POOR HAMMERED! – by Osborne budget says the IFS
CONTRARY to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s claims that his Emergency Budget is ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’, it is actually unfair and regressive, hitting the poorest hardest. That...
Release Marwan Barghouti!
THE wife of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Fadwa Barghouti, has called on US President Donald Trump to work towards the release of her husband,...
NHS IS AT STAKE! –says DoH picket
OVER 50 people joined a picket of the Department of Health yesterday, demanding that the government honour a pledge from Tory Health Secretary Lansley...
Defend Maternity Services – THEY MUST NOT CLOSE!
CAMPAIGNERS fighting the closure of maternity services in Lincolnshire say they will ‘not back down!’ Plans to remove consultant-led services in Boston and ‘centralise them’...
Shipbreakers Demand Action
FIFTEEN per cent of the 65,000 workers employed in scrapping ships at sites on India’s west coast are suffering from asbestosis. The shocking statistic...
Cameron Beats War Drums
PRIME Minister Cameron is to set out his strategy on Syria and tackling the Islamic State group in the region before MPs this week. He...
GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms
APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...
‘WE NEED PLAN FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet strikers
GATE GOURMET strikers were sacked four weeks ago today and were very angry yesterday morning that they have been out so long withtheir union...
Parliament erupts over Brexit on 1st day back
PARLIAMENT erupted yesterday on the burning issue of Brexit, on the first day back after the Xmas break. Moving an Urgent Question Labour Leader...
APOLOGISE! Forest Gate residents condemn raid
Hundreds of youth and workers demonstrated outside Forest Gate police station denouncing the capitalist state and declaring that ‘Tony Blair is the terrorist!’ They were...
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...
Corus Sacks 3,500 – Llanwern To Be In Mothballs
TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...
Barnsley Nurses To Strike
GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...
Inquiry into police spying on unions – union heads demand transparency
LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...
Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers
St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
Doncaster care workers: three more weeks of strike
DONCASTER care workers have stepped up their fight yesterday, the first day of a further three weeks of strike action in an escalating battle...
Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...
PFI – catastrophic waste of money!
‘THE game is up for PFI, it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayers’ money,’ the GMB union said yesterday responding to the National Audit...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
‘Ceasefire agreement will hold!’ – insists Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya
HAMAS leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said yesterday that he is confident the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold. ‘We are determined to...
JUNIOR DOCTORS DEMANDING ‘CONCRETE ASSURANCES’ FROM HUNT! – will march to Parliament Square on...
JUNIOR doctors have demanded ‘concrete assurances’ from Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt before ‘considering’ re-entering negotiations. Junior doctors are furious at the Tory government’s attempts...
Call Off The Talks!
‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...
NATIONALISE GM – occupy Luton and Ellesmere Port to stop closures
THE head of General Motors Europe warned yesterday that without government finance Vauxhall Luton and Ellesmere Port face immediate closure as ‘the obvious next...
Safe staffing dumped!
THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure. This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published. This change...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
MPs MOVE TO DUMP PRESCOTT
Ministers rushed to attempt a papering over of the yawning cracks in the Blair government yesterday as pressure built up on Deputy Prime Minister...
Greece – 24 Hour National Strike
Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...
ASYLUM SEEKERS RIGHT TO WORK – TUC launches national campaign
TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...
Athens Cleaners Want Jobs Back
THE new Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), announced his government on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the sacked...
Stop Maudsley Closing!
OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...
NO IMPOSED CONTRACT! – Hunt must resign
TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...
Blood-Testing Workers Protest
THERE was a very lively demonstration of blood testing workers outside Colindale tube station yesterday morning. They were handing out post cards explaining their fight...
‘Rate rise adds insult to injury’ says Unison
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday raised interest rates for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate...
‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’
ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...
Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving
THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...
‘Trying to hide widespread criminality!’ MP Watson accuses Ex-NI advisor Crone
THE former News International legal manager Tom Crone was yesterday accused by Labour MP Tom Watson of ‘trying to conceal widespread criminality’ at...
‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
‘COLOSSAL BA PROFITS!’ – while mixed fleet cabin crew fight for a living wage
‘COLOSSAL profits confirm British Airways can easily afford to end the obscenity of cabin crew poverty,’ Unite said yesterday responding to BA’s announcement yesterday...
Greece Erupts As 200,000 Workers March In Athens!
THE VOLCANO of people’s rage which was building up its fury over the last few months, erupted in Greece on Wednesday in an unprecedented...
Kiev coupist Nuland visits Syriza leaders!
LAST Tuesday, in a visit that was kept quiet, the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (she oversaw...
‘STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSION!’ – Abbas urges the UN
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...
No fare rises – re-nationalise!
RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
Postal Workers Will Not Accept Their Livelihoods Being Destroyed!
THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...
Join Our Mass Picket Today!
‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...