Israel bombards areas west of Gaza City – 40,334 killed so far
SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...
‘EU let thousands drown in Med’ – Lawyers submission to International Criminal Court
THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...
POMPEO VISITS LONDON – after Iran suspends nuclear deal
IRAN has suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was ripped up by President Trump. President Hassan Rouhani said...
Angry Visteon Workers Reject Offer!
‘WE ARE deeply insulted and more determined than ever to carry on the fight,’ Enfield Visteon factory Unite convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line...
Arrest Factory Fire Culprits
THE National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) Bangladesh held a symbolic one-hour hunger strike last Friday and are taking continuous actions to establish garment workers...
Miliband ‘Rent Cap’
LABOUR Party leader Miliband yesterday pledged that the next Labour government will introduce legislation to cap rents so they cannot rise by more than...
‘BRING DOWN TORIES!’ – says Ealing Hospital mass picket
‘IF THEY get rid of 600 beds and so many staff, 8,000 jobs in all – what a disaster! That would be the...
STUDENT NURSES ANGRY – at Tory-imposed tuition fee debt
STUDENT nurses and midwives are furious that under new proposals to scrap bursaries, they could potentially be burdened with £65,000 worth of debt for...
CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders
‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...
CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’
THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...
Fire Service stretched to the limit!
A VERY STRETCHED fire service has been hard at work throughout New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, the London...
5,000 A YEAR BEING MADE HOMELESS – as unsecured consumer debt reaches £160 bn
MORE than 5,000 people a year are being made ‘homeless’ as a household debt crisis deepens, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) warned yesterday. More...
COALITION LOOKING FOR NOVEMBER 30th STRIKEBREAKERS – to write to 2.5 million workers
Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...
Reeves declares war on Welfare State
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned yesterday that she intends to launch the biggest ever attack on the working class, the youth and the Welfare...
Mexican forces attack caravan
CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...
CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve
TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...
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...
Children and civilians deliberately targeted by Israeli drone attacks!
A RETIRED British surgeon recently returned from Gaza, testified to British MPs that he treated children and civilians who appeared to have been deliberately...
COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...
Hawking slams Tories over NHS privatisation!
PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has attacked the government’s NHS policies, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt in person, and warned they are seeking to bring in...
600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...
NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...
Warships Shell Gaza!
Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...
Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!
STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...
COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial
UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
Junior Doctors Strike Ballot Makes Hunt Think Again!
THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...
‘Revolution the only answer!’ Trotsky – News Line Anniversary rally told
UP TO 200 WRP and YS members and supporters marched through East London yesterday on the 43rd anniversary of the News Line daily newspaper...
Great Gold Rush Underway
THE GREAT gold rush has begun! Gold surged 5% on Thursday to a five-year high as plummeting world markets have driven investors to search...
SACK THE COALITION! – to keep our hospitals open
THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...
Rail Fares Rise – A 2.7% Hit
MILLIONS of rail passengers will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for tickets from 2nd January, in a fare rise announced last...
54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs
AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...
‘REASONABLE CASE’ – For the slaughter of Iraqis
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday told the Iraq Inquiry, that he was not pressured into discarding his opposition to going to war without...
‘MY BLOOD WAS BOILING!’ says RCN leader after Army mobilised against strikes
‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...
800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
Red Cross issues dire warning over Israel’s siege & starvation
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...
‘Sleeping at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin’
‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday,...
Israeli servicemen demand immediate halt to Israel’s assault on Gaza Strip!
NEARLY 1,000 current and former Israeli air force reservists have issued a public letter demanding an immediate halt to Israel’s military assault on Gaza,...
Law Lords Retreat!
British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...
Marchers speak at Northampton College
The Young Socialists March for Jobs set out from Northampton for Bedford yesterday morning. The marchers sent out an advance team to recruit new members...
Greek bank workers strike over pensions
Yesterday tens of thousands of bank workers were on strike throughout Greece for the second day of a two-day strike called by their union...
Opportunist SNP! –would not vote against NHS privatisation in England
THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...
Israel is conducting a fierce starvation campaign throughout the Gaza Strip
THE EURO-Med Human Rights Monitor has issued a stark warning that Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, compounded by a total blockade and acute shortages...
HANDS OFF OUR GP SURGERY! – 200 residents & GPs protest against privatisation
‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...
‘Unite Will Resist Compulsory Redundancies’ At Northern Rock
Unite (Amicus section) yesterday expressed fears for the jobs of thousands of its members currently working at Northern Rock, as Chancellor Darling introduced emergency...
‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote
JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...
‘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, ...
















