Thousands demonstrated yesterday opposite the entrance to the Israeli Embassy in London against the blitzkrieg on Gaza

FREE PALESTINE! – shout several thousand demonstrators

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Demonstrators pushed through the police barricades shouting ‘Free, Free Palestine’, as several thousand people protested outside the entrance to the avenue leading to the...
TUC General Secretary FRANCES O’GRADY (centre) yesterday welcoming six emergency workers to Congress who had been involved in the Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury Park attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire

Grenfell–Never Again!

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THE TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady yesterday welcomed six emergency workers to Congress who had been involved in the Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury...

Petrol Prices Rocketing!

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SOARING fuel and domestic energy prices led to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rising from 2.7% to 2.8% in February, the Office...
Thousands of workers were in the ERT ground’s last Wednesday evening defending the occupation

‘Overthrow Junta!’ Greek Workers Ready To Act

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OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

24,000 Jobs Under Threat

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Over 24,000 manufacturing jobs are at risk over the next three months as UK firms struggle with falling orders, bosses warned yesterday. The latest Regional...

Students Angry Over Soaring Rents

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STUDENTS are up in arms at the soaring cost of their accommodation on top of £9,000 a year tuition fees and government plans to...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC demanding action to win their jobs back

No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers

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ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...

No agreement in talks between UK’s Truss and Russia’s Lavrov – while PM Johnson...

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THE MEETING between the UK foreign minister and her Russian counterpart yesterday was ‘like the mute talking to the deaf’, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...
Junior doctors during their recent strike actions insisting that over-tired doctors can make mistakes

BMA condemns ‘trial by media’

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THE BMA has made a legal intervention to highlight the huge implications to doctors posed by the outcome of the Bawa-Garba case. The ongoing two-day...
Teachers on the march to defend their national pay agreements and pensions – they are determined to defeat the coalition

Nut Strike Ballot Against Local Pay

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...

Britain Has Plutonium For 17,000 Nuclear Bombs

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THE UK's civil stockpile of separated plutonium is now over 100 tonnes, enough for the production of 17,000 nuclear bombs. The stockpile has...
Doctors voting at yesterday’s GPs conference where they rejected the government’s NHS privatisation plans

NO TO PRIVATISATION! – SAY GPs

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THE BMA GPs conference yesterday voted unanimously, but for a couple of abstentions, for Motion 153: ‘The Market and Any Willing Provider’. The motion from...

‘British government must issue medical visas for injured children from the Gaza Strip!’

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A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...

BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’

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The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...
Medical staff and other hospital workers marching from Royal London Hospital to Bart’s Hospital in March to defend the NHS

GOVERNMENT MUST TELL US THE TRUTH! – Meldrum to tell BMA conference

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‘I will remind the audience on Monday, at the BMA ARM that it is a huge privilege to have the trust of our...
Many young people were on Friday night’s 600-strong silent march through the centre of Kensington demanding justice for the victims of the Grenfell inferno

Grenfell United will continue to fight for truth!

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EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...
PCS workers picket line outside the National Portrait Gallery earlier this year

Museums taking strike action

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Strikes by workers at museums and galleries across the country today kick off a long weekend of action against government cuts. The Public and Commercial...

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...

Assad Forces Go On The Offensive

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SYRIAN government troops late on Sunday repulsed an attack by an armed gang on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo. This came...

SCRAP THE BEDROOM TAX! – a third of all tenants in rent arrears

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SINCE the bedroom tax came into force this year, one in three council tenants have fallen behind in their rent, the TUC’s False Economy...
School chair of governors Laws was unable to convince the young strikers to give up their action opposing an Academy

No Academy Here!

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YESTERDAY students at Crown Woods School in Eltham were on strike against management’s decision to turn the school into an academy. Students gathered outside the...

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...
Unilever workers lobbying the company’s head office demanding ‘Hands off Our Pensions’

Unilever Pensions Action

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A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit corporate giant Unilever’s UK operations as workers step up action to defend their final...
The class war at the TUC as banker CARNEY and TUC general Secretary O’GRADY meet

‘Stop Justice Privatisation!’

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DELEGATES at the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday voted unanimously for Composite 14, Protect Probation and Speak up for Justice. The motion calls on the...

‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson

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TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...
Campaigners to keep Lewisham Hospital open celebrate the High Court’s decision that Health Secretary Hunt was breaking the law with his decision to run down the A&E and other departments in the hospital

Hunt ‘No’ To Setting NHS Staffing Levels

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THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...
A section of the massive rally at Hyde Park. Over 200,000 took part in the march and many called for the trade unions to match their words with action

Palestinians examining 72-hour ceasefire proposal

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PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...

PFI hospital ‘never events’ – Wrong pipe! 85-year-old given air instead of oxygen

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HOSPITALS built under the hated Private Finance Initiative (PFI) do not respond well to ‘never events’ where patients’ lives are put in to serious...
Enthusiastic students joined UCU lecturers on the picket line during the April 24th strike of lecturers, civil servants and teachers

Hundreds Of ‘Failing’ Schools Face Closure

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Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...
Young Socialists mass lobby outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on 9 September demanding jobs and refusing to workfor nothing

Welfare Fraud At The Top! – No System To Root Out Contractors’ Fraud

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THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday warned of the dangers of widespread fraud in the £1bn ‘Welfare to Work’ programme. Margaret Hodge...

EU Withdrawal Bill proceeds Lords amendment rejected

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THE GOVERNMENT saw off an attempt by Remainers to adopt the Lords amendment which would have allowed a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit...
Students marched from the University of London Union to Parliament yesterday demanding free state education. In Parliament Square they tore down the fences and occupied

Parliament Square Occupied!

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‘FREE Education Now!’ chanted over 10,000 students on a march through central London to Parliament yesterday. Demonstrators from all over Britain also shouted: ‘Workers and...

Israeli Tanks Mass On Border Fence!

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AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday...

CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...

Trump threat to invade Cuba!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened Cuba, warning on Sunday: ‘THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I...
Mother of Azelle Rodney, SUSAN ALEXANDER, (beneath her campaign banner) addressing yesterday’s press conference

‘Azelle Rodney Executed!’ – An Unlawful Killing

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‘THIS report has found that there was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the police. ‘He was shot eight times in only two...
RMT leader BOB CROW and his delegation demand that Blair go

Tuc Delegates Reject Blair

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THE RMT railworkers union delegation demonstrated and walked out in protest at the presence of Tony Blair at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. They...

Inflation Leap Slashes Wages & Pensions

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‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...

1-metre rule abandoned when schools re-open! – parents to be fined if they keep...

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THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...

Workers Of The World Support BA Cabin Crew

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‘WE stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Unite who are fighting for a fair contract at British Airways,’ says the Teamsters...

‘We need to escalate the action’ say striking bin workers

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‘WE NEED to escalate the action,' striking Birmingham bin workers at their Perry Bar picket line told News Line early yesterday morning. The 370 striking...
Young people marching to the Israeli Embassy in London to denounce Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!

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RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...

Mass Executions In Sirte

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Fifty-three Muammar Gadaffi loyalists were executed by members of the counter-revolutionary NTC at a Sirte hotel last week, Human Rights Watch reported yesterday. Human...

‘They are liars–they want to destroy everything!’ – Nasser Hospital doctor reports on raid

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‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...

‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...

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OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...