Gate Gourmet sacked workers 5th anniversary rally
Gate Gourmet sacked workers are holding their 5th Anniversary rally this Saturday, 2 October at Beaconsfield Primary School, Beaconsfield Road, Southall at 3.00pm
Ys Marchers Arrive In Luton
MARCHERS on the Young Socialists March for Jobs were greeted as they set out from Bedford yesterday morning by former Luton IBC plant worker...
Greek journalists 48hr strike
GREEK journalists employed in newspapers are on a national 48-hour strike this Thursday and Friday, while journalists on radio and television are staging their...
Unprecedented Carnage In Vanni
TAMILNET reports ‘mad shelling’ yesterday morning by the Sri Lanka Army into civilian areas in Mu’l’livaaykkaal north, forcing everyone into the bunkers. Several...
Sheffield hails March for Jobs
The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...
UNIVERSITIES WALKOUT! – over 1% insulting pay offer
ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...
‘WINTER CATASTROPHE!’ warns RCN
‘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...
Liverpool Stays Out – No To Imposed Flexibility
MORE than 800 Liverpool postal workers remain on strike today against the imposition of ‘flexibility’ by Royal Mail. The action continues while the CWU Executive...
Food And Clothes Prices Soar
SOARING food and clothing prices saw the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate measure for March rising to 3.5% from 3.4% in February. The Office...
Seven Gazans Killed In Israeli Air Raids
Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...
RMT’s Lynch welcomes ASLEF strike vote
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has welcomed the overwhelming strike vote by ASLEF members in eight train operating companies, setting the scene for a...
Prentis ‘Call To Arms!’
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...
Rudd denies all knowledge about May’s attack on pensioners!
HOME Secretary, Amber Rudd, has admitted she does not know what the proposed cap on the social care costs would be, in the Tory...
‘a Smokescreen For Wholesale Privatisation’
Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...
BMA’s Nagpaul opposes PM’s plan to ease the ‘lockdown!’
‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...
Police-led ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Dale Farm!
HUNDREDS of riot police stormed through the rear perimeter fence into the Dale Farm compound at 7am yesterday morning, injuring female residents that they...
‘Scrap the charges for overseas NHS staff!’ – say Doctors for the NHS
AFTER lauding NHS workers as ‘heroes’ and giving them ‘a clap’ the Tories have upped the amount that overseas NHS and care workers and...
Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract
Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack
FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...
White House pushing for Blair to be Gaza boss!
THE WHITE House is pushing a proposal to instal former British prime minister Tony Blair as head of a so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority,...
Thatcher funeral–a state of siege!
THATCHER’S state funeral on April 17, is to be a Tory state provocation of the working class. Her coffin is to be carried through the...
‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers
‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...
Fear of masses dominates EU talks
BOTH the UK and the EU claimed yesterday that ‘progress’ is being made in the Brexit talks. Unresolved issues include intellectual property, data protection, the...
Birmingham Bin Strikers Stand Firm Against Up To £8,000 A Year Pay Cuts!
AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...
Five US Marines Killed
Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday. Their armoured...
‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...
‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...
Greek Stocks ‘Meltdown’
THE Athens Stock Exchange collapsed again by 7.35 per cent on Thursday wiping 13 billion euros off shares. In the last three days it has...
No agreement in talks between UK’s Truss and Russia’s Lavrov – while PM Johnson...
THE MEETING between the UK foreign minister and her Russian counterpart yesterday was ‘like the mute talking to the deaf’, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...
NUT strike is on!
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...
N Ireland health workers strike!
NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...
UK-TATA £1.2bn DEAL – 3,000 JOBS TO GO!
WELSH ministers and Tata bosses are due to continue talks this week about the future of the Port Talbot site. The UK government and Tata...
Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights
Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...
GET THE ELDERLY OUT OF HOSPITALS! says NHS Confederation boss
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar yesterday launched an attack on NHS hospitals, saying that at least 25 per cent of hospital patients should...
3,000 Junior Doctors Jobless!
AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...
Social care–brink of collapse!
THE TORIES are ‘papering over the cracks in social care funding leaving services at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday. The comments come as...
RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety
Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...
Amnesty condemns the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip!
ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...
140 Air Strikes On Gaza!
THE ISRAELI military has carried out over 140 air strikes against the Gaza Strip, threatening another full-scale military offensive against the blockaded coastal enclave...
Class Struggle Is Erupting In Greece And UK!
TENS of thousands of workers and youth congregated early yesterday morning in Athens at three pre-arranged points to enforce an encirclement of the Vouli...
7-DAY GP ROLL-OUT – While services at breaking point, warn doctors
SEVEN-day-GP access was rolled out yesterday across the whole of London, despite warnings from doctors that GP services are already stretched to breaking point. GP...
JOBS CRISIS – WORSE TO COME – says TUC
CLAIMS by Chancellor Osborne and Prime Minister Cameron that Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing 0.5 per cent growth is ‘good news’ were...
Privatise Fire Service & NHS plus wage & job cuts – Tory plan for...
HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...
GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA
GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...
RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow
‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...

























