OUTSIDE Holloway Road Post Office yesterday pickets striking for the 13th time drew huge support from the public in opposition to the scandal of the privatisation of 70 Crown Post Offices.

One-day strikes are not enough! say striking postal workers

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OUTSIDE Holloway Road Post Office yesterday pickets striking for the 13th time drew huge support from the public in opposition to the scandal of...

Inquiry into undercover police spies opens!

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THE Public inquiry launched yesterday into the Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) ‘will expose both creditable and discreditable conduct, practice and management’, Justice Pitchford...
London Tube workers on a picket of Downing Street during the recent struggle of collapsed privateer Metronet

Safety Fears Halt Tube Lines!

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EMERGENCY brake problems that led to the suspension of the Hammersmith and City, Circle and District lines were first raised on Tuesday, London Underground’s...

Khalida jarrar free at last

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KHALIDA Jarrar, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is free! She was greeted by a cheering crowd after...

‘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...
The beginning of the May Day march in Ealing where workers expressed their determination to defend Ealing Hospital against closure threats

No More ‘Planned Births’ At Ealing From June 24!

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A LETTER has been sent out to pregnant women and their families in Ealing announcing the closure of the maternity services on July...
ASLEF Southern rail picket line – they have just rejected the sell-out deal

Aslef drivers stand fast–throw out GTR-TUC sell-out deal!

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ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...
West London Council of Action pickets looking forward to the march into the hospital next Wednesday

‘We must save Ealing Maternity’

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‘I HAD both my babies here and I had the best possible care. I live in Southall, I know how important Ealing Maternity Unit...

2006 – A Great Year For World Revolution

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily paper of the Workers Revolutionary Party, sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of...

Iraqi Death Toll Reaches New Hihe

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THE death toll of civilians in Iraq reached a new high of 3,709 in October, with sectarian violence to blame for most of the...
Palestinian AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (centre in white jacket) on hunger strike in solidarity with over 1,600 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Picture shows Aysar and supporters demonstrating in Parliament Square on Wednesday evening

‘OUR CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE WE ARE’ says Barghouthi

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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...

Junior doctors begin 72hr strike

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THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...

14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza TODAY! – warns UN’s Tom Fletcher

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FOURTEEN thousand babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them,’ United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs...
Junior doctors battling against the attempt by Health Secretary Hunt to dictate their contract to them

DROP IMPOSED CONTRACT – Royal College urges Secretary Hunt

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s decision to impose the new contract onto junior doctors must be reversed since the premise behind the contract’s...

Polio Epidemic In Gaza

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GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...
A group of very determined BA Mixed Fleet cabin crew strikers at the House of Commons yesterday afternoon

150 STRIKING CABIN CREW LOBBY MPs

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OVER 150 striking British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew held a photo-call outside Parliament yesterday, where they were joined by a number of Labour...

Record petrol price rises!

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Petrol prices yesterday hit a record average level of 121.76p for a litre of unleaded petrol. It is expected that fuel prices will rise daily...

Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date

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FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...
The Palestinian town of Jenin which was occupied by a large force of Israeli troops for 78 hours from the morning of December 29

Strike! To Reinstate BA Shop Stewards!

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British Airways (BA) yesterday sacked a second Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) shop steward ‘for his involvement’ in the unofficial strike last August...

Israel steps up its counter-revolutionary war on Hamas!

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AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an...

Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...

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SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
100th Aniversary of the Russian Revolution – This Sunday

100th Aniversary of the Russian Revolution – This Sunday

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Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition FOR MORE DETAILS SEE 100th ANNIVERSARY IN LEFT HAND...

‘MAKE CREDIBLE OFFER’ – Junior doctors tell Health Secretary Barclay

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JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...
Teachers on the front line of the struggle against savage Tory cuts

Basic funding too low to allow schools to operate!

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EVERY school in England will see budget cuts before 2020, even after new funding plans are put into place, Education Policy Institute (EPI) research...

MIRROR PENSIONS SHOCK! – staff told by email

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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned the Trinity Mirror publishing group for announcing the closure of its final salary pension scheme – and...

‘INDUSTRIAL SCALE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY’ by Murdoch press – says Charlotte Church

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MURDOCH'S News Group Newspapers (NGN) ‘are not truly sorry, only sorry they got caught,’ Charlotte Church insisted in a devastating statement outside the High...

China No! To North Korea Blockade!

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China has refused to search North Korean ships, throwing US attempts to enforce a blockade and sanctions into disarray. The United States is urging China...
Protest demanding safe insulation and cladding – Grenfell families forced onto UC now face the prospect of not being able to heat their homes

Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!

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SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...

Israeli forces kill more than 71 Palestinians

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ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...
Striking BA cabin crew on the picket line during their latest strike action in May

Woodley Postpones BA Cabin Crew Ballot

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Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday said the union has ‘postponed’ Tuesday’s ballot for further strike action at British Airways to consider a...
SERCO strikers on the picket line at Whipps Cross Hospital

‘WE WANT TO BE EMPLOYED BY NHS!’ say 700 SERCO East London strikers

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TODAY more than 700 SERCO cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters, who are in the middle of a week-long strike across four hospitals,...
Young people defiantly lobby the TUC Congress. They insist that they are not going to work for nothing and are demanding a general strike

‘Coalition making life hell for workers & youth’

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YOUTH unemployment increased by 15,000 during the three months to June, reaching 973,000. ‘The coalition is making life hell for youth and it must be...
Young Socialst marchers got a great welcome and a tremendous meal at Bedford Hospital

Ys Marchers Arrive In Luton

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MARCHERS on the Young Socialists March for Jobs were greeted as they set out from Bedford yesterday morning by former Luton IBC plant worker...

Over Five Years In The Black Hole Of Bagram

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‘These two men have been held in appalling conditions for five years, and for all that time the British government chose to do nothing,’...
Nurses on the TUC march last November against the attack by the Tory coalition on public sector workers’ pensions

Nurses furious over pay cut!

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NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...
Teachers union leaders with the front banner on the huge London march during last November’s pensions strike

Teachers’ pensions hit again

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‘THIS is just the latest blow to hard-working teachers and other public sector employees already reeling from a raft of changes to their pensions,’...

Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote

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LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...

Civil servants stop Ealing Tax Office

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TWO HUNDRED civil servants employed at the International House Tax Office in Ealing Broadway west London went on strike yesterday, determined to defend their...

10 days of strike action at St Thomas’ Hospital!

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YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...
RMT and supporters demonstrate outside the House of Commons for passenger safety, insisting guards must be kept on the trains

RMT New Strike Actions

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THE RMT has announced strike action against two of the country’s rail privateers – a 48-hour strike on Virgin Trains East Coast and a...
Junior doctors defending the NHS from Hunt and the Tories

Government failing NHS – says BMA leader Mark Porter

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THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...

Young Socialists lobby calls for general strike to bring down Starmer and bring in...

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‘WE HAVE to call action here this week at the TUC Congress to support Palestine and stop the genocide,’ Susan Cook, a delegate from...