NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
655,000 iraqis have died as a result of 2003 invasion – says Lancet magazine
AN estimated 655,000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in...
Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’
THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...
Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’
‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...
Welfare Fraud At The Top! – No System To Root Out Contractors’ Fraud
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday warned of the dangers of widespread fraud in the £1bn ‘Welfare to Work’ programme. Margaret Hodge...
Government Refusing To Disclose Torture Evidence
A BRITISH Court yesterday ordered an expedited hearing on whether the British government can ignore the plea by London man Binyam Mohamed for evidence...
Cuts Will Devastate Tyne And Weir Fire Service!
A PLANNED £5 million cuts will devastate Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, say local firefighters. The Fire Brigades Union has warned that proposed...
Greek Tuc Occupied By Youth!
Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike. Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the...
IT’S PAYBACK TIME! – as Home Secretary Smith urges harass youth
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...
US forced to call an immediate Gaza ceasefire!
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...
RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students
‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...
Palestine Demands A Criminal Investigation
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...
Postal workers strike vote ‘biggest ever’ says CWU leader Dave Ward
POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...
DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!
‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...
Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...
JLR seeks £2bn government loan!
JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) has been in talks with the government for weeks to secure a loan of £2bn, to prevent mass sackings following...
Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...
Labour scraps 4-hour A&E waiting time target
THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...
NHS Direct 24 Closures
UNISON said yesterday that it was truly shocked by the scale of job losses and call centre closures announced by NHS Direct, warning that...
Unfree Commonwealth Meets In Perth
MORE than a quarter of countries represented at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this week have failed to allow...
GAMBLING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES – 700 Blood Service job cuts condemned
Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...
Special forces attack Athens seafarers
HUNDREDS of Greek Coast Guards’ special forces and riot police raided striking seafarers’ pickets at the port of Piraeus at 3.30 Wednesday morning. During the...
REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra
THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
CAMPSFIELD REVOLT! – after ‘violent removal’ of Algerian detainee
‘This will probably happen in other detention centres, the only time people listen is when there is a revolt,’ Bill MacKeith of Close Campsfield...
WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers
RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...
Horrific Israeli massacre in Beit Lahia
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...
‘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...
PROSECUTE ISRAEL! – Erekat urges International Criminal Court
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...
Refugee crisis doubles
THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...
TEACHERS MASS STRIKE ACTI0N! – fighting for a 12% pay rise
TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...
Burnham Moves To Rescue The Tories
ANDY Burnham, the shadow health secretary, met with around 40 representatives of leading NHS organisations on Wednesday night, to discuss Labour policy for the...
RMT, FBU Battling For Jobs And Pensions
FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...
‘THE STRIKES MUST GO AHEAD’ – CWU members tell News Line
Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...
Kurds march on Downing Street
AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...
Building materials will not be fire tested!
EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...
‘Time To Call General Strike’
‘The TUC leaders must call a General Strike, everyone is being hit over pensions, pay, and conditions,’ said David Pitt, Vice Chair of West...
Greek conservatives build ‘front against populism’
The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...
Reeves declares war on Welfare State
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned yesterday that she intends to launch the biggest ever attack on the working class, the youth and the Welfare...
Labour Party staff vote 75% for strike – if redundancies go ahead
STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...
Two British Troops Killed By Basra Ied
Two British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment were killed near Basra, southern Iraq on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
Serco strikers in high spirits
THE SERCO workers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike yesterday with a lively picket line outside the Royal London...
Katsouris – 80% Of The Workforce On The Minimum Wage
THE GMB are calling for recognition as the independent union voice for the 2,500 mainly Asian migrant workforce producing ready meals for...
Home Office Wants To Send Rose To Her Death
HER local Yorkshire community is defending Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian-born kidney-transplant patient, from deportation and death. The UK immigration authorities have hounded her, an ill...
Bush And Blair Pledge ‘war On Terror’ Will Continue
At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...
‘Stop Justice Privatisation!’
DELEGATES at the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday voted unanimously for Composite 14, Protect Probation and Speak up for Justice. The motion calls on the...