UK Threatens To Storm Ecuador Embassy!
ECUADOR yesterday granted political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and called on the UK to ‘guarantee safe passage to Mr Assange to complete...
Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA
THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...
Action Ballot At Asda Wal-Mart
THERE will be ballots for industrial action at ASDA Wal-Mart, after talks with senior managers in the shops on Wednesday 8th, and depots on...
Stop Ark Take Over Of State Schools
ANTI-ACADEMY protestors demonstrated yesterday afternoon outside the central London headquarters of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), which is involved in the building of 12...
PROSECUTE KILLER COMPANIES! – demands the GMB
The GMB trade union says companies who kill employees will face private prosecutions if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ‘continues to fail workers’. The High...
Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...
GM BOSS SACKED! – restructuring to be speeded up
General Motors Board of Directors Chairman, Ed Whitacre, known for his asset stripping and merger programme at telecoms empire AT&T, has taken the helm...
Tories are driven back over schools opening!
THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...
Credit Card Crisis!
FAMILIES’ credit card debt is set to soar at two-and-a-half times the rate of wages, as families desperately take out credit to avoid starvation...
PCS privatisation warning!
CABINET Office minister Francis Maude’s continuing claims that his attempt at mutualising (privatising) a government body enjoys staff support is completely undermined by figures...
‘We’re fighting for our rights!’ say West Hendon tenants
OVER 250 tenants and supporters at the West Hendon estate in north London yesterday packed the community centre on the estate for a meeting...
Over 1,000 head teachers march against cuts
OVER one thousand head teachers across England and Wales yesterday held a mass protest over savage cuts to their schools’ budgets. Heads from Peterborough,...
NHS Referrals Scandal
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed its concerns over Primary Care Trusts diverting patient referrals to private...
Axis of evil – Blair meets Olmert
PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...
Greece – 24 Hour National Strike
Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...
Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise
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...
Join Our Mass Picket Today!
‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...
‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of capitalism’ – says...
‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...
Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley
Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...
CUTS COSTS LIVES! says Chase Farm mass picket
Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...
Sweeping police powers extended for 6 months! – Labour votes with Tories to renew...
THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...
Speaker Vows To Block ‘No-Deal’!
THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons has said that he will not allow it to be closed down so that the UK can...
Murdoch ‘unfit To Manage’
RUPERT Murdoch ‘is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company’, the Parliamentary Culture Committee reported yesterday. The committee was...
CHARITIES AND WAGE CUTS! – Civil Service strike likely says PCS leader Serwotka
In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...
‘Guarantee our jobs by Wednesday or we strike’
If Metronet do not guarantee our members’ jobs, wages and conditions, and pensions by Wednesday night, we will name strike dates, said the leaders...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump
Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...
50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine
OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...
Nigeria–Oil Shutdown Starts
The general strike in Nigeria entered its fifth day yesterday, as talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and trade union leaders failed to end the...
Iraqi Death Toll Reaches New Hihe
THE death toll of civilians in Iraq reached a new high of 3,709 in October, with sectarian violence to blame for most of the...
Mass Sackings For NHS!
LABOUR and the RCN have reacted angrily to instruction from NHS bosses and regulators to impose a ‘headcount reduction’ to reduce their deficits...
Call a Day of Action to defend jobs and services!
GATE GOURMET locked out workers joined the Amicus and TGWU campaign to save Peugeot jobs at the International Motor Show in Docklands, east London...
Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi Freed
SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...
US plans to split Gaza & allow reconstruction in the Israeli-held area
A NEW US-backed plan would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, allowing reconstruction only in the Israeli-held area and raising...
BETRAYED! – Radlett fire station closed
ON Monday 23rd October Hertfordshire County Council gave five hours notice of closure of Radlett fire station, betraying understandings and agreements made with...
Shame On Brown Say Corus Workers
Hundreds of angry steelworkers and their families demonstrated outside the Corus steel plant in Redcar on Teesside yesterday, as the GMB and Community unions...
‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth’ editor Jonty Leff...
NEWS LINE Editor Jonty Leff told the News Line 52nd Anniversary Rally on Saturday: ‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth. ‘We...
Arts Council To Decide On Cuts
A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...
Great support for Southall WRP candidate!
THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...
Tamil Youth Defend Their Flag Against Police
‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...
From New Labour Spin To Union Busting
GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...
Sacked in the ‘National Interest’ – shipyard workers condemn Cameron
WORKERS yesterday condemned the shutting down of shipbuilding after the slashing of 2,000 jobs in Portsmouth and Glasgow. BAE Systems, the defence...
‘WE REJECT PRIVATISATION’ – says RMT leader on eve of strike
‘WE DON’T accept privatisation,’ RMT rail union leader Bob Crow said yesterday, on the eve of today’s strike by over 2,300 RMT members employed...
Sunak attacks the sick, the disabled, refugees & youth
LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums...
Unions unite to defend the NHS
‘I would support a Day of Action to defend the NHS. That’s what I’ll be recommending to my executive,’ GMB National Officer for Health,...


















