Tory Cuts Have Caused NHS Nursing Crisis!
THE Royal College of Nursing yesterday slammed government cuts over the NHS staffing crisis. Janet Davies, RCN Chief Executive and General Secretary said: ‘The RCN...
Support The Firefighters!
Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...
‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line
‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...
ANGER IN LUTON – over 20-hour week plan
A MASSIVE anger is growing at GM Luton and throughout the town against the threatened closure of the car plant. Workers at GM Luton were...
de Menezes Memorial Is Unveiled
‘TO THIS day, not a single police officer has been punished for the deliberate shooting of an innocent man and the cover up that...
NHS–strikebreakers called in!
UNION leaders yesterday angrily condemned the planned strikebreaking by the army and police, announced on the eve of today’s 7am-11am four-hour NHS pay strike. Military...
MASSACRED BY BRITISH TROOPS – Iraqis demand damages and a public inquiry
Lawyers yesterday revealed shocking allegations about the behaviour of British troops in Iraq. Martyn Day, senior partner at law firm Leigh Day & Co, and Phil Shiner of Public...
Failing Universal Credit proceeds!
THE disastrous Universal Credit scheme, despite being lambasted by the National Audit Office for wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers...
Cornered!
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers cornered their TGWU ex-convenor Dhillon when he came out of the TGWU Regional Office in Hillingdon yesterday midday, where they...
SCOTS WORKERS REJECT THE NATIONALISTS – Forward to socialism
EARLY yesterday morning it was officially declared that the Scottish Nationalists were defeated as Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom after the...
100,000 Turn Out At Durham Miners Gala
UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...
Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Woodley And Barber
GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...
‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides
DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...
B of E fears housing bubble
HOUSE-BUILDING giant Baratt Homes’ share price crashed by ten per cent yesterday in an immediate response to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s announcement...
Children are arriving hungry every day at school!
THE number of struggling families sending their children to school hungry has increased over the past year, according to a poll of almost 900...
Terms Of Greek Bail-Out ‘No Longer Apply’
THE leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras stated on Tuesday ‘the expression of the public’s will has made the...
British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote
Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...
Close down every immigration centre
ALL IMMIGRATION centres should be shut down because they are extremely damaging to the health of the refugee and asylum seekers who are incarcerated...
Intensive care beds crisis 440 emergency operations cancelled
EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled putting hundreds of critically ill patients in danger as hospitals run out of intensive care beds, official figures have...
Private treatment centres harm NHS
TREATMENT Centres run by the private sector are much more likely to have an adverse effect on their surrounding NHS trusts, finds new...
7th week on strike for Greek admin workers
ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...
HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up
LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...
Nationalise P&O now!
‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...
Police Attack Athens Poly March
TENS of thousands of students, youth and workers demonstrated last Thursday in Athens, and in all Greek cities and towns, on the 38th Anniversary...
Strike Action To Defend Uni Jobs
STRIKE action took place yesterday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of 300...
Beaten To Death
A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...
CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration
HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES
The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...
COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader
‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...
Still no justice for Grenfell!!
AHEAD of today’s fourth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire of 14th June 2017, survivors and bereaved relatives have condemned the lack of progress...
GPs’ anger at May’s ‘money for diverts’ scheme
UNDER PM May’s long-term NHS plan, a new scheme is set out in which GPs are offered ‘shared savings’ for the amount of...
Five elite Israeli soldiers killed and 2 wounded in Khan Younis
FIVE elite Israeli soldiers were killed and at least two others wounded in Khan Younis on Friday after a building collapsed during a resistance...
Postal workers back Gate Gourmet rally
POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...
KREMLIN ATTACK WAS ON WASHINGTON’S ORDERS – says Peskov
RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...
Colleges Strike For 5% Pay Rise!
‘WHAT do we want? Five per cent! When do we Want it? Now!’ rang out on the picket line outside Lambeth College yesterday morning,...
Ready To Picket Bridgend!
‘WE WILL be picketing Ford Bridgend once we get the go-ahead from Tony Woodley,’ Visteon Enfield Unite Convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
Two-day nationwide lecturers pay strike
A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...
‘FAILING TOO MANY PUPILS!’ – biggest Academy chain in England condemned
THE biggest academy chain in England has been accused by Ofsted of ‘failing too many pupils’. Inspectors say that almost half of pupils at secondary...
52 Palestinians killed!
ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...
‘STOP PANICKING’ – Ukrainian President Zelensky tells United States
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...
Stop The Cuts, Stop The Bullying!
BBC journalists and technicians walked out across the UK at noon yesterday at the start of a 12-hour strike over cuts and a ‘bullying...
‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes
‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...
‘STOP THE MINDLESS DESTRUCTION OF JOBS AND SERVICES’ – GMB begins its campaign
The GMB trade union yesterday pledged to defend jobs and services in the wake of the results of the BBC-commissioned Experian survey. The results of...
GLOBAL MOBILISATION! – Hamas calls Friday-Sunday action against genocide
THE HAMAS Movement has called for intensified global mobilisation to Israel’s genocide and starvation war against the Palestinian people referring to the ongoing Israeli...
Daily Israeli ceasefire violations!
HAMAS says that since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, Israel ‘has not ceased its daily and continuous’ violations. According to the statement...























