French Pensions Strike!

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THE French transport workers’ strike against pension cuts yesterday caused huge stoppages on TGV fast rail routes, local train, metro and bus services. Only 90...
Bailiffs cutting their way through the chain binding occupier Hank Roberts to a pole

Bailiffs invade Brent occupation

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THIRTY policemen and 20 bailiffs invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground anti-academy occupation at 6.30am Friday morning and used grinding equipment to remove Hank...

Striking PCS members show their support for the Palestinian state!

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STRIKING PCS members were protesting outside the Department of Business & Trade yesterday and showing their support for Palestine. They were joined by a group...

94.5% yes for post strike – CWU leaders run away!

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...

SEVEN US TROOPS KILLED – despite Iraq crackdown

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Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...
Delegates at the BMA Annual meeting – they voted against privatisation of the NHS and condemned their leadership for not fighting it

PRIVATEERS OUT! – say BMA delegates in Belfast

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...
Unison and UCU strikers on the picket line at the College of North East London carrying out a one-day strike action against the proposal to continue with a pay freeze

Sixth Form Colleges Fighting Pay Freeze!

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LECTURERS, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers in Unison and the UCU union walked out on strike in Sixth Form Colleges around the country yesterday,...

Elderly Health Care Is Not Good Enough!

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Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

GREECE–Government days are numbered

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ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....

US & ISRAEL STOKING GAZA CLASHES says Hamas call for national unity

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THE political leader the Hamas Palest-inian liberation movement has said that the US and Israel are responsible for last week’s clashes between Hamas...

Corbyn’s customs union capitulation

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‘I APPEAL to MPs of all parties, be prepared to put the people’s interests before the ideological fantasies, join us in supporting the option...

Houthis blockade the Red Sea

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THE United States bombed Iran for a twelfth consecutive night early yesterday, and Iranian forces struck back across the Gulf, hitting American installations in...

Teachers at breaking point – over Covid restrictions

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THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...
Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...

Unprecedented Carnage In Vanni

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TAMILNET reports ‘mad shelling’ yesterday morning by the Sri Lanka Army into civilian areas in Mu’l’livaaykkaal north, forcing everyone into the bunkers. Several...

‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader

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‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

Court ratifies Palestine Action ban

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SUPPORTERS of the Filton 24 gathered outside the High Court and Old Bailey yesterday when the Court of Appeal issued a ruling that the...
Postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party Conference on Monday against the Brown government’s decimation of postal services, their jobs and pensions

BANKRUPT BROWN – No policies to deal with crisis

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday revealed he has no policies to deal with the economic crisis in the interests of workers. In his keynote address to...

Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support

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TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...

‘CONDEMN BULLYING BAILIFFS!’ – AdviceUK

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A COALITION of seven debt charities has called on local authorities to ‘stamp out’ bad debt collection practices by bullying bailiffs acting as a...

JOHNSON STAYS AWAY FROM COMMONS – no Labour Party call for his resignation

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LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...
The banner of the North-East London Council of Action on the July 5 march to parliament on the 63rd anniversary of the NHS

Brazen Cameron! Tries To Tough It Out

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PRIME Minister Cameron was repeatedly challenged yesterday over his hiring of Andy Coulson during the discussion on his statement over the News International crisis. Cameron...

EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013

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THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
Some of the demonstrators who took part in the march through Lewisham on Saturday to keep south-east London hospitals open

KEEP LEWISHAM A&E OPEN – demand marchers

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AROUND 150 people marched from Blackheath past Lewisham Hospital to a rally in Ladywell Park on Saturday, against plans to shut the south London...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...

Gate Gourmet Strikebreak At Stansted

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the use of Gate Gourmet-employed catering workers as strike breakers at Stansted Airport. Security workers who scan luggage at...
CWU pickets in Luton yesterday morning

PCS Offers ‘full Support’ To Royal Mail Strikers!

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THE PCS General Secretary and National President sent a message of solidarity to striking CWU members in the Royal Mail yesterday. Their message, to CWU...
Palestinians in Athens climb on top of police buses and defiantly wave their flags

Nakba March In Athens

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Over 1,500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Tuesday evening to the US and Israeli embassies in commemoration of the Nakba and against...

CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...

Russia issues defence warning!

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RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...

US Kabul drone strike kills six! – including four children

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SIX people, including four children, were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghan TV reported yesterday, citing eyewitnesses. Earlier, US officials said that...
CRS riot police clash with protesters for a third night against the police killing of a Chinese man on Sunday

‘MURDERERS!’ Paris – 3rd night of rage after police killing

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FIERCE clashes broke out between the French CRS riot police and protesters for the third night in a row on Wednesday night. Demonstrators are furious...
Protesters outside parliament yesterday on behalf of Grenfell tenants who died in the inferno

Toxic Grenfell Insulation Was Banned!

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MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...

UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!

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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...

PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages

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University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...

£4bn claim against RBS – taxpayers will have to pay bill

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THOUSANDS of investors have launched a joint compensation claim for more than £4.0bn against Royal Bank of Scotland, claiming the 82% state-owned bank deliberately...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...
Teachers marching in London last November 30 during their strike action to defend their pensions

Tories In ‘Head-On Collision’ With Classroom Teachers

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Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...

£512 billion propping up banks!

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Banks are relying on the taxpayer for £512 billion support this year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported yesterday. The parliamentary...

Call a General Strike for Palestine!

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THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...

Defend West Hendon Homes!

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TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...
Royal College of Nurses rally against cuts to keep patients safe

No mandatory safe staffing levels for the NHS!

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THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson

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TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...