GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...

Al-Qaeda driven out of Fallujah

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AL-QAEDA-linked militiamen have been driven out of Iraq’s Fallujah and it is now in the hands of local tribesmen, a senior tribal sheikh said...

Opposition Parties Run Away From A General Election!

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THE LABOUR, SNP, and Lib Dem parties agreed yesterday not to take up Tory PM Boris Johnson’s challenge and back his motion on Monday...

NAO TO PROBE GREENSILL! – and how it collapsed the UK steel industry

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...
Doctors outside the High Court yesterday (l-r) SARAH DODDS, Medical Defence Shield, CHANDRA  KANNEGANTI, Chair of British International Doctors Association, Dr JENNY VAUGHAN, Manslaughter & Healthcare, Dr JS BAMRAH, Chairman of British Association of Phys

Dr Bawa-Garba wins her appeal!

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DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck of the medical register, and not allowed to treat patients ever again, has won her appeal, reversing the...
Hospital staff and local residents marching to save Whittington Hospital in February. There is massive opposition to NHS cuts

‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference

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‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...

Tory Civil War Rages!

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THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...

Lecturers are angry

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UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU warned yesterday that they will take any university management to court if they dock a full day’s pay from their...

DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court

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Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...

Top Bosses Earn 120 Times A Worker’s Wage!

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THE HIGH Pay Centre’s ‘High Pay Day’ research, published Wednesday, is evidence that the government must rebalance the economy after Covid-19 to make it...

A&E diverts cause death

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A SCHEME to divert patients away from A&E resulted in a patient’s death, prompting NHS officials to launch a national review of the ‘front-door...

Iran will never surrender! – says Ayatollah Khamenei

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LEADER of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the Iranian nation will ‘firmly stand against’ an imposed war. In a televised message...

‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’

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HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...
Young Socialist members during yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

‘WE HAVE TO KEEP THIS HOSPITAL OPEN!’ – says Chase Farm mass picket

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‘We have to keep this hospital open,’ said workers and youth taking part in a fifty-strong picket of Chase Farm Hospital, yesterday, organised...

200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!

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MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...

Flooding – Call For Five Year Reconstruction Plan

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THE flood-hit South West of England needs a joined up, five year reconstruction and development plan to rebuild the economic, transport and social fabric,...
Save Chase Farm campaigners join workers from around the country to lobby MPs against hospital closures

Occupy Chase Farm!

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HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...

A breach of human right

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THE TORIES’ ‘right to rent’ checks are a breach of human rights, the High Court ruled yesterday. These are rules which force landlords to do...

Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns

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‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators

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A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...
GMB members and service users lobbying Barnet Council against cuts and privatisation

87,000 More Jobs To Go – Gmb

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The GMB union’s up to date list shows that a total of 87,374 posts are being made redundant at 107 councils across Britain. In...
Syrians hold a vigil outside their embassy in London last Thursday to commemorate the Syrian government leaders who died in that day’s terrorist bombing in Damascus

Military prepare for war over Syria

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‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...

Anti-Brexit insurgents gather!

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LIBERAL Democrat, Labour and SDLP MPs have said they are prepared to vote against triggering Article 50 which begins the process of leaving the...

‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK Parliament

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‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...
Gate Gourmet workers marching on May 1 – yesterday TGWU leader Tony Woodley admitted that their struggle was not over

PCS NATIONAL STRIKE THREAT – ‘You can’t tell Brown and Blair apart’ – Serwotka

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‘THE government could face a national strike by civil servants in a matter of weeks,’ PCS leader Mark Serwotka told a pre-TUC Congress press...

TUC warns nurses of huge wage ‘hit!’ – says Johnson will impose 3% ‘rise’

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NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...
Lively picket at Westminster Kingsway College in north London yesterday morning on the first day of their three-day strike

Eleven colleges launch strikes!

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ELEVEN colleges launched three days of strike action yesterday morning after rejecting a 1% pay offer which, when inflation is taken into account, is...

Goldsmiths Lockout!

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CALUM Bradley, Anti Casualisation Officer Goldsmiths University College Union (UCU), spoke to News Line from the picket line outside the university in New Cross...

Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!

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A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...

GM mass meeting demand

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WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...

Straw Rejects Ban On Rendition!

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THE government has rejected demands for new laws against ‘extraordinary rendition’: the practice of kidnapping and flying detainees to secret sites around the world,...
Pickets and supporters outside the Enfield Visteon plant – they are determined to win this struggle for jobs

BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers

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THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
MPs who supported the recognition of Palestine outside parliament on Monday

‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian

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‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...
Protest for safe and warm council homes – the housing crisis has reach new heights with families squeezed into too few homes

Record-breaking overcrowding – in both council & privately rented homes

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UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with...

Starmer ignores calls to resign

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‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...
Ambulance staff taking strike action in October – they know that doubling ambulance times will cost people’s lives

Plans to double ambulance times condemned!

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DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...

Don’t withhold the Palestinian revenues urge Nordic nations!

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THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian...
Junior doctors outside the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell where the GMB is planning to have a strike ballot for a living wage of £10 an hour and an end to a two-tier workforce

Living Wage Battle!

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GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...

Amesbury and Salisbury – Russian involvement ludicrous

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RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter...
A section of the rally following the 1,500-strong march in Sutton demanding no cuts to the St Helier Hospital

‘NHS needs 50% more consultants’

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There needs to be a 50 per cent increase in the number of hospital consultants by 2010 to ensure ‘a safe service’, the President...

Foreign Secretary Lammy – ‘UK warplanes could strike Iran!’

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FOREIGN Secretary David Lammy has said British warplanes could strike Iranian missile bases as the United States and Israel continue their assault on Iran. Lammy...
Striking BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

CABIN CREW STRIKES CONTINUE – more action over Easter

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There were even more determined pickets at Heathrow Airport by striking cabin crew yesterday, in the last day of their current round of strike...

TUC gives its full support to Sunak

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

‘WINTER CATASTROPHE!’ warns RCN

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‘EMERGENCY departments should be places of safety for those in crisis, but this report shows they have become places of prolonged and unnecessary suffering.’ Royal...