‘This will end up in a general strike!’ – Ambulance pickets tell News Line

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‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...

COMPLICITY IN TORTURE! –Commission demands inquiry

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BRITAIN’S Equalities and Human Rights Commission called last Saturday for an urgent independent probe into claims that the security services were complicit in...

Labour is to immediately recognise Palestinian state

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LABOUR’S Manifesto declares that it will ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine.’ It adds that Labour will ‘Introduce a War Powers Act to ensure that...

Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens

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‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...
Enormous numbers of workers demonstrating in Athens on Sunday against the austerity cuts

GREECE ERUPTS – against austerity cuts

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Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...

‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes

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‘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...

Food Costs & Energy Bills Soaring!

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FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...

End Franchise Farce!

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RAIL unions demanded the immediate renationalisation of the railways yesterday after the Stock Exchange announced that the Virgin Trains privateer is to be asked...

Sylvester Killing – No Action Against Police

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THE family of Roger Sylvester are disappointed but not surprised by the decision of the Independent Police Complaints Commission that the police officers involved...

Gaza residents shocked by massive price rises!

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GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first...
Unilever workers lobbying the company’s head office demanding ‘Hands off Our Pensions’

Unilever Pensions Action

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A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit corporate giant Unilever’s UK operations as workers step up action to defend their final...

Merseyside FBU 8-Day Strike

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‘It seems management are hell-bent on taking on the FBU and cutting 120 jobs’, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union Brigade Chairman Mark Dunne told News...
Postal workers and their families marching in Crewe on October 25 demanding the Mail Centre be kept open

MARCH TO DEFEND MAIL CENTRE! – through Milton Keynes

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CWU postal workers and their families are marching through Bletchley, Milton Keynes on Saturday, against the planned closure of the Mail Centre. Paul Moffat,...
Rail workers celebrating two years of their strike to keep guards on the trains – out on Northern Rail today

REVERSE PLAN TO AXE GUARDS! – Tory minister admits they are vital

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RMT is calling for an immediate halt and reversal of plans to axe guards from trains after a government minister admitted that they are...

JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected

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JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...
Students and lecturers marching in London last November against the introducton of £9,000 tuition fees

Pension Strikes At 63 Universities

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‘Well over a million students at 63 UK universities will be hit with strike action this month unless a dispute over changes to staff...

France Ready To Attack Syria

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PRESIDENT Francois Hollande has said a vote by UK MPs against involvement in military strikes on Syria has not changed France’s resolve to take...
Health workers last Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration in London against the government’s cuts

‘NHS Up For Sale!’

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‘NHS hospitals and their contents – including hundreds of thousands of beds, scanners, X-ray equipment, incubators, bedpans, syringes, operating theatre equipment, pacemakers, surgical instruments...

ROYAL MAIL £50m OFCOM FINE!

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general postal secretary, Terry Pullinger, has reminded the communications industry regulator that its primary statutory duty is ‘to protect...

SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors

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THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...

PRESCOTT INQUIRY –visited US billionaire tycoon seven times

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PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sir Philip Mawer yesterday announced a full investigation into Deputy Premier Prescott’s relations with US tycoon Phillip Anschutz, focusing on his...
Health workers show their angry opposition to the Tory coalition’s privatisation of the NHS

REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution

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OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...

Revolutionary General Strike in Greece!

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ATHENS – Tens of thousands of workers and students marched in all main cities of Greece last Thursday in a 24-hour general strike against...

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...
Pakistanis demonstrate against the Musharaff dictatorship outside 10 Downing Street on November 10th

BHUTTO KILLED BY THE MILITARY – Revolution erupts throughout Pakistan

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Yesterday, at 6.16pm local time (13.16 GMT), Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi General Hospital after being shot in the neck...
The 50-strong picket of Ealing hospital yesterday morning was presented with a gift by junior doctor Dr SHERGILL

Children’s lives in danger!

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‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...
Disabled people stormed Parliament yesterday, angry at the abolition of the Independent Living Fund (Picture: John McDonnell)

Disabled Occupy Parliament

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Disabled people occupied the Central Lobby of Parliament yesterday against the abolition of their Independent Living Fund (ILP). They attempted to storm parliament itself,...
Firefighters gather outside the Central Hall, Westminster after their rally to begin lobbying their MPs

FBU Will Fight Cuts & Sackings

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters from all over Britain, lobbied Parliament yesterday, to give notice that they and their union would not accept a 25 per...

Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!

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MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...

‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
Workers taking strike action over pensions in Oxford – are being supported by the Young Socialists

Oxford Mini Plant Out Over Pensions!

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A 24-HOUR strike by BMW workers making car engines and the Mini took place on Sunday in Oxford and Swindon. The other strike dates...
WRP leader Gerry Healy leads the Wigan Builders Action Committee march through central London in February 1975 to free the Shrewsbury Two

‘Shrewsbury Conspiracy’ debate

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BLAYDON Labour MP Dave Anderson has secured a parliamentary debate on behalf of the Shrewsbury 24 campaign this Thursday, 23 January, over the government’s...

EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’

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EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...

Richards Call For Libya Shock And Awe Campaign

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UK Chief of General Staff, General Sir David Richards has called for an easing of restrictions on NATO targets to allow the bombing of...

No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers

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TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...

BANK SHARES COLLAPSE! – Brown and bankers meet at 10 Downing Street

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Billions more pounds were wiped off UK bank shares, yesterday, in the wake of Monday’s falls which saw £93bn wiped off the London Stock...

ISRAEL BOMBS QATAR! – targeting Hamas peace negotiators

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ISRAEL carried out a massive bombardment of the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday with more than ten aerial munitions, aimed at assassinating the Hamas Movement’s...
NUT members on the TUC march demanding that education is defended – 6th form college members are on strike today

NUT strike is on!

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TODAY’S NUT 6th form college strike is on! The Tory government took the NUT to the High Court yesterday in an attempt to rule...

11,355 Children Killed In Zionist Genocide

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THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by...

‘PAY UP OR WE STRIKE AGAIN’ – says POA

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‘If tomorrow’s talks are not fruitful, we can’t rule out taking strike action again,’ Prison Officers Association spokesman Glyn Travis said yesterday. Today’s talks with...
RMT and TSSA rail unions led a march against cuts announced in the coalition’s Comprehensive Spending Review last October

No New Anti-Union Laws!

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Trade unions yesterday condemned Tory threats to ban strikes after Downing Street dropped a bombshell, confirming that Tory leader Cameron is ‘considering’ just that. London...
Nurses marching to demand that bursaries are restored to bring many more young people into the profession

Thousands of nurses march today to defend the NHS!

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THOUSANDS of nursing staff from across England will join tens of thousands of workers and youth on a march and demonstration in London today. Royal...
Students from the Kareas Athens district stating ‘No to the government’s New School Bill’

School students march in Athens

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THOUSANDS of school pupils and student protesters in Athens tried to breach the barricades in front of the parliament building last Thursday. They faced...

‘OPEN THE DOORS TO THE REFUGEES’ – urge 20,000 marchers in Athens

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‘OPEN the doors to the refugees,’ demanded 20,000 marchers in Athens on Thursday. Some 20,000 people marched through Athens on Thursday night calling for the...