Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories

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‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning are determined to be reinstated on their original terms and conditions

Young Socialists march in Birmingham

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MORE THAN 100 youth won enthusiastic support from shoppers as they marched with the Young Socialists through Birmingham city centre on Saturday afternoon, as...
Lecturers arriving for the mass rally at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster – they are demanding a rise in pay

Rock-solid college strike!

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‘THIS is a national one-day pay strike. We haven’t had a pay rise for six years – which represents a 17 per cent pay...
Junior doctors are determined to proceed with their five-day strikes

Bma Votes To Proceed With Five-Day Strikes!

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DESPITE enormous pressure being piled onto the junior doctors to capitulate and either shorten their strikes or call them off altogether, the BMA has...

Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood

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A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....
SIAN GRIFFITHS (centre) wearing her Queen’s Fire Service Medal, with supporters outside the London Fire Brigade HQ yesterday

Reinstate Sian Griffiths demands FBU!

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‘Reinstate Sian’ demanded a lobby, by over a dozen female firefighters and supporters, of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) yesterday....

May’s Grammar School Move Is Slammed

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‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...

Attack on WikiLeaks countered – day 11 of hearing

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DURING DAY 11 of the hearing yesterday at the Old Bailey, in which the prosecution is attempting to get WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited...
Marios Lolos addressing a rally of trade unionists in Athens

Greek riot police condemned!

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THE leaders of the Greek journalists and photoreporters’ trade unions have demanded that the police leadership stops its violence against press workers and releases...
Travel Safe strikers lobbying Transport for London head office yesterday

Travel Safe Action

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‘TRANSPORT for London – do the right thing!’ shouted striking London Overground Travel Safe security workers lobbying TfL head office in Victoria yesterday. ‘What do...

Israel assassinates Gaza mayor

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ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government...

Unison delegates want action

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UNISON members are gathering at the union’s national delegate conference in Manchester today, determined to defend their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. They will...

Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth

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LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...

‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’

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TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...
Marchers in Athens city centre on Wednesday night demanding the Turkish government support the Kurds fighting ISIS in Kobane

Turkey fighting to the last Kurd!

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TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...
Teachers on strike at Alec Reed Academy where standards have fallen since it became an academy

‘Standing up’ to a bullying employer

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TEACHERS were on strike at Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London for the third day yesterday, with three more days of strike action...
Family members gather around Stockwell shrine on 3rd anniversary of the the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday

STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder

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FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...
Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes

NHS Staff Face Privatisation!

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The coming clash between the trade unions and the Labour government over plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS was yesterday...

‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and wage cutting

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‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...

Junior Doctors Want A 35% Pay Rise!

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PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

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DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

‘They are liars–they want to destroy everything!’ – Nasser Hospital doctor reports on raid

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‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...

OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham

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OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...

Defend Heathrow jobs rally today!

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HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...
Trade union banners and placards demanding defence of the NHS and no cuts – these will be key demands on May Day

Stop NHS Cuts And Closures

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Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...

Parents going hungry! – to help feed their children

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THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...

TORIES MOVE TO ILLEGALISE STRIKES! – Unite offers ‘constructive discussions’

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‘THE government’s proposals on union ballots will make legal strikes close to impossible,’ TUC leader Francis O’Grady said yesterday. She was responding to an announcement...
The picket line at Bush House. Howard Zhang (centre) told News Line ‘They are forcing people out who don’t want to go.’

Nuj Defends Bbc Jobs!

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The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...
CWU leaders DAVE WARD (second left) and BILLY HAYES (fifth right) on the Crown Post Office picket line in Stockwell

No Crown Post Office closures!

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FOUR THOUSAND workers in Britain’s network of 371 Crown Post Offices are on strike today against the government’s policy of wholesale closures and in...
Students on yesterday’s march in Whitehall determined to end fees and get EMA grants back

Police Attack Peaceful March

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TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...

Jenin is facing complete Gazafication – destruction

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AN anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has issued a stark warning about the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin,...

STOP PRIVATISING THE NHS! say BMA and Unite strikers

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BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity...

Yemenis strike Saudi pipeline

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SAUDI Arabia have been forced to halt pumping oil through one of their major pipelines after a successful Yemeni drone strike yesterday afternoon. Saudi Minister of...
Chagos Islanders and their supporters lobbying Downing Street last November 10th

Chagos IslandS Community Association

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MEETING & FILM – Saturday March 15, 5pm @ International Student House, 229 Great Portland Street, W1 (next Great Portland St tube) speakers include: John...

Iran closes in on Hormuz deal

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Washington and Tehran are close to signing a one-page memorandum to end the armed conflict. The US leadership’s decision to suspend Operation Project Freedom in...

Biden threatens to cut off military support for Israel

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AFTER widespread outrage over the United States’ continued backing of Israel’s devastating year-long genocidal assault on Gaza, several media outlets reported on Tuesday that...

Johnson Imposes Tier 3 On Manchester

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TORY PM Johnson announced yesterday the government will impose the strictest measures – a Tier 3 lockdown – on Manchester, despite Greater Manchester Mayor...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory at Heathrow yesterday

Revolutionary Mass Action Defeats Chirac And Villepin

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FRENCH Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to make a dramatic climbdown by withdrawing the hated CPE (Contrat Premiere Embauche) for youth. The...
Libyan students and workers picketing Downing Street demanding the coalition stop the bombing of the Libyan people

HAGUE EXPELS THE LIBYAN DIPLOMATS –recognises Benghazi gang as government

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FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...

NHS buildings ‘verge of collapse’ – Risk of ‘corporate manslaughter’!

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AN NHS hospital has commissioned a report into the risk of corporate mans-laughter charges should a fatal roof collapse occur, leaked documents exposed yesterday. West...
Kingston Hospital UNISON members demonstrate outside the hospital last month against cuts

Walk-Out At Unison Health Conference

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The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...

GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today

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A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...
Part of Sunday’s 2,000-strong rally in Victoria Square, Birmingham, supporting striking binmen

SPEAK UP CORBYN – urged to condemn Labour council

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TWO THOUSAND Birmingham binmen and their supporters from all over the country demonstrated yesterday in a Unite national rally in Victoria Square in front...
Junior doctors and nurses demonstrate outside the Department of Health against the imposed contracts and the ending of bursaries

‘We have a duty to support junior doctors!’

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‘WE have a duty to stand up for our junior doctors. We cannot allow them to be bullied in such a way,’ Ian Hodson,...

Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!

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ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...