RATES KEPT ON HOLD – as production plunges
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...
MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations
A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
Fresh Intifada erupts over Jerusalem
RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...
‘gaza Is At Breaking Point’
Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza are at breaking point, Karen Abuzayd, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency warned yesterday. She said...
SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Defend every hospital
Saturday April 6th
NUT to strike on March 26
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday announced a national strike across England and Wales on Wednesday 26 March. The NUT said the strike is...
Government refuses to hand over pandemic messages & notebooks – NOW FACES LEGAL ACTION
THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...
Vote Anna Athow To Keep Chase Farm Open
A LIVELY North East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital won big support yesterday for its determination to keep...
One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs
Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...
‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...
DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...
‘WE HAVE TO KEEP NHS FREE!’ – say workers and youth
THOUSANDS of young workers and students occupied Westminster Bridge yesterday, determined to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill (HSCB), due to be read...
Tory Party Chairman Resigns – As Johnson Skulks In Rwanda!
THE Tory party has been hit for six by its two by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and in Wakefield. Tiverton and Honiton Lib Dem; Richard...
‘WE ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE NHS’ – says BMA
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...
LECTURERS STRIKE – NATFHE and AUT to stop tomorrow
Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...
‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’
TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...
‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!
THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...
Johnson’s mission to India fails
THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...
British Steel on the Brink – 4,500 jobs threatened
BRITISH Steel is seeking a further loan off the taxpayer of a whopping £75m as it teeters on the brink of collapse, with the...
£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!
‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...
Tower Hamlets Day Of Action Called
Striking lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in East London yesterday called on other trade unions and colleges to join their Day of Action next...
Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty
WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...
Scottish school fire – No smoke alarms!
EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...
Grenfell Tower council opted for flammable cladding
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council turned down a proposal to clad Grenfell Tower in fire resistant material and instead opted for a cheaper option, allowing...
Brown Backs Royal Mail Bosses!
Postal workers yesterday responded angrily to Gordon Brown’s insistence at prime minister’s questions, on the eve of their 24-hour rolling strikes, that ‘pay settlements...
Labour wants to write off all student debt!
SHADOW education secretary, Angela Rayner, said yesterday that the Labour Party’s ‘ambition’ is to write off all student debt at a cost of £100bn. But...
Osborne knifes working families & slashes Welfare!
IN a savage attack that will cost workers hundreds of pounds a week, Chancellor Osborne has said he will use Wednesday’s Budget to announce...
76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...
‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
Israeli warplanes target civilians
THE Israeli occupation army intensified its attacks on homes, civilian targets and shelter centres in different areas of Gaza yesterday, killing and injuring dozens...
BA Cabin Crew Out Today
BRITISH Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are striking against poverty pay today in the first day of a 72-hour strike. It follows last week’s two...
Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back
The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...
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...
‘THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN!’ Coalition’s unlimited fees plan condemned
Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...
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...
RISKY AND DISASTROUS! – warn health union leaders
The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...
Heathrow trade unionists support Gate Gourmet workers
HEATHROW Airport trade unionists are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers rally at the end of Monday’s TUC May Day march through London. At...
Class Size Clash Looms!
Teachers are heading for a conflict with the government over class sizes. The National Union of Teachers is to vote at its annual conference in...
Milwaukee uprising after police shooting
CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...
Worst US unemployment since Great Depression – 3.3 million Americans jobless
FIGURES released yesterday show that 3.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment, the worst jobless figures since the Great Depression of the 1930s after...
STOP THE AXE! DEFEND THE ARTS! – Norwich march today!
‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...
NHS preparing sweeping healthcare services cuts
THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...
‘Pay us our hardship money’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobby TGWU
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were very angry yesterday at having to reapply at the Hillingdon TGWU union office for their February hardship payment, which...
Reinstate Indro Sen!
‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...
Not Enough Doctors!
Government cuts have seen two NHS hospitals call for Army medics to help them maintain an A&E service. NHS trusts in Yorkshire and Mid-Staffs cite...
TUC to discuss general strike – At April 24 meeting
THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...
UK will recognise Palestinian State!
THE UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced in London while...


















