Israel Assassinates a Hezbollah Commander

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LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...

‘Open season on workers rights’ says TUC

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‘WORKING people will be worried by a Queen’s Speech that declares open season on so many of their rights and protections,’ said TUC General...

Dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Israeli genocidal regime

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DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...

‘Dictator’ Hunt!

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THE BMA yesterday responded angrily to health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s ‘wholesale attack’ on doctors and the threat to impose seven-day working for consultants...
Part of Monday’s rally outside the Vouli. The SYRIZA youth banner at the rally states ‘overthrow austerity by all means’

Greek Public Sector Strike Today

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AT A STORMY packed meeting of some 300 delegates on Monday the Greek Public Workers Confederation ADEDY decided to call a national 24-hour strike...
Unison members demand ‘No NHS cuts or privatisation’ on the TUC 500,000-strong demonstration in London last October

Bring down the Coalition! – the only way to defend the NHS

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Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...

Record Budget Deficit!

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BRITAIN’S budget deficit swelled to a new record level last month leading bourgeois analysts to warn that the financial speculators are getting the jitters. Public...

‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria

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THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...
STEPHEN POUND MP (centre) speaking at yesterday’s fourth anniversary rally, with sacked Gate Gourmet workers also on the platform

‘we Want Leaders Who Fight For The Workers’

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‘OUR trade union leaders did nothing for us,’ sacked Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a 200-strong fourth anniversary rally for the sacked workers...

Millions of American workers fight health privateers and mass sackings

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OVER 46,000 US healthcare workers have gone on strike against private health provider Kaiser Permanente. 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) members...

Gaza Protest Youth Being Jailed

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THE whole trade union movement must demand the immediate release of young protesters jailed over the Gaza demonstrations last year – and the dropping...

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – TUC must call a general strike

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‘EVERY major union is supporting this march. We welcome this opportunity for people to take to the streets to protest at this government. ...
March to defend the NHS – NHS workers are one of those sections that the government wants to impose a three-year wage-cutting deal on, so it can carry on propping up the banks

Bank Will Accept Credit Card Debt As Collateral!

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The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...
William Westwell (fourth from left, with witch-hunt placard) demonstrating outside the school before the first hearing

Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison

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ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...
Witham Emergency 999 control operators are on eight days of strike action against draconian imposed changes to their working practices

Essex 999 Operators Strike!

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ESSEX emergency 999 control operators began eight days of strike action yesterday morning against imposed changes to their shifts which makes family...

Syria Is Winning!

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THE Syrian army has scored ‘major victories’ against ‘rebels’ and now holds ‘the balance of power’ in the conflict, President Bashar al-Assad told a...
Childrens services are under attack all over the country – picture shows them being defended at Ealing Hospital

‘We will not stand by and watch them destroy our fabulous service!’ – says...

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THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...

Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...

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THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
A section of last Friday’s Silent March demanding justice for the victims of Grenfell – fire safety inspections have plummeted during the last seven years

Fire safety checks cut by 42%!

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IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...

‘We Won’t Let You Close Lewisham Hospital’

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LEWISHAM East Labour MP Heidi Alexander handed in a 22,000 signature petition to Downing Street yesterday against plans to axe Lewisham Hospital’s A&E and...

AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned

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‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...

23 years since Ladbroke Grove disaster

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TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...

Hamas calls for popular uprising against settlers

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THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...

Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits

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THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...
RMT marked two years of strikes by the union to ‘Keep the Guard on the Train’ with a demonstration opposite parliament yesterday

Safety Before Profits!

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SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...

Hamas rejects Trump’s Gaza plan

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SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said on Monday night that the United Nations plan to deploy a multinational force in Gaza ‘serves Israeli attempts...

Graduating With £25,000 Debt

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The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned against further increases to the cost of a university degree after a new survey revealed that...

Keep a guard on every train! – RMT leader Mick Cash tells News Line

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RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...

Coventry Council sacks hundreds!

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THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

Dup/tory Deal ‘Cash-For-Votes Bung’

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‘CASH-FOR-VOTES’ and ‘an outrageous straight bung’ were how SNP Leader in Westminster Ian Blackford and Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones described the Tory-DUP...

END GAZA BLOCKADE NOW! – 2.4m facing starvation and dehydration

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THE GAZA STRIP has entered a dangerous phase due to the blockade and border closures, the Government Media Office (GMO) warned yesterday. The GMO reviewed...

Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress

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THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...
Rally to defend St Helier and Epsom hospitals last November when there were protests about patients being served cold meals  – now St Helier Trust  is removing light bulbs to cut bills

‘Worst Kind Of Penny-Pinching’

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‘It’s penny-pinching of the worst kind,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was commenting on the removal of every other light bulb...

Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks

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A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
Travel Safe workers lobbied City Hall yesterday against their treatment by STM Security Group UK

Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!

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‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...

Junior doctors are determined to win their battle

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OVER 30 striking junior doctors picketing UCH Hospital in London’s Euston Road yesterday were joined by local residents and patients, to the continual sound...

Teacher Unions Vote To Strike

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THE NUT and NASUWT teachers unions voted overwhelmingly for strike action at their annual conferences over the weekend. Speaking after the Priority Motion on Pensions...

Israel massacres Palestinians in Nablus – 3 killed, 40 wounded

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A NEW massacre of Palestinians, which left three people dead and more than 40 wounded, was committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the...

Mass Strikes Bring Paris To A Halt

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FRENCH Minister of Labour, Xavier Bertrand has told the striking rail unions that they must return to work before he will...

‘NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ – Blair-Goldsmith indicted by judgement

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‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...

Three Britons killed in Israel’s targeted attack on aid convoy

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SEVEN aid workers from the relief group World Central Kitchen (WCK), including three Britons, were killed in a ‘targeted attack’ by the genocidal Israeli...

‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss

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BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...
Remploy disabled workers picket to save their jobs from savage and heartless government cuts

GLUM KING ADMITS TO SLUMP! – while EU rows over Greek euro exit

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GOVERNOR Mervyn King announced yesterday that the Bank of England has cut its growth forecast to close to zero – from the 0.8 per...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month

76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...

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‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

Brown Wants 3 Years Of Wage Cutting

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THE GMB and PCS unions came out against Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Darling’s plan to impose three-year pay settlements on public sector workers...