Landlords Can Grab The £400 Energy Bill Rebate
LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...
Shut Down Guantanamo Call
THE London Guantanamo Campaign staged a protest yesterday outside the American embassy on the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the infamous Guantanamo Bay...
‘we Won’t Let Chase Farm Close!’
‘WE’RE not going to let Chase Farm close,’ Bill Rogers, North East London Council of Action Secretary told News Line yesterday at a lively...
Vote Anna Athow To Keep Chase Farm Open
A LIVELY North East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital won big support yesterday for its determination to keep...
Corbyn Pledges Another 1945
Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...
TUC must fight for £10 an hour minimum wage –demands Bakers’ Union
‘THE TUC and its affiliates must fight for the policy they voted for, to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour,’ Bakers Union...
Flawed Intelligence Being Used In Secret No Jury Courts
Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...
Tories threaten councils – to try to force reopening of schools
THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...
Defend West London hospitals!
THOUSAND of angry hospital workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth are marching today determined to defeat the government’s plan to close four West...
Tuc To Lobby Tories!
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned that the coalition’s cuts ‘not only threaten services but risk economic recovery’. He was speaking ahead of the...
‘There could be a Lehmans moment!’ – World Bank warning
AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...
‘One rule for them and another for us!’ – unions condemn Grenfell surrender
ATTORNEY General Suella Braverman’s undertaking that evidence given by contractors at the Grenfell Inquiry will not be used to prosecute them constitutes ‘One rule...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...
Birmingham Bin Strikers Stand Firm Against Up To £8,000 A Year Pay Cuts!
AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...
Brazen Cameron! Tries To Tough It Out
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...
No Wage Growth In 2018 Says Resolution Foundation!
THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...
Chase Farm closure anger!
THE NORTH EAST London Council of Action won big support yesterday at the picket of Chase Farm Hospital with its demand that the hospital...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
Workers Fury Forces Brown Retreat!
Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...
Fourteen soldiers and General killed – as self defence forces defend their region
SELF-DEFENCE forces in eastern Ukraine have shot down two military helicopters near the city of Slavyansk. One was carrying fourteen soldiers including an army...
BEIS 3-day strike – ‘We demand Living Wage!’
OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...
Ford Strike Threat!
THE Unite trade union has threatened Ford with strike action over 850 proposed sackings and the suspension of a negotiated pay deal to provide...
Tube Strike 100% Success!
‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...
Obama Expands The War Into Pakistan!
US President Barack Obama yesterday announced a further 4,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan this summer, in addition to the 17,000 earmarked...
PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’
‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...
New financial year hits families hard!
THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...
Thousands March In Athens
Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...
JOHNSON PROPOSES HEALTH INSURANCE! – as Labour crisis deepens
the Brown government’s health insurance and ‘age-tax’ plans announced on Monday were condemned as privatisation and ‘a punishment for growing old’ yesterday. ‘Health insurance means...
CRISIS BIGGER THAN 1931! – BofE Governor King opts for inflation
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King has warned that the UK financial crisis is possibly the greatest ever crisis in the history of capitalism. He...
Gaza residents shocked by massive price rises!
GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first...
‘The World Must Act Now Or Never For A Palestinian State’
FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...
SWINDON NHS STRIKE ACTION – Against Bullying and Harassment
150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western NHS Hospital in Swindon are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and...
Israel moves to starve the Palestinian people! – workers of the world must act...
THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...
‘Headcount reduction’ with no ‘unresolved surplus’ – under Royal Mail deal
THE leaders of the CWU are backing the deal ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication...
Academies Crisis!
Angry teachers have condemned the declaration by Schools Secretary Ed Balls that he will resist calls to slow the pace of the Academy programme. This...
CWU pickets call for a general strike
‘I’m 100 per cent for a general strike,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Capital Branch Assistant Secretary and BT Tower rep Darren Weller said yesterday...
86,000 vacant nhs posts! –between January & March 2017
MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...
Nearly 100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Air Raids
‘ISRAEL is the one who started this when they assassinated (commander of Hamas’ military wing) Ahmed Jabari. Hamas didn’t start the issue,’ Hamas political...
TEXAS PACIFIC SELLS GATE GOURMET – Private equity on the run
PRIVATE equity raider, the Texas Pacific Group has sold airline catering company Gate Gourmet to bankers Merrill Lynch. Gate Gourmet, which is based in the...
‘Prosecute now’ demand Grenfell campaigners
MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...
GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services
The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...
500,000 sanctioned in 12 MONTHS
CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...
Draconian police state powers
DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...
YOU FACE DEFEAT – Hamas warns Israel
Nine more Israeli soldiers were injured in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, two of them seriously, as fierce fighting continued on the tenth day...