UNARMED MAN SHOT IN CHEST – after 300 police raid east London home
‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...
Bring All Airport Workers Out Now!
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...
Locked-out workers ‘disgusted’ with TGWU leaders
‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel
OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...
Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures
FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...
Israel To Expand Offensive!
Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...
7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens
SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...
US shoots down Syrian warplane
US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...
‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...
Fury At Gourmet Sell-Out Deal!
TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the mass meeting of locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday afternoon that the sell out deal he has negotiated...
Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven
ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...
CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers
A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...
EU bankers plunder Greece!
USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...
UCU – New Pensions Offer
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) branch representatives will meet at 11am on Wednesday 28 March to discuss members’ feedback on a new pensions offer...
Palestine erupts!
ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...
Labour refusing Guantánamo Bay British residents
The lawyer acting for ten UK residents being held at Guantánamo Bay has said the US authorities would send them home now if the...
‘A SUSTAINED ATTACK ON THE POOR’ – Tories assault on council housing condemned
Homeless charity Shelter yesterday condemned the planned ‘radical reform’ of council housing as ‘a deliberate attack on the poorest in society’. Announcing the measure, ...
TORIES PLAY RACE CARD – as Queen’s Speech lashes workers
VICIOUS attacks on workers, especially immigrant workers, were at the centre of the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s Queen’s Speech delivered at the State...
‘Strike together against anti-union laws!’
INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...
Ambulance Service ‘breakdown’!
UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...
Stock Market Panic!
AS panic gripped investors on the world’s stock markets, it emerged yesterday that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245...
Coalition Pensions War!
Trade unions yesterday reacted furiously to pension change threats by Treasury Secretary Douglas Alexander. He said that all public sector workers, bar the army, police...
Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
Five US Troops Killed In West Iraq
A force of up to 2,500 US troops, supported by puppet Iraqi troops, moved into Iraq’s western Al Anbar province yesterday in the biggest offensive...
Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic
THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...
Two Koreas ‘Cease All Hostile Acts!’
HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
Johnson’s Fire Service Cuts Rejected!
OVER three hundred firefighters lobbied the Fire Authority meeting in SE London yesterday, where the decision was being made to defy Tory Mayor Boris...
THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust
Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...
Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!
A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair
‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...
University pickets call for a general strike!
Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...
Refugees Attacked By Riot Police
Refugee families at the Athens Railway Station and at the Diavata refugee camp outside Thessaloniki, northern Greece, were ferociously attacked by riot police last...
Ucl Rent Strike
OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...
‘Scrap NHS Hit Squads’
Health campaigners, the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of...
Israel using winter cold as a weapon against Palestinians
ISRAEL is using winter cold as an additional weapon to inflict suffering on Palestinians in Gaza, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said yesterday. It warned...
Sparks halt St Paul’s traffic
HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...
Involuntary Temporary Working Soars
INVOLUNTARY temporary working is soaring in Britain, a labour force survey revealed yesterday, with involuntary temporary workers now outnumbering voluntary temporary workers by two...
LECTURERS AND STUDENTS UNITE! – on fifth day of UCU strike action
‘LECTURERS and students unite and fight!’ rang out through the streets of central London yesterday as up to 5,000 striking lecturers, supported by their...
Corbyn’s position: EU deal or Remain but no Brexit!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn presented his position on Brexit yesterday in which a deal with the EU or Remain are the only options and...
Greek bosses stop wages!
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS’ – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on all trade unionists to act in their support. The TGWU members are fighting for reinstatement on their...
DROP IMPOSED CONTRACT – Royal College urges Secretary Hunt
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s decision to impose the new contract onto junior doctors must be reversed since the premise behind the contract’s...
ISRAEL STEPS UP RAFAH BOMBING! – ahead of ground invasion
AT LEAST 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on homes in Rafah overnight yesterday, including nine members of the Abu Taha family. It was...
Doctors will not be ‘border guards’
AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...