Mothers lobbying the Clinical Commissioning Group in April to demand that Ealing Maternity Department be kept open. The Group decided to postpone a decision on the closure until after the election

Save Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit

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BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...

UK a bailiffs paradise!

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LOCAL councils should ‘back off’ from calling in bailiffs, after doing so an ‘excessive’ 1.8 million times in the last year, to collect debts...

Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over! – ‘people won’t be taken for granted’

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POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...

Gate Gourmet workers support French strikers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, on their picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, spoke out in support of the French airport workers who are...

Athens Law School occupied!

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STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...

March of the 4-year-olds demands no test

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SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...

Thousands of doctors march on Downing St – Kick the Tories out now!

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THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...
Cleaners, security and catering staff at the Royal London Hospital took strike action against their employer Serco last year

Carillion crash hits NHS hospitals hard

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THE LIQUIDATION of Carillion has created such a crisis in the NHS that 14 hospital Trusts have had to trigger their emergency ‘contingency...
Workers throught the UK have had enough of Tory coalition austerity – time for action has come

A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor

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THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St

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MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...
Demonstration against attacks on disabled people who are being hit hard by the new cuts to care

End 15 Minute Care Disgrace

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END 15-minute care visits, the Royal College of Nursing and Unison health unions demanded yesterday, after the scandal of the consequences of such rushed...

‘THE JOY OF RETURN!’ – Hundreds of thousands go home in Gaza

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HUGE crowds of Gaza residents, old and young, walked northwards with their belongings along the main road next to the Mediterranean Sea coast from...
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...
Greek hospital workers demanding free health care for all. Their banner declares ‘All together we will win!’

Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!

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THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...
Ealing Hospital Christmas picket – the hospital’s Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward is one of many paediatric departments closed around the country

Nursing shortage shuts cancer units

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CHILDREN’S wards and cancer units are closing hand over fist across the entire country with the nurses union RCN warning that ‘skeleton staffing’ means...

Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’

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THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...
March in Enfield to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

Welfare State ‘Not For Sale!’

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thousands of workers, trade unionists, students and youth are marching through London this afternoon, against 13 years of Labour attacks on public services and...

Brown Calls May Election

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Prime Minister Brown confirmed yesterday that the general election will be held on Thursday 6th May. Flanked by the cabinet outside 10 Downing Street, following...

STOP ARMING ISRAEL! RECOGNISE PALESTINIAN STATE NOW! – say 100,000 marchers

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OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...
RMT AND TSSA members lobbying against rail privatisation earlier this year

STOP CAMERON ADDRESSING TUC! – RMT begins a national campaign

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THE RMT transport union confirmed yesterday that it is mobilising grassroots opposition amongst rank and file trade unionists to an invitation to Tory Prime...

END OCCUPATION – demands the Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtay-yeh yesterday called for a serious track to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and establish the Palestinian...

RMT slams ‘bandit capitalism’

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THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...
Chagossians from the oldest to the youngest were demonstrating in Trafalgar Square over the weekend

All generations of Chagossians join fight

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EXILED Chagos Islanders were yesterday continuing their five-day occupation of Trafalgar Square that was launched on Friday. Jean Paul France of the Chagos Islanders...

Stop Casualising Workers –Tesco Told

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‘Tesco is putting more and more pressure on meat suppliers to cut their prices and this is leading to a shocking exploitation of workers...

JCB AXES MORE JOBS! – despite £50 a week GMB wage cut deal

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more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...
Evelyn with her daughter and supporters who came with the South-East London Council of Action to stop the eviction yesterday

Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate

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THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...
Students and teachers join together in a Westminster demonstration last July against the coalition’s ‘Big School Fiasco’

School buildings axe challenged

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A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...

Johnson Relying On Labour To See Him Through!

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WITH around 100 rebel Tory MPs expected to vote against the new three tier lockdown system in the House of Commons tomorrow, the government...

Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts

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MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...
Tower Hamlets doctors and patients demonstrating against the privatisation of their surgeries last year

NO PRIVATE SECTOR IN NHS! – ‘Public don’t want it’ says Diane Abbott

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Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...

Al-Araqib Village Stormed By Israeli Police

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Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...
Trade unionists fighting pensions cuts – not prepared to work longer, pay more and get less

Cost of living has risen by a third since 2008 – PARENTS WITH TWO...

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Soaring childcare and transport costs, plus cuts to tax credits, mean families need to earn a third more today than they did just five...
Postal workers marching through Milton Keynes last month determined to keep their Mail Centre open

DEFEND THE ROYAL MAIL– No to 50,000 job losses

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‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...
Striking postal workers’ picket at the Crawley Delivery Office yesterday morning

‘WE SHOULD ALL COME OUT!’ – Serwotka tellls CWU rally

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‘We offer our full solidarity,’ civil servants’ union PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told a 500-strong rally of striking postal workers in central...

Oxford Youth Workers Take Strike Action!

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Prime minister Cameron’s ‘zero tolerance’ attack on youth comes as government cuts are decimating youth services. Unite the union announced at the weekend that youth...

Stevens intervention slammed!

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NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has intervened in the referendum debate to declare that leaving the EU could damage the NHS. Citing Bank of...
The message of the hour for the Tory government – delivered during the march on parliament on July 1st

May Handed P45 At The Tory Party Conference

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PRIME Minister May’s pledge to ‘renew the British dream’ turned into a nightmare yesterday, as she delivered the closing speech to the Tory Party...
Last October’s TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

INFLATION SET TO RIP! – pound under pressure after Moody’s downgrade

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THE POUND is set to fall dramatically when the money markets open in the City of London today, following Britain’s first ever sovereign ratings...
Junior doctors block Whitehall during their strike – doctors oppose NHS England’s new dangerous ‘Stay Well Pharmacy’ campaign

‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous

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TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...

‘Stop state-sponsored racism!’ – Take ‘hate vans’ off the streets

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DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

30% CUTS ON WAY – Consultants conference warns

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HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and supporters marching through Hounslow last March

Great support for GG workers at Tolpuddle march

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GATE Gourmet locked out workers got great support from trade unionists at the Tolpuddle Martyrs anniversary march and festival in Dorset yesterday. Over eight thousand...
Demonstration outside the American Embassy against any imperialist intervention in Syria – Cameron said he will be prepared to attack Syria without the consent of parliament

Parliament votes to bomb Iraq! – as Cameron claims the right to attack Syria

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SIX RAF Tornados were ready to go last night to begin raining bombs down on Iraq after an extraordinary session of parliament which...
The Young Socialists marched from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike  to bring down the Cameron government

Cameron Plans Youth Slave Labour

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CAMERON closed the crisis-dominated Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday by announcing that if the Tories are elected next May they will cut taxes,...