‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

Celebrate the News Line and build the WRP to bring in Socialism! – 50th...

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JONTY LEFF News Line editor told the News Line 50th Anniversary Rally, ‘TODAY we celebrate 50 years of the News Line, the only daily...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

One million to strike

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OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...
Two thousand teachers and Unison members marched through Tower Hamlets yesterday

Public sector workers strike action

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STRIKING teachers and other public sector workers marched through Camden and Tower Hamlets yesterday. The vibrant demonstration and rally of 500 Camden NUT members was...

Johnson refuses to rule out raising taxation!

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson yesterday refused to rebut his Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s warning in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper that ‘very real shortages’ can be...

RELEASE ALL 11,000 PRISONERS – demands Palestine National Authority

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The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said yesterday Israel’s promised release of 400 Palestinian prisoners was ‘not enough’. Palestinian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Hasan...

Decanted families warehoused in office blocks

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FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...

Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...
Palestinian youth battle with Israeli troops and settlers on the West Bank

Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move

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HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...

Speaker Vows To Block ‘No-Deal’!

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THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons has said that he will not allow it to be closed down so that the UK can...

FE Colleges to strike over pay and workload

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Teachers at 32 Further Education (FE) Colleges have voted to strike over pay and workloads, with the University and College Union (UCU) committee meeting...

Corbyn’s customs union capitulation

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‘I APPEAL to MPs of all parties, be prepared to put the people’s interests before the ideological fantasies, join us in supporting the option...
Students demanding that the right to free state education be restored and fees abolished along with the massive student debt

‘Come clean over tuition fees’ – UCU tells Labour

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‘IT’S time for Labour to come clean on university fees,’ the University and College union (UCU) said on Friday, as it called for education...
Locked -out gate Gourmet workers during their successful lobby of the TGWU Executive meeting earlier this month

‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...

Put Elbit in the dock! – First six of Filton 24 appear in court

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THE first six defendants in the Filton 24 case appeared at Woolwich Crown Court yesterday, after being held for more than a year on...

‘We’ll step up our struggle!’ – vow Iraqi protesters after 5 killed

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AT LEAST five demonstrators have been killed in Baghdad, Karbala and Baqubah in Iraq as security forces opened fire on the mass protest of...

EU crisis meetings over Greece

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GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...

Defend the NHS!NHS – Foundation Trusts call to lift cap on private patient numbers

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Public sector union Unison yesterday sounded the alarm bells over a move from NHS foundation trust bosses to lift the cap on the...
Part of yesterday’s monthly picket at Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Farm Anger Over Coalition Cuts!

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SUPPORT for the policy of occupying Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure is growing. Staff, patients and visitors complained angrily about the...
RCM midwives came out on strike in Belfast in April 2015 for the first time in their history – they will shortly be out again, fighting for a living wage increase

NHS unions demand pay rise!

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THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...
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...
Young Socialist March for Jobs and Free State Education gets to Clay Cross and a great welcome from local workers and youth

Great Support For Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London is campaigning in Stoke today, before moving on to Stafford. Speaking...

PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike

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BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...

Inflation Up To 5.2%

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inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest rate since 1992, rising from 4.7% in August, according to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures...

Racists driven off the streets!

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IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...

GET TROOPS OUT NOW! says Rose Gentle

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‘We want Tony Blair to bring the troops out – not in six months but now, to prevent more loss of life’, Rose Gentle,...

2nd wave more deadly than first! Labour pledges to push through Johnson’s national lock...

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DEATHS from coronavirus will be twice as high this winter than in the first wave of the pandemic, Tory PM Boris Johnson told Parliament...
A lively demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday demanding ‘Shut Yarl’s Wood down’

Stop indefinite detention!

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THE indefinite detention of asylum seekers must stop, a Parliamentary report on immigration detention, released yesterday has concluded. Following the report there was an angry...

Bush Plans To Expand US Army

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PRESIDENT Bush’s decision to expand the US military is a direct attack on the masses of the Middle East and Iran, and on the...
A mass lobby of parliament by nurses protesting against job cuts

NHS Staffing Concerns!

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NHS watchdog, the Healthcare Commission’s third annual survey of patients who stayed overnight in hospitals, reported that, overall, 92 per cent of patients said...

UK Full Of Working Poor!

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THE ‘improved’ unemployment figures are a mask for a country that is working harder, and getting poorer, with more than 4.5...
Mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning – the day the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward was due for closure, putting children’s lives into jeopardy

Ealing mass picket condemns the closure of Children’s Ward

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A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...
The Chagos Islands Community Association AGM in Crawley on Saturday

‘WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO RETURN’ – insists Chagos Islands Community Association AGM

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OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...
Postal workers demonstrate at the Labour Party conference

CWU LEADERS REFUSE TO FIGHT – hoping for sell-out deal

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday shocked its members when it wrote to Royal Mail offering to cancel the 76 per cent vote of...
Health workers demonstrating against cuts outside Kingston Hospital in March this year

£1bn NHS underspend

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday called for a ‘fresh start’ in response to a forecasted £983m surplus in the NHS. Mike Jackson, Senior National Officer...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

Al Jazeera is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC...

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Al JAZEERA is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC (International Criminal Court). The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by...

‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Pressures Engulfing Social Care!

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A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...
British Airways cabin crew march at Heathrow last June during their strike action in defence of jobs and conditions

WORKERS FACE PAY FREEZES – as prices soar

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The class struggle is set to escalate sharply in the new year as workers and their families face soaring food and fuel prices, while...

AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned

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‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...
BMA delegates at their Annual Representative Meeting applaud BMA acting chairman Everington after his address yesterday

‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan

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The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...

Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’

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‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
UNISON Head of Health KAREN JENNINGS (left) with other UNISON members handing in the UNISON prescription for the NHS to the Department of Health yesterday mid-day

CABINET REELING – from massive constituency health cuts

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Public sector union, UNISON, yesterday published a new report showing that each of the 21 elected cabinet ministers in the government faces severe health...
Part of the Vouli square with the DEH workers lorry-cranes at the back

Greek Workers Occupy Square!

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TENS of thousands of young people along with workers and their families staged an enormous rally last Wednesday evening in Athens, almost filling up...