Pensions Strike!
‘UNISON is having a special local government pensions conference in February. The branches have forced our leaders to concede this so we can...
EU deal ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’ – Merkel tells PM Johnson
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...
Greek Local Government Workers Occupy
SCORES of town halls in the metropolitan Athens-Piraeus area were being occupied by municipal workers on Wednesday morning following a decision by the POE-OTA...
50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine
OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...
100,000 besieged in northern Gaza!
ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...
TORTURE NO CRIME! – no action against MI5
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...
ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU
‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...
AIR WAR – Israel vows to flatten Lebanon
THE Israeli Cabinet decided yesterday it was not going to wage a ground war in Lebanon in the face of the disastrous reverses at...
Greek General Strike Today
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...
FBU ‘will Strike Against Wage Cuts’
AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
Tories Split Over Eu
PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...
Gate Gourmet workers campaign for anniversary march
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were interviewed by the Heathrow Airport free newspaper Skyport yesterday. Parmjit Bains told News Line: ‘All Heathrow Airport workers read it. ‘They...
‘Our resolve is as strong as ever’
‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...
Striking Nurses To March On Downing Street!
STRIKING nurses are marching on Downing Street today, leaving UCLH (University College London Hospital) at 2.30pm, as nursing staff go on strike in what...
‘Name the date for the general strike!’
THE Young Socialists completed the final leg of their 248-mile March For Jobs from London to the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday mid-day. Birmingham and...
AITKEN ‘WHITEWASH’ – condemned by Daoud Mousa lawyers
The report by Brigadier Aitken on British Army abuses of Iraqi civilians is ‘a complete red herring and a whitewash’, said lawyers Phil Shiner...
Clacton–thumbs down for Cameron
THE first poll of the Clacton constituency, where a by-election is due, shows that ex-Tory MP Carswell, who is standing for UKIP,...
Hamas Kills 8 Israeli Soldiers
THE HAMAS military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was...
2-year-old Awaab died ‘entirely due to mould!’
TWO YEARS-OLD Awaab Ishak died on 21 December 2020 shortly after his second birthday ‘entirely’ as a result of extensive mould in his flat,...
Labour special conference to attack the unions!
THE Labour Party is to hold a Special Conference in London in March next year in which the Miliband leadershipwill seek the abolition of...
9,000 Gm Jobs To Go!
GM Europe will keep all four of its German Opel plants open, interim chief executive Nick Reilly revealed yesterday. GM issued the following statement: ‘Opel/Vauxhall...
The Ys Calls ‘Jobs For Youth’ Lobby Of Tuc!
THE Young Socialists yesterday called a mass lobby of the TUC Annual Congress for Monday September 12, beginning at 8.00am. The conference is being held...
‘I WILL NOT SET A DATE’ – Blair defies Brown and unions
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...
UK economy collapsing – destitution on the rise
BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...
Brown Attacks Unions On Pay
In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Chancellor Gordon Brown declared for ‘New Labour renewed’. Assuming he will succeed Blair as...
Thousands march against ‘murderers government’
OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...
‘THEY WANT TO STEAL LIBYA’S OIL’ says Chavez
THE Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the US of preparing to invade Libya to steal its oil. ‘A campaign of lies is being...
Young Socialists lobby calls for general strike to bring down Starmer and bring in...
‘WE HAVE to call action here this week at the TUC Congress to support Palestine and stop the genocide,’ Susan Cook, a delegate from...
Bromley NHS Trust ‘Meltdown’
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust plans to close wards and sack hundreds of staff in a bid to save £23 million in a year, in...
Unison National NHS Demo On June 30
UNISON confirmed yesterday that it is holding a National Demonstration in London on Saturday June 30 in defence of the NHS. A spokeswoman told...
GPs REFUSE TO CHARGE PATIENTS
GPs FROM across the UK yesterday resoundingly rejected calls to introduce a charge for access to general practice. The proposal was debated and voted...
Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!
OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
Murdoch May Be Recalled
MPs on the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sports Committee are writing to James Murdoch, ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler and...
‘TORIES WANT TO SUPPRESS THE UNIONS!’ says RMT leader Mick Lynch
‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...
Israel Attacks Palestinian Journalists!
DOZENS of Palestinian journalists have suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli military forces attacked a peaceful sit-in staged in the northern sector of...
Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move
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...
‘DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD’ – GM Works Council leader fears for Luton plant
Negotiations over the future of GM sites in Luton and Antwerp would be ‘a hard nut’ to crack, Opel Works Council chief Klaus Franz...
‘ECB STILL HOLDING ROPE AROUND OUR NECKS!’ says the Syriza leadership
THE Eurogroup’s President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday that unless the Greek government implements immediately the promised ‘reforms’ – that is austerity measures –...
Cameron leads EU’s right wing!
TORY PM Cameron yesterday called on European leaders to deport more refugees, describing them as ‘economic migrants’ who, he claimed, don’t have a genuine...
Growing Anger Over Threat To Chase Farm
‘You have to fight for what is right’, Chase Farm Hospital worker Paulette Wright told News Line at the North East London Council of...
DEFEND GM JOBS! – JUNE 1st is bankruptcy day
Car parts maker Magna International was yesterday reported to have reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to take GM Europe off its...
MAKE OUR DISPUTE OFFICIAL say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
A DELEGATION of Gate Gourmet locked out workers is due to meet the TGWU head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, at the union’s head...
NHS staff ‘exhausted & on the brink!’ – BMA
A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...