450 jobs axed at BBC
FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...
NATIONALISE VESTAS! –demand the 25 occupying workers
Workers who have been occupying the Vestas turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight for fourteen days over plans to cut 625 jobs...
Don’t stop our hardship payments demand locked-out GG workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line in the open air at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They were angry that the leaders of...
‘Unite has aided mass sackings!’ – BA workers demand recall Unite conference to sack...
BRITISH Airways workers yesterday accused their union leaders of ‘aiding and abetting’ BA in its mass sackings and contract-busting plans, and demanded the Unite...
Banfield urges Tories –‘No more excuses – make credible offer!’
WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...
Bma Revolution!
Doctors to demand referendum on Health Bill – No confidence in Lansley and Coalition An Uprising among doctors against the government’s plan to smash up...
NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds
YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...
Carry Out Pledges – Demand Greek Workers
THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...
Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’
JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...
‘WE NEED A NATIONAL STRIKE!’ – say striking London postal workers
THE CWU Postal National Executive is meeting next Tuesday and is expected to carry a resolution for a national ballot for national strike action...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job
PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...
Vote Wrp Vote Aminata Sellu For Camberwell & Peckham
ON THURSDAY evening workers in the Samlak cafe on Southampton Way, Camberwell showed support for Aminata Sellu, WRP candidate for Camberwell & Peckham. Aminata...
‘Prosecute those who murdered my son’ says Colonel Mousa
BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...
Hands Off Our Pensions! National Fire Strike Today
FIREFIGHTERS are on strike in defence of their pensions from 12noon until 4.00pm today with pickets outside fire stations and mass demonstrations in towns...
US forced to call an immediate Gaza ceasefire!
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...
Court finds against Labour Party democracy
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...
RCN: No fees! Restore bursaries! Cancel debt!
‘FORCING student nurses to pay tuition fees has been a disaster,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday, demanding that all student nurses’...
‘Our members deserve fair pay – and will be taking action for as long...
‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...
US ORDERED BINYAM TORTURE –accepted by Washington District Court
‘THIS puts another nail in the coffin of the British government’s attempts to cover up its role’ in Binyam Mohamed’s treatment, Clive Stafford Smith,...
‘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,...
Police take full responsibility for unlawful killing
THE Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of Ian Tomlinson and reached an out-of-court settlement over his ‘unlawful killing’ by a police officer...
No admission at BP AGM!
BP yesterday faced angry protesters – including Louisiana fishermen, Canadian Indians opposed to Tar Sands, and locked out UK construction workers – at its...
PROSECUTE THE POLICE DEATH SQUAD – say Jean Charles de Menezes family
A cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police CO 19 firearms officers, yesterday demanded those responsible ‘must face...
Travel Safe workers take strike action
‘The bullying and intimidation of our members’ representatives by STM Security, is utterly deplorable,’ said Bob Crow yesterday. He added: ‘It is the issue at...
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...
BROWN SEES NO CRISIS! – while Cameron demands election
A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...
Junior doctors considering more strike actions!
JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...
FREE PALESTINE! – TUC Congress votes for boycott of Israeli goods
THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...
Royal Mail Engineers – Three Days Of Strike Action
‘They are trying to destroy our home life with no discussion. It’s back to the bad old days – at the beck and call...
‘International community must make a stand’
IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...
‘Ignore us at your peril!’ – nurses warn Tories
SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...
FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions
FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...
CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10
A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...
US READY TO BOMB IRAQ – but Straw rejects Hersh warning as ‘nuts’
Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...
MADNESS! – RCN condemns destruction of nurse training places
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...
MASS LOBBY OF MPs NEEDED – to demand GM nationalisation
‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...
Tory split widens over £20 UC cut
TORY PM Johnson faced splits in his ranks as Conservatives opposed the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit in a vote in Parliament...
‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid
THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...
Black cabs challenge Uber
‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...
HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed
The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...
WAGES WILL BE FROZEN UNTIL 2015 – says Miliband
Ed Miliband yesterday warned that average pay will be no higher in 2015 than it was in 2003, quoting figures published by the Resolution...
HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless
ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...
Greek Workers Battle Riot Police
ATHENS public transport workers were yesterday continuing for the fourth day running their ‘rolling’ strikes. The strikes were called against the government’s plans to transfer...
‘DON’T RAISE PENSION AGE’ – urges TUC leader O’Grady
‘THE government should abandon its plan to raise the state pension age in light of the new evidence on projected life expectancies,’ TUC General...