FREE PALESTINE! – shout several thousand demonstrators
Demonstrators pushed through the police barricades shouting ‘Free, Free Palestine’, as several thousand people protested outside the entrance to the avenue leading to the...
ISRAEL TO INVADE GAZA!– Olmert gives final warning
Israeli officials have warned that the Israeli military is preparing to attack Gaza in the coming days. On Wednesday Israeli airstrikes and ground invasions...
Help The Homeless! – Urges Crisis Charity
Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, yesterday warned of a potential surge in homelessness in 2009 as it opened the doors of...
Thousands of UK troops for Obama’s Afghan surge
Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...
REPLACE GREEK TUC BUREAUCRATS – demand youth
GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...
NATIONALISE JLR AND CORUS – the only way to defend jobs
Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...
Second youth shot in Greece
The Greek university students’ occupation committees have called for a mass demonstration next Tuesday in Athens. Marches are to be held in other cities...
BETRAYAL! – CWU leaders call off strike
Postal workers were yesterday left confused and angry after the Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive called off strikes at five mail centres late...
Mail Centres Take Strike Action Today
Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...
Greek Tuc Occupied By Youth!
Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike. Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the...
Greek Youth Tv Takeover
Throughout Greece last Tuesday school and university students continued with demonstrations and occupations against the right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis. Virtually all schools and...
Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns
‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...
DEFEND THE ROYAL MAIL– No to 50,000 job losses
‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...
Iraqis March To Free Journalist!
Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets yesterday demanding the release of the al-Baghdadiya TV reporter who called Bush ‘you dog’ and threw his...
30% Wages ‘Sabbatical’ For Vauxhall Ellesmere Port
General Motors, the owner of Vauxhall, has put forward a plan for its Merseyside workforce to ‘take a break’ from two to nine-months from...
‘the Last Days Of The Karamanlis Government’
GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...
de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’
THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...
OCCUPY GM PLANTS – Nationalise motor car industry
‘THE news that General Motors is heading into bankruptcy means that the future of all GM plants is in the balance, especially the two...
Corus 10% Wage Cut Plan
One hundred Community, GMB and Unite trade union representatives from Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, Corus, were meeting in London yesterday to discuss company demands for a...
Tories, Labour Unite To Beat The Unemployed
The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...
Thousands march against ‘murderers government’
OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...
EMERGENCY SPECIALISTS NOT POLYCLINICS – urges College of Emergency Medicine
THE College of Emergency Medicine yesterday urged the government to invest in more emergency medicine specialists rather than polyclinics. Dr John Heyworth, incoming President of...
Greek Workers March Against Police
Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...
STOP GM PLANTS CLOSING! – workers must occupy!
General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...
HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union
THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...
Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract
Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
De Menezes Defiance
Members of the Jean Charles de Menezes family refused to listen to the coroner’s summing up at the young Brazilian’s inquest yesterday, in protest...
PCS condemns job cuts!
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...
BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...
CORONER RULES OUT ‘UNLAWFUL KILLING’ VERDICT – in de Menezes inquest
Solicitors for the Jean Charles de Menezes family yesterday went to the High Court to seek a judicial review of the coroner’s ruling that...
PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week benefit cuts
THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...
House Prices ‘a Long Way To Fall’
UK Mortgage approvals fell sharply again in October, the Bank of England reported yesterday, confirming fears that house sales and prices have a lot...
Build Revolutionary Leadershp
‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...
Chase Farm – Council Seeks A Judicial Review
Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...
‘WE SEEK A PEACEFUL SOLUTION’ – Piraparahan tells the world
THE Tamil Tigers leader V Piraparahan yesterday addressed the Tamil people and the world on the occasion of ‘Great Heroes Day’. He said it was...
US CRISIS DEEPENS – Porsche warns – ‘Serious slump’ in world motor car industry
US consumer spending fell by one per cent in October, the largest decline since September 2001, in a further sign of the deepening slump,...
IRISH WORKERS SIT-IN – Fighting 90 redundancies
WORKERS are occupying the Calcast car parts factory in Campsie, just outside Derry in the north of Ireland. The plant, a subsidiary of the...
Chase Farm Picket Wins Big Support
‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...
BILLIONS FOR BOSSES AND BANKERS – while its the sack and wage cuts for...
Chancellor Darling yesterday handed more billions to business in his pre-budget report, while making it clear the working class will be expected to pay...
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...
Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents
The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...
FBU Angry Over Cuts
FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...