British Officers For Libya!

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TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut

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A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers marching through Southall on August 20 this year to mark the first yearof their struggle. Now they are campaigning for a successful rally this Sunday on the eve of their employment tribunal

Gate Gourmet Rally This Sunday

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are inviting all trade unionists and their families and friends to come to their rally in Southall Community Centre, Merrick...
Firefighters demonstrate in central London in July against the attack on pensions

Only one fire engine for Hove! – warns East Sussex FBU

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THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...
Campaigners fighting against cuts to the Herts fire service outside Radlett fire station in Ocober

Bovingdon Battle!

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews are appalled at the way two community action groups in Bovingdon and Radlett are being treated by local politicians over the...

Tackle Poverty Urges Bma!

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BMA DOCTORS want urgent action to tackle poverty and improve public health services after an official report found a strong connection between deprivation and...
Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, PATRICIA DA SILVA ARMANI leading last Saturday’s United Families and Friends Campaign annual march against deaths in state custody

Met Police Guilty In de Menezes Killing

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THE Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, Erionaldo da Silva said yesterday: ‘I have spoken to Jean Charles’ mother Maria, in Brazil and she...
E15 Focus Mothers Group and their supporters outside the four empty flats on the Carpenter’s Estate which are now occupied

E15 Mums Occupy

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FIERCE local opposition has emerged on the Carpenter’s Estate, in the heart of Stratford’s Olympic Village, where tenants are being forced from their homes,...

Greek Two-Day General Strike

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GREEK workers are staging an unprecedented two-day general strike today and tomorrow, called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against Yiorghos Papandreou’s government’s Mid-Term Economic...

‘Health And Care Is At Breaking Point!’ – Says Rcn Director Marquis

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‘WITH more than 13,000 patients a day stuck in hospitals because the community and social care they need to be safely discharged is unavailable,...
CAM STOCKS (far right in hat) joins junior doctors, nurses and supporters on the picket line outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London during last Tuesday’s strike

Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA

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THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...

98.7% NO CONFIDENCE IN LANSLEY – frightened Miliband urges ‘junk the Bill’

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NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...

Tuc Launches March 3 Day Of Action

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DOCTORS, nurses, hospital cleaners, midwives and radiographers will be amongst the thousands of NHS staff marking a national day of action on March 3...

School Youth Climate Change Demo

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HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
25 Years Since The Printers’ Strike

25 Years Since The Printers’ Strike

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Sunday January 23rd 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Youth marching in Crawley against the detention of immigrant workers

‘LEFT IN FLOODED CELLS WITHOUT FOOD & WATER WHILE FIRES BURNED!’ – Liberty demands...

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Human rights group Liberty will tell the High Court today that vulnerable detainees were left in overcrowded, flooded cells without food or water while...

‘Big Four’ supermarkets pay back £1.7bn in Covid funds

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SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the Hillingdon office of the TGWU urging all workers not to sign the notorious ‘Compromise Agreement’

Teachers Strike!

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TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...
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...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

LECTURERS STRIKE – NATFHE and AUT to stop tomorrow

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Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...
Trade unionists made their mind up about the role that Cameron and the Tory Party were playing a long time ago – picture shows placards from the October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity in London

‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron

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LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...

No Wage Growth In 2018 Says Resolution Foundation!

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THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...
The new 30x6ft banner erected outside Chase Farm Hospital that replaces the 3x3ft sign that was there when a 2-year-old child was taken by his mother to what she thought was the A&E, only to find the door to the Urgent Care Centre was locked. The child di

Chase Farm ‘needs its A&E back – not a new sign!’

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ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...

Full support for Al-Quds Day protest on Sunday!

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NEWS LINE completely condemns the unprecedented decision by the government to ban the peaceful Al-Quds March on Sunday and only allow a ‘static’ protest. Last...
2,000 Firefighters marched through Aylesbury last Tuesday to demand the reinstatement of sacked firefighter Ricky Matthews during their strike to defend their pensions

‘We will continue the fight’ – says FBU

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THE government’s plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions was backed by MPs, 313...
GPs demonstrating to ‘save your surgery’ in Rugby earlier this year

Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...
Health unions have warned that next year’s wage increase must match inflation

Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!

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HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...

Police tasering mentally ill!

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TWO-THIRDS of all people Tasered by the police in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014 were identified as mentally ill. The figures were made...

Israeli air strikes continuing killing men, women & children

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ISRAELI occupation forces killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday morning, as attacks continued across multiple areas of the enclave...

BACK ME AGAINST REBELS! – failure May appeals to people

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‘IF THIS deal doesn’t go through, we go back to square one,’ PM May said in her interview with Radio Five Live, where she...
Firefighters walk out at Euston fire station

Angry firefighters call for much bigger action!

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FIREFIGHTERS throughout England and Wales walked out of their fire stations at noon yesterday at the beginning of the Fire Brigades Union National Pensions...
Syrians march in support of President Assad – Syrian Kurds in Afrin are now calling on the Syrian army to defend them

‘Send Troops’–Kurds Call To President Assad!

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KURDISH authorities in Syria’s Afrin district have called on President Assad and the Syrian government to send troops to help defend them from a...
Students, teachers and staff holding a ‘noise demonstration’ during yesterday’s march against privatisation

Sussex uni marches against privatisation

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ONE hundred Sussex students, UCU members and students from other universities marched through the campus of a snow-bound University of Sussex yesterday lunchtime. The ‘Fight...

Doctors Don’t Back Hospital Closures

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THE British Medical Association yesterday denied the Observer newspaper claims that doctors back the ‘reconfiguration’ of 60 hospitals involving the closure of A&Es and...
Chagossians with their Community Association banner, demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia, outside parliament yesterday

WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA – say Chagos Islanders

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A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...

Vauxhall 250 Jobs To Go!

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VAUXHALL is cutting another 250 jobs at its Ellesmere Port car plant on top of the 400 jobs it announced in October. The carmaker, now...

Israeli army turns Nasser Hospital into a military base!

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ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further...
Teachers marching on a TUC demonstration against Tory policies

Children are arriving hungry every day at school!

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THE number of struggling families sending their children to school hungry has increased over the past year, according to a poll of almost 900...

450 jobs axed at BBC

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FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...

Hamas Condemns Bahrain Conference

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A HIGH–RANKING member of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, said yesterday that the Palestinian nation vigorously rejects US President Donald Trump’s controversial proposal for...

Johnson cannot rule out Xmas lockdown!

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THE TORY government ‘can’t make hard, fast guarantees’ that there will not be a Christmas lockdown, Deputy PM Dominic Raab said yesterday. The cabinet met...
Civil servants resisting the compulsory ‘outsourcing’ of their jobs marched through Westminster two weeks ago

CLAIMANTS GOING HUNGRY! – because of the axing of civil service jobs

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Claimants are going hungry because of the government’s axing of thousands of civil service jobs, warned the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday. Further...

Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers Lobby Tuc

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In London Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the TUC. Here they are discussing with MARY BOUSTED the leader of the ATL teaching union...
Firefighters demonstrating against cuts to the fire service in London. Their union warns that the cuts are endangering lives

Firefighters Deaths Rise

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Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...