AFGHAN PANIC – calls for back-up will be met says Downing Street
DEFENCE Minister Watson was forced to make a statement in answer to an urgent question in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, after the...
A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...
‘Vote For Strike Action This Year’ – Urges Rcn
ROYAL COLLEGE of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen has responded to NHS data showing nurse vacancies have jumped to a record level by urging...
‘I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT’ – Galloway challenges Senate witchhunters
Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...
‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions
SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...
‘Worst Kind Of Penny-Pinching’
‘It’s penny-pinching of the worst kind,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was commenting on the removal of every other light bulb...
Great Campaign In Ealing & Hackney
‘EALING Hospital workers and patients are fully backing us over our confrontation with Tory Health Secretary Hancock here on Monday when he refused to...
5.4m workers doing unpaid overtime says TUC
EMPLOYEES across the UK worked a record amount of unpaid overtime last year, with over 5.4 million workers putting in around £640m worth of...
‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ
‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...
MoJ presiding over a bloodbath
‘THE Ministry of Justice is presiding over a bloodbath of assaults, suicides and self-injury in prisons,’ Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League...
GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers
British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...
‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions
‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
Labour special conference to attack the unions!
THE Labour Party is to hold a Special Conference in London in March next year in which the Miliband leadershipwill seek the abolition of...
DOCTORS CRISIS – 13,700 face the axe
Patient safety and the future career prospects of many thousands of junior doctors could be further jeopardised within the next two weeks, warned the...
IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army
TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...
‘No return to Poor Law!’ –now is the time to rise up says Ashton
Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...
‘THE TRUTH MUST COME OUT’ ‘Hard questions must be answered’ – Corbyn
‘THE TRUTH must come out and it will,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday afternoon as the number who died in the Grenfell Tower...
Ledbury tenants moved! – council fears gas explosion
HUNDREDS of Peckham, southeast London, tenants living in tower blocks on the Southwark Council’s Ledbury Estate are being moved out after safety checks carried...
Cuts To Legal Aid Deny Non-UK Residents Justice
MP’s are voting today in parliament over controversial plans to cut legal aid which legal charity Reprieve say will see ‘torture victims denied their...
‘MY BLOOD WAS BOILING!’ says RCN leader after Army mobilised against strikes
‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...
‘We Have To Prepare For No Deal’ –Johnson
‘We have to prepare for no deal... We have to prepare convincingly for no deal,’ former Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC’s...
School And Market Targeted As Israeli Genocide Escalates
‘BOMBARDMENT is overwhelming the entire Gaza Strip, with no respite since the early hours of this morning,’ Palestinians reported from Gaza yesterday. At least nine...
Homeless deaths up 25% Rough sleeping up 165%
THE NUMBER of homeless people dying on the streets of England has dramatically increased by 25% over five years, while the sheer scale of...
Israel Using Banned Weapons!
GAZA’S Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra accused Israel of intentionally striking Palestinian hospitals to shut them down. He announced that at least 15,899 Palestinians...
350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay
OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...
Two British soldiers killed in Sangin Valley
Two British soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday night, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday. A third soldier is in a critical...
SHOT WITHOUT WARNING BY POLICE! – press rumours about Forest Gate raid ‘absolute nonsense’
ABDUL Kahar was shot without warning by police, not his brother, during last Friday’s 4am raid on his home in Forest Gate, east London,...
France & UK halt child transfers
THE HOME Office announced yesterday that the transfer of refugee children from Calais to Britain has been halted while the destruction of the camp...
‘Enough is enough!’ say striking PCS members
PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...
Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’
THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...
‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’
‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....
‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...
Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen
On the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
Smash The Pay Freeze!
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...
Manchester bus strikers huge victory!
‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...
Belfast Hosptals Closure Crisis!
HOSPITAL workers in Northern Ireland are prepared to take industrial action against hospital closures, Unison said yesterday, after a ‘major incident’ occurred at the...
Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!
‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...
PAYING FOR NHS OPERATIONS REJECTED! – by BMA and UNISON
‘There should be no question of making patients pay for operations that are considered essential by their doctor or consultant,’ insisted UNISON head of...
A&E Visits Halved By Virus Outbreak
A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...
Poor being hit hardest!
BRITAIN’s Tax system ‘hits the poorest families hardest’. They are paying a staggering 47 per cent of their gross income in taxes, the TaxPayers...
BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite
TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...
Israeli mass murder continues
THE Palestinian Mission in London reported yesterday that ‘In the past year Israeli government forces have further intensified their provocations and attack against Al-Aqsa...
‘FANTASTIC SUPPORT’ for day one of work & pensions strike action
Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...
DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!
TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...