Hamas Prepares For Israeli Invasion
HAMAS yesterday vowed to avenge the deaths of its fighters and civilians in the Gaza Strip as Israel launched a full-scale attack on Gaza,...
GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils
GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...
‘We have to stop Ealing Maternity closure!’
TRADE union members working at Ealing Hospital yesterday bought their tickets for next Tuesday’s meeting and pledged to march and occupy to defend the...
‘A nurses strike is long overdue’
NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...
Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...
SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
‘We are fighting for our rights!’
PICKET lines at Heathrow Airport were all manned successfully yesterday and there was a carnival atmosphere at the Bedfont Football Club, as a battle...
Metro Bank Shares Crash!
METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...
Heathrow strike vote!
THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...
Gate Gourmet workers say: WE WANT VICTORY! – while TGWU leaders discuss compulsory redundancies...
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke to News Line on the picket line yesterday. Mrs L Saran said: ‘We are becoming impatient. Last Monday we...
Civil Servants Strike Ballot
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided yesterday to hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and...
Nut Reject Three-Year Pay Cutting Deal
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday rejected a proposed three-year pay deal for teachers as a pay cut and warned there will be...
Liverpool Stays Out – No To Imposed Flexibility
MORE than 800 Liverpool postal workers remain on strike today against the imposition of ‘flexibility’ by Royal Mail. The action continues while the CWU Executive...
Mass Marylebone RMT protest
THERE were 200 drivers, guards and engineers in RMT and Aslef outside Marylebone Station in London from 9am-10.30am yesterday morning protesting against Chiltern Railways’...
RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!
RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...
Papandreou Agrees To ‘Great Sacrifices’
Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that Greece has agreed the terms of a financial rescue deal with the European Union and IMF. This will...
Workers Revolution in Ukraine worries Putin
PRESIDENT Putin said yesterday at a Moscow press conference that an unconstitutional coup and an armed takeover of power had taken place in Kiev. He...
NO NHS CUTS! – says UNISON Conference
THE UNISON National Delegate Conference voted unanimously yesterday to oppose cuts to the National Health Service and against privatisation by the Labour government. The main...
NUT rejects the ‘Prevent’ policy
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...
Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets
LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...
Notorious G4S Is To Be Brought Back!
NOTORIOUS private security firm G4S, currently under investigation for fraud and three of whose employees are presently in court charged with manslaughter, is being...
May ‘Flexible’ On Brexit Leaving Date
DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son’s murder
A distraught Maria Otone de Menezes visiting Stockwell tube station yesterday, the site of her son's murder. she called for her son, Jean Charles'...
Camberwell eviction halted!
''WE are determined not to get evicted. We are determined to fight and we are determined to get a permanent place for me and...
SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation
HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...
Teenage Suspect Charged
A seventeen-year-old boy arrested by police in connection with an alleged plot to blow up airliners has made a second appearance in court. The...
Tuc Is Supporting Tube & Ambulance Workers Strike Action!
THE TUC Congress yesterday passed Emergency Motions against the Lobbying Bill, and against the attack on the right to strike of London...
Starmer urges EU war on Russia!
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...
STRIKE ACTION WILL SPREAD – warns Dave Ward
‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...
TUC–call a general strike! – demands YS lobby
‘TUC get off your knees! Call a general strike!’ shouted an enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby of the first day of the TUC Congress in...
‘EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON EU!’ – says Labour’s shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott
LABOUR, the LibDems, the SNP and pro-Remain Tories are set to vote against the government holding a 12th December General Election in the House...
62% Don’t trust coalition on NHS!
A You Gov poll commissioned by Unison reveals that the majority (62 per cent) of the public do not trust the government to handle...
Labour NEC gives in to witch-hunt
THE LABOUR Party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), yesterday adopted all of the examples of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the international definition, in addition...
‘TRUST ME!’ – May pleads with Cabinet
UNDER HEAVY FIRE, PM May yesterday was reduced to pleading with fellow ministers and MPs to ‘trust me to deliver’ over Brexit. Writing in...
Shares And £ Collapse
Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...
BANKS QUARTER PER CENT RATE CUT – Bosses warn ‘economic climate is worsening’
Yesterday’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision to cut interest rates from 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent, provoked worried reactions. The...
Brown Denies Job Change
Gordon Brown yesterday denied that he is about to step down as Prime Minister, adding that there is ‘no possibility of a job called...
Sacked Tesco drivers protest
FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...
Unions Reject Pay-Cut Cartel
HEALTH unions, Unison, the BMA, and RCN have refused to recognise a South West regional NHS cartel set up to cut pay and conditions. The...
May undermines Parliament!
‘WHAT I am setting out today is a simple democratic demand, it is not taking an opinion one way or the other of what...
Rescuing Banks Is Brown’s Policy
At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling stressed his support for the banks. In his keynote speech, moving the resolution ‘Prosperity...
Babar Ahmad finally freed!
‘ELEVEN years of solitary confinement and isolation in ten different prisons has been an experience too profound to sum up in a few words...
‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners
PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were...
NO ACADEMIES! 3 Newham schools to strike
STAFF at three council-run schools in Newham, east London, are to take part in a simultaneous strike this Thursday against an attempt to force...
Labour wrong to privatise admits Prescott
FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott has claimed he was against NHS privatisation when he was in government and that he still is. In...
Queen’s Hospital workers are striking for fair pay
THERE was a lively well attended picket line at Queen’s Hospital Romford yesterday. A number of issues have brought the Unite union membership of the...