FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions
FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...
Southern drivers 9-day strike
SOUTHERN train drivers in the ASLEF union are bringing the network to grinding halt over the Xmas period with nine days of strike action. The...
Tube Strike Suspended
THE 48-hour London Underground strike was suspended yesterday afternoon by both unions, the TSSA and RMT. The strike, due to start last night...
48-hour rolling strikes in Greece
THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...
Council Unions Want 5% Rise
More than 1.5 million local government workers are to ask for a five per cent pay rise in the new year. Three trade...
‘Life or death’ ambulance crisis
AN ACUTE lack of ambulances and paramedics has created a situation where 999 patients classed as ‘life threatening’ are waiting for up to...
125,000 workers, students & youth march for Palestine
THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...
Budget cuts every year – says Miliband imitating Osborne
PARTY leader Ed Miliband yesterday set out how a Labour government would ‘deal with the deficit’. In a speech delivered at the New Economic Foundation...
‘PACKED LIKE SARDINES!’ – need for 250,000 pupil places says ATL
SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...
MIDWIFERY CRISIS! – ‘Reverse diploma cut decision’ – RCM urges
The Royal College of Nursing yesterday accused the government of exacerbating an already serious midwifery crisis. Student midwives’ leaders expressed alarm over the government’s decision...
Police Riot In Athens
GREEK workers and youth demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands last Wednesday throughout the country as part of a 24-hour general strike against the...
New financial year hits families hard!
THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...
HEZBOLLAH HITS BACK – 300 rockets into north Israel
The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One...
‘the Last Days Of The Karamanlis Government’
GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...
Young Socialists Summer Festival [Postponed] – August 3rd, 2019
Postponed a week until Saturday, 3rd August 2019 – Doors open from midday Near Hoxton Market at St. John’s Church, Pitfield Street, N1 6NP Great bargains Live...
Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution
President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...
‘DISASTROUS’ DROP IN STUDENT NUMBERS – says National Union
THE NUS has described a drop in the numbers of students going to university as ‘deeply worrying’, and has called on the Government to...
MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha
The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...
‘Stay Off Work From Next Monday’ Say Neu Leaders!
MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...
Bankers’ Man Hunt Imposes Tens Of Billions In Tax Rises & Savage Cuts
CHANCELLOR HUNT yesterday announced tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts in his Autumn Statement. Hunt acknowledged that the UK was in recession...
Galloway Persona Non Grata In Egypt
The leader of the Viva Palestina aid convoy for Gaza, British MP George Galloway, was yesterday deported and declared persona non grata by Egypt. Officials...
Don’t Deport Students
THE NUS, UCU and Unison yesterday condemned the Home Office attack on London Metropolitan University and its international students, and demanded that not a...
Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton
DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...
‘There must be national action to prevent nhs privatisation’ say NHS Logistics pickets
THE first national strike in the National Health Service in 18 years began on Thursday night at 10pm as dedicated health workers and supporters...
Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...
Sweeping emergency powers are unveiled! – Police given powers to arrest suspected corona...
NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...
‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis
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...
Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!
WE want the TUC to give us the support that they voted for at their TUC Congress. ‘They must help us to win our jobs...
Israel bombs 2nd UN school in two days
ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...
‘NO DILUTION OF SAFETY’ – Crow warns of Thames Waterway industrial action
‘There must be no dilution of safety and if we find that our members are put in danger then there will have to be...
Uber Eats, Deliveroo, TGI Friday’s Wetherspoons and McDonald’s STRIKE TOGETHER
UBER Eats and Deliveroo drivers are now joining McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons workers in a day of strike action tomorrow to demand a...
Hunt is driving doctors out! Restore strikes!
‘IT IS a very hollow gesture, to open up more spaces while simultaneously driving doctors out of the profession,’ said Dr Aislinn Macklin-Doherty. She was...
Reducing staff levels puts patients at risk
THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...
Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut
BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...
‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...
KIDNAP & TORTURE – British government knew say judges
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...
Gaza ceasefire possible if Israel stops setting new conditions says Hamas
HAMAS said yesterday that ‘a Gaza ceasefire is possible if the occupation stops setting new conditions’, while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was reportedly heading...
Ambulance boss must quit!
AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...
Austerity forever! – Osborne
TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday delivered a Budget that continues the savage austerity war on the working class, while handing billions to big business and...
‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...
‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...
AFGHAN PANIC – calls for back-up will be met says Downing Street
DEFENCE Minister Watson was forced to make a statement in answer to an urgent question in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, after the...
Greek Bankworkers Fight Sackings
GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek...
Amsterdam Horror!
THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...
400,000 March On Downing Street For Victory To Palestine!
Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...
NHS winter crisis – 10,000 excess deaths
THE NHS winter crisis was responsible for an extra 10,000 deaths in the first weeks of 2018, figures published in the British Medical Journal...