Heathrow boss threatens to sack third of workforce

0
THE BOSS of Heathrow airport has warned of making 25,000 job cuts as the Tories’ 14-day quarantine system came into force yesterday morning. Heathrow boss...

5,000-strong London Al-Quds Day rally!

0
A POWERFUL Al-Quds Day 5,000-strong rally took place on the Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames yesterday afternoon from 1pm-3pm. The...

ISRAEL BOMBS QATAR! – targeting Hamas peace negotiators

0
ISRAEL carried out a massive bombardment of the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday with more than ten aerial munitions, aimed at assassinating the Hamas Movement’s...
Members of the Transport and General Workers Union issued a call to ‘Defend our Public Services’ outside parliament yesterday

TAKE ACTION – to defend the Public Sector

0
OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...

BLIX WARNED BLAIR ON WMDs

0
HANS BLIX, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq told yesterday’s BBC Radio Today programme that he had warned Tony Blair the...
Demonstration in London to defend the capital’s A&Es – workers are determined that the NHS must remain a service providing the necessary quality care for all who need it

Monitor wants NHS ‘production line’ to cut costs!

0
THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...

‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!

0
THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...

1,652 empty properties in North Kensington – only 12 Grenfell Tower families rehoused

0
THE LABOUR Party yesterday called the revelation that 1,652 properties in North Kensington are unoccupied ‘simply unacceptable’. A local resident and community activist told News...
Palexpo Poster

Palexpo – June 6th & June 7th, 2019

0
Biggest Palestine event in Europe Olympia, London, Tube: Kensington (Olympia) Buy Tickets Use code: FOATUBE #palestineexpo | FOA

All tube lines out on March 1st and 3rd!

0
TRANSPORT union RMT announced strike action yesterday on all lines of the London Underground (LU). The announcement comes in the wake of a recent ballot...
The giant adedy  trade union delegation in the square in front of the Parliament building. They were led away after ten minutes by their leaders – shortly afterwards the riot police attacked the remaining crowd

30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament

0
SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

0
‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

54,000 youth DNA tested!

0
POLICE take a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes in England and Wales, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform...
Walmart workers and Ferguson protesters picket a Walmart store in Atlanta

Ferguson Calls For A ‘Communist Revolution’

0
‘WE need a communist revolution,’ shouted crowds of angry protesters outside Ferguson, St Louis, police station on Friday night. Hundreds of people gathered in the...

Israel escalates Gaza slaughter as the UN confirms GENOCIDE!

0
AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...
Firefighters on the picket at Euston in north London at the begining of their 24 hour strike at 9am yesterday morning

FBU–‘A Fight We Have To Win’

0
FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales went out on a 24-hour strike over the massive attacks that are taking place on their pensions. The walk-out, which...

‘We’re heading for a general strike’

0
‘WE’RE heading for a general strike,’ striking Royal Mail postal workers, members of the CWU told News Line yesterday. At the Fulham Delivery Office CWU...
Delegates applaud one of the major speeches at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting

‘RESIST CUTS & PRIVATISATION!’ Decides BMA conference in Edinburgh

0
DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

Labour Right Wing Plans For Two Parties!

0
TORY MP Andrew Bridgen yesterday claimed that Labour MPs who expect Jeremy Corbyn to retain the leadership of the party by winning...

PCS Warns Of Further Action

0
‘We’ve had just as strong support today as we had for the first day of the strike,’ a Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)...

Royal Mail Job Security Crisis

0
ASSURANCES about the future job security of Royal Mail managers are being sought by Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, following the company’s ‘poor’...

‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand

0
UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...

Barristers strike gains support

0
‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...
Young Socialists mass lobby outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on 9 September demanding jobs and refusing to workfor nothing

Welfare Fraud At The Top! – No System To Root Out Contractors’ Fraud

0
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday warned of the dangers of widespread fraud in the £1bn ‘Welfare to Work’ programme. Margaret Hodge...

‘HAND OVER YOUR CASH!’ Syriza orders municipalities & hospitals – to pay IMF

0
GREECE has ordered its public sector bodies to hand over any reserve cash to help it meet a payment due to the International Monetary...

Israeli Onslaught Targets Hospitals And Homes!

0
TANKS and armoured vehicles fired on family cars and buses in Gaza yesterday, slaughtering the occupants, while areas around al-Quds Hospital were continuously targeted...

THE NHS STAFFING CRISIS: ‘A NATIONAL SCANDAL’ says House of Commons Health & Social...

0
THE HOUSE of Commons Health and Social Care Committee is publishing a report this morning which calls the NHS staffing crisis a ‘national scandal’. The...
BBC NUJ members out on strike outside Bush House, London, yesterday morning

Strike Rocks Bbc!

0
Thousands of journalists across the BBC walked out at midnight Thursday in the first of two 48-hour strikes in protest at plans to devalue...

US and Israel behind Iran riots

0
IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says the nation should not allow rioters to cause insecurity in the country, stressing that protesting is different from rioting. ‘If the people...

Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations

0
THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...

PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike

0
BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...
Teamsters Local 814 members and Transport Workers Union Local 100 members outside Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday night

Teamsters & TWU picket Sotheby’s

0
'WE want a fair contract,’ shouted locked out Teamsters from New York as they and supporters picketed Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday...

Truss rail class war!

0
THE TORY war on the railways and railway workers is to resume immediately, with reports yesterday of mass ticket office closures being ‘hardwired’ into...
Students from the University of Arts London have occupied Central St Martin’s College since Thursday last week

‘We support LSE occupation!’

0
OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...

Civil Service Mayhem

0
PLANS reported yesterday morning to close all but a handful of HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) 160 remaining UK offices would be ‘devastating’ and...
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

0
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...
Travel Safe workers lobbied City Hall yesterday against their treatment by STM Security Group UK

Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!

0
‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...

PULL TROOPS OUT CALL! – as army chief demands more

0
‘We are opposed to more troops going into Afghanistan,’ a Stop the War Coalition spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to a...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hillingdon T&G office yesterday are insisting that their union leaders pay their hardship money

Locked-Out Gg Workers To March At Tolpuddle

0
‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...

London Transport Strikes Escalating!

0
LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government

0
RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...
Two Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers from London’s Heathrow airport were given a warm reception at Dusseldorf airport on Wednesday when they visited striking local Gate Gourmet workers

In London and Dusseldorf – ‘WE FIGHT ON UNTIL VICTORY’

0
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow received a warm welcome at Dusseldorf Airport yesterday morning when they were met by Gate Gourmet strikers...
Jubilant Hampstead postal workers walked out on strike together at 9.00am Saturday

‘We Will March On Postal Executive’

0
‘We walked out at 9am today as we said we would,’ Hampstead Delivery Office Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Unit rep John Cotier said on...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

0
FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...

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...