Gaza – All Power Cut Off

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GAZA’S electricity cut out at 1pm GMT yesterday, when its sole power plant ran out of fuel, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after...
LINDSAY COOKE, from ‘Mums4Medics’ making her point outside Portcullis House, Westminster, yesterday

7 Treatment Centres Axed

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...
Palestinian AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (centre in white jacket) on hunger strike in solidarity with over 1,600 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Picture shows Aysar and supporters demonstrating in Parliament Square on Wednesday evening

‘OUR CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE WE ARE’ says Barghouthi

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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...
Bakers Union in Manchester supporting the Young Socialists 248-mile March for Jobs from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike

Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase declared

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‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...

Close down every immigration centre

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ALL IMMIGRATION centres should be shut down because they are extremely damaging to the health of the refugee and asylum seekers who are incarcerated...
Over 1,000 heads marched on Downing Street yesterday with a clear message for Chancellor Hammond!

Over 1,000 head teachers march against cuts

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OVER one thousand head teachers across England and Wales yesterday held a mass protest over savage cuts to their schools’ budgets. Heads from Peterborough,...

Medical Student Fees Could Reach £57,000 – Bma

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New medical students are likely to graduate with debts of £37,000 warns a new British Medical Association (BMA) report published today. The BMA says this...

Essex’s Biggest Ever Cuts In Fire Service!

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FIREFIGHTERS and the general public are outraged as Essex fire authority has voted through the biggest cuts in the county’s history, which will see...

Gaza workers closure protest

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HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...

‘SLAVE-DRIVING GATE GOURMET’ says Jarnail Singh, locked-out workers branch secretary

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers’ branch secretary Jarnail Singh condemned the company for ‘slave driving’ yesterday. He said: ‘They made their plans a long time ago...

Strip Capita!

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A DEVASTATING ‘blunder’ that saw 160,000 patient records wrongly archived is the latest unacceptable failing from Capita, doctors union BMA (British Medical Association) said...
Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally

Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally

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Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition

Thousands join BBC unions to take strike action!

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The BBC was gripped by the biggest strike in ten years yesterday, as over 11,000 journalists and technicians from all three BBC unions –...

Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution

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President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...

270,000 Civil Servants Ballot For Strike

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday announced that it will start a strike ballot today of 270,000 PCS members working for the...

NHS PAYMENTS! – warning from UNISON

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UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, yesterday raised concerns over the consequences of introducing individual budgets outlined in yesterday’s ‘Primary and Community Care’...

DAMN THIS DEAL! – says Cyprus Speaker

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‘THIS decision is painful for Cypriot people. This decision was a defeat,’ Cyprus Parliamentary Speaker Yiannakis Omirou said yesterday. He was referring to the deal...

Opposition Parties Run Away From A General Election!

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THE LABOUR, SNP, and Lib Dem parties agreed yesterday not to take up Tory PM Boris Johnson’s challenge and back his motion on Monday...
Junior doctors remain angry at Hunt’s attempts to dictate to them – they will be taking strike action over three days

3 Days Of Junior Doctors Strike Action

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THE BMA has today confirmed the dates and details of possible industrial action by junior doctors, following a decision by BMA Council, the body...

Legal Aid freeze will hit children – lawyers rally today

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The Howard League for Penal Reform has today condemned the changes to legal aid provision that will come into effect from April 1st...
Busworkers & campaigners at Greenford Bus Garage yesterday – they are determined to occupy Ealing Maternity to keep it open

Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers

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‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...

‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand

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UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...

Truss Quits – TUC Must Call A General Strike To Kick Out The Tories!

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PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she...
Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line earlier this week and looking forward to their demonstration on Sunday

END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs

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Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...

5,500 Children killed in Gaza! – World Children’s Day November 20th

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ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...

Students Angry Over Soaring Rents

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STUDENTS are up in arms at the soaring cost of their accommodation on top of £9,000 a year tuition fees and government plans to...

Five surgeons resign over £20bn NHS cuts!

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The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...
Lambeth College lecturers, students and supporters fighting vicious budget cuts

‘HANDS OFF OUR JOBS, WAGES AND PENSIONS’ – Lecturers warn the Tory Lib-Dems

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On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...
Youth on December’s silent march for Grenfell in North Kensington – they demand Justice for Grenfell

White goods cause 60 fires a week Silent march for Grenfell today in London...

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‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...

Corbyn woos CBI bosses

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
Train staff joined forces with furious commuters demonstrating at stations across the country against massive rail fare hikes which came in yesterday morning – MICK CASH (centre) RMT General Secretary, who joined the King’s Cross protest, called for the c

Renationalise railways!

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TRAIN staff were joined by angry commuters in protests at over forty stations across the UK as the 3.4% hikes in rail fares...
PADDY HILL (second from left) and the Birmingham Six (centre) on the day of their release, March 14, 1991 outside the  Old Bailey, with Labour MP CHRIS MULLIN (centre)

Paddy Hill condemned British & Irish governments!

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ONE of the Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1975, branded the British legal system as unable ‘to spell the...
Teachers union leaders with the front banner on the huge London march during last November’s pensions strike

Teachers’ pensions hit again

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‘THIS is just the latest blow to hard-working teachers and other public sector employees already reeling from a raft of changes to their pensions,’...
Women cleaners at their ‘Centre of Struggle’ camp outside the Greek Finance Ministry in Athens on Wednesday

Greek cleaners celebrate a year of struggle

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THE 595 women cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry, sacked en masse on 17 September 2013 on the direct orders of the EC-IMF-ECB overlords,...

Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients

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THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...

‘Liberation of the people from France’s dictatorship’ – welcomed by the Niger trade unions

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THE UNION of Workers’ Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) has condemned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary...
Nusrses’ quarters on the Chase Farm site boarded up with metal plates

Nurses at Chase Farm hospital facing eviction!

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Eight mental health workers and their families, who live in the Chase Farm hospital residences, face eviction. The trust has issued eviction notices for these...

3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!

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THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...
Grenfell survivors and their supporters demonstrate outside the Kensington & Chelsea Council Town Hall which ignored all  warnings of the dangers of an inferno at Grenfell Tower and then ignored them after it

Sheltered accommodation contains Grenfell cyanide

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THE insulation used at Grenfell Tower – which releases cyanide if burned – is installed at sheltered accommodation in east London, it was reported...

MASSACRE! – US bombers kill 47 near to Syrian Border

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FORTY-SEVEN people were massacred in two bombing raids by American warplanes in occupied Iraq early yesterday morning, close to the Syrian border. The air strikes...

‘DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL’ – US Congress condemns Blackwater’s 200 shootings

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Private security firm Blackwater USA, which sent its mercenaries to Iraq, has been condemned as being ‘dangerously out of control’ after nearly 200 shootings...

Sack Sats Private Contractors – Says Nasuwt

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TEACHING trade unions have condemned the government’s use of private contractors, hired to mark school children’s ‘SATs’ exam papers. The condemnation was in response to...
The front banner of the mass march by workers and youth in Athens on Thursday following Wednesday’s general strike in Greece, which reads: ‘Down with the government of murderers, of the IMF and of terrorism’

‘GOVERNMENT MURDERERS!’ Greek workers condemn regime

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Some 10,000 workers, students and youth marched through Athens city centre last Thursday evening against the Greek government’s violence in last Wednesday’s general strike...

Mass Sackings For NHS!

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LABOUR and the RCN have reacted angrily to instruction from NHS bosses and regulators to impose a ‘headcount reduction’ to reduce their deficits...