ICC seeks arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders!

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THE DECISION by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh...
Young Socialists lobbying last year’s TUC  Conference in central London

Apprenticeships Rip-Off Exposed

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PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...

Israeli tanks, copters and drones fire on thousands–21 killed 150 wounded

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AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza...

‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis

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GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...
A large university students banner at the head of an anti-austerity demonstration in Athens

Greek General Election Fury!

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WORKERS and youth in Greece are set to deliver the biggest electoral blow ever this Sunday against the two main capitalist parties, the conservatives...

Israeli army commits nine massacres in 24 hours!

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THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...
Post Office workers rally yesterday afternoon in Westminster while striking to keep Crown Post Offices open

Crown Post Office Massive Strike Action

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CROWN Post Office workers, all over the country walked out at 12.30pm sharp yesterday, in an effort to persuade the government to halt...

DEXTER BRISTOL WALK-OUT! – died after being classified illegal

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THE MOTHER and sister of Dexter Bristol (57), who died suddenly earlier this year after being classified as an illegal immigrant, angrily walked out...

Israel steps up genocidal war on Gaza and West Bank!

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AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...

Four pro-Palestine hunger strikers continue into 54th day of strike action!

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FOUR pro-Palestine hunger strikers are continuing their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on her 54th day of hunger strike, Teuta Hoxha is on her 48th...

Defend Gp Surgeries!

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GP LEADERS yesterday handed in a 16,000-strong petition from patients to Downing Street demanding ministers act urgently to help GP practices under threat of...
Greek riot police attack a young female demonstrator in Athens last Saturday. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek riot police act as occupation army

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ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...

Cut £72m agency spend! – to solve the midwife crisis

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CUTTING the amount the NHS spends on agency midwives would solve the midwife shortage, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new...

Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets

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LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...

Throw out ‘new’ Junior Doctors’ contract

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JUNIOR Doctors must vote from tomorrow to throw out the junior doctor contract agreed by the BMA and the Department of Health on 27...
French youth in Paris taking part in the April 2006 general strike

France Paralysed!

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France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...

Greenspan Lashes Bush

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Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...
Unite leading a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of the NHS in July this year

SCRAP THE BILL! – and the Board says Unite

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‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...

Syria condemns Turkish piracy!

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SYRIAN transport minister Mahmoud Saeed yesterday accused Turkey of ‘air piracy’ over its forcing down of a Syria-bound passenger aircraft travelling from Russia. Turkish jet...

Special forces attack Athens seafarers

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HUNDREDS of Greek Coast Guards’ special forces and riot police raided striking seafarers’ pickets at the port of Piraeus at 3.30 Wednesday morning. During the...

Go Now! Workers Tell Greek Pm

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FOLLOWING Greek Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou’s calling of a referendum on the EU austerity programme, angry workers have called for his immediate resignation and...
Police read out a passage from the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act to Nicholas Wood outside Downing St

Oxygen masks needed for Iraqi children

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A DEMONSTRATOR highlighting the plight of dying Iraqi children was read a section of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act by a police...

MEDVEDEV WARNS GEORGIA –Insists US is still arming Saakashvili

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RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...

GM MASS SACKINGS – IBC Luton in danger warns Dave Wiltshire

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General Motors yesterday announced plans to close nine plants, cut shifts and axe 30,000 jobs across North America by 2008. GM Chairman and CEO Rick...

WE ARE GOING TO WIN! – say striking Grangemouth workers

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The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...
Southern rail workers during their strike to keep the guard on the train picketing outside Brighton station earlier this month

Rail Strikes Spread

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RAIL strikes are spreading with RMT announcing yesterday a 24 hour strike action on Virgin trains East Coast over the threat to nearly 200...

Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties

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HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...

Balpa Takes BA Fight To Europe!

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PILOT’S union BALPA told News Line yesterday it will be campaigning to change European law after withdrawing from its High Court challenge to a...
Demonstrators in Karachi burn an effigy of George ‘dog’ Bush  after US forces bombed Afghanistan in September 2001

Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...

Gourmet locked-out workers determined to win

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers expressed shock and anger at the treatment of two hundred Xavier Gourmet workers who found the gate to their...
South East London Council of Action march in Southwark against the demolition of council housing

PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite

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‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...

Iran warns US-UK over Syria

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THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...

Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent

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The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...
Over 40 black cabs descended on Hove Town Hall yesterday – they are demanding the end of the ‘Wild West’ app-driver companies

Black cabs challenge Uber

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‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...

3 Years Of Guards Strikes

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HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...

Tamils Massacred By Sri Lankan Army

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TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lankan army is massacring Tamil civilians in heavy fighting in the North of the island. Initial...

Unite won’t tolerate illegal Doncaster strikebreaking!

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THE UNITE union has warned that it will leave ‘no stone unturned’ if Doncaster refuse contractor Suez presses ahead with strike breaking during...

Tory rights ‘smash and grab’ – threat to ban support for Palestine

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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

Netanyahu accused of blocking ceasefire – fears prosecution!

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AS ISRAELI Knesset members accused PM Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire deal being reached with Hamas for personal reasons in order to avoid prosecution,...

PRIVATISATION MENACE – a threat to road safety says Prospect

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PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...

Palestinian children urge – ‘stop the killing!’

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DOZENS of Palestinian children staged a protest on Monday to deliver an ‘urgent appeal to stop the killing of Gaza’s children’ to international community...

Restore All Funding To Palestine – Says Tuc Congress

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THE TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16: Palestine, which calls ‘on the British government to maintain all funding to...