LABOUR RENEGADE AUSTIN REFUSES TO DENY HE’LL VOTE TORY

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IAN AUSTIN, MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands, who quit the Labour Party yesterday, said that he will not call a by-election,...
Carillion striking workers are marching through Swindon today

Carillion Strikebreaking Condemned!

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THE GMB is to make a formal complaint that a Bath employment agency is illegally supplying staff to Swindon hospital during Carillion strike days. GMB...

Israeli Bombers Target Children

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AT least nine people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp yesterday morning, including five children who were playing in...

Scotland Yard To Be Investigated!

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SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...

SACK G4S demands Howard League

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THREE G4S employees were arrested yesterday and are being held on suspicion of child neglect following an investigation into abuse at a young offenders...

Forces of Donetsk Peoples Republic are in full control!

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‘AS of May 27, 2022, the forces of the DPR and the LPR supported by the Russian army’s firepower, liberated and established full control...
The North-East London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm

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Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

‘Patients treated on trolleys’ – crisis intensifies

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‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...

Nationwide university pensions battle!

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OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...
Teachers from Sunny Hill school in Southwark joined striking junior doctors on the picket line at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell yesterday

Junior doctors confident of victory!

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A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...

Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians

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NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...
The DEH Computer Centre building under occupation. Banners state ‘We resist’ and ‘We will not cut off the electricity supply to the poor even if they put us in prison’ – signed by the DEH trades union

‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator

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THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

TGWU must defend BA shop stewards say GateGourmet workers

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‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...

‘The Israeli regime’s security myth has been shattered! Hezbollah is stronger than ever!’

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THE SPEAKER for the Iranian parliament has praised Iran’s retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II against the occupied territories on Tuesday night, stating...
Visteon workers on the Enfield picket line yesterday stand together but the company is making different redundancy offers

Anger At Visteon Settlement!

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‘WE’VE been shafted,’ ex-Visteon Enfield Unite branch chairman Steve Parenti told News Line yesterday. He explained that sacked workers on Ford Mirror Contracts, which were...
Resident of North Kensington holds a piece of the charred cladding from the Grenfell Tower inferno – building materials will still not be rigorously tested to see if they are flammable as the Tories have refused to rule out ‘desktop assessments’

Building materials will not be fire tested!

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EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...
Young Socialists Summer Festival 2019 - Postponed to Aug 3

Young Socialists Summer Festival [Postponed] – August 3rd, 2019

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Postponed a week until Saturday, 3rd August 2019 – Doors open from midday Near Hoxton Market at St. John’s Church, Pitfield Street, N1 6NP Great bargains Live...
Locked -out gate Gourmet workers during their successful lobby of the TGWU Executive meeting earlier this month

‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...
Athens Metro workers at a meeting to discuss the attempts of the government to make their trade union activities illegal

Emergency powers used against Greek Metro workers

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AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...

Palestine ‘Day Of Rage’

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FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...
Striking London firefighters demonstrated on Monday night outside the Southwark fire station where a number of attacks were made on them

‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters

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THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...

Assad Forces Go On The Offensive

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SYRIAN government troops late on Sunday repulsed an attack by an armed gang on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo. This came...

1,250 Manchester Firefighters To Be Sacked!

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FIREFIGHTERS are furious at plans to sack the entire workforce of Greater Manchester. All 1,250 firefighters in the area are to be sacked. Only those...

Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT

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THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...

Israeli Troops Storm Al-Shifa Hospital

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BATTLES raged between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital yesterday, as the Israeli genocidal bombardment continued. Palestinian families which...

Piraeus port to be privatised! – Greek workers are furious

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BOTH the Greek Port Workers’ Union and the Greek Seafarers’ Union on Monday condemned the Greek government’s intention to privatise the port of Piraeus,...
300,000 marched on parliament on July 1st – now is the time for the TUC to call a general strike

Tories throw down gauntlet! – separate pay awards for police & prison officers

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IN A SLAP in the face for the TUC Congress, the Tory government yesterday announced pay rises for police and prison officers, while leaving...
TGWU members at this month’s ‘Defend our Public Services’ rally

PAYING FOR NHS OPERATIONS REJECTED! – by BMA and UNISON

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‘There should be no question of making patients pay for operations that are considered essential by their doctor or consultant,’ insisted UNISON head of...
Protest against benefit cuts outside the High Court in London earlier this year

‘Scrap Universal Credit’ says GMB union

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THE DISASTROUS Universal Credit scheme was rolled out in Hammersmith and Fulham yesterday, prompting the GMB union to demand that it ‘should be withdrawn’...
The NHS march earlier this month – the newly imposed junior doctors’ contract threatens the next generation of A&E doctors

A&E ‘special measures regime’ – A&Es threatened with closures across UK

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‘WE SIMPLY don’t have enough doctors working in emergency departments,’ the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday adding that, ‘our emergency departments...

Maudsley 3-day strike against more than 200 job cuts by OCS

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NHS workers at the South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Trust staged a three-day strike this week against more than 200 job cuts announced...

TUC will not be considering a general strike says Nowak!

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NEW TUC leader Paul Nowak has insisted that tomorrow’s meeting of the TUC General Council in central London will not be considering calls for...

Labour calls to postpone Brexit

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LABOUR shadow secretary for Brexit Keir Starmer, for the first time in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, urged the Brexit Secretary and the...
Southern picket at Victoria yesterday morning supported by Disabled People Against Cuts demanding safety and accessibility on all trains. Photo: RMT

3 Train Strikes

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TRAIN workers at three Rail companies across the country, Northern, Southern and Merseyrail were on strike simultaneously yesterday. Northern rail staff were on the last...

CATALAN ‘REBELLION’ CHARGE! – as Puigdemont visits Brussels seeking support

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SPAIN’s chief prosecutor has brought back the Franco dictatorship by calling for charges including rebellion to be laid against Catalan leaders following the...
Low paid Serco workers are having to battle like hell for a 30p pay rise

PUBLIC SECTOR IS ‘OVERPAID’ – Hammond tells Tory Cabinet

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CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond yesterday refused to deny that he said at last Tuesday’s Tory Cabinet meeting that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’. Hammond was repeatedly...
Teachers marching to defend their pensions show that they understand just who the enemy is

IMF – British banks warning!

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THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...
Health workers marching against Cameron’s health policies on the TUC’s March 26, 2011 mass demonstration

CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...

‘We want to abolish poverty!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell

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SPEAKING in Birmingham yesterday morning, Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: ‘On Tuesday a new Shelter report found 135,000 children will be without a...
Hundreds of school youth on the plinth at Trafalgar Square before last Wednesday’s march on parliament

Bring Down Coalition With A General Strike!

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THOUSANDS of students and workers will be marching from the University of London Union (ULU) to parliament tomorrow, when the Tory-LibDem Coalition government...

Assange wins High Court ruling

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THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...

Egypt Masses Defiant

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Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptian workers and youth yesterday remained in control of the centre of Cairo, during a sixth day of protests...
The world’s media is starting to take a much greater interest in the struggle of the Diego Garcia Islanders to return to their homeland – picture above shows South Korean television interviewing HENGRIDE PERMAL

‘We will not be silenced’ say Diego Garcia Islanders

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‘WE will not be silenced’ is the message from Diego Garcian islanders who will be marching to Crawley Town Hall today, to protest against...

‘BEGGING WON’T MAKE A FUTURE FOR AFRICA’ –Gadaffi tells AU summit

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Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadaffi yesterday urged African nations to stop ‘begging’. In a half-hour speech as host of the 53-nation African Union two-day summit...

St Helier to close A&E and Maternity units

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HEALTH bosses have recommended that St Helier Hospital lose its A&E and maternity departments. At a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the programme board of the...