Unison leader prentis (right) pledged to establish a public sector alliance to fight all cuts

Don’t Cut Public Services

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Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...
RMT and TSSA pickets at Rayners Lane depot during the strike on September 7th

Tube Jobs Strike!

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London Tube workers began walking out at 6.30pm last night at the start of a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to cut ticket...

BAILIFFS MOVE IN AT CRACK OF DAWN! – but Brent Academy protesters vow to...

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AT the crack of dawn bailiffs once again invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground. No legal notice had been given to the G.R.A.S.S occupiers...

Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’

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THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...

RATP busworkers reject ‘fire and rehire’ deal

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THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...

‘We won’t pay £39bn divorce bill’ says Brexit Sec Raab

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IN A Sunday Telegraph interview, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab threatened to withhold the £39 billion ($51 billion) divorce fee from the EU,...
UAW members demonstrating on February 16 outside the Flint East Delphi plant demanding no wage cuts

From New Labour Spin To Union Busting

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GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...

Al-Araqib Village Stormed By Israeli Police

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Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...
There have been massive demonstrations in Britain in support of the people of Gaza. The picture shows children taking part in  Tuesday’s demonstration outside the Israeli embassy. They were very aware that children just like them are being murdered in Gaz

Hamas Kills 8 Israeli Soldiers

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THE HAMAS military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was...

Squeeze On Low Paid Is Intensifying!

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THE squeeze on Britain’s 10 million low paid workers is at risk of intensifying over the coming decade said a report on ‘The State...

MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’

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PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
Camden librarians on Saturday’s march

‘Keep Our Libraries Open’

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OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

Palestinian aid worker killed in Israeli air strike

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INTERNATIONAL alarm over Israel’s genocide in Gaza heightened this week after the killing of a widely known Palestinian aid worker in an Israeli air...

‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’

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OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...

RMT Pledges ‘Fierce Resistance’ To Attempt To Reduce Rights!

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‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

Bma Warns Brown Don’t Destroy NHS

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‘we will not stand by and see you decimate hospitals for purely financial reasons. We will not stand by and let you damage patient...
Boris Bikes strikers on the picket line in Islington, north London yesterday morning – they continue their strike until 10.00pm tonight

Boris Bikes Strike

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FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...
Striking Cambridge postal workers said the mood is defiant as they look forward to the national strike

Post Strikers Determined To Win!

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‘The mood is defiant,’ said striking postal workers in Cambridge yesterday. This came as the Communication Workers Union branded Royal Mail’s business approach ‘chaos management’. Thousands...
Demonstrators outside Broadcasting House yesterday lunchtime demanding an end to BBC bias in favour of Israel

Nearly 100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Air Raids

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‘ISRAEL is the one who started this when they assassinated (commander of Hamas’ military wing) Ahmed Jabari. Hamas didn’t start the issue,’ Hamas political...

Tens of thousands rally in Athens

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Tens of thousands of workers and youth participated in yet another mass rally outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens yesterday, demanding the overthrow...

Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square

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OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...
A group of the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the Employment Tribunal in Reading

GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms

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APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...

BofE & speculators drive £ down

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STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...
Many thousands of Venezuelans turned out last Wednesday to support President Maduro and the Venezuelan revolution. Credit: Prensa CRBZPRESIDENT  Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela’s embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw

‘Trump Wants Coup’– Maduro

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PRESIDENT Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela’s embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw its weight behind opposition leader...

‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria

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THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...

£22bn more NHS cuts planned

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NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) will have to deliver £22bn in cuts by 2020/2021 in order to balance health and social care spending...
There was a strong and lively picket line on the last day of strike action on June 29th at Finsbury Park

‘All Out Strike Action’ Call

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CWU London Regional Secretary John Denton told News Line yesterday, minutes before the 24 hour strike action began: ‘Our members are determined to see...

Bosses Call For Zero Wage Rises!

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CONSUMER price inflation fell in January, much less than was expected by the so-called experts. The Consumer Prices Index reached an annual rate of...

50,000 RMT members take strike action!

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OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...

‘Unions need to stand together to properly defend the NHS!’

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THERE were three sets of NHS workers on strike at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday, the domestic and catering workers, the pathologists...

No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas

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HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...

Aamer Freed!

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AFTER 13 long years languishing in Guantánamo Bay concentration camp without trial or charge, Shaker Aamer is finally free! A plane carrying Shaker Aamer touched...

From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!

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‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...

Swinson – New Attack On Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London on Friday in the second of four Friday strikes

Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!

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BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...

Russia Points To Porton Down!

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‘RUSSIA had nothing to do with’ the nerve attack in Salisbury, Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov insisted yesterday. He went on to...

No protection from unfair dismissal–for 7.5 million!

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THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...

‘INVESTIGATE CIVIL SERVICE!’ – demands McCluskey after state attack on Corbyn

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil...
The North East London Council of Action banner on the Unite march to defend the NHS last July. Now the whole movement has taken up this demand

‘WITHDRAW THE HEALTH BILL’ – GPs will not be in charge says the GPs...

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Dr Laurence Buckman, Chairman of the BMA’s GPs Committee, wrote to all GPs in England yesterday setting out why the Committee wants the Health...
Firefighters at Studley road fire station in Luton, Bedfordshire, welcome the Young Socialists London-to-Liverpool March for Jobs. Jamie Newell, brigade secretary, said their station is also facing cuts

Cornish Firefighters Slam Dangerous Cuts!

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FIREFIGHTERS in Cornwall have slammed ‘dangerous’ plans to cut frontline cover which ‘will seriously affect public safety’ and demand that they are immediately withdrawn....

US BEGINS NEW ARMS RACE! – as Senate agrees to spend £1.37 trillion next...

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THE US has begun a new arms race with President Trump’s announcement of the US’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This...

Four Day Strike At Maudsley And Bethlem Hospitals!

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FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...

Prisons Handed Over To Privateers Says Poa

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THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...
Brighton Council workers on the picket line against £4,000-a-year wage cuts!

£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!

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A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...

Cleaners fight 23% wage cuts

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ANGRY GMB members are demonstrating outside the CoNEL College in Tottenham this morning against an ‘utterly shameful’ attack on college cleaners which cuts their...