Right-wing beaten at Labour Conference

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LABOUR right-wingers were resoundly beaten yesterday in their attempt to reject Brexit and push the Labour Party conference to accept that Britain should remain...
Police on horseback charge at miners at Orgreave on 18th June 1984

ORGREAVE – police conspiracy exposed

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CHRIS KITCHEN, leader of the NUM, demanded an inquiry yesterday into South Yorkshire Police over their manipulation of evidence against miners charged following...

‘We will retaliate!’ – Iran warns the US

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THE Iranian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the United States is not serious about negotiations, and asserted that Washington will face the Islamic Republic’s...
A section of yesterday’s lunchtime rally of striking staff and students outside London Metropolitan University yesterday

London Met University Strike Action

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OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

Four pro-Palestine hunger strikers continue into 54th day of strike action!

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FOUR pro-Palestine hunger strikers are continuing their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on her 54th day of hunger strike, Teuta Hoxha is on her 48th...

Palestinian prisoners plan open-ended hunger strike for March 24th

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BY KHALED TAYEH EVER since Israeli Jewish supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, became officially a part of the new Israeli far-right government, he...

‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...

‘WHATEVER MEASURES NECESSARY’ – Blair backs shoot-to-kill

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‘The police say they have a “shoot-to-kill-to-protect policy”. Were you made aware of that policy and is it something that parliament should have been...

‘Chemical attack 100% fabrication’ – says Assad

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‘NO one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikoun,’ said President Assad yesterday. ‘As you know Khan Sheikoun is under the control...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!

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OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton last year demanded an end to cheap labour for youth

LABOUR PLEDGES £10 AN HOUR FOR ALL WORKERS! – lower youth rate to be...

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LABOUR yesterday pledged to end the ‘unprecedented’ squeeze on wages with a Labour government introducing a ‘Real Living Wage’ of £10 per hour for...

Drive Private Treatment Centres Out Of NHS

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PROFESSOR Bren Neale yesterday condemned private treatment centres as dangerous and demanded that they be brought back into the NHS. This follows on from the...

‘We’re here to stop the genocide!’ say UCL occupiers

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AROUND 50 students have occupied the entrance on the forecourt of University College London (UCL) since last Friday in protest at Israeli genocide in...
Students and staff from London Metropolitan University lobby of the board of governors on December 15

UNIS WILL BE FORCED TO AXE THOUSANDS – warns Universities UK President

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Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...
March to defend the NHS – NHS workers are one of those sections that the government wants to impose a three-year wage-cutting deal on, so it can carry on propping up the banks

Bank Will Accept Credit Card Debt As Collateral!

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The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...
LOUISE REGAN, NUT section president of NEU (second from left) joined yesterday morning’s picket of staff striking against academisation at The Village School in Kingsbury, north west London

‘No academy for us’ – The Village School strikers

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STRIKING Village School teachers were in high spirits, yesterday, the third day of their action to stop their school being turned into an academy. Pickets...

FBU strike ballot opens on December 5th!

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LAST week the FBU  said it would formally issue notice of ballot if ‘a substantial pay increase that takes into account the current level of inflation...
Disability Cuts Kill! was the message as a number of disabled workers lobbied the House of Commons yesterday. They condemned all the cuts in social care

Social Care In Crisis!

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DRAMATIC cuts to district nursing have left older people without care at home and turning to A&E, an independent report has found. Research by Christie...

Unions condemn Israel – over designating Palestinian organisations as ‘terrorists’

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TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...
PCS delegation at the TUC Congress this year greeted Prime Minister Brown with the demand ‘No cuts’

PENSION CAPS AND PAY CUTS – in Darling’s pre-Budget speech

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Chancellor Darling yesterday confirmed that VAT will be restored to 17.5 per cent on January 1st, and that inflation will rise to 3.0 per...
Morale was high on the  picket line at Kings Cross

RMT action supported by Londoners

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‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing yesterday morning on the hill near the factory

NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers

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TGWU members on the picket line yesterday condemned the ‘Compromise Agreement, reached between Gate Gourmet and the TGWU leaders. Mr Sangha said: ‘The company...
University students  marching in Greece – the banner reads ‘Overthrow the government’

Greek General Strike Today

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THE General Council of the ADEDY (public sector trades unions federation) has called another 48-hour national strike for today and tomorrow against the destruction...

NHS workers rally for Palestine!

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'HANDS off Gaza! Hands off the West Bank! Sanction Israel Now!’ read the large banner at a powerful rally of over 100 NHS workers...

SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working

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‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...

Doctors dangerously tired! BMA launches ‘Sleep Charter’

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DOCTORS must have at least 46 hours rest after a string of night shifts in order to combat fatigue at work, according to a...
Local residents joined the FBU/Justice for Grenfell march last June – soil in the area around the Grenfell Tower has been found to be toxic

Take action over toxins around Grenfell Tower – Lords

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‘WHAT steps will they take in response to concerns over the level of toxins found at the Grenfell Tower site and calls for survivors,...

138 GP Surgeries Shut Last Year!

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ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...
A thousand angry local residents marched through Haringey demanding that the HDV – the scheme to privatise housing is scrapped

Green light to privatise Haringey

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THE HIGH Court has given the council the go-ahead to privatise Haringey’s housing, allowing huge private developers to embark on a £2bn private housing...

GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening

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THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...

‘Unlawful Killings’ On Bloody Sunday

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The Tory-led coalition government yesterday protested against leaks which revealed that the Saville Inquiry report into Bloody Sunday has found that some of the...

‘A fascist policy of collective punishment’ – Hamas accuses Israel’s PM!

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HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his...
A big and enthusiastic picket line of all unions and students at SOAS in central London yesterday

Strong support for Uni strike

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday morning reported strong support by staff from four unions for the one-day strike action in universities across...

BANKERS PANIC! – It’s the survival of the fittest as bankers call in debts

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There is a real panic setting in in the capitalist world’s financial system with the main world banks beginning to act to secure themselves...
French youth rise up against Sarkozy, now the right-wing Presidential candidate

REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
Marchers in central London last Saturday demanding ‘End the siege of Gaza’ cheered the resignation of Foreign Office Minister Warsi

SECOND MINISTER QUITS – Another considering his position

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A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...

Labour vows to fight for Remain!

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LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton earlier this month. TGWU officials kept them out of the Congress – after they were given a hero’s welcome at the same conference a year earlier, shortly after the start o

TGWU LEADERS TO PAY ‘HUSH MONEY’ – while locked-out GG workers get no...

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IT was revealed yesterday by the Guardian newspaper that it has seen a TGWU agreement which shows that the two BA shop stewards, who...

US says no to Hamas-Fatah government

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Aides to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced yesterday that he had frozen talks with Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on forming a unity government. This came...
Guinness Trust tenants outside Lambeth County Court yesterday supporting an appeal against repossession attempts by the Trust

Tenants defend their homes!

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TENANTS and trade unionists mobilised outside Lambeth County Court yesterday to support Marian Okanlowan who is appealing against the Guinness Trust’s intention...

Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square

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OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...
Engineering construction workers demonstrating at the Lindsey power station site demanding their right to work

Jobs Protest At Uskmouth

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Unemployed construction workers were joined by young apprentices unable to complete their training because of a lack of work, in a mass protest at...

Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts

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STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

‘Trying to hide widespread criminality!’ MP Watson accuses Ex-NI advisor Crone

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THE former News International legal manager Tom Crone was yesterday accused by Labour MP Tom Watson of ‘trying to conceal widespread criminality’ at...