4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!
THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...
25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!
TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...
EU Withdrawal Bill proceeds Lords amendment rejected
THE GOVERNMENT saw off an attempt by Remainers to adopt the Lords amendment which would have allowed a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit...
Israel bombs 2nd UN school in two days
ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...
Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!
THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...
Hundreds of us are fighting for reinstatement
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday determined to take their struggle forward to victory. Shop steward Gurdip Heer told News...
UK Agrees To Negotiate The Future Of The Chagos Islands
THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since...
Zionists kill 10 sheltering at UNRWA school in Gaza!
AT LEAST ten people in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal...
No New Anti-Union Laws!
Trade unions yesterday condemned Tory threats to ban strikes after Downing Street dropped a bombshell, confirming that Tory leader Cameron is ‘considering’ just that. London...
INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT
‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...
Defend West Hendon Homes!
TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...
‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN’ – striking RMT workers tell News Line
TRANSPORT union RMT members were on the picket line at Waterloo Station on Saturday morning as their strike carries on in defence of pay,...
FRANCE PENSIONS STRIKE SEPTEMBER 7th
French trade unions met yesterday to finalise arrangements for ‘a day of strikes and demonstrations’ across France on September 7th. There is enormous anger over...
Stop Clause 119 – Stop The Hospital Closures!
THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...
Rover–No Prosecutions!
THE Serious Fraud Office announced yesterday that there will be no criminal charges brought over the sale and subsequent collapse of MG Rover. Bert Hill,...
‘This will end up in a general strike!’ – Ambulance pickets tell News Line
‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...
DON’T SCRAP TUBE SAFETY RULES – say rail unions
THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...
6 Months Of Gate Gourmet Lock-Out!
‘Next Friday will be six months since we were locked out on August 10th 2005’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Lakhinder Saran told News...
West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened
FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
RMT pledges to fight cuts in oil workers’ jobs
FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...
‘Claim Your Money Back’ – Workfare Benefit Stopping Ruled Illegal
THE COALITION government’s slave labour ‘Back to Work’ programme was dealt a major blow yesterday when, in a unanimous decision, three judges from the...
‘We are on the verge of a conflict involving the whole continent’ says...
‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...
‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line
‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...
Huge victory for Filton 24!
Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...
GMB denounces May’s NHS plan
‘How does the government expect to deliver everything promised in the plan without the staff to deliver the services,’ asked GMB union yesterday in...
‘Day of Rage!’ Mass pension strike shuts France down!
FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...
59 killed & 296 wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza
THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...
Fury at Labour’s attack on disabled
DEMONSTRATIONS are taking place outside Parliament from 1.00pm today, and in towns and cities around the country, as the Labour government seeks to pass...
‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma
IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...
Council Unions Want 5% Rise
More than 1.5 million local government workers are to ask for a five per cent pay rise in the new year. Three trade...
24,000 Jobs Under Threat
Over 24,000 manufacturing jobs are at risk over the next three months as UK firms struggle with falling orders, bosses warned yesterday. The latest Regional...
‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers
THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...
Starmer Launches War On Benefits And Youth!
THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...
NHS workers slam Hunt’s attack
‘IF YOU want to talk about waste in the NHS, then stop outsourcing midwives and nurses to agency staff,’ Royal College of Midwives (RCM)...
More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...
‘UNAFFORDABLE!’ £718–average monthly rent in England & Wales
‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....
Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!
TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
Junior doctors to vote ‘NO’!
JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...
RCN slams Health Bill
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...
Secret Courts ‘Put Coalition Above The Law’
THE government’s Green Paper for bringing secret evidence before closed courts into the justice system was condemned by both civil rights charity Reprieve and...
Teachers Out Today!
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...
Khan Elected Mayor!
IN an overwhelming victory for Labour, Sadiq Khan has become the new mayor of London yesterday. Londoners were glad to see the back of Boris...
‘CONSIGNING EDUCATION TO THE SCRAP HEAP!’ – Teacher training to be cut to six...
government proposals to cut teacher training to just six months were condemned by unions yesterday as consigning the ‘vision of a world class education...
UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm
The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...