RMT OUT SOLID! – after LUL board scuppers peace formula

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‘We anticipate the London Underground strike will be solid as it was last time’, rail union RMT said yesterday. A RMT spokesman told News Line:...
The demonstration from the cemetery to Syntagma Square. Banner reads ‘Rage must become collective struggle’

Anti-government fury at Greek pensioner’s funeral

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The funeral of a Greek pensioner on Saturday turned into a mass anti-government protest. About 1,000 workers and youth attended the civil funeral in Athens,...

RCN calls 48-hour national strike

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...
Limehouse surgery practice nurse JUNE GRAY addressing yesterday’s protest against cuts to east London GP surgeries

Limehouse ‘Save Our Surgeries’ protest

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EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...
Junior doctors lead the fight against Hunt and the Tories – they have now rejected a 2% rise

Unacceptable! – Doctors Condemn 2% ‘Pay Rise’

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A NEW BMA poll shows nine out of ten doctors regard the latest government pay award as ‘unacceptable’. As well, the BMA poll of...

Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!

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THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...

RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...

‘Rail Cuts Cost Lives’–RMT

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‘ACT now to stop another rail tragedy’, demanded the RMT rail union yesterday, in a demonstration alongside members of sister union TSSA outside the...

‘THIS DEAL WILL COLLAPSE’ – Gourmet pickets tell News Line

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‘A LOT of people feel the same as me. We believe this deal will collapse,’ Mr Singh told News Line on the Gate Gourmet...

Second Reprieve For Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won another reprieve in the High Court yesterday, after a judge ruled that Basildon Council hadn’t been sufficiently clear in its...

Personal budgets cutting care!

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The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...

‘Blatant complicity in genocide!’ – US vetoes UN ceasefire resolution

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HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in...

Eastern Ukraine refuses to vote!

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THERE were big demonstrations in Donetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities yesterday in opposition to the presidential election that was called by the unelected...

KICK PRIVATEERS OUT OF NHS! – Unison condemns Hinchingbrooke privatisation

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‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...
Sacked Tesco drivers protesting at their unfair dismissal at the Tesco AGM yesterday in London

Sacked Tesco drivers protest

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FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...
Yesterday’s picket at Chase Farm Hospital making the point that Enfield residents are ready to occupy their hospital to keep it open

Stop Chase Farm Closing!

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HOSPITAL workers, patients, and local residents in Enfield, said yesterday they would join the march through Enfield on December 4th to stop the closure...

Half A Million Are Starving In Gaza!

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MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...

BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...
Chase Farm Clock Tower is occupied

Police take action against Chase Farm occupation!

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THE Chase Farm occupation was ended at 9pm on Saturday night after the police received government orders to evict the occupiers. The occupation began...
Health workers forced to take strike action – demanding that every health worker gets a 1% increase!

Raise productivity and cut welfare say Tories

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RATHER that waiting to make a statement to the new parliament, Tory Chancellor George Osborne announced through the Sun newspaper on Saturday that he...

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are aiming for a New Year victory!

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‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...

Harris Confirms Her Unwavering Support For Israel!

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US Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, has unequivocally reaffirmed Washington’s unwavering support for Israel’s genocidal campaign, brazenly asserting Tel Aviv’s ‘right to defend itself’...

‘FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!’ – 600,000 workers march...

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MORE than half a million workers, students and youth held a powerful march for Palestine in central London on Saturday, marking two years of...
Radiographers on the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital yesterday morning

Radiographers on the March!

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RADIOGRAPHERS across the UK were on strike yesterday for the first time in more than 30 years in an escalating struggle over the Tory...

STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison

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UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...

Labour government ‘willing to let hunger strikers die’!

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THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...

Thousands of GPs tell BMA rescue package is ‘useless’ – BMA survey reveals

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THOUSANDS of GPs in England have told the British Medical Association (BMA) that Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s package of measures to supposedly rescue general...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers insisted to News Line yesterday they want their jobs back. On the picket line at Heathrow Airport Jarnail, said: ‘I...

Al-Awda Hospital Fire Rages As Doctors Call Out For Support!

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AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...
The demonstration outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding that the UK and US keep their hands off Syria

Cameron ‘fits up’ Syria – War just a matter of judgement

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PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...
London trade unionists marched from UCH to Downing Street last week and showed their determinatipn to fight this government’s savage cuts and privatisation

MASS ACTION DAY JUNE 30th!

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‘The likely date for the first coordinated action is 30th June, when 750,000 members of the PCS, NUT, ATL and UCU unions could all...

BMA’s Nagpaul opposes PM’s plan to ease the ‘lockdown!’

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‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...

UK Military support Saudi entry into Syria!

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THE UK is ready to back up the newly founded Saudi coalition ground army, with air support in Syria, British military sources told the...
‘We all support Colonel Gadaffi’ demonstrating Libyan students insisted outside Downing Street yesterday

LIBYA DEFIANT! – After Gadaffi assassination attempt fails

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‘DOWN, DOWN Cameron, Down, Down Sarkozy, Down Down Obama,’ chanted hundreds of angry Libyan students outside 10 Downing Street yesterday afternoon, holding up pictures...
Anti-capitalist demonstrators taking to the streets of London following the crash of the banks in 2008. The crisis of mass unemployment and inflation is intensifying

Bank Alarm Over Inflation Rate – Prices Still Above Target

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...
Striking civil servants, school teachers and college lecturers on the march to defend pensions in June this year

‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions

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SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...

Miliband talks productivity to the bosses – wants partnership with business and bankers

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, put on his Tory hat yesterday when he launched his party’s Business Manifesto, at business news agency Bloomberg and...
immediate release of Binyam Mohamed and all political prisoners still being held in Guantanamo Bay

Bring Binyam Back!

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‘BRING Binyam home! Close Guantanamo Bay!’ chanted over 100 demonstrators at Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon, before the arrival of US President George W. Bush...
Determined CWU picket line at Crawley Delivery Office on July 13th

Brown Backs Royal Mail Bosses!

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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...

Safe staffing levels now! demands RCN

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NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...

Gate Gourmet Workers Battle On

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...

No more wage cuts, pay up now! – demand striking resident doctors

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TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

Bush Boosts Troop Levels

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US President George Bush yesterday announced a permanent increase in the size of the US Army and US Marines. He made it clear that the...

Victory to the Crown Post Office strikers!

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‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU)...