Crabb–new disabled cuts

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NEW Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb used his first major speech yesterday to state that he believes the employment rate for...

RMT’s Crow condemns Miliband’s ELECTORAL SUICIDE!

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has defended his party’s decision to support the government’s pay cuts for public sector workers, and to continue with Tory...
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...
Students demonstrating at Sussex University yesterday will be coming up to the ULU demonstration this afternoon

Unison & UCU condemn ULU police violence

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UCU and Unison have condemned the police and management attacks on students and staff at the University of London Union (ULU) which is...
Campaigners against the scrapping of the Independent Living Fund lobby the High Court

Disabled defend Independent Living Fund!

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Over 50 disabled people demonstrated outside the High Court in London yesterday demanding the government maintain the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mary Laver from Newcastle...

‘We’re going to strike!’ –real doctors are not fooled by spin doctors

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JUNIOR doctors told News Line yesterday that they were definitely voting for strike action and are very confident of winning the ballot which begins...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES, mother of Jean Charles addressing the packed London meeting on Monday night

‘THIS IS A LIE’ – Iran condemns Blair weapons allegations

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday repeated allegations that Iran had a hand in the deaths of British troops in Iraq. Speaking at a joint press conference...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against private polyclinics

Bma Slams Profits Before Patients

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...

LOW PAY NO WAY! – 400,000 workers out on strike!

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OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...

NINE PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE – against detention without charge

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NINE Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest against their unfair administrative detention without charge or trial, says the...
Refugees are not criminals – say demonstrators protesting against plans to build a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick

Asylum System ‘Shame On UK’

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The most comprehensive examination of the UK’s asylum system ever conducted has found it ‘marred by inhumanity’ and ‘not yet fit for purpose’. An interim...
CWU representatives from Hertfordshire area outside yesterday’s meeting in Euston on Royal Mail pensions

NO PENSIONS SELL-OUT – demand CWU reps

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Communication Workers Union representatives from across the country yesterday slammed the changes to Royal Mail pensions that their leaders want to sign up to,...
Queen Elizabeth Hospital workers on the picket line yesterday morning, determined to win parity

‘NO TWO-TIER WORKING IN THE NHS!’ say Woolwich NHS strikers

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QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...
The BMA took to the streets  with its banners in March this year, now its members are coming out on strike

BMA to strike on June 21!

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DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...
Young people marching to the Israeli Embassy in London to denounce Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!

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RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...

‘We Need A Pay Rise!’ Shout Striking RMT Cleaners

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‘WE need rise of pay! RMT here to stay!’ shouted over 40 striking cleaners outside Arriva Rail’s London head office in Swiss Cottage yesterday...

Poisonous attack on immigrants

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MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...
Local government workers in Athens demonstrating against austerity

‘There could be a Lehmans moment!’ – World Bank warning

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AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...

Abbas Suspends Contact With Israel

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Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...
‘BBC Radio Israel’, says a placard, during Saturday’s protest against the BBC refusal to broadcast an emergency aid appeal.

50 MPs SLAM BBC OVER GAZA

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More than 50 MPs have signed a House of Commons Early Day Motion (EDM) condemning ‘the refusal of the BBC and other broadcasters to...

TUC gives its full support to Sunak

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

20 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed In Tigers Counter-Attack

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...

BANKS MELTDOWN – Taxpayers to foot the bill

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The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...
March in February last year to stop the closure of Whittington Hospital in north London

50,000 NHS POSTS FOR AXE! – ‘NHS not safe in Tory hands’

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FALSE ECONOMY, the anti-cuts campaign website revealed today that more than 50,000 NHS staff posts are set for the axe, destroying government claims...

Harland & Wolff occupied!

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SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

Israeli army storms Jenin!

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ISRAELI occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday, destroying infrastructure. Occupation forces launched a...

‘There Are No Safe Zones – They Are Zones Of Death!’

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THERE are no safe zones they are zones of death,’ UNICEF global spokesman James Elder said, as 700 Palestinians were slaughtered in Israel’s genocidal...

‘Hormuz unbearable for the US’ – ‘Marines will end up in an abattoir’

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IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is becoming ‘unbearable’ for the United States, while...

LABOUR POLICY TO BANKRUPT NHS TRUSTS say UNISON delegates

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Delegates at the UNISON National Delegate Conference in Glasgow yesterday said it was ‘government policy’ to drive NHS trusts into the red. Delegates slammed Labour...

Ealing Anger At Strike Sellout!

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EALING Parking Service workers are angry at the way in which their strike has been sold out. Unite Branch Secretary Harjinder Nagi told News Line...
The front of the march to the News Line Anniversary rally which got an enthusiastic response throughout the route through East London

‘Forward to workers power’

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OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...
The RMT urged voters to vote ‘Leave’ in the EU referendum. Labour’s Manifesto refuses to break with the EU

Labour tinkers with capitalism – won’t break with EU & won’t scrap Universal Credit

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LABOUR’S leaked General Election Manifesto starts with a declaration that ‘Labour understands that wealth creation is a collective endeavour – between investors, workers, public...
Postal workers and pensioners demonstrate against the closure of Borough Post Office in south east London

10,000 Bt Job Cuts!

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) yesterday said that job cuts in BT ‘must not be met through compulsion’ and pledged it will ‘oppose any...

Irish Privatisation Disaster!

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FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...
Bow busworkers out in force on their picket line yesterday morning won’t accept a wage freeze

East London Bus Strike Solid

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BUSWORKERS employed by East London Bus Group are continuing their 48-hour strike against a pay freeze and management onslaught on their terms and conditions...

Hounslow UNISON supports Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday won big support from UNISON members at Hounslow Civic Centre. Paul Gibbons, a student social worker, said: ‘I get irritated...
Striking Shelter staff demonstrating yesterday at the housing charity’s headquarters in Old Street

Shelter – Job And Wage Cuts!

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Over 200 striking Shelter workers demonstrated outside the housing charity’s head office in London yesterday. For the first time in Shelter’s 41-year history the workers,...
Birmingham binmen and their supporters rally last Sunday

Binmen win legal action! – Labour Council ordered to withdraw redundancies

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THE UNITE union yesterday called on Birmingham city Labour council to honour the ACAS agreement and resolve the Birmingham bin dispute after the High...
A section of last Friday’s demonstration in Athens against Chancellor Merkel’s visit

Greek Workers March Against Merkel

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OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...
Junior doctors are putting the case that Hunt is assuming dictatorial powers to which he has no right and which are illegal

Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...
The demonstration from the cemetery to Syntagma Square. Banner reads ‘Rage must become collective struggle’

Anti-government fury at Greek pensioner’s funeral

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The funeral of a Greek pensioner on Saturday turned into a mass anti-government protest. About 1,000 workers and youth attended the civil funeral in Athens,...
A section of the passionate crowd demanding an end to the Israeli terror state at a recent protest outside its embassy in west London

Gaza-West Bank one struggle!

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HAMAS leader and member of parliament Mushir al-Masri said on Friday that the group had not agreed on a ceasefire with Israel, despite tentative...
Teachers on the march to defend their national pay agreements and pensions – they are determined to defeat the coalition

Nut Strike Ballot Against Local Pay

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...

Coulson Crisis Deepens

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Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure after it was announced yesterday that MPs will hold an emergency debate in...