Defend wages & jobs – RMT condemns bosses’ automation threat
‘THIS IS dangerous nonsense and must be opposed by the whole trade union movement,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday responding to a...
Tories throw down gauntlet! – separate pay awards for police & prison officers
IN A SLAP in the face for the TUC Congress, the Tory government yesterday announced pay rises for police and prison officers, while leaving...
Syrian army deals blows at US/UK stooges
THE Syrian Army killed tens of insurgents yesterday during clashes in the Syrian city of Aleppo in the northwest of the country. The government...
Teachers & parents win at Alec Reed Academy
TEACHERS, parents and pupils have won a victory at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt. ‘Management at Alec Reed Academy has agreed our terms for...
‘FORWARD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!’ – YS marchers tell News Line Anniversary Rally
‘The working class saw our march and lifted it up on their shoulders,’ Young Socialists marcher Paul Lepper told an audience of 250 youth...
Wildcat Postal Strikes
WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
Lobby The Tuc!
Monday September 11th, Brighton
Gate Gourmet Workers Rally
Gate Gourmet locked out workers are campaigning every day up until their first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday, 20th...
Gm To Impose Wage Cuts & Job Cuts
UNITE union officers met with General Motors bosses on Thursday, to discuss the future of the company’s Luton plant. The 1,400 workers at the Kimpton...
Huge Bill Hikes!
WATER, energy, TV licence and Council Tax bills went through the roof yesterday, with Citizens Advice warning that the finances of millions of people...
Hundreds of us are fighting for reinstatement
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday determined to take their struggle forward to victory. Shop steward Gurdip Heer told News...
Record numbers of children rely on food banks
A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...
Reinstate Indro Sen!
‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...
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...
Student nurse numbers plummet again
THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...
3 Days Of Public Sector Strikes
ALMOST a quarter of a million civil servants will take part in 72 hours of action in the public sector with a strike on...
Ealing demands ‘Don’t close our hospitals’
CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...
Balls to means-test pensioners!
LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...
End Taxpayer Bailouts Of Private Railways!
WITH services collapsing into chaos the RMT has demanded publication of contract documentation which shows that Northern Rail get paid whether they run services...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
Vote For Strike Action Urges Prentis
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis is urging a big ‘yes’ vote for strike action by its local government worker members in the ballot over...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike at 58 unis
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
WE’LL STRIKE ON PENSIONS! say the rail trade unions
TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...
Defend right to strike!
THE TRADE Union Bill, to be outlined tomorrow in parliament by the Tory government, is designed to railroad through legislation which will make it...
Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria
Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria Cameron lost the parliamentary vote to bomb Syria in 2013 and has so far refused to...
North Sea Oil Jobs Axe!
UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...
Another Unfair Tax!
Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...
30% Wages ‘Sabbatical’ For Vauxhall Ellesmere Port
General Motors, the owner of Vauxhall, has put forward a plan for its Merseyside workforce to ‘take a break’ from two to nine-months from...
Donetsk & Lugansk sanctioned by UK!
THE leaders of Ukraine’s breakaway regions, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics are among those who are being targeted by the new UK anti-Russian...
Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine
THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...
Vote Wrp Vote Leff In Hackney And Shoreditch
‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN...
370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!
370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...
Sas Are In Misratah!
WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...
Labour Woos Democratic Unionists!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday to urge the Democratic Unionist Party to join Labour in...
No Grenfell criminal charges until 2021!
CAMPAIGNERS have reacted with fury at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021. Scotland Yard will not...
Sky News Boss Admits Illegal Hacking
Sky News boss John Ryley admitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday that the company broke the law by hacking emails. Following the admission Ofcom announced...
Global Markets Crash
WALL Street suffered the largest one-day collapse in history on Monday, triggering the Asian markets to crash, followed by the European and the UK...
TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...
WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...
Israel committing massacres in Gaza – 3,000 dead, 1,000 children, 1,000 still under rubble
ISRAEL headed towards an air, land and sea attack on Gaza yesterday, having killed more than 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, during the...
Kiev Attacks Civilians
KIEV forces have been attacking civilians in residential areas in east Ukraine over the last few days. This is in spite of the promise by...
Blood-Testing Workers Protest
THERE was a very lively demonstration of blood testing workers outside Colindale tube station yesterday morning. They were handing out post cards explaining their fight...
Milwaukee uprising after police shooting
CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...
Tanker Drivers Offer: 14% Over 2 Years
Shell tanker drivers working for contracted suppliers Hoyer UK and Suckling are being balloted on a 14% rise over two years pay deal reached...
MAY RIPS UP MANIFESTO! After workers reject attack on pensioners
IN A DRAMATIC forced retreat prime minister Theresa May yesterday dumped her key policy on social care in the Tory election manifesto. The anger of...
Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...
TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...




















