FREE THE FILTON FOUR! – Palestine activists face sentencing today!

0
FOUR Palestine Action activists face sentencing today in what would mark the first time protesters have been sentenced as terrorists in British legal history,...

Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says FBU leader Matt...

0
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...

‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children

0
THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
Greek youth, part of the massive demonstration that marched to the US and Israeli embassies in support of the Palestinian people

50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine

0
OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...

Public ownership of energy – urges Unite

0
UNITE hit out yesterday at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he would halt new gas and oil production in the North Sea...
Greek workers who every day have been resisting and fighting the savage austerity programme imposed on them by the EU Troika

May Day 2014 greetings – BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – Forward with the World...

0
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...
Students and trade unionists march through Manchester last weekend, inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to fight the savage cuts in jobs and services

THUGS ATTACK TAHRIR DEMO – hundreds injured while Mubarak’s army looks on

0
TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...

‘Renationalise water now!’

0
‘RENATIONALISE the water industry,’ demanded GMB water workers from around the country, demonstrating outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) yesterday...

Palestine Demands A Criminal Investigation

0
PALESTINE has demanded an immediate international criminal investigation into the Tel Aviv regime’s policy of settlement expansion and expropriation of Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Ministry...

Burnham to cut welfare and boost military

0
LABOUR’S Andy Burnham, who is set to replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister in three weeks, pledged to cut welfare and boost military spending,...

INDUSTRIAL ACTION BACK ON AGENDA OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND – one-off payment of £1,000...

0
INDUSTRIAL action in English schools is back on the agenda after three education unions – the NEU, NAHT and ASCL – decisively rejected the...
Youth marching on the mass march on the anniversary of the Grenfell fire – TUC delegates demand flammable cladding is banned

‘WORST FIRE SINCE BLITZ’ –Congress discusses Grenfell inferno

0
DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 3: Grenfell Tower. The motion condemns the tragedy where...

Israeli bulldozers demolishing the homes of Palestinians is a war crime!

0
ISRAELI bulldozers yesterday demolished Palestinian homes in Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas city. Mu’taz Besharat, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement activities in Tubas,...
Demonstration to stop the closure of St Helier Hospital in Sutton on Sunday, with support from the Fire Brigades Union Photo credit: MILENA

Defeat Tory hospital closure plan! – says Unite at demonstration today

0
UNITE is demanding that Clause 119 of the Care Bill, which awards Tory Health Secretary Hunt sweeping powers to close down any hospital he...

Reject ‘John Lewis’ NHS!

0
‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...
Junior doctors … their struggle has inspired the country’s GPs

GPs are calling for industrial action

0
A SPECIAL GPs conference in just a few weeks called by the BMA GPs Committee (GPC) is set to hear unprecedented calls for industrial...

ISRAEL TO INVADE GAZA!– Olmert gives final warning

0
Israeli officials have warned that the Israeli military is preparing to attack Gaza in the coming days. On Wednesday Israeli airstrikes and ground invasions...
Angry anti-bedroom tax protesters outside Parliament on May 5

‘The Bedroom Tax Is Causing Real Chaos!’

0
‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...
Official TSSA picket at Rayners Lane yesterday where it was pointed out that the safety of passengers was the big issue

XMAS TRUCE ON THE TUBE – offer by TSSA & RMT

0
A CHRISTMAS truce in the Tube dispute was offered today as millions of travellers faced another day of strike action. Speaking at...

PARIS ERUPTS – as Macron’s pension attack goes to French Parliament

0
FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...

Notorious G4S Is To Be Brought Back!

0
NOTORIOUS private security firm G4S, currently under investigation for fraud and three of whose employees are presently in court charged with manslaughter, is being...

‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...

0
OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...
Ealing Hospital strikers employed by contractor Medirest in determined mood during their last 48-hour pay strike

Ealing week-long strike action

0
GMB members employed by contractor Compass Medirest at Ealing hospital began a seven-day strike at 7.00am today until 7.00am next Friday, 21 March, for...

Over 250,000 workers and youth march for Palestine!

0
More than a quarter of a million workers, students and youth participated in the National March for Palestine through central London on Saturday. Palestine flag-waving...
Hundreds of thousands took part in an anti-austerity march on June 20th – they will not take a rise in interest rates lying down

‘RATE RISE FEAR’ – Bank of England urges caution

0
‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...
Striking bus workers fighting for fair pay outside Alperton bus garage yesterday morning

BUS DRIVERS STRIKE! – for £30,000 a year & 38-hour week

0
METROBUS and First Centrewest Buses stopped throughout London yesterday. Metrobus is out for 24 hours while First Centrewest Buses are stopped for 48...
PCS members outside the High Court on April 24

‘STRIKE INEVITABLE!’ says PCS leader Mark Serwotka

0
‘If we get a tax on pensions and jobs and pay, I think that the inevitability of industrial action stares us in the face,’...

Iran Defying US Threats

0
‘AMERICAN military movements and rhetoric in West Asia are part of a calculated effort to destabilise the region,’ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said yesterday. ‘The...

Taliban: ‘We have emancipated Afghanistan and made it free’ – Amnesty for all announced...

0
THE TALIBAN announced a ‘general amnesty’ yesterday for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. ‘We must congratulate the victorious struggle...

70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!

0
CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...

£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners

0
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...
BA cabin crew are fighting a ruthless employer seeking to make them pay with their jobs, wages and pensions for the capitalist crisis. They are meeting on  September 6th to discuss new strike actions to win their struggle

UK crisis can’t be contained!

0
THE CAPITALIST CRISIS is beyond control and moving according to its own laws, with the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) admitting that...
The front section of last Friday’s Athens teachers’ march. Main banner reads ‘No more obedient slaves! Full and permanent employment for all teachers!’

5,000 Greek teachers in insurrectionary march

0
OVER 5,000 striking state schools teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Friday and attempted to storm into the Vouli building (Greek parliament)...

NO ‘COMPROMISE AGREEMENT!’ say Gate Gourmet workers

0
SHOP Stewards representing the 670 locked out Gate Gourmet workers are meeting Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley at the union’s...

Serco hospital workers are set to strike!

0
PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...

5,500 Schools Face Years Of Financial Misery!

0
THE TORY government has admitted that 5,500 schools face years of financial misery and that they are on the ‘funding floor.’ The Education Select Committee...
Teamsters Local 814 members and Transport Workers Union Local 100 members outside Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday night

Teamsters & TWU picket Sotheby’s

0
'WE want a fair contract,’ shouted locked out Teamsters from New York as they and supporters picketed Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday...

Palestinian prisoners plan open-ended hunger strike for March 24th

0
BY KHALED TAYEH EVER since Israeli Jewish supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, became officially a part of the new Israeli far-right government, he...
The Blackpool Health branch of Unison marching against job cuts on the TUC demonstration on March 26

890 Ambulance Jobs To Go

0
THE London Ambulance Service (LAS) announced yesterday that it plans to cut 890 jobs over the next five years. The LAS, which is making £53...
Students at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, south London, march to defend the NHS

NHS must remain free! – says RCP

0
‘STOP reorganising the NHS, increase NHS funding, and commit to an NHS free at the point of delivery,’ demanded the Royal College of Physicians...
A section of the 20,000-strong march in London on Saturday demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise the state of Palestine

‘WE HAVE INTENSE SECURITY COOPERATION’ – says PM Netanyahu

0
‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...
Trade unions marching to get the Tories out

May Duping Electorate! – Says Tory Mp Bridgen

0
TORY MP Andrew Bridgen has called PM May’s pledges about the EU, made at Chequers ‘a pretence and charade intended to dupe the electorate’....
Local residents joined by trade unionists protested Monday night outside Camden Town Hall demanding ‘Kill the Housing Bill’

Hands Off Our Homes!

0
‘HANDS off our Homes!’ shouted over fifty trade unionists and youth at a lobby of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, in north west London...
35 Years Since Orgreave

35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019

0
March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...
Trade unionists in chains outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding support for the Trade Union Freedom Bill

Bbc Unions To Go For Strike Ballot

0
BBC journalists, technicians and production staff and electricians will be balloted for strike action if the BBC proceeds to call for ‘voluntary redundancies’ today,...