RASHAN CHARLES was just twenty years old when he died

‘I will not stop’ fighting for justice for Rashan!

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‘I WILL not stop with this case while I’m still breathing,’ Rod Charles vowed yesterday. Rod Charles is the great uncle of Rashan Charles...

560 Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa

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MORE than 560 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds under the protection of the regime’s forces...

Warsi Resignation Rocks The Tories

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TORY Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has quit the government, saying its policy on Gaza is ‘morally indefensible’. In her resignation letter, Warsi spoke of...

PAY UP NOW! – demand striking healthcare assistants

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HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...

Rise Up! No To US Missiles In The UK

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‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...

Bt Accused Of Aiding Drone Strikes

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A COMPLAINT has been filed with the government against telecoms company BT over its apparent facilitation of illegal, covert drone strikes carried out by...

TAKE ON GM! – urges ATUA National Secretary

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The 900 Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers told yesterday they are being sacked in August have been abandoned by their trade union leaders and the...
Determined Rolls Royce workers during yesterday’s ‘Manufacturing Lobby of Parliament’ organised by the Unite union

Gordon Brown ‘You’Ve Let US Down!’

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Hundreds of workers took part in the Manufacturing Lobby of Parliament yesterday with Rolls Royce workers marching to the House of Commons chanting...
Last week’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital – West London Council of Action is calling on the trade unions to occupy the hospital and defend all its departments

Stp Onslaught On Ealing & Charing Cross Hospitals

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EALING and Charing Cross District General Hospitals are to have their Accident and Emergency Departments closed under the North West London Sustainability and Transformation...
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...

‘Overthrow government if you will!’ – Greek Finance Minister challenges opponents

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THE Greek Interior Minister, Christos Kastanidis, has issued a press release/edict stating that the wages of all local government workers would be withheld unless...

Starmer Refuses To Rule Out Public Sector Cuts!

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Parliament to be recalled so MPs can abandon last week’s mini-budget ‘before any more damage is...
Picturehouse strikers on the picket line last year during their strike for a living wage

Picturehouse 9 days of strike action

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PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...

GM Europe sale in crisis

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General Motors is considering keeping GM Europe rather than selling it. This came after the German government pressed for Canadian auto parts maker Magna, backed...

Gourmet locked-out workers determined to win

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers expressed shock and anger at the treatment of two hundred Xavier Gourmet workers who found the gate to their...

Greek State Of Siege Is Defied

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THOUSANDS of youth and workers participated throughout Greece in the annual Athens Polytechnic Uprising marches and mobilisations last Tuesday, defying a state of siege...
‘Blair lied, thousands died’ said over 700 protesters outside the Chilcott Iraq Inquiry yesterday

BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter

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TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...

RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss

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The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

‘SACK SIEGEL FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE HERE!’ say defiant Gate Gourmet strikers

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers have poured scorn on company chairman David Siegel’s departure from Britain to America, which was announced on Wednesday. Picket Mr...
Dave Prentis, the leader of Unison (left), with students from Hackney BSix College outside Downing Street yesterday

Hackney BSix College students lobby 10 Downing Street

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Students from BSix College in Hackney lobbied 10 Downing Street Wednesday morning to protest against the cuts to the EMA, along with Unison General...

Return to election campaign needs PM May’s agreement!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday was unable to say when campaigning in the general election – which was suspended by PM May in the wake...
The Finucane family outside 10 Downing Street in 2000 when they saw Labour Prime Minister Blair and demanded a public enquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane

Finucane Report Is A Whitewash Says Family

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‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...
Teachers marching on a TUC demonstration against Tory policies

Children are arriving hungry every day at school!

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THE number of struggling families sending their children to school hungry has increased over the past year, according to a poll of almost 900...

RBS £344bn available! – and 20,000 workers to be sacked

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The Unite trade union yesterday slammed former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss, 50-year-old Sir Fred Goodwin’s £650,000- a-year pension as the bank...
Lambeth College lecturers, students and supporters fighting vicious budget cuts

‘HANDS OFF OUR JOBS, WAGES AND PENSIONS’ – Lecturers warn the Tory Lib-Dems

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On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...

‘One rule for them and another for us!’ – unions condemn Grenfell surrender

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ATTORNEY General Suella Braverman’s undertaking that evidence given by contractors at the Grenfell Inquiry will not be used to prosecute them constitutes ‘One rule...

Catalan Leaders Jailed

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TENS of thousands have demonstrated in Barcelona in protest at the jailing of eight deposed Catalan ministers who have been remanded in prison by...
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the House of Commons for the 45th day yesterday

Tamil Youth Defend Their Flag Against Police

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‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...

Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens

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THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...

Yashika Deportation Stopped!

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THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...

£512 billion propping up banks!

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Banks are relying on the taxpayer for £512 billion support this year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported yesterday. The parliamentary...
Demonstration against the TV documentary ‘Benefits Street’ which vilified the poor. The abolition of Council Tax Benefit is driving thousands more into debt

COUNCIL TAX DEBT SOARING – reports Citizens Advice

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COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hounslow Civic Centre speaking to NUT member Bob Garnett

Workers sign up for August 20th rally

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TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

ALL LABOUR MPs FACING RE-SELECTION! – Corbyn tells campaign launch

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JEREMY Corbyn launching his official campaign to remain the leader of the Labour Party promised to ‘hold out the hand of friendship’...
Chagossians with their Community Association banner, demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia, outside parliament yesterday

GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils

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GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...

Italy Vote Sends Shudders Through Markets

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EUROPEAN stock markets fell sharply yesterday, with the election result in Italy producing no government, but marking a massive vote against austerity. Italy’s FTSE MIB...
On the front line – courageous youth march to remember the murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos who was killed by police a year ago

Tens Of Thousands Of Youth March In Greece

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Tens of thousands of Greek school and university students, young workers and unemployed youth participated on Sunday in mass and militant rallies in all...

Met Police take charge of regime change op!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

Blair ‘To Proceed’ – 100,000 NHS Jobs Axe Predicted

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday told hospital trust executives at a Downing Street meeting that his NHS privatisation ‘reform’ programme will proceed. That was his message...

PO strike today

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FURTHER strike action has been called by the CWU over Post Office management’s cost-cutting measures. The strike action is taking place today, and will involve...
The North-East London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm

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Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!

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‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...

LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan

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Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...

Russia issues defence warning!

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RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...

Gaza mass graves–hands tied behind their backs!

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GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...