Iran warns US-UK over Syria

0
THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the House of Commons for the 45th day yesterday

Tamil Youth Defend Their Flag Against Police

0
‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...
Determined Metronet strikers lobbying the Department of Transport in central London yesterday

‘GET RID OF THE PRIVATEERS’ – say Tube strikers

0
‘Privatisation has been a disaster, we want the complete renationalisation of the railway network in Britain,’ RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Crow was...

Unite Leader Graham Condemns Barclay For A ‘Blatant Lie!’

0
STRIKING ambulance workers and their union leaders responded with fury at Tory Health Secretary Barclay’s article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, in which he...

Greek Concentration Camps For Illegal Immigrants

0
THE Greek Assistant Minister for Public Order M Othonas said on Wednesday morning that the first concentration camp for alleged ‘illegal immigrants’ could be...
Workers in Norwich rally against the coalition’s cuts – they are demanding that the TUC take action against the government

TUC meets to discuss action!

0
‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...

Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...

0
‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...
Health workers show their opposition to the privatisation outside parliament yesterday

‘NHS Not For Sale’

0
‘NHS not for sale,’ angry health workers chanted outside parliament yesterday, as the Health and Social Care Bill got its second reading. ‘This bill is...

Inflation Up To 5.2%

0
inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest rate since 1992, rising from 4.7% in August, according to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures...

UK-CIA Inquiry Boycott

0
NINE rights groups have said they will boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s torture and rendition programmes. Amnesty International, Reprieve,...

Refugee crisis doubles

0
THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...
State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre building occupied by workers

Greek TUC to defy march ban

0
THE GSEE (Greek TUC) has declared that it intends to defy today’s ban on demonstrations and marches which was announced by Athens Area Chief...

Barristers Strike Growing In Strength

0
HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...
Vigil outsite the Israeli embassy on December 27 to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza

Galloway Persona Non Grata In Egypt

0
The leader of the Viva Palestina aid convoy for Gaza, British MP George Galloway, was yesterday deported and declared persona non grata by Egypt. Officials...
Young mother GLEISA LIMA with her one month-old baby Victoria joined the West London Council picket of Ealing Hospital to demand the hospital’s Maternity Department be reopened

Reopen Ealing Maternity!

0
‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...

COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action

0
OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line – demanding a national demonstration to highlight their fight

DEEPCUT INQUIRY ‘A FARCE’ says father of dead soldier

0
The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of recruits at the Deepcut army barracks ‘was a farce’ Private Geoff Gray’s father, also named Geoff,...

Hamas denounces Israel’s plan to execute Palestinian prisoners

0
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval in its first reading of a bill that would permit the execution...

‘Don’t rob our gold’ – Maduro to UK

0
SPEAKING to the BBC on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro specifically expressed hope that his country ‘is not robbed of the gold that legally...
BOB CROW (right) with Thames watermen. He warned that a ‘dilution of safety’ would be met with industrial action

‘NO DILUTION OF SAFETY’ – Crow warns of Thames Waterway industrial action

0
‘There must be no dilution of safety and if we find that our members are put in danger then there will have to be...
Junior doctors outside the Royal London Hospital in east London – they are standing up against Hunt’s imposed contract

Stand up to Hunt! –urges Society for Acute Medicine

0
‘STAND up to Hunt,’ is the message from the Society for Acute Medicine who have thrown their full weight behind next week’s junior doctors’...
French youth at he head of the one miilion-strong march against the CPE in Paris on April 4 – after the withdrawal of the CPE yesterday French youth are now determined to take the struggle forward to a socialist society

2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month

0
Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
Firefighters at the High Court fighting the government’s plan to destroy their pensions and shut down fire stations

UK – Huge Trade Deficit

0
BRITAIN’S trade deficit has ballooned to its biggest since 1989, shocking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which released the data yesterday. In the three...
Greek youth marching to demand the end of the dictatorship of the European Central Bank

‘EUROZONE FACING A SYSTEM FAILURE’ says EC president Barroso

0
The debt crisis is now eating at the heart of the Eurozone, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday. He urged all 27 EU...
3,000 tenants march on London’s City Hall to demand an end to huge rent rises and evictions. There were two marches, one from north east London, the other from south east London

‘Social Housing Is Our Right’!

0
‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...
Supporters joined Southern rail striking guards on the picket line outside Victoria Station yesterday. ‘All the rail unions should take action together’ – Steve Hedley

Triple Strike To Keep Train Guards

0
TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...
Junior doctors during their dispute warned that the Tories would put the NHS up for sale

GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA

0
GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...

‘STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSION!’ – Abbas urges the UN

0
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...

200 steelworkers march on Parliament! – fighting to defend their jobs

0
OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...

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

0
THE DEVASTATING ramifications for BT employees of the brutal new management approach sweeping across BT is not just illustrated by the scores of compulsory...

Record Borrowing And Record Inflation Rate

0
INFLATION soared upwards last month, with the government’s preferred Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure rising to 4.4 per cent, up from 4 per cent...

RMT joins striking barristers outside Old Bailey

0
STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

US government shutdown – Trump threatens mass sackings

0
THE United States government shut down yesterday after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed. Speaking to reporters at the White House,...
RMT leader Bob Crow insisted yesterday that LU cleaners are doing ‘some of the dirtiest jobs on minimum pay’

Cleaners battle for a living wage! – while TUC joins up with Heseltine

0
LONDON Underground (LU) station cleaners employed by the ISS and Initial privateers on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines held a 48-hour turn-of-the-year pay...

Greek bosses stop wages!

0
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
Sheffield University students turned out in force last week to support their striking lecturers

Coventry becoming a ‘pariah university’

0
COVENTRY University is in danger of becoming a ‘pariah institution’ lecturers union the UCU warned yesterday. The union launched a campaign against the university’s...

Tuc Looking For Tory Allies

0
DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton voted unanimously yesterday to defend the right to strike and political protest. They voted for Composite Motion...

STOP HEATHROW JOBS BLOODBATH – Unite must call national strike action now!

0
‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...
The CWU has been campaigning against the privatisation of Royal Mail since the days of the last Labour government. The picture shows its campaign in Corby in 2009

Royal Mail sell-off begins!

0
THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday slammed the government’s announcement that it plans to begin selling off Royal Mail in the next few...
Tea plantation workers weighing the tea that they have picked. They earn the equivalent of 66p a day and if they don’t pick 44lbs of tea a day, their wages are halved

‘throw Out Stinking Gourmet Deal’

0
‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...

Chinese Rover sends back Mars ‘selfie’!

0
LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...

OIC condemns Israel for rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state!

0
THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...
Junior doctors marched through central London three days before their second strike – they call for Jeremy Hunt to go!

‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244

0
A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...

Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise

0
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...