VISTEON ADJOURNMENT – as Belfast occupation continues

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A legal attempt to remove workers from the Visteon plant in west Belfast was yesterday adjourned at the High Court for the second time...

Israeli Bombers Target Gaza Schools

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ISRAELI forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials,...

Hague Stokes Up War On Syria

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BRITISH Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday tried to get the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian terrorist ‘rebels’ and to stoke up...
Cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes and supporters arriving for the first day of the inquest on September 22nd

De Menezes Defiance

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Members of the Jean Charles de Menezes family refused to listen to the coroner’s summing up at the young Brazilian’s inquest yesterday, in protest...
Members of the Royal College of Nursing with their banners demonstrating against mass sackings of NHS staff on March 26

RCN slams Health Bill

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Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...

BROWNE ACCEPTS BLAME – but admits Blair knew of decision to sell stories

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Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for decisions which allowed the fifteen UK sailors and marines held by the Iranians...

BURNHAM RESIGN! – demand Mid-Staffs relatives

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CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...

Rashford forces Tory U-turn over free school meals

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OVER a million children suffering in dire poverty in the UK will now get free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a successful...

Rebekah Brooks to stand trial

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Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie, plus four others, were yesterday charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Charlie is a chum...

‘ELITE CONSPIRACY’ Johnson warning

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FORMER foreign secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that changing the date of leaving the EU from 29 March would be ‘shameful’, and the public...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY surrounded by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at the May Day demonstration in London

VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers

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Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...
Demonstration in London to defend the capital’s A&Es – workers are determined that the NHS must remain a service providing the necessary quality care for all who need it

Monitor wants NHS ‘production line’ to cut costs!

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THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...
Young Socialists lobbied last year’s TUC conference opposing sanctions on benefits, zero-hour contracts and slave labour

Benefit sanctions ‘illegal’

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THE High Court has declared the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 incompatible with the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article...

‘Macron has destroyed our social services’ say French protesters

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FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...

Sunak Has Questions To Answer – Says Labour

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CHANCELLOR Sunak has ‘a series of questions to answer’, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said yesterday, as the Tory tax scandal developed. Last week,...

‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...

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DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...

Balfour Beatty Withdraws Contracts

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The Unite trade union, yesterday welcomed the withdrawal of controversial contracts by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), which would have resulted in the termination...
Don't Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

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THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
French youth at he head of the one miilion-strong march against the CPE in Paris on April 4 – after the withdrawal of the CPE yesterday French youth are now determined to take the struggle forward to a socialist society

2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month

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Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
Swindon Hospital Carillion workers demonstrate outside the company’s HQ in London against the company’s work practices

Carillion workers in Qatar sleep 10 in a room

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WORKERS for Carillion in Qatar sleep ten to a room in lodging reminiscent of tenement slums in Victorian London and nothing has changed despite...
Lively picket at Westminster Kingsway College in north London yesterday morning on the first day of their three-day strike

Eleven colleges launch strikes!

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ELEVEN colleges launched three days of strike action yesterday morning after rejecting a 1% pay offer which, when inflation is taken into account, is...

Israeli police beat up murdered boy’s US cousin

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AFTER the 15-year-old American cousin of murdered Palestinan teenager Mohammed Abu Khedair was beaten up by Israeli security forces last week, the US State...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday demanding no privatisation of Royal Mail

STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference

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over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...

‘Kill off no deal, kill off May’s deal forward to 2nd referendum’ – John...

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‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...

Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!

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RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...

Miliband Hits Out At Unions

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband hit out at the trade unions yesterday, accusing Unite leadder Len McCluskey of being ‘wrong’ to oppose a public sector...
Demonstrators outside the Israeli embassy were confident that the Palestinan masses would stand fast and force the arrogant Israeli aggressors back

‘Victory for defiance in face of death!’

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GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya has hailed the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as a triumph for the Palestinian people. He...
GMB members and service users lobbying Barnet Council against cuts and privatisation

87,000 More Jobs To Go – Gmb

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The GMB union’s up to date list shows that a total of 87,374 posts are being made redundant at 107 councils across Britain. In...

Nablus under siege for two weeks!

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A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...
May Day march!

May Day march!

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TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!
Mounted police cavalry charge striking miners at the Orgeave coke depot – Rudd announced no inquiry into police violence

Fury At No Inquiry Into Orgreave

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‘I HAVE concluded that there is no case for either a statutory inquiry or an independent review,’ into the battle of Orgreave, home secretary...
A section of yesterday morning’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure

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‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
UNISON members campaigning to defend the NHS against a government bent on privatising it

‘END BOTTOMLESS PFI PIT’ – demands the UNISON trade union

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UNISON yesterday demanded ‘an end to this bottomless PFI pit’. The Treasury’s decision to pump an extra £2bn of taxpayers’ money into recession-hit PFI...

Powerful May Day March Calls Kick The Tories Out! Forward To Socialism!

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THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...

Brexit vote Friday

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THE NEW Tory government with its majority of 80, plans to ask MPs to vote on PM Johnson’s Brexit bill as early as this...

Barber Warning!

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned of ‘widespread industrial action’ over public sector pensions. Speaking at a press conference in Congress House, central London,...

Labour in crisis after shock Runcorn defeat

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REFORM UK’s shock win in Runcorn & Helsby has plunged Labour into crisis. Nigel Farage’s candidate Sarah Pochin snatched the seat by a mere six...

GO NOW! Scottish Labour leader demands of Starmer

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SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded PM Keir Starmer stand down yesterday, saying: ‘The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street...
The huge enthusiastic crowds that turned out to demonstrate and vote ‘NO’ shook the centrist Syriza leadership to its foundations

Tsipras Turning ‘No’ Vote Into ‘Yes’!

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GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...
A local resident holds up the charred remains of Grenfell Tower cladding – 468 buildings across the UK are clad in the same flammable aluminium composite – the Tories refuse to ban it

Tories refuse to ban Grenfell cladding on 468 buildings!

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FLAMMABLE cladding is not going to be banned from existing buildings, Tory Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announced yesterday at the Conservative Party conference. This...

Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed of Palestine Action remain on hunger strike

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HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...
Bodies of some of the large numbers of Palestinians slain in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangists who were allowed into the camp by Israeli soldiers, the same year as an Israeli submarine sank a Lebanese refugee ship

Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship

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ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...

Hezbollah defending Lebanon against Israeli genocide

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‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a...

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE! – Charities condemn Bush aid offer

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Charities Oxfam, Action Aid and Christian Aid said yesterday that Bush’s pledge to double US aid to Africa was too little, too late. Action Aid...

Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...