‘PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!’ – postal workers demand action to win the struggle
TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...
UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps
TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...
More Budget Cuts!
TORY Chancellor Osborne warned yesterday that the deepening world crisis of capitalism means he must ‘act now rather than pay later’ and include...
CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says Business Secretary Cable
BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...
‘The biggest war in Europe since 1945’ – predicts PM Boris Johnson
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that Russia is on the brink of ‘invading’ Ukraine and threatened that what would ensue would be...
Unis already raising fees to £9,250
UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
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...
Unison Rejects Virgin Private Health Centres!
Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...
Greece – 24 Hour National Strike
Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures
FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...
MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
‘MUSHARAFF MUST STAND TRIAL!’ – demand Pakistan workers and youth
Jubilant Pakistanis danced in the streets, waved flags and fired shots in the air, and called for President Pervez Musharraf to be put on...
BROWN’S 2.5% VAT CUT – borrowing to be increased by £150bn
Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...
‘Malnutrition is a big part of the everyday experience of children!’
CHILDREN are starting school underweight, hungry and anaemic, a committee of MPs warned yesterday, and teachers’ union NUT blamed Tory cuts as responsible for...
Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...
Powerful Copland picket
THERE was a powerful picket on Wembley High Street yesterday morning as 150 teachers and 80 non-teaching staff went on strike at Copland Community...
Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!
JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...
Thousands of doctors march on Downing St – Kick the Tories out now!
THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...
Stop Chase Farm Closure!
THE North East London Council of Action is organising a march through Enfield today starting from the war memorial at 1pm to Chase ...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Nightmare facing Israel pledges IRGC!
THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned of the ‘nightmare’ facing Israel after the Tel Aviv...
Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults
THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
‘WE WANT THE TRUTH’ – say Menezes family lawyers
Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...
Southern guards remain rock solid
‘RMT guards on Southern Rail remain rock solid and absolutely determined in their action in defence of rail safety,’ General Secretary Mick Cash said...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...
Action Is Needed To Defend Royal Mail Jobs And Pensions
CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...
GET THE ELDERLY OUT OF HOSPITALS! says NHS Confederation boss
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar yesterday launched an attack on NHS hospitals, saying that at least 25 per cent of hospital patients should...
Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!
THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!
GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...
MARCH FOR JUSTICE – called by TUC for May 1
‘Speakers from around the world will join the May Day March for Workplace Justice,’ said the TUC yesterday. Top trade unionists from South Africa...
Ports Stop Across Eu!
Several thousand striking fishermen from across Spain, as well as some of their counterparts from France, Italy and Scotland, protested outside the Ministry of...
UK To Cut And Run From Kabul
PM Cameron has announced that 3,800 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan next year. Troop numbers are being cut from 9,500 to 9,000...
Tory police, fire & ambulance merger plan slammed
TORY plans to merge fire, ambulance and police services are being pushed forward as the Home Office called for ‘shared control rooms’ yesterday. The proposal...
UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!
PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...
76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...
‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full
JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...
HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE AFTER 2015 ELECTION! – warns King’s Fund charity
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...
Johnson Faces Calls To Resign
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...
‘WE HAVE GOT A REAL FIGHT FOR THE MEMBERS’ JOBS!’ says CWU leader Dave...
‘It’s an astonishing level of support you are giving to the union, you care about the service you are giving to the public, you...
‘We’re fighting a land grab of our conditions’ says Mick Whelan
‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...
Implement Roadmap now – demands Hamas
HAMAS has welcomed the joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and...
Northampton youth want jobs & free education
YOUTH from Northampton joined the Young Socialists March for Jobs as they made their way through the town centre yesterday morning on their way...
Short Shoots Down Blair
NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...
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...