REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra

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THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
Grenfell Tower survivors demanding justice – many consider that they will not get it from the current establishment-dominated inquiry

‘THE NIGHTMARE IS CONTINUING!’ –‘Inquiry’ angers survivors

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‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...
A section of the 200-strong Libyan lobby of the Lancaster House conference in London yesterday

Hands Off Libyan Oil!

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Libyan government forces stopped the pro-imperialist assault on Muammar Gadaffi’s home town of Sirte and drove back the counter-revolutionary forces yesterday. A Pentagon spokesman in...

STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’

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Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...

Home Office ‘slave labour’ Asylum seekers working for £1 an hour

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REFUGEES, asylum seekers and those that the Home Office are seeking to deport are being set to work in the detention centres, and paid...
Wembley anti-academy campaigners at the Easter NUT annual conference where they were given full backing by the union

Academies Out!

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‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...
Over 1,500 supporters of the occupation of Carnegie Library marched through Brixton on Saturday demanding it be kept open

1,500 march to stop library closures

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OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...

Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught

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Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...

‘Labour won’t be able to spend its way out of the mess!’ – Starmer...

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...

Heathrow Strike Action

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CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...
Striking Metroline TGWU drivers and engineers on the picket line at Willesden bus garage last Tuesday

METROLINE PROVOCATION! – Boss advises workers to look for other jobs

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The arrogance of Metroline’s boss in talks with the Transport and General Workers Union, coupled with the failure to move sufficiently on pay, means...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow – demanding action from the TGWU leaders for their reinstatement and that of the sacked BA shop stewards

‘WE WANT ANSWERS!’ say furious West Virginia mining families

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US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...

‘Save our NHS!’ demands 400-strong lobby

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THERE was a lively 400-strong lobby of Parliament organised by the Unite trade union yesterday afternoon to ‘Save Our NHS’ and ‘Stop the Cuts’...

‘INVESTIGATE CIVIL SERVICE!’ – demands McCluskey after state attack on Corbyn

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil...

Junior doctors considering more strike actions!

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JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...
Striking school meals staff at Haggerston school were supported by teachers and pupils who refused to cross their picket line yesterday

School Strike Solidarity

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ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...

Vicious Tory Onslaught On Asylum Seekers Condemned

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HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...
Ealing residents demanding that all four local District General Hospitals be kept open

Stevens intends to close District General Hospitals!

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SIMON Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, has announced his plan for closing major District General Hospitals in England and replacing them...
‘Father Christmas’ with Ethan and Larah Otoo on the picket line at Chase Farm Hospital where both the children were born

‘stop This Chase Farm Eviction!’

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A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...
Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
Sacked Visteon workers in Basildon yesterday, demanding Ford terms and contract conditions

‘Take Action’ Unite Leaders Are Urged

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SACKED Visteon workers at the Enfield and Basildon plants yesterday demanded their union leadership take action to win their struggle. At the Enfield plant, Unite...

‘Our policy for the TUC is to call a general strike’ says RMT’s Lynch

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‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...
Thatcher’s law at work – miner lies badly injured at Maltby in September 1984. He had been battered by police forces sent up from London to attack miners picket lines

Thatcher funeral–a state of siege!

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THATCHER’S state funeral on April 17, is to be a Tory state provocation of the working class. Her coffin is to be carried through the...

70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years

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A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...

BILLIONS WIPED OFF SHARES – after Japan stock market collapse

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Billions of dollars, pounds and euros were wiped off worldwide share prices yesterday as investors took fright at the abrupt collapse and closure of...

9 shot dead In Nakba intifada

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Nine people were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli forces during protests demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as tens of thousands...

Tories slash another £250m from social care!

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FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
Last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield organised by the Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘March With US To Stop Chase Farm Closure!’

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THE North-East London Council of Action yesterday called on everyone opposed to the threatened closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department and...

Defend Public Sector Jobs!

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Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...
A section of the 25,000-strong march on London’s Embankment yesterday

RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students

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‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...

LABOUR’S POLICIES ‘MAD’ – GPs leader meldrum threatens action over pensions

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Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GPs Committee yesterday warned Labour not to marginalise family doctors. He was referring to Practice Based...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...

‘we Are Marching Forward To Victory’

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THE locked out Gate Gourmet workers held their mass picket of the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday, marking the deadline for signing the...

‘There will be absolutely no pay increases for doctors or nurses above 5%’ declare...

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...
Students and workers rally in Manchester against tuition fees and cuts – a placard reads: ‘’Aaron Porter doesn’t represent me’

Porter Driven Out By Student Anger

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National Union of Students President Aaron Porter has quit, driven out by the fury of his members after he accused them of violence during...

Legal bid to halt Aslef strike

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SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...

LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders

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WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...

‘WE DON’T BACK NHS BILL!’ – 400 doctors warn House of Lords

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THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...

HALT WEST LONDON A&E CLOSURES! says RCN

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THE Royal College of Nursing is concerned that a lack of focus on out-of-hospital care while A&Es are closing will result in an even...

Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut

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BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...

‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!

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THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...

Strikebreaking managers are acting as rail guards!

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AS Northern and South Western Railway guards strike again this weekend, rail union RMT has raised new safety warnings with the regulator over the...