Lib Dems Dump Hs2 Policy To Win Tory Seat!

0
THE Lib Dems have pulled off another opportunist by-election victory, overturning a 16,000 Tory majority in a seat that has always voted Conservative. They did...

Johnson’s mission to India fails

0
THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...

Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration

0
THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...

Israeli Tanks On Edge Of Damascus!

0
ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...

Call Inquiry into Orgreave police violence

0
A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...
Thousands marched in London last February demanding no cuts in NHS services

STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM

0
DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...

‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!

0
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...

Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote

0
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...
Last October’s TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

INFLATION SET TO RIP! – pound under pressure after Moody’s downgrade

0
THE POUND is set to fall dramatically when the money markets open in the City of London today, following Britain’s first ever sovereign ratings...

Tory-Lib Dem Underfunding Has Created ‘Extreme Risks’ To NHS

0
LABOUR IS pledging a relentless focus on the NHS in its first 100 days in government as new research reveals hundreds of ‘extreme’ risks...

LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders

0
WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...
Marchers in London last May 18 demanding the privateers are kept out of the NHS

70% of NHS contracts going private

0
THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...
Striking BA cabin crew with  their families on the Heathrow picket line on Tuesday

BRING OUT BA GROUND STAFF! – demand BA cabin crew

0
UNITE cabin crew members at British Airways yesterday called on their union to ballot BA ground staff on strike action. They also said BA’s ‘bullying’...

Hamas denounces Israel’s plan to execute Palestinian prisoners

0
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval in its first reading of a bill that would permit the execution...
Young Socialists mass lobby outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on 9 September demanding jobs and refusing to workfor nothing

Welfare Fraud At The Top! – No System To Root Out Contractors’ Fraud

0
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday warned of the dangers of widespread fraud in the £1bn ‘Welfare to Work’ programme. Margaret Hodge...
FBU members and residents from the Buncefield area picketing 10 Downing Street on Wednesday night

Union solicitors urging members to sign deal

0
‘WE are asking all trade unions and all trade unionists to join our march and rally in Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March,’ Sharanjit...

Released prisoners reveal grim tortures in Israeli facilities!

0
ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...
Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists marching on May Day to kick out the Brown government and go forward to socialism

‘DON’T BANK WORKERS’ JOBS MATTER!’ – Accord condemns Brown and Darling

0
‘IT seems to me that bank workers are treated as second-class citizens as though their jobs don’t matter.’ This is what Ged Nichols, general secretary...
Greek youth march against austerity and police state measures such as the pogrom on migrant workers and their families

7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens

0
SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...

Ossetia Invasion Backfires!

0
THE United States has warned Russia that its ‘disproportionate and dangerous escalation’ of the conflict in South Ossetia could harm bilateral relations, the White...

COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%

0
COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

Hezbollah banned

0
LEBANON’S Hezbollah has been banned by the UK in its entirety, Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday. The Lebanon-based...

MORTGAGE CRISIS – one in five can’t make mortgage repayments in 2008

0
one in five mortgage holders is worried about meeting their repayments over the next 12 months, while a quarter of these haven’t any idea...

BETRAYAL! – CWU leaders call off strike

0
Postal workers were yesterday left confused and angry after the Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive called off strikes at five mail centres late...
One of the many families on the march from Enfield Green to Chase Farm Hospital

Unions must defend NHS!

0
‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted these slogans as they moved onto the Chase Farm Hospital site...
GPs and patients demonstrate against the threat of closure of 22 GP surgeries in East London alone

GPs angry at 24-hour 7-day working

0
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech to delegates at the annual Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference in Liverpool yesterday morning was angrily...

Israel breaks US 30-day Gaza aid deadline

0
INTERNATIONAL rights groups say Israel has failed to meet a deadline set by the United States to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza...

Millions of American workers fight health privateers and mass sackings

0
OVER 46,000 US healthcare workers have gone on strike against private health provider Kaiser Permanente. 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) members...

Extreme torture inflicted on Palestinians

0
NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of...
PCS General Secretary SERWOTKA with members demonstrating outside the Law Courts against Labour’s attempt to destroy their redundancy agreement

‘BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE’ – PCS, GMB, Unite condemn coalitions’ attack!

0
‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...
Athens university law department occupation banner calling for ‘Education law must be overthrown – in the streets we fight the government-IMF-EC policies’

Greek Workers Occupy! Against Government & Eu Attacks

0
GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

0
POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...

NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails

0
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...

The prince and the oligarch

0
AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

PRIVATE CLINICENTA NHS CONTRACT SUSPENDED – after two patient deaths

0
‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...
Greek electricians and power workers marching in Athens last June – will answer the autocratic bankers with a socialist revolution

Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!

0
GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...

‘YOU CAN’T PAY WORKERS LESS THAN THE MINIMUM WAGE!’ – GMB writes to Chancellor...

0
IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...
Defiant striking busworkers outside the Lea  Interchange garage in north London yesterday

London Bus Strike ‘Solid’

0
‘The strike was properly solid! Only four buses went out of 142 buses,’ Unite Rep Mickey Leachman said when he spoke to News line...

Yashika Deportation Stopped!

0
THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...

‘WE WILL DEFEND OUR MEMBERS AGAINST ALL ATTACKS!’ says Unite General Secretary Graham

0
‘WE WILL defend our members against any and all attacks,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham declared yesterday, in response to Tory Business Secretary Kwasi...

UK ECONOMY NOSEDIVES! – biggest fall in modern times

0
THE UK economy nosedived by a record 9.9%, the biggest slump in modern times, with the contraction in 2020 ‘more than twice as much...
Nippon strike picket at Heathrow Airport yesterday against a major attack on their wages and conditions

Nippon Workers Fight Back!

0
FORTY-FIVE drivers and warehousemen at Nippon Express Air Freight Agent in Hayes near Heathrow Airport are on their third day of a three day...

‘Shot From 10 Metres’

0
MARKING half a year of demonstrations against the Macron government, French Yellow Vests protesters defied police tear gas and water cannon attacks for the...
Nurses rally against low pay which is driving them out of the NHS –  A&E targets have been missed due to staff shortages

Smokers and obese patients banned!

0
SMOKERS and people suffering from obesity will be barred from surgery under plans which the Royal College of Surgeons warn tear up the fundamental...
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis (centre) protesting with hospital workers outside Kingston Hospital in Surrey yesterday

‘NO MORE NHS LOGISTICS!’ – Prentis tells News Line

0
‘There will be no more NHS Logistics,’ UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis assured News Line yesterday. He was referring to the way the unions allowed...