Entire RCN leadership sacked by membership – Members vote of no confidence at Extraordinary...

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THE ENTIRE leadership of the nurses union RCN has been sacked by the membership! A vote of no confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...

Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees

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UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...

Young Socialists hold May Day meeting!

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THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...

STRIKES GOING AHEAD! says London District Chairman

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‘Unless there is a substantial breakthrough the strikes are going ahead on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ CWU London District Chairman John Denton told News...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...
Postal workers at Hanwell Sorting Office gave their full support for the march to and occupation of Ealing Hospital maternity department today

Workers support Occupation!

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EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...
Greek school students demonstrating in Athens last Friday against the police killing of a 15-year-old boy. Continuous protests, strikes and fighting with the police has taken place across Greece for the last week since the shooting

‘the Last Days Of The Karamanlis Government’

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GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...
Picket of the Israeli embassy on August 1st during the Zionist onslaught on Gaza claiming the lives of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children

RECOGNISE PALESTINE! – Palestinian ambassador urges MPs

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MANUEL Hassassian, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, has renewed his call on MPs to pass the resolution that will be before the House...

Inquiry into undercover police spies opens!

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THE Public inquiry launched yesterday into the Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) ‘will expose both creditable and discreditable conduct, practice and management’, Justice Pitchford...

The Iranian revolution will continue to defeat all plots!

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‘the Islamic Revolution will go on to defeat all US plots in the coming years just as it has done over the past four...
A section of yesterday’s mass demonstration of student and school youth marching to demand that either the CPE first job contract must go or the government will be brought down

Blair Savaged!

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THE Prime Minister was savaged at his monthly press conference yesterday after the emergence of the ‘donations for peerages’ scandal and the fact that...

Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...

Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!

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The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...

Huge rise in US military spending

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THE US senate has unveiled a draft bill that would authorise Washington to modernise its nuclear weapon arsenal, in a move to counter China’s...
A section of the 2,000-strong demonstration outside the BBC in White City demanding that the BBC must not assist Sri Lanka  genocide against Tamils

Bbc Vetos National Appeal For Gaza

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THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...
Junior doctors in the front line against imposed contracts, privatisation and not getting the number of staff that the NHS requires

Bma Slams Tories And Privatisation!

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IN his speech to the BMA’s ARM, Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair, said: ‘The government is in denial. The chancellor says...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...

100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Gaza Attacks

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At least 100 Palestinians, including 34 aid seekers, were killed and 534 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza yesterday, according to the enclave’s Health...

3 unions reject BA’s offer – strike looms!

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THREE unions – BALPA, Unite, and GMB – representing 25,000 British Airways workers have rejected the company’s latest pay deal meaning that a major...

NHS logistics votes overwhelmingly for strike action

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday announced that NHS Logistics staff have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action to defend their service from privatisation. Prentis...
Medical students ‘tent’ protest at a BMA Annual Representation Meeting – now facing huge increases in fees and massive bills when they graduate

Medical students ‘deep in debt’

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Parents are facing a hidden £15,000 bill to send their children to medical school, says a new BMA report. Many families are being forced to...
Doctors, nurses and NHS staff stopped to support the extremely determined picket to save Ealing Hospital

Re-open maternity & children’s wards – demands Ealing mass picket

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DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...

BofE & speculators drive £ down

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STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...

Israeli assault on Jenin is repelled by Palestinians!

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AN ISRAELI soldier was killed, and five others were wounded as Palestinian resistance fighters repelled a large-scale Israeli assault on Jenin. The Israeli military confirmed...

‘Gate Gourmet Can’t Get Away With This!’

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Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...

‘NATIONALISE MINES!’ – says South African mineworkers union

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THE South African government must nationalise mines that Anglo American Platinum Ltd (Amplats) is laying idle, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)...
Mixed fleet cabin crew are starting a three-day strike today against poverty pay. Picture shows picket line at Heathrow on Tuesday January 10th

BA Cabin Crew Out Today

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BRITISH Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are striking against poverty pay today in the first day of a 72-hour strike. It follows last week’s two...

Bank of England raises rates to make workers pay for the crisis

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...
Young Tamils are leading the fight for a permanent ceasefire in Sri Lanka. PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN (centre) is continuing his hunger strike

We Want Permanent Ceasefire

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‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...

‘A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ – poll finds ‘we are all suspects’

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday called for stronger privacy protection as a YouGov poll revealed that a majority of UK citizens believe Britain is...
May Day rally in Athens

Greek May Day Strike

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Greek workers, youth and students in their thousands demonstrated in every city on May Day celebrating historic past struggles and showing their determination to...

Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years

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A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...

TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd

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PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...

20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget

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TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...
Civil servants on the march against government cuts – will be taking strike action on June 30

Civil Servants To Strike

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THREE-QUARTERS of a million public sector workers will take strike action against government attacks on their pensions on Thursday 30th June, it was confirmed...

Secret trials go ahead!

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THE ‘secret courts’ Justice and Security Bill places UK Security Services and Government Ministers ‘above the law,’ civil rights charities Reprieve and Liberty warned...
Some of the demonstrators who took part in the march through Lewisham on Saturday to keep south-east London hospitals open

KEEP LEWISHAM A&E OPEN – demand marchers

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AROUND 150 people marched from Blackheath past Lewisham Hospital to a rally in Ladywell Park on Saturday, against plans to shut the south London...

1.2m HUNGRY CHILDREN!

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More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...

GREECE PLEADS FOR TIME TO REPAY LOANS – ‘EU exit would be a catastrophe!’

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THE EU-IMF-ECB-imposed Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, on Saturday called for more time to carry out savage austerity cuts, warning that a Greek exit...

80% parents kept their children at home!

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MORE than 80% of parents have refused to put their children in harm’s way, scuppering the government’s plan to reopen schools yesterday, a poll...
A section of the mass lobby of the TUC General Council yesterday, who had been asked by the PCS and FBU to call a Day of Action in support of junior doctors

Take Action To Support Doctors!

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‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...
Hackney Community College lecturers and students at the demonstration to defend ESOL courses on April 28th

DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College

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students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY surrounded by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at the May Day demonstration in London

VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers

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Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...

Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’

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THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...
Hospital defence campaigns marched on Downing Street in October to demand an end to NHS cuts and closures

STPs TO CLOSE 19 HOSPITALS!

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THE NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with 19 hospitals marked for closure, and care from cradle-to-grave put through a...