‘SET A SPEEDY UNILATERAL DATE FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ’ TUC demands of Blair government
THE Trades Union Congress yesterday voted unanimously to ‘call on the British government to set its own unilateral date for an early and speedy...
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! – demands Palestinian Ambassador to UN
PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...
JUDGE LABOUR ON CHANGE IT DELIVERS – says Corbyn
IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...
Scandalous Free School Expansion
TEACHERS unions yesterday opposed the ‘scandalous’ proposal to pour millions of pounds into hundreds of new privately run free schools. They were responding to PM...
PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike
BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...
‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!
GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...
BA’S 2 YEAR PLAN – for £450m savings and up to 6,000 sackings
THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...
Netanyahu Bans Al Jazeera
IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...
Restore student nurses bursaries
NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...
NO UK SYRIAN INTERVENTION! – says Labour Party conference resolution
THE Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday voted for an emergency motion moved by Unite calling for a United Nations Security Council resolution...
Balls Is Booed, Congress Votes For General Strike Resolution
LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...
January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...
NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door
THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...
‘A tragic milestone’ says Johnson as death toll passes 150,000!
PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...
Dump NHS early discharge plan!
FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...
PUT AN END TO CAPITALISM! – Only way to defend jobs, wages and the...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...
CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says Business Secretary Cable
BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...
Riot Police Storm Ert Occupation
AT 4.15 local time yesterday morning, hundreds of riot police forcibly entered the building of the ERT (state TV and radio corporation) which has...
BONANZA – big profits for private treatment centres
Private treatment centres are treating as few as a quarter of the National Health Service patients they have been paid to handle. In the worst...
Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit
LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...
ZIMBABWE UNION LEADERS ARRESTED – as COSATU supports April 3 general strike
Zimbabwean riot police arrested opposition leader Morgan Tzvangirai when they prevented a mass anti-government protest yesterday. Police rounded up dozens of opposition activists and trade...
Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!
DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...
Johnson To Close Rochdale< Salford< Trafford & Bury Maternity Units
Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...
Angry Sparks Demand Official Action
ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...
Stop Strip-Searching Youth!
The Howard League for Penal Reform has condemned the use of force to strip-search children in Huntercombe prison, Henley-on-Thames. In a report published earlier this...
Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...
Greek Slump – Consumption Falls By 16.6%
THE Greek economy fell further into deep recession in the first quarter of the year, according to the Greek Statistics Authority (EL.STAT.) who announced...
Arconic warned of cladding fire risk a decade before Grenfell!
THE COMPANY that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill ‘60 to 70’ people...
Two-day nationwide lecturers pay strike
A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...
Occupy Chase Farm Hospital To Stop Closure
HEALTH Secretary Lansley and the coalition have decided to close Chase Farm as a District General Hospital and move out its A&E. Maternity and...
Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!
‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
632,000 child deaths since Saudi-led war on Yemen
YEMEN’S Ministry of Public Health and Population has given a detailed report on the devastating effects the Saudi-led coalition war – which it launched...
‘US-Eu Stop Supporting Nazi Coup!’
SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...
Hostile environment challenged
THE TORY government’s ‘hostile environment’, blocking students from studying in the UK, blocking overseas doctors from working in the NHS, while demanding landlords...
STOP NHS SPENDING CUTS – says BMA Council member Anna Athow
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...
Youth Rise Up Against Capitalism
A THOUSAND school youth walked out of classes yesterday to join the mass protest in Parliament Square, furious at how capitalism is destroying the...
Children’s lives in danger!
‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...
Anti-terror units attack town!
SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...
Greek students march against riot police
SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...
PANIC RESHUFFLE! – while the rats continue to leave sinking ship
Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...
Greek coach drivers strike ruled illegal
A Greek single judge court on Sunday ruled ‘illegal’ a four-day national strike declared by the coach drivers’ federation of trades unions to demand...
First speech of Greek PM Tsipras
THE new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made his first speech to the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Sunday night saying he would carry out...
Gate Gourmet Workers – Good Support For March 25 Demo
A DELEGATION of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers visited Hillingdon Direct Works Council Depot yesterday to publicise their march through Hounslow on the 25th of...
Greek Workers Occupy! Against Government & Eu Attacks
GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...
STOP POACHING AFRICA’S DOCTORS AND NURSES – urge BMA and RCN
Doctors’ and nurses’ leaders have written letters to Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown urging Britain and other G8 nations to stop poaching doctors...