Renationalise the buses – demand drivers on eve of strike
LONDON bus drivers are preparing for strike action starting next Monday. Unite has called a series of strikes against massive attacks on pay and conditions...
Free, free Palestine! – chants 30,000 Glastonbury crowd as Cooper prepares ban
‘We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally,’ Belfast rap group Kneecap singer Mo Chara told a...
Half Acute Hospitals In London Under Threat!
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the requirement for all the remaining 113 hospital trusts to achieve foundation business status...
Tories Want Mass Sackings!
Liberal Democrat employment minister, Ed Davey, announced plans to change labour laws yesterday, to enable employers to sack large numbers of workers easily. The Tory-LibDem...
Strong support for Uni strike
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday morning reported strong support by staff from four unions for the one-day strike action in universities across...
PCS taking legal action against Home Secretary Braverman!
A HOME OFFICE whistleblower has revealed that the Tory government is recruiting supermarket customer services reps and employing them as asylum claim processors with...
Starmer Volunteers To Work In The National Interest!
LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...
Chronically ill thrown off benefits – because GPs ‘misled’ by DWP
PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....
Palestine ‘Day Of Rage’
FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...
BIRRI REJECTS UN DRAFT – as 11 Israeli soldiers killed, many injured in Katyusha...
At least eleven Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were injured, some seriously, yesterday when a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit...
Balpa Leader Buys Ticket For August 20 Rally
BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no water or electricity
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
General strike in Palestine!
THROUGHOUT Yatta town, south of Jerusalem, a general strike is being observed to mourn the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Hasan Manasra, who was...
150,000 Workers & Youth March Through London In Support Of Palestine!
THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...
Pfi Disaster For NHS
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned ‘commercial involvement in the NHS’ as it emerged that the cost of NHS private finance initiative (PFI)...
Missile Attack On Israeli Forces In Occupied Golan
THE SYRIAN army intercepted tens of incoming Israeli missiles and reciprocated the assault with a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli military centres in...
Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins
MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...
Spending cut by £3,000 a year
AHEAD of the Budget, each household has reduced their spending by over £3,000 a year on average since 2007, revealing a devastating blow to...
DELIGHTED! – with caravan say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers are delighted at last to have a shelter for their picketing. The TGWU ceased sending a tent as shelter for the...
Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts
MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...
Israeli soldiers beat blind man
ISRAELI soldiers have violently beaten up a blind and paralysed Palestinian man in front of his wife and children for no apparent reason in...
Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled
Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...
RMT STRIKE BANNED! –Ruling class justice at work
THE High Court yesterday followed up its decision to ban strike action at British Airways at Christmas by banning strike action at Network Rail...
Unison Rejects Virgin Private Health Centres!
Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...
Babar Ahmad loses extradition appeal
Babar Ahmad and Haroon Aswat, yesterday lost their High Court battle to avoid extradition to the United States. The US has alleged that Tooting...
POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN BROWN – and demand to call out the whole public sector
‘The phone call from Gordon Brown is not going to happen. That is why it is so important we step up the action and...
Hunger strikers for Palestine are defiant & determined to continue
‘I WAS admitted into A&E on Tuesday afternoon and was returned to Pentonville by Friday evening,’ said pro-Palestinian hunger striker Kamran Ahmed yesterday. Ahmed, one...
Workers support WRP candidates
‘I AM voting Jonty Leff WRP because I want Universal Credit scrapped,’ David Vervin said as the team fighting to get Leff elected launched...
PRIVATE CENTRE ‘RISKED PATIENTS’ SAFETY’ – alleges GP
A privately-run NHS walk-in centre has been forced to launch a probe after complaints by a doctor about the safety of patients were...
PAKISTAN BLOCKS NATO ROUTE! –after US gunship kills three Pakistani soldiers
Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...
WALL STREET DIVES! – as Congress argues over Bush plan
THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...
‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’
‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...
Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks
A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
No more talks until 620 prisoners released!
IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...
No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas
HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...
Maternity cuts despite baby boom
HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...
‘Call general strike’ UCU CONEL chair Anglin tells mass rally of striking college lecturers!
‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...
Israel destroys 95% of Gaza’s fishing fleet
ISRAEL has continued its genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians across Gaza and occupied Jerusalem this week. The Gaza Centre for Human Rights issued a report...
Reducing staff levels puts patients at risk
THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...
MARCH WITH US ON MARCH 25th
GATE GOURMET locked out workers were back on the hill yesterday after their successful mass picket on Sunday. Lakhinder Saran said: ‘Our mass picket was...
St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars
TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
Abbas welcomes 81 UK MPs condemnation of mass evictions
JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has welcomed the letter by 81 British parliamentarians to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, calling...
SEVEN US TROOPS KILLED – despite Iraq crackdown
Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...
Locked-out workers picket Gate Gourmet
Gate Gourmet locked out workers picketed the Heathrow caterer’s factory gate yesterday. This was after Heathrow Airport police, accompanied by a British Airports Authority manager,...
‘We Must Take Strike Action’ –Cwu Reps Tell News Line
Communication Workers Union reps yesterday hit back at Royal Mail’s decision to hire up to 30,000 temporary workers to break the union’s planned 48-hour...