RMT calls National Rail Strike!
THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...
Unite union claims partial BA U-turn – draft agreement to be put to ballot
UNITE union said yesterday that it welcomes what it has called British Airway’s ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’ but warns issues are ‘not...
Workers block South Korea coup!
‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Cwu Must Form Public Sector Alliance
Another week of postal strikes begins today – affecting East Anglia, London, the South West and other parts of the UK, the Communication...
RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow
‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...
Medical companies sold NHS defective pacemakers!
PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons...
Shell Tanker Drivers Out Solid!
Pickets were out at twelve fuel depots from 6am yesterday as over 600 Shell tanker drivers empl-oyed by two companies, Hoyer UK and Suckling...
‘EUROZONE FACING A SYSTEM FAILURE’ says EC president Barroso
The debt crisis is now eating at the heart of the Eurozone, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday. He urged all 27 EU...
‘RAPID FIRE JUSTICE’ – Liberty slams ‘super ASBOs
Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...
UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!
PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...
EU SET TO DUMP GREECE! – as Moody’s downgrades German capitalism
GERMANY’S AAA credit rating was cut to ‘negative’ by ratings agency Moody’s yesterday, the first step towards a downgrade. The agency acted after a ...
NORTHERN ROCK JOBS SHOCK! – Unite pleges to fight compulsory redundancies
The Unite trade union yesterday told Northern Rock that they will oppose any plans for compulsory redundancies at the publicly owned bank. Following the announcement...
GREEK WORKERS MARCH ON MINISTRY
HUNDREDS of local government workers entered a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday demanding that there will be no cut to their dangerous...
Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...
Free the Filton 24 hunger strikers! says Greta Thunberg
'The entire world is watching,’ Greta Thunberg told a 50-strong rally for the Filton 24 hunger strikers on Saturday night. The rally was held at...
‘A Victory at ERT’ – workers determined to bring down Samaras
THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...
Strike Ballot Starts For Cabin Crew
Voting papers have been sent to more than 10,000 BASSA (British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association) members of Unite for a fresh strike ballot...
Banker is new chairman of NHS England
BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...
Rayner says Labour will overturn anti-strikes law ‘within 100 days’
SHADOW Deputy PM Angela Rayner told the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday that a Labour government will overturn the Tory anti-strikes Minimum Service Levels...
Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...
CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...
Labour refuses to commit to stop hospital closures!
‘EALING Hospital A&E and Maternity must not close and it’s a disgrace that the Labour candidate refuses to commit to this,’ Scott Dore, Workers...
‘JULIAN ASSANGE WILL BE A FREE MAN!’ says his wife Stella Assange
JULIAN ASSANGE will ‘be a free man’ once a plea deal with the US is ‘signed off by a judge’, his wife Stella Assange...
‘£31,000 For All Bus Drivers!’
‘WE are rock solid!’ Unite leader Len McCluskey declared yesterday during the 24-hour London-wide bus strike that brought the capital to a standstill. He was...
NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards
CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...
HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE! –warn BMA and Audit Commission
THE British Medical Association yesterday challenged the Blair government to say what will happen to chronically ill or emergency patients, ‘if the local hospital...
15,000 depend on foodbanks this Christmas!
THE number of people who turn to foodbanks over the Christmas fortnight is expected to double, with the economic crisis driving more households below...
House Prices ‘a Long Way To Fall’
UK Mortgage approvals fell sharply again in October, the Bank of England reported yesterday, confirming fears that house sales and prices have a lot...
Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...
UNIONS ON THE MARCH! – but General Council to oppose POA resolution
CIVIL service union PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday announced that the union will be balloting 270,000 members across the civil and public services...
‘All military families have the right to hear Blair give evidence’ –Reg Keys...
TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...
‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told
EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
2006 – A Great Year For World Revolution
THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily paper of the Workers Revolutionary Party, sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of...
Ealing Hospital Workers Welcome The Occupation!
EALING Hospital staff members and patients welcomed the occupation of the entrance to the closure-threatened Maternity Unit yesterday. The occupation, to keep the unit open,...
EU bankers plunder Greece!
USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...
Israeli tank shells Gaza Hospital
AN ISRAELI tank shell smashed into the third and fourth floor of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza yesterday morning, killing four people and...
3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!
A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...
Tigers Declare Unilateral Ceasefire
In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the UN, EU, the governments of the US,...
PAKISTAN CLOSE TO COUP! – as bomb blasts rock Baghdad
PAKISTAN’S Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that conspirators are plotting to bring down his government. He has also accused the military of being...
Tube Strike On!
Strikes by 10,000 Tube workers will begin on Monday after talks at conciliation service ACAS broke up yesterday. This followed a failure on the part...
NHS has £4bn surplus! – while hospitals are going bust
THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...
£300 TO CHANGE A SOCKET! – unions slam ‘obscene’ PFI profits
Public sector unions yesterday condemned the huge fees being charged for making ‘operational changes’ to contracts by PFI privateers. This followed a National Audit Office...
Raab Outlines Brexit Crisis!
TORY Brexit secretary Dominic Raab yesterday set out what he called ‘practical and proportionate’ advice in case the UK leaves the EU with no...
NAHT industrial action ballot after 90% reject pay offer!
THE NAHT school head teachers union executive has announced that it will move to a formal industrial action ballot after a 90% membership vote...
Obama Set To Slash US Budget
US President Barack Obama unveiled his 2012 budget yesterday, describing the proposal as a ‘down payment’ on future cuts to the US budget...
Parliament recalled: over war on Syria
PARLIAMENT is being recalled tomorrow with prime minister Cameron demanding Labour support for his ‘clear motion’ for military action against Syria. Downing Street released a...


















