‘STOP JUSTIFYING MURDER’ – De Menezes family urges Met Chief Blair
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have reacted with horror at Met chief Sir Ian Blair’s attempted justification of his ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ policy. The 27...
54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs
AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...
WHITEWASH! – families denied access to press conference
Yesterday Geoff Gray refused to accept the conclusion of the ‘independent review’ into four deaths at Deepcut barracks, that his son committed suicide. Gray, whose...
COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial
UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
Manufacturing Orders Decline
UK manufacturing growth fell to its lowest rate for 21 months in June as new orders declined, the latest Markit/Cips survey says. The groups’ manufacturing...
ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant
THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...
Judges back Parliament against the people!
THE JUDICIARY yesterday sought to rescue the Parliament from the people with its ruling that the House of Commons must agree before the process...
‘We must come together to stop no-deal’ – says Labour leader Corbyn
‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...
Saudi’s Aim Is To Buy Nukes From Pakistan
SAUDI officials are trying to strike a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. The recent meeting between King...
Over 250,000 workers and youth join the London Nakba march
OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...
Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown
In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...
PCS Votes For National Strike Action
MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...
‘LEAVE NOW’ DEMAND MAY’S MPs – as Tory split widens
DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...
Johnson puts Navy in charge of repelling refugee dinghies
THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...
TORIES PLAY RACE CARD – as Queen’s Speech lashes workers
VICIOUS attacks on workers, especially immigrant workers, were at the centre of the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s Queen’s Speech delivered at the State...
Tuc Joins Tory Taskforce!
THE TUC has joined the Tory government’s new National Taskforce on Carillion. In fact it had launched the call for May to form the taskforce. The...
BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay
THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...
‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!
THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...
‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP’ – say Tamil students
‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...
Fight Honda Sackings
THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...
Speaker Vows To Block ‘No-Deal’!
THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons has said that he will not allow it to be closed down so that the UK can...
GRENFELL – ‘PROSECUTE THE GUILTY!’ – Survivors still demanding justice
JUSTICE for Grenfell yesterday branded as ‘outrageous’ and ‘atrocious’ the demand by company officials called before the Grenfell Inquiry for immunity from prosecution. The Grenfell...
STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS! – FBU delegates demand
‘This union is not crushed, this union is not defeated, this union is united and it will be ready for a fight on pensions,’...
Israel launches fresh Gaza ground invasion!
ISRAEL has launched a fresh ground invasion into Gaza City, with occupying forces pushing into the Shejaiya neighbourhood early on Friday. According to Gaza’s civil...
Cut emergency admissions or face elderly care cuts! – GPs told
GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...
‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT
‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...
Hamas Leader Escapes Assassination Attempt
Palestinian prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. Haniya was unhurt after his convoy came under heavy gunfire in Gaza, witnesses...
Israel Intensifies Its Assault On Gaza Strip
THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...
8th GAZA BABY DIES OF COLD
AN EIGHTH baby died of hypothermia due to a lack of shelters as temperatures plummeted amid Israeli military attacks on Gaza yesterday. The father of...
‘CALL THE AIRPORT OUT’ – demand Heathrow strikers
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are taking the fourth of four days strike action today against the company’s imposition of twenty-five per...
Labour Pledges Repeal Of Health & Social Care Act!
THE NHS ‘cannot survive a second term of Tory-led government,’ the Labour Party’s Chair of General Election Strategy, Douglas Alexander, said yesterday. He was echoing...
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...
Firefighters Forced To Transport Patients!
LINCOLNSHIRE Fire Brigades Union and the GMB trade union yesterday expressed concern over plans to use firefighters as A&E first responders. The FBU said it...
800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
‘YOUTH WILL TAKE UP ARMS’ – writes Greek pensioner in suicide note
A 77-YEAR-old pensioner named as Dimitris Christoulas, an ex-owner of a chemist shop, shot himself in the head on Wednesday morning in Syntagma square...
‘No two-tier workforce!’ 2,000 6th Form College lecturers strike
AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...
Thousands March For Palestine
‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...
BMA to fight on pensions
BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...
Speaker blocks vote on Brexit deal – Parliamentary Committee to investigate his impartiality!
AS EXPECTED, the Speaker of the House John Bercow yesterday blocked Parliament from voting on the new Brexit deal with the EU. Announcing his judgement...
‘US jobs haemorrhaging’ 26m now unemployed
‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...
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...
‘More Children Than Ever Are Homeless!’
THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
Al Sweedy witchhunt!
DEFENCE Minister Fallon yesterday announced that there would be an investigation into solicitors who represented Iraqi complainants at the Al Sweedy inquiry. He made...
2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!
APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...