The platform including (left to right) JOHN McDONNELL, standing DAVE WILTSHIRE, HARBINDER SINGH, LAKHVINDER, and PARMJIT BAINS

Gate Gourmet Rally Is A Huge Success

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‘We’ve been fighting for more than one year and we are coming close to victory. Our hearing starts next week and we are very,...

Three More US Marines Killed

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Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...

OIC condemns Israel for rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state!

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THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...

Brent teachers strike against Academy

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BRENT teachers in the ATL and NUT unions are on strike today demanding ‘No Academy at St Andrew and St Francis school!’ The teachers are...

CWU WILL TAKE STRIKE ACTION – if Coventry Mail Centre is shut

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COVENTRY postal workers are preparing for strike action to defend their jobs and their mail centre, a leading CWU officer said yesterday. Royal Mail is...

Capitalism is crashing – Build revolutionary leadership! – News Line 55th Anniversary rally is...

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‘CAPITALISM is crashing in Britain and all over the world,’ Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Frank Sweeney told the News Line 55th Anniversary...

Ambulance Service ‘breakdown’!

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UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...

NO PRIVATISATION! – Postal workers march on LP conference

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MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...
Manchester students gave their full support to ‘the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth’

Manchester SU supports YS March

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‘MANCHESTER University Students Union (SU) supports the march because we support the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth,’ said Charlie Cook, the SU...

Ahead – ‘the Fight Of Our Lives!’

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DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester yesterday voted almost unanimously for Composite Motion 10, Defending public services and for Paragraphs 3.1 and 3.13...

‘People’s vote remains an option’ – Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE called for a new customs union, with a say in future trade deals, a strong single market relationship and a guarantee to...

‘I WILL NOT SET A DATE’ – Blair defies Brown and unions

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...

Labour MPs to attend CWU pickets today!

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LARGE numbers of Labour MPs will attend Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket lines again today, in defiance of the anti-union stance taken by party...

CWU to be reformed to suit Royal Mail

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A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...

$10 Trillion US Deficit Looms

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The US government is heading for a massive $10 trillion budget deficit over the next decade, analysts warned yesterday after the White House projected...

GATE GOURMET WORKERS DEMAND TUC ACTION – ‘to win all our jobs back’

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A LARGE number of sacked Gate Gourmet catering workers from Heathrow were on their way to Brighton to lobby the Trades Union Congress early...

PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages

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University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...

Iran declares ‘historic & crushing defeat’ for USA

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IRAN yesterday declared a ‘historic and crushing defeat’ of the United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war. It announced that Washington...

NHS Multi-Billion Support Services Grab

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A NEW list of approved suppliers to the NHS has heightened fears of a multi-billion pound land grab by a handful of corporations. Competition for...

Driving the sick back to work! – private company to displace GP practices

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DOCTORS have slammed a new scheme to drive workers who are sick back to work. The extremely controversial proposal will see workers who are off...

‘Fast Track’ deportations illegal

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The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling declaring the ‘Detained Fast Track’ system for asylum seekers to be unlawful and ‘potentially disastrous’. In...

127,992 homeless kids at Christmas

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A record 127,992 children in England will wake up homeless on Christmas day, according to new government figures highlighted by Shelter. The charity turned...
25,000 people marched in Lewisham on January 26 to save their hospital – they will be very angry at Hunt’s remarks that savage cuts will save 100 lives

Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced

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LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...
PCS delegation on a TUC demonstration against Tory government cuts

25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...
Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line earlier this week and looking forward to their demonstration on Sunday

END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs

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Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...
Riot police buses blocking the Hellenic Steel plant on Friday morning

Greek Riot Police Storm Steel Plant

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AT 5.30AM yesterday about 50 armed riot police stormed the striking steel workers’ pickets at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, about 25 km...
A section of Tuesday’s Co-ordination of Trades Unions demonstration in Athens (Antonis Stamatopoulos on the left with arms folded)

Greek Medicines Crisis

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The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...
NHS workers at Kings College Hospital in Denmark Hill south-east London taking strike action

Health care assistants in crisis

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HEALTHCARE assistants across the UK face are suffering from the NHS crisis of staffing levels. The Unison union’s report, Red Alert – Unsafe Staffing Levels...
Seafarers’ pickets and tourists at the port of Piraeus last Wednesday

Strike Wave Mounts As Colonel Is Killed

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According to the Greek police, a powerful ‘parcel bomb’ exploded at 8.20pm on Thursday on the seventh floor of the Greek Ministry for the...

The back of the Zionist regime will be broken – Iran

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IRAN will ‘break the back’ of the Israeli regime and continue with its retaliatory military operations against the Zionist aggressors, its defence ministry vowed...
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...
Striking bus workers outside the Ash Grove depot in Hackney yesterday demanding the reinstatement of their steward

40 Bus Workers Picket Ash Grove

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FORTY bus workers had a very lively picket yesterday morning, at Hackney’s Ash Grove bus depot in east London, as they staged the first...

Putting safety at risk! – Aslef & RMT accuse London Underground

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RAIL unions ASLEF and RMT yesterday accused London Underground of putting safety at risk in its determination to push through changes in working practices,...
Palestinian youth battle with Israeli troops and settlers on the West Bank

Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move

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HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Stella Assange outside High Court

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‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...

Primark Slave Labour Claims

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The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members

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UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
The last angry march through Enfield where 10,000 local people turned out to protest at the plan to close Chase Farm Hospital

Stop Chase Farm Closure!

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THE North East London Council of Action is organising a march through Enfield today starting from the war memorial at 1pm to Chase ...
Thousands of students took the streets of London for the National Day of Action last November against fees, education cuts and the scrapping of EMA

Students walkout today!

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TENS of thousands of students are expected to participate in a national walkout today in campuses in every part of the UK against the...

Record numbers of children rely on food banks

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A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...

Israel Plans Expulsion Of One Million Gazans

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ISRAEL has established a ‘Population Relocation Unit’ to systematically map, surveil, and forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza City through a campaign of leaflets, text...

Air Attack On Lugansk Is A War Crime

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The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...

National action launched to end ‘fire and rehire’ – while Unite suspends RATP...

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THE UNITE union yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to ‘end the growing practice of fire and rehire’ through a programme of strike action alongside...

Greece A Colony Of The Ec-Imf Lenders!

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GREEK civil servants employed at Inland Revenue offices picketed a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday morning against a government ‘multi-Bill’ which scraps...