French police in action on Saturday against protesters in Nantes

Disarm French Riot Police – Cgt

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YELLOW Vests and trade unionists are seeking to deliver a crushing blow to France’s president Emmanuel Macron. The CGT union federation has called a...

Youth Pay Price For Occupation

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ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...

Palestinian infants are dying from the cold!

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A PALESTINIAN infant died on Friday from severe cold while sheltering with her family inside a makeshift tent in Gaza, as Israeli restrictions continue...

Snowden’s Christmas message supported by Internet inventor!

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THE founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has backed ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, saying the world needs whistleblowers and...
Junior Doctors defending the NHS – now vital training is being axed

‘VITAL TRAINING IS BEING SACRIFICED’ says Junior Doctors chairman

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SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers

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‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...
Picket in May last year demanding the release of Babar Ahmad, faced with being extradited to the US

Action Needed To Defend NHS

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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...

£600m public sector Amazon contract! – ‘a sick joke’ says GMB

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INTERNET retail giant Amazon being awarded a £600 million contract to provide for our public services is a ‘sick joke’ given the company’s ‘record...

‘No choice but to fight BT sackings!’ – Allan Eldred CWU National Officer

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THE DEVASTATING ramifications for BT employees of the brutal new management approach sweeping across BT is not just illustrated by the scores of compulsory...

Close down every immigration centre

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ALL IMMIGRATION centres should be shut down because they are extremely damaging to the health of the refugee and asylum seekers who are incarcerated...
London bus workers on strike demanding wage rises that keep pace with the rate of inflation

BROWN HANDS BANKS £500bn

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Brown and Darling yesterday announced a £500bn package of measures aimed at rescuing the banking system. The equivalent of $880bn, it means they are handing...
July 2006 mass picket against the threat to extradite Babar Ahmad to the United States

POLICE BUGGING INQUIRY – Labour MP spied on as he met US extradition target

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Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...
RMT president SEAN HOYLE, assistant general secretary STEVE HEDLEY and general secretary MICK CASH (all behind the banner from the front, left) on the union’s 300-strong protest opposite parliament against driver-only trains

RMT Calls For General Strike!

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RMT leaders yesterday responded defiantly to Southern rail’s threat that if guards strike and do not sign new contracts by Friday, they will be...
PCS members marching in central London against attacks on jobs and pensions on October 12 last year

PCS CONDEMNS JOBS MASSACRE – while Purnell turns bounty hunters onto the unemployed

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement that Labour will slash a further 12,000 jobs and close an additional...

Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10

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A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...
Marchers on July 22 demonstration against the attack on the Lebanon and Palestine denounce US, UK and Israel as terrorist

ISRAEL KILLS 28 FARMERS – close to the Syrian border

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Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...
Mass picket by bus workers during strike action at Metroline bus company in west London last November

A Damning Indictment Of The Bus Industry

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A SURVEY published yesterday shows that bus workers believe that the privatised bus companies are far more interested in making big profits than providing...

Homeless squatters are ‘criminals’

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SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...

Court finds against Labour Party democracy

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THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...
Crawley firefighters during Saturday’s strike action

RMT, FBU Battling For Jobs And Pensions

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FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...

IT’S ‘BAD FRIDAY’ FOR MILLIONS OF FAMILIES – facing over £2 billion coalition cuts

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‘THIS year’s holiday will feel more like “Bad Friday” for millions of families as they come to terms with over £2 billion of cuts.’ This...

Manchester specialist fire rescue unit shut!

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‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

POLICE STRIP-SEARCHING CHILDREN ‘DEEPLY CONCERNING’ says Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza

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CHILDREN as young as 8-years-old are being strip-searched by the police, with black children six times more likely to be targeted than non-black. A report...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES AND CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – YS lobby gets...

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‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...
John McDonnell was the moving force behind last July’s ‘Tories Out!’ march on Parliament

DESELECTION BATTLE! – due at Labour Party Conference

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THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool next week is set to battle over the mandatory reselection of MPs. If it is agreed it will be...
University students  marching in Greece – the banner reads ‘Overthrow the government’

Greek General Strike Today

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THE General Council of the ADEDY (public sector trades unions federation) has called another 48-hour national strike for today and tomorrow against the destruction...
Hundreds of school youth on the plinth at Trafalgar Square before last Wednesday’s march on parliament

Bring Down Coalition With A General Strike!

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THOUSANDS of students and workers will be marching from the University of London Union (ULU) to parliament tomorrow, when the Tory-LibDem Coalition government...

‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate

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HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...
35 Years Since Orgreave

35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019

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March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...

COVID-19 STAFF DEATHS – HSE Executive is urged to investigate

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THE Health and Safety Executive is being urged to investigate hospitals and care homes over the widespread Covid-19 infections among staff, which led to...

May forced to accept all amendments

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THE TORY government confirmed that it will accept all four amendments put by the Tory pro-Brexit MPs to the Chequers sell-out White Paper. Prime Minister...

Easyjet Pilots Will Fight For Every Job – Balpa

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MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...

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...

Bankrupt Budget!

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In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...
Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow outside their Employment Tribunal last week – the Irish SIPTU union is concerned over the company’s ‘profiling’ of its workforce in Dublin

‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin

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Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...
Junior doctors condemn Hunt and his campaign to impose a contract and impose 7-day working without 7-day funding

May keeps Hunt as NHS Secretary

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TORY Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove were both sacked from the Tory cabinet yesterday as new Tory PM Theresa May...
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...

Stop arming Israel US workers demand!

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AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president...

Night Tube Strike Rock Solid! – RMT

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STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...

Don’t carry out Tory NHS cuts! – Unison urges Northern Ireland NHS Trusts

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UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

$10 Trillion US Deficit Looms

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The US government is heading for a massive $10 trillion budget deficit over the next decade, analysts warned yesterday after the White House projected...

Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown

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In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...

42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!

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A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...
Demonstration outside Parliament against the Tories’ Universal Credit and their ‘hostile environment’

Universal Credit– Claimants Suffering

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THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of being ‘complicit in the suffering’ of Universal Credit claimants, labelling the system...

‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs

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A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...