BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter
TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
Ys Lobbies Tuc
THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...
Nurses driven out of the profession
NURSES are working in ‘intolerable situations’ and feel ‘unsupported and undervalued’, with many thinking about leaving the profession, according to new RCN research published...
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...
Ban zero -hours!
‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...
‘ACT OF TERRORISM’ – ban sought on US bomb flights to Israel
A rights group yesterday sought a ban on US flights carrying bombs and detonators to Israel landing at UK airports. The Islamic Human Rights Commission...
‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told
EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
Israeli air strikes kill 24
ISRAELI air strikes killed at least 24 Palestinians between dawn and noon on Wednesday, with one of the biggest strikes targeting a school in...
Greek Finance Ministry occupied
WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...
Vote For The 5 Wrp Candidates!
ARJINDER Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Southall was greeted with enormous enthusiasm at Ealing Hospital yesterday. Workers, patients and visitors queued...
Royal Mail Xmas Strikes Against Mass Sackings
NEW Christmas strikes have been called against the destruction of postal workers’ livelihoods Following further attacks on the terms and conditions of postal workers, the...
DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College
students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...
STOPPED 25 TIMES! –Stuart Lawrence accuses police of racism
STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...
Great Response To Ys March In Birmingham
The Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education leaves the Bullring in central Birmingham at 9am this morning. It is setting...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Halt NHS Privatisation!
THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Unite says places the NHS at ‘unique risk of being irreversibly privatised’, will not exclude healthcare,...
Patel responds to drownings by stepping up her attacks on refugees
IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...
Israeli tanks, copters and drones fire on thousands–21 killed 150 wounded
AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza...
‘I WILL BE SEEKING A BALLOT FOR MORE STRIKE ACTION’ says UNISON NHS Logistics...
‘I will be seeking a fresh ballot for more strike action,’ NHS Logistics UNISON Maidstone assistant branch secretary Dean Lane told News Line yesterday. ‘Personally,...
Hamas reaffirms ‘the right to resist’ Zionists
On YESTERDAY’S second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, reaffirmed that its top priority is an immediate end to the...
‘A tragic milestone’ says Johnson as death toll passes 150,000!
PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...
Right wing ignores Kiev truce
THREATS of sanctions against the Ukrainian government look like blackmail, and a demand for early elections is a way to force Kiev towards the...
‘WAR ON SCHOOLS’ says teachers & lecturers union
TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...
PM HELD ILLEGAL DRINKS PARTY – while millions were under lockdown
PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...
Banning Procedures On NHS – A ‘gamble With Patient Health’
Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...
1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!
THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...
4.5 million in insecure work
FOUR-and-a-half-million people in England and Wales are in insecure work, reveals new analysis by Citizens Advice. The national charity says insecure work – where people...
REVERSE PLAN TO AXE GUARDS! – Tory minister admits they are vital
RMT is calling for an immediate halt and reversal of plans to axe guards from trains after a government minister admitted that they are...
Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close
WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...
No agreement over Brexit
‘IT is not possible for us to reach an agreement today,’ Jean Claude Juncker, EU Commissioner said at a press conference yesterday as the...
Hamas Leader Escapes Assassination Attempt
Palestinian prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. Haniya was unhurt after his convoy came under heavy gunfire in Gaza, witnesses...
SPEAK UP CORBYN – urged to condemn Labour council
TWO THOUSAND Birmingham binmen and their supporters from all over the country demonstrated yesterday in a Unite national rally in Victoria Square in front...
‘GET DIRTY AMBULANCES OFF THE ROAD!’ – demands UNISON trade union
UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...
Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...
TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned
THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...
MARCH FOR JUSTICE – called by TUC for May 1
‘Speakers from around the world will join the May Day March for Workplace Justice,’ said the TUC yesterday. Top trade unionists from South Africa...
200,000 on London March for Palestine!
A HUGE rally of over 200,000 people marched from Russell Square to Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 30th March, Palestinian Land Day, to...
FAMINE – warning from World Food Programme!
THE humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘could soon escalate into famine’ as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies...
One year since Greek riot police broke up ERT occupation
SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...
Increase nurses pay! – top NHS manager on £211,249
END the pay freeze for midwives and give them the same percentage pay increase as managers, the Royal College of Midwives has demanded, in...
Teachers unions unite for action
The UK’s two biggest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, yesterday announced plans for jointly coordinated strike action and action short of strike...
20 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed In Tigers Counter-Attack
COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...
NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation
Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...
KEEP ALL DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS OPEN! – unions must take strike action
NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...
‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’
DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...