GMB demonstration outside the London Tribunals Office yesterday morning demanding the Tribunal charges be withdrawn

Tribunal Charges Began Yesterday

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WHAT the government is doing is depriving ordinary people of their legal rights,’ GMB member Ake Achi told News Line yesterday. He was speaking on...

Police Kept Quiet Over Mobile Phone Hacking

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The Metropolitan Police yesterday were investigating why the police had not told high-profile figures that their mobile phones were being hacked into, and why...

50 MILLION REFUGEES! – warns Amnesty

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‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

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DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

‘NOW PUNISH THE GUILTY!’ – demands Palestine Red Crescent

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THE Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) demanded an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 paramedics in Gaza last month, when it held a...

Mass Sackings In Greece!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers, students and unemployed are expected to take part in rallies and demonstrations in Athens and Salonica on...

‘We Are Fighting For Reinstatement’

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WHILST maintaining their daily picket near Heathrow Airport Terminal 4, Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday March...

NHS Being Driven Backwards

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The Royal College of Nursing yesterday called for a halt to the closure of hospital beds until trusts can clearly demonstrate that alternative, tried...

NHS England blockaded! No contracts with Israeli military supplier

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HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...
UNISON members taking strike action to defend their terms and conditions of service

Vote For Strike Action Urges Prentis

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UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis is urging a big ‘yes’ vote for strike action by its local government worker members in the ballot over...
Demonstration in Tower Hamlets in January 2008 against the privatisation of GP surgeries

NO PAYMENTS FOR NHS SERVICES – urges BMA

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Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...
The South East London Council of Action demonstrating outside Southwark Town Hall in May against the threat of eviction hanging over Heygate Estate tenants

Eviction Proceedings Denied By Southwark Council

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SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...
A group of marchers with supporters, busworkers PHIL PEAK and RODNEY GARNER who said ‘The way that these young people are standing up for their rights is brilliant’

Marchers Win Big Support

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education spent yesterday in Stockport, campaigning, recruiting and selling tickets for the Greet the March...

PCS Fights Tate Sackings

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A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...

The occupation is starving us say Palestinian children

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‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...

Food And Clothes Prices Soar

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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...

Postal Workers Call To ‘Bring Down Tories’

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ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...

TUC CALLS A NATIONAL RIGHT TO STRIKE DAY! on Wednesday February 1st

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FOLLOWING the moving of the new Tory anti-union legislation in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the TUC announced yesterday that it will hold...

Abolish ICE say US workers

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CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke

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The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...

Fearful Kiev ‘warns’ Russia

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THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...

Israel Steps Up Jabalia Genocide

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QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...

MAKE THE DISPUTE OFFICIAL!– call out the airport! – Locked out Gate Gourmet work

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Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...

Huge victory for Filton 24!

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Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...

Bank of E fears Barclays exposure to EU debt

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UK banks do not have enough capital to withstand an escalation in the eurozone crisis, the Bank of England’s risk regulator has warned. The minutes...

Assange sent back to Belmarsh!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...
BMA members marching against Tory cuts and privatisation

BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...
Scottish power workers fighting to stop BiFab from closing – the proposed £16bn nuclear power station in Wales has been shelved

Plug pulled on £16bn Welsh power station Hitachi suspends all work

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‘IT IS foolish to rely on foreign companies and foreign governments to keep Britain’s lights on and our economy powered when we could easily...

HEATHROW – McDonnell suspended

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‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...

PALESTINIANS PAYING THE ULTIMATE PRICE! – seeing their children die of hunger

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UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern over the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the so-called relief organisation created by Israel and backed by the...
Southern picket at Victoria yesterday morning supported by Disabled People Against Cuts demanding safety and accessibility on all trains. Photo: RMT

3 Train Strikes

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TRAIN workers at three Rail companies across the country, Northern, Southern and Merseyrail were on strike simultaneously yesterday. Northern rail staff were on the last...
Metronet workers lobbying 10 Downing Street last month demanding an end to the public/ private partnership on the tube

‘Guarantee our jobs by Wednesday or we strike’

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If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...
Teachers dressed up as Greek army officers along with the emblem of the military junta of 1967-74 outside the Greek Parliament, after the Greek government’s decision to put teachers under the ‘state emergency civil conscription’ laws’

Greek Teachers Fight Conscription!

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Over 15,000 teachers and their supporters responded to the call issued by the Executive of the State Secondary Teachers’ Trade Union OLME and staged...

Mahdi Army clashes with Iraqi puppet forces

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TWENTY-FIVE soldiers in the puppet Iraqi army were killed yesterday in fierce fighting with the Mahdi Army militia, which is opposed to the US-UK occupation of...

17,000 cases of infection in Gaza!

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THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported more than 17,000 cases of infection among displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip linked to rodents and...

Widespread Russian-Israeli cooperation revealed

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‘WE BELIEVE that the blame for the Russian Il-20 aircraft tragedy lies entirely with the Israeli Air Force,’ Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General...

Starmer delivers his anti-working class programme!

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STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

Boycott EuroVision

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‘WITH THE Eurovision Song Contest taking place on Saturday, the year-long campaign to boycott the competition in Israel is ramping up,’ Zoe Lawlor from...

Gaza death toll passes 39,000!

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THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...
Sacked Visteon workers, retirees, and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying Unite head office yesterday

UNITE LOBBIED – by sacked Visteon and Gate Gourmet workers

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Over 80 sacked Visteon workers, Visteon retirees and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the Unite union head office in Holborn, central...
MICK WHELAN, Aslef general secretary (ASLEF T-shirt) and Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY (3rd from left) at the front of the National Austerity Protest last

Defend right to strike!

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THE TRADE Union Bill, to be outlined tomorrow in parliament by the Tory government, is designed to railroad through legislation which will make it...
A section of Sunday’s 100-strong YS lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton

TUC–call a general strike! – demands YS lobby

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‘TUC get off your knees! Call a general strike!’ shouted an enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby of the first day of the TUC Congress in...
Postal workers marching along the embankment carrying a giant postcard to Business Secretary Mandelson demanding he stop destroying a great public service

‘NATIONAL ACTION CALLED’ – demand striking London postal workers

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Over four hundred striking Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) postal workers yesterday heard calls for a national strike at a rally in Central Hall, Westminster....

Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah

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‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...