiry adjourned

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A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

Middlesex University Strike T0Day!

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...

Syria Writes To US Congressmen

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THE Speaker of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Jihad Al-Lahham, has written an open letter to John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of...
Chagos Islanders campaigning in Crawley last Saturday for today’s picket of the Court of Appeal and next Saturday’s demonstration in Crawley

‘WE HAVE RIGHT TO RETURN!’ – Chagos Islands hearing begins today

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Chagos Islanders are at the High Court in London today, where the British government is making a second appeal against the ruling that they...

BHS LIQUIDATED! – 11,000 jobs are to go!

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MAJOR department store BHS is to go into liquidation with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs it was announced yesterday, after efforts to...
Demonstration in Crawley last September against the building of a new Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick Airport

Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!

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Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
The marchers were given a great reception by Unison and GMB members as they arrived in Harrow

Workers support march to TUC!

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ON THE first day of the Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool, as the marchers made their way through Harrow, on...
35 Years Since Orgreave

35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019

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March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...
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...

‘ISRAEL OUT OF THE LEBANON’ say Gate Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at their last mass picket at Heathrow, supported by Hounslow UNISON members

‘Join Our Mass Picket This Sunday’

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all their supporters to join them at their monthly mass picket on the hill at the Beacon...