RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!
RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...
Forty universities infected by Covid
AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...
Ford Opposed Bush On Iraq
As President George Bush prepared to discuss his next move in Iraq yesterday, he was delivered a posthumous blow from former President Gerald Ford,...
Tories Moving To Dump Truss!
YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...
TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines
THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...
BANK OF ENGLAND BLOCKADED! – by tens of thousands of youth
TENS of thousands of people demonstrated from mid-day yesterday outside the Bank of England against bankers,capitalism and the G20 summit. They...
Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!
LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...
Yorks Hospital Workers Strike To Defend Jobs
five-hundred clerical and administration workers at three hospitals in West Yorkshire came out on strike on Sunday. They are striking for five-days against threats of...
POA condemns ‘reserve force’
THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...
The FBU calls for urgent action by next government to prepare the UK for...
THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called for ‘urgent action’ from the next government to prepare the UK for rising temperatures following last week’s...
Angry Iraqis March For Saddam
Hundreds of angry supporters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, many of them armed, protested yesterday against his execution and blamed leading Iraqi politicians for...
Israeli Missile Attack On Gaza
Yesterday afternoon, Israeli military forces attacked Gaza from the land, sea and air. Aircraft launched two missile strikes against the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza...
560 Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa
MORE than 560 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds under the protection of the regime’s forces...
‘Stay Off Work From Next Monday’ Say Neu Leaders!
MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...
PCS put on war footing!
FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...
Notts College Industrial Action Ballot
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...
Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...
Action Is Needed To Defend Royal Mail Jobs And Pensions
CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...
Evictions Up!
GROWING numbers of private sector tenants are turning to Citizens Advice after facing eviction despite being up to date with their rent, the national...
SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth
SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...
‘Overthrow dictatorship!’ – say Greek workers and soldiers
THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...
RMT’s Crow condemns Miliband’s ELECTORAL SUICIDE!
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has defended his party’s decision to support the government’s pay cuts for public sector workers, and to continue with Tory...
BANKS MELTDOWN – Taxpayers to foot the bill
The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...
UCU ‘No’ To Campus Spies
UNIVERSITY and college lecturers yesterday morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for ‘extremism’. The controversial proposals,...
Fire safety checks cut by 42%!
IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...
No confidence in Sussex fire bosses – FBU votes unanimously
THE FIREFIGHTERS’ East Sussex union branch has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the senior leadership team of East Sussex Fire and...
Fierce battles rage around Jabalia Refugee Camp!
Fighting between Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli troops raged in Gaza on Friday after the Zionist genocidal regime intensified its ground invasion. Fierce battles raged overnight...
‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham
AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – Tuesday October 21st
Tuesday’s 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the government’s policies takes place in an explosive period. The world economic collapse has...
Salonica Teachers Clash With Police
ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...
Iran Pledges Reprisals Against Sanctions
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...
Miliband pledges £8 minimum wage
ADDRESSING the party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Labour leader Miliband pledged to increase the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour over the...
Defend NHS!
GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...
Biden deploys record troop numbers to Jordan
A NEW report to the US Congress reveals that the Biden administration has deployed a record number of US troops to Jordan as the...
NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!
A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...
1.5m face living in the dark and cold – As more energy companies go...
NEARLY 1.5 million customers have been hit by energy firms collapsing under soaring gas prices. Avro Energy and Green ceased trading on Wednesday and their...
RE-OPEN EPSOM A&E – demands GMB trade union
‘GMB are calling on the government and the minister of health to reinstate the A&E services to Epsom,’ Paul Maloney, Senior Officer of the GMB...
Downing Street Warning To Climate Change Camp
Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...
Manchester workers greet march!
‘Victory to Palestine!’ rang out through the streets of Central Manchester on Day 15 of the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC...
‘THEY WANT US ALL TO BE GIG ECONOMY WORKERS!’ – 70,000 UCU members strike
OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...
Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq
THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...
‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers
‘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...
Kenyan Torture Victims Testify Today
THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...
NEW HOSPITALS THREAT by NHS Clinical Commissioner
CALLS by the head of NHS Clinical Commissioners for most hospitals to be ‘downsized’ or closed and for 50 per cent of current hospital...