Massive Cwu Day Of Action Friday!
THOUSANDS of postal workers across the UK will be striking and demonstrating on Friday, July 17 against continuing cuts and executive action by...
STUDENT RENTS UP 23% – Stop privatisation of university accomodation says the NUS
THE COST of student accommodation is spiralling out of control, the National Union of Students (NUS) said yesterday, warning that private landlords were ‘setting...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
Labour conference votes for £15-an-hour minimum wage. Bakers’ union disaffiliates from Labour over Starmer’s...
THE BAKERS’ union (BFAWU), which was one of the first unions to fight to set up the Labour Party in 1902, disaffiliated from the...
SPRINKLER SYSTEM NOT WORKING – in gutted warehouse
With three firefighters still missing presumed dead and one confirmed dead, it emerged yesterday that the sprinkler system was not working in the central...
Hounslow Campaign Goes Well For Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers
THE campaign team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers was in Hounslow yesterday working for their mass picket this Sunday and their conference in London...
Parliament votes to bomb Iraq! – as Cameron claims the right to attack Syria
SIX RAF Tornados were ready to go last night to begin raining bombs down on Iraq after an extraordinary session of parliament which...
Russia & China Use Veto Over Syria
RUSSIA and China yesterday vetoed a UK-US UN Security Council resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions and regime change. The vote came a...
Over 1,000 head teachers march against cuts
OVER one thousand head teachers across England and Wales yesterday held a mass protest over savage cuts to their schools’ budgets. Heads from Peterborough,...
GENERAL STRIKE ON DECEMBER 9th – when parliament votes on fees rise
THE Young Socialists Students Society yesterday called for a general strike on December 9th when the House of Commons will be voting on increasing...
UNITE SIGNS UP FOR SAVAGE GM-VAUXHALL CUTS ‘We have to work as a team’...
‘Vauxhall employees contribute in support of the Opel/Vauxhall turnaround plan,’ General Motors announced yesterday. The deal was struck in Rüsselsheim on Thursday. A...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
Funeral procession of Musaab al-Tamimi attacked
A NUMBER of Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces, including a critical injury, during clashes in the Ramallah-district village of Deir Nitham...
Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’
‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...
40,000 Workers Defy Greek ‘police Terror’
OVER 40,000 workers and youth congregated in the central Athens square outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday night despite the riot police terrorist...
‘We have to join with other unions’ say the firefighters
THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...
Cuts Will Devastate Tyne And Weir Fire Service!
A PLANNED £5 million cuts will devastate Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, say local firefighters. The Fire Brigades Union has warned that proposed...
Tory pay rise is a pay cut!
‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...
Benefits Cap Hits Poorest
THE Benefits Cap came into force nationally yesterday, setting poor families and the unemployed as its main target, capping the total amount of benefits...
Midwives plan more strikes over pay
HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...
Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed
NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...
Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty
WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
GOVE IS BACK! – along with new anti-union laws
Prime Minister Cameron announced yesterday that Michael Gove is to be Justice Secretary in the new Tory government, replacing Chris Grayling who is now...
Global support for Palestine is splitting the Tories!
THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing...
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...
RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress
DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...
Hamas denounces Israel’s plan to execute Palestinian prisoners
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval in its first reading of a bill that would permit the execution...
‘WITHOUT JERUSALEM THERE WILL BE NO PEACE’ says Qurei
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Tuesday that, ‘without Jerusalem there will be no peace’ with Israel. ‘Peace starts in Jerusalem and ends there. Peace...
BA steps up industrial thuggery
FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...
CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich
TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
16-24 jobless rate 22.3% – get rid of coalition says ATUA’s Dave Wiltshire
unemployment rose 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.685 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. The unemployment rate rose from...
‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’
ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...
DARLING KNEW! – that 10p measure would hurt low paid
Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...
Chase Farm CEO quits!
MARK EASTON, the chief executive of the Chase Farm and Barnet NHS Trust, quit yesterday after it was made public that the trust intended...
London housing crisis is spiralling out of control!
LONDON’S housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’, warns the Centre for London (CfL). Last Wednesday, the independent think tank hosted the London Housing Summit,...
DELEGATES CHALLENGE TUC LEADERS – as POA demands action
THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...
Hamas-US in direct talks!
THE White House has confirmed that the United States has engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas regarding American captives held in Gaza, despite Washington’s...
‘We demand a pay rise’ – Nurses, midwives & NHS staff rise up against...
OVER 500 angry NHS workers marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street on Wednesday evening to demand a 15 per cent pay rise. ‘Enough...
‘Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful!’ says International Court of Justice
JOSEP BORRELL, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, yesterday commended the advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is...
Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley
‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...
Maudsley strikers to march on Downing St! ‘– End all NHS outsourcing’ demands GMB
SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union...
64% Say End Afghan War
A total of 64 per cent want all British forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘as quickly as possible’, with 33 per cent in...
COMPLICITY IN TORTURE! –Commission demands inquiry
BRITAIN’S Equalities and Human Rights Commission called last Saturday for an urgent independent probe into claims that the security services were complicit in...
‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson
TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...