Patients’ safety being compromised

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SIXTY-FOUR per cent of doctors believe that patient safety has deteriorated over the past year – 10% higher than last year, a new study...

‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote unanimously

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A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...

Lloyd’s braced for euro collapse!

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LLOYD’S of London has made preparations for the collapse of the euro. Richard Ward, its chief executive, has publicly admitted that the world’s...

BA PENSIONS CRISIS – work longer or pay more, workers told

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BRITISH Airways workers are being threatened again that they will either have to work longer or pay more to maintain the value of their...

Tories step up attacks on refugees & their lawyers

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THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...

National Dock Strike! Warns Unite

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UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...
Lewisham BMA on the last big march on January 26 against the plans to close the hospital – their contracts are now under attack by the government

GP contract changes will harm patient care!

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THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...
A lively demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday demanding ‘Shut Yarl’s Wood down’

Stop indefinite detention!

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THE indefinite detention of asylum seekers must stop, a Parliamentary report on immigration detention, released yesterday has concluded. Following the report there was an angry...
Mass anti-government demonstration in Athens on Sunday

Thousands march against ‘murderers government’

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OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...
Libyan women, proclaiming their right to defend their country against armed rebels, picketing the recent Contact Group meeting in London

RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter

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Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...
Striking Lewisham Southwark College lecturers are determined to win a pay rise after years of no increments

Lewisham College 2-day strike Lecturers on poverty pay

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‘THE MONEY’S there. We want our share!’ said striking lecturers at Lewisham Southwark College in southeast London yesterday morning. Members of the University and...

BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way

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Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...

Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action

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The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...

Birmingham bin strike Megapicket

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Thirty-five Labour MPs have written a letter in support of the striking Birmingham bin workers ahead of their MEGAPICKET on Friday. Many hundreds of trade...

118 sites face privatisation demolition or ‘regeneration’ 8,000 London council homes under threat

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ONE hundred and eighteen council housing sites in London are facing privatisation, demolition or ‘regeneration,’ which will mean, according to council responses to a...

Hezbollah banned

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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...

‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’

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‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

Six Palestinian Activists Win Legal Action – Finally Leave Jail After 547 Days Of...

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FAMILIES of six Palestine Action activists have said the jury’s verdict marked a ‘monumental victory’, after their relatives were cleared at Woolwich Crown Court...

General Strike Shuts Down Greece

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GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...

‘I will now form government’ – May

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‘I WILL now form a government,’ Theresa May declared yesterday in a statement outside Downing Street after returning from Buckingham Palace. May said this...
NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...
RMT picket line during their strike to defend jobs and to keep ticket offices open

48-Hour Tube Strike

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A 48-HOUR London underground strike is to take place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, tube workers union RMT said yesterday. RMT said that the strike...
The march of more than 3,000 people organised by the North East London Council of Action last November against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The Council of Action has called for another mass march on July 26

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM

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DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...
Migrant workers marching against their super-exploitation by the employers and the government

Labour Attacks Youth, Workers, Sick And Immigrants

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Yesterday the government launched major attacks on workers and immigrants. Ministers announced plans to strip unemployed people of their benefits, force long term sick and...

May Put On 3 Days Notice

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THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...
The privateer Carillion was in a permanent war with its workforce to increase its profit margins

RBS & May knifed Carillion!

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‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...

Junior doctors determined to win their pay battle!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital...
A section of Friday evening’s 10,000-strong demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London against Israel’s attacks on Palestinians

‘Israel A Terrorist State’

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UP TO ten thousand people demonstrated on Friday evening in front of the Israeli embassy in London to protest against Israel’s continued military assault...

650 US military casualties!

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A SPOKESMAN for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday that more than 650 US military personnel were killed and wounded in the...
Firefighters on a national march through Liverpool in support of the struggle against cuts in the fire service in the north west

Firefighter Heroes

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East Sussex Chief Fire Officer Des Pritchard yesterday paid a moving tribute to the two fire crew who died, and the nine firefighters, one...
Junior doctors … their struggle has inspired the country’s GPs

GPs are calling for industrial action

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A SPECIAL GPs conference in just a few weeks called by the BMA GPs Committee (GPC) is set to hear unprecedented calls for industrial...
A strong early morning picket adds the Christmas spirit to its determination that Chase Farm Hospital must not be allowed to close

OCCUPY CHASE FARM say Enfield residents, patients and workers

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THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass Xmas Picket outside the Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to step up the fight to...

‘LOL’ Dave to Rebekah

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Prime Minister Cameron ended several text messages to former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks with the letters LOL, she told...

20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget

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TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...

MPs SLAM UNIVERSAL CREDIT!

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Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...
A section of the mass picket of the Balfour Beatty Crossrail site at Blackfriars Bridge early yesterday morning

Angry Sparks Demand Official Action

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ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...
Students at UEA demanding the resignation of Universities Minister Willetts

Willetts resign! Demand UEA students

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Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
Protesters outside parliament yesterday on behalf of Grenfell tenants who died in the inferno

Toxic Grenfell Insulation Was Banned!

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MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...

POLICE RAID ON NOTTING HILL – stun grenades used by armed police

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Yesterday, police said that two more of the alleged 21 July would-be London bombers were now in custody after a series of armed raids...
Young Tamils are leading the fight for a permanent ceasefire in Sri Lanka. PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN (centre) is continuing his hunger strike

We Want Permanent Ceasefire

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‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

Palestine ‘Day Of Rage’

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FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...
Striking Metroline TGWU drivers and engineers on the picket line at Willesden bus garage last Tuesday

METROLINE PROVOCATION! – Boss advises workers to look for other jobs

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The arrogance of Metroline’s boss in talks with the Transport and General Workers Union, coupled with the failure to move sufficiently on pay, means...

London Metropolitan University Occupied

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday called for a public enquiry into the failings of London Metropolitan University (LMU) as students from the...