World Bank Halts All Its Funding For Afghanistan!
THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...
Lewisham & London Met Strike Action!
LECTURERS were on strike at Lewisham and Southwark College yesterday over 112 sackings because of the closure of the Southwark site in Camberwell, southeast...
Fight Threat To Chase Farm Hospital
THE Chief Executive of Enfield, Barnet and Haringey Clinical Strategy Project Board, Ms Johnson, has made it clear the Board intends to press ahead...
NHS PAY OFFER – Looks to divide and rule
‘I will be recommending members reject the new pay offer,’ UNISON Oxfordshire health branch chairman Mark Ladbrooke told News Line yesterday. He was commenting on...
CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....
DISASTER! – more British troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
Two British soldiers were killed and another two injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, yesterday. Their patrol was...
‘FAIR PAY NOW! BRING US BACK IN HOUSE AT ONCE!’ – demand hundreds of...
‘FAIR pay now! Bring us back in-house!’ demanded hundreds of Heathrow Airport workers as they marched to the Compass Centre headquarters of Heathrow Airport Limited...
NATIONALISE BRITISH STEEL says Unite trade union
THE UNITE trade union yesterday urged ministers to take British Steel into public control if a deal cannot be struck between owners Greybull, its...
Fe Colleges Disaster!
Further Education Colleges in England have indicated they face bankruptcy and disaster aftter their refurbishment programme has been halted. The colleges have lost up...
Coulson Leave To Appeal
PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...
Tory programme of attacks on working class!
THE TORY programme of 38 pieces of anti-working class legislation which the government plans during the current parliamentary session was outlined in the Queen’s...
Labour attacks BA strike
THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...
Pensions Strike!
‘UNISON is having a special local government pensions conference in February. The branches have forced our leaders to concede this so we can...
UNISON TO BALLOT – over 3-year NHS wage-cutting deal
DELEGATES at the UNISON Health Conference in Manchester yesterday voted to ballot over the government’s staged three-year pay deal. The UNISON leaders had previously accepted...
SOAS cleaners join striking lecturers
ON THE SECOND day of the three-day strike of 58 universities’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in central London yesterday...
Many Families At Breaking Point!
ONE in five UK households borrowed money or used savings to cover food costs in April, the latest Which? monthly insight tracker survey has...
Tory Split Deepens!
THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
Teachers vote to fight SATs!
Head teachers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott SATs tests, which unions condemned as ‘focusing on failure’. Teaching unions are also deeply opposed to the league...
‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court
‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...
Tories Plan Youth Boot Camps
UNEMPLOYED youth are to be conscripted into ‘boot camps’ or face being thrown off benefits and onto the streets, in a ‘vindictive’ new Tory...
ASLEF & FBU taking strike action
BOTH ASLEF train drivers union and the FBU firefighters’ union announced strike dates yesterday. ASLEF has called two 24-hour strikes on the TransPennine Express on...
British crisis frightens Obama
US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...
‘Real value’ of pay in freefall
THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...
NHS JOBLESS GROWS – as Department of health sees no crisis
THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...
‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers
THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
Picket Of Sri Lankan High Court
TRADE UNIONISTS and members of socialist groups will be picketing the Sri Lankan High Court in Colombo today. They are demanding the release of the...
Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...
‘We’ll step up our struggle!’ – vow Iraqi protesters after 5 killed
AT LEAST five demonstrators have been killed in Baghdad, Karbala and Baqubah in Iraq as security forces opened fire on the mass protest of...
Tuc Leaders Dine With Pm Brown
Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...
Corbyn Pledges Another 1945
Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...
GREEK PUBLIC SECTOR 24hr STRIKE
GREEK public sector workers went on a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday against the so-called government ‘mobility scheme’ to bring in tens of thousands...
Frontline NHS staff must be vaccinated! – Many NHS staff have lost their...
FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...
‘CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE’ – Gadaffi urges in his will
THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...
Corona spreading through England’s school system!
DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England. Five teachers at...
Mobilise unions to save Ealing Hospital – says WRP’s Arjinder Thiara
THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following...
‘We are all tax avoiders’ says Tory Lord Fink
‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...
Grenfell survivors abandoned by Council
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council’s response to the Grenfell Tower, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children was ‘badly flawed’ leaving...
Marching For A Living Wage!
RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...
GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA
GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...
‘People are ready to take General Strike action now’ says ASLEF’s General Secretary Mick...
‘PEOPLE are ready to take general strike action now,’ train drivers union Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan told News Line yesterday. Speaking at the Euston...
Tata Steel – pension cuts and no jobs guarantees!
THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...
Iran dismisses claims that a deal with the US is imminent
IRAN has dismissed claims that an agreement with the US is imminent or that the nuclear file and management of the Strait of Hormuz...
Bring LT cleaners back in-house
AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...
‘Try Them Or Free Them’
THE United States must bring all prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay to an independent trial or release them, the United Nations has said...
Dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Israeli genocidal regime
DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...