Greek Workers March Against Police
Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...
Mass Whipp’s Cross Strike Rally
A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...
Children In The Besieged Gaza Strip Live In Terror
THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that children in the besieged Gaza Strip live in ‘constant terror due to Israeli bombardment’. UNICEF spokesperson...
‘Russia will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine!’ says Dmitry Peskov Kremlin spokesman
RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...
SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m
The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...
Cambridge to remain in NUS
THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...
Visteon Talks Today
Sacked Visteon workers from Enfield, north London, and Belfast were picketing Ford showrooms yesterday on the eve of today’s talks with management. Meanwhile, on...
Coronavirus ripping through Belmarsh!
BELMARSH High Security prison is suffering from an outbreak of coronavirus to such an extent that it is ‘barely functioning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has...
Greek Tuc Occupied By Youth!
Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike. Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the...
HS2 ‘rats’ on construction workers
THE HIGH Speed 2 (HS2) contractor has ‘ratted on overtime agreements’ the Unite union alleged yesterday. Unite, which represents construction workers building the line, expressed...
‘REJECT THIS DEAL! – THEY ARE TRYING TO BREAK OUR UNITY’ – Gate Gourmet...
‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal,’ Gate Gourmet picket Mrs Gill said yesterday. She was responding to proposals brought forward...
NHS preparing sweeping healthcare services cuts
THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...
Palestine march under threat! Police refuse to give go-ahead!
THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...
BA sack BASSA branch secretary – Unite condemns bullying and intimidation
The Unite union yesterday condemned the sacking by British Airways of a senior Unite official, BASSA branch secretary Duncan Holley, as ‘another act of...
VENEZUELA – MILITARY INTERVENTION IMMINENT – China-Russia warn USA
CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...
Greek Stocks ‘Meltdown’
THE Athens Stock Exchange collapsed again by 7.35 per cent on Thursday wiping 13 billion euros off shares. In the last three days it has...
‘Shut Down Inquiry! It’s A Disgrace!’
‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...
HEALTHCARE WORKERS RISKING LIVES! – without ‘death in service’ benefits guaranteed says BMA
THE BMA (British Medical Association) said yesterday that ‘frustration grows’ over the government’s failure to guarantee that the families of healthcare workers who lose...
Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza
ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...
Britain Wants To Legalise ‘indefinite Internment’
GOVERNMENTS around the world will be watching the House of Lords proceedings on 29-31 October which will determine whether they can...
Ert Occupation Is A Centre For The Greek Revolution!
TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth are congregating every day and every night at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) building...
Record Borrowing And Record Inflation Rate
INFLATION soared upwards last month, with the government’s preferred Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure rising to 4.4 per cent, up from 4 per cent...
No fare rises – re-nationalise!
RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
Tankers Strike Troops Stand By
Formal talks between Unite trade union officials and Shell suppliers are due to resume today, as hundreds of petrol stations have begun closing. Informal talks...
‘STOP PANICKING’ – Ukrainian President Zelensky tells United States
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...
Milan cladding blaze on scale of Grenfell!
A BLAZE on the scale of the Grenfell Tower Fire broke out around 5:30pm local time on Sunday at the Torre dei Moro building...
Unions at No 10 appeal to May
‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...
Thousands of UK troops for Obama’s Afghan surge
Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...
A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians
NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...
BACK ME AGAINST REBELS! – failure May appeals to people
‘IF THIS deal doesn’t go through, we go back to square one,’ PM May said in her interview with Radio Five Live, where she...
BRITISH SOLDIERS LED THE ‘REBEL’ ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI – says Labour MP Gardiner
A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...
‘SCAPEGOATS FOR THE DEFICITS CRISIS’ – RCN condemns targeting of young foreign nurses
Yesterday Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Beverly Malone condemned the government’s latest scheme to keep overseas junior nurses out of Britain. Responding to...
‘CALL A PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE’ – says London CWU rep
FIVE thousand Royal Mail workers in north, east and south-east London are striking today, after voting overwhelmingly in ballots to fight ‘executive actions’ by...
Resolution’s £84bn black hole
THE Resolution Foundation economic think tank is warning in a report, Pressing the Reset Button, published yesterday that the Chancellor faces an £84bn borrowing...
Royal Mail lands an anti-union blow at the High Court
ROYAL MAIL has won a legal battle against the CWU to prevent a postal strike over Xmas after the High Court backed its application...
Israel Slaughters Gaza Women And Children!
A PALESTINIAN mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A barrage of...
Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters
FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...
Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers
angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...
Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp
FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...
Unite Goes For New Peace Talks With Walsh
UP to 2,000 British Airways cabin crew attended a BASSA meeting at Kempton Park near Heathrow Airport yesterday, which heard that the leadership of...
Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
LONDON UNDERGROUND TOTAL SHUTDOWN JULY 26 & 28 – ASLEF joining RMT on strike
ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...
Barclays Sacking 1145!
UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...