‘Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful!’ says International Court of Justice
JOSEP BORRELL, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, yesterday commended the advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is...
500 arrested in Trafalgar Square for opposing genocide!
NEARLY 500 people were arrested in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday for holding up posters declaring: ‘I oppose Genocide – I support...
Smokers and obese patients banned!
SMOKERS and people suffering from obesity will be barred from surgery under plans which the Royal College of Surgeons warn tear up the fundamental...
Syriza Caves In–But Workers Will Vote ‘No!’
DESPITE last minute frantic efforts by the Greek government on Tuesday, an agreement with the EC, IMF and ECB for cash assistance was not...
Bow bus strikers lead fight for safety
BOW bus garage drivers in East London are leading the fight for safety across the country’s bus network, as their dispute around scheduling and...
Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley
Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...
Barclays to sack 12,000 – while bonus pool for 2013 rises to £2.38bn
BARCLAYS bank yesterday announced plans to sack 12,000 bank workers and in the very same breath announced whopping bonuses for its top bankers. The...
Victory to the Crown Post Office strikers!
‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
£23bn PROFIT FROM NHS – being made by PFI companies
Banks and developers will make £23 billion in profits and interest over the next 30 years by building NHS hospitals under the government’s Private...
‘WE WILL WIN!’ – say Vestas workers
‘THINGS are going well,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith said yesterday. ‘People are in good spirits and we are standing by our call for...
Hamas denounces silence over Israeli raid on al-Shifa hospital!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where...
‘We are determined to win a pay rise!’ say SERCO strikers
‘WE ARE determined to have a pay rise,’ Unite shop steward Melissa Manso declared at a lively morning picket line outside the Royal London...
RESIGN NOW HEWITT! – demand junior doctors
‘The appropriate thing for Patricia Hewitt to do, would be to resign now,’ said furious junior doctors yesterday after their personal details were made...
Chase Farm – closure plan ‘to turn two thirds away’
THE Judicial Review Hearing into the decision to close the Accident and Emergency Department at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield continued in the...
‘Hormuz closure a defensive necessity’ says Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the threat of war against Iran and the region must be eliminated, and Tehran will...
25,000 Bank Jobs At Risk
The Unite union yesterday warned that up to 25,000 banking jobs are at risk with the government’s plan to sell off the profitable parts...
Defend National Pay Rates
GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...
Flammable wooden cladding found on 20 blocks!
AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...
Over Five Years In The Black Hole Of Bagram
‘These two men have been held in appalling conditions for five years, and for all that time the British government chose to do nothing,’...
100,000 Demand Smash Fees!
OVER 100,000 students, lecturers and college youth filled the streets of Westminster yesterday, in a massive demonstration against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s announcement of...
ANGRY EALING NHS PICKET – closed maternity department now a film set
‘I HAVE never seen, in the whole world, a hospital, which is meant to save people’s lives, which is meant to treat pregnant women...
NO PAY CUTS! Southampton strike continues
PUBLIC services staff in Southampton have rejected a revised pay proposal by the Tory city council and voted to continue their programme of rolling...
UK unemployment surges! – while IFS predicts debt to GDP of 110%
THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...
Save London Met! 120 jobs at risk!
‘SAVE London Met – 120 Jobs at Risk!’ was the call from a mass rally of workers and students outside the Holloway Road site...
Over 700 Killed In Lebanon!
INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were...
320,000 children face acute malnutrition
ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
ALL OUT STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS PUBLIC SECTOR! – to defend wages and jobs
‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...
BUILD COUNCIL HOUSING – workers reject Brown package
In a bid to prop up the banks and construction industry, prime minister Brown and chancellor Darling yesterday promoted a £1.6bn housing rescue package. This...
BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged
A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...
UN ratchets up war against Russia – accusing Russia of ‘war crimes’
‘RUSSIA is outraged that its request for an extraordinary meeting has been denied,’ Vasily Nebenzya the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the...
‘NHS Needs 10,000 More Beds This Winter’
A NEW BMA analysis shows that the NHS needs up to 10,000 more beds to meet pressures this winter. Hospital emergency care departments...
Syria hands Russia proof ‘rebels’ behind chemical attack
SYRIA has handed over ‘material evidence’ to Russia proving that foreign-backed terrorists were behind a recent chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus. The...
UK ‘The Sick Man Of Europe!’ Say Nurses
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...
Save Epsom Maternity!
Over 60 people protested outside St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday morning, against the ‘downgrading’ of its sister Epsom Hospital. The protest was called...
LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson
LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...
IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned
‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...
Tories to sack 91,000 civil servants – National strike action certain say union leaders
THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...
Tnt–2,000 Jobs Threat
WHISTL, formerly known as TNT, has suspended its door-to-door delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is threatening to sack 2,000 workers, it...
Trump cancels N Korean summit
US PRESIDENT Trump released a letter yesterday afternoon which stated that the summit between him and North Korean President Kim Jong-un has been cancelled....
Striking NHS Workers March
STRIKING NHS workers from south London’s psychiatric hospitals marched yesterday from Camberwell Green to the headquarters of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust...
US Prison Ships Used Diego Garcia
‘The US government must reveal information about prison ships used for “terror suspects”,’ the legal action charity, Reprieve said yesterday. In June 2005 the UN’s...
‘Shot From 10 Metres’
MARKING half a year of demonstrations against the Macron government, French Yellow Vests protesters defied police tear gas and water cannon attacks for the...
Cameron ‘Bounty Hunters’ Condemned!
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) yesterday condemned the coalition government’s decision to use ‘bounty hunters’ to tackle alleged benefit fraud. The charity was commenting...
3-quarters of medium-rises use combustible material!
THREE-QUARTERS of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials, data show. These include 76 schools, 25 hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and older people’s...
It’s Still Pensions Robbery!
‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...