SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO! – but Blair rejects MP’s committee demands
The Blair government yesterday came under fire from MPs and human rights organisation Amnesty International over the so-called ‘war on terror’. In its annual human...
‘We are putting up gallows for you’ – Greek workers tell MPs
THREE thousand workers staged a militant march through Athens on Thursday, despite temperatures of 40 degrees, demanding the overthrow of the government and an...
8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!
Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...
Nurses Move To Strike Vote
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...
150 Unis ballot for strike action!
THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...
Bosses to get £1,000 for keeping workers on for 3 months after furlough!
FEARFUL of workers’ fury at mass unemployment when furloughing ends, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a plan to try to persuade bosses to keep...
GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals
Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...
Spanish police shoot five!
SPANISH police shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils yesterday, during a second vehicle attack, hours after another in Barcelona killed...
LOTHIAN PAYING £1.4m A MONTH FOR HOSPITAL IT CANNOT USE!
A health board is paying over a million pounds a month to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use. The new children’s hospital...
UCU members to strike next week at 16 colleges
STRIKING staff at Abingdon and Witney College will be on picket lines outside both the Abingdon and Witney campuses from 8am on Tuesday...
Cwu Strike Notice
Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward have written to every member of the union informing them that the leadership is...
RCN Opposes Health Bill
THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled
Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...
Big Picket At Gate Gourmet!
THERE was one of the biggest turnouts on the picket line at the Gate Gourmet dispute yesterday, with more than 200 locked out workers...
McDonnell pledges £500bn investment – as deputy leader Watson quits
‘WE STAND in the best tradition of British socialism,’ Shadow Chancellor Labour’s John McDonnell said to cheers, outlining yesterday Labour’s economic policy for the...
Liverpool City Council ‘in partnership’ with army! – over testing crisis
FLANKED by Brigadier Joe Fossey, Tory PM Johnson set out the mass testing programme trialled in Liverpool in which 2,000 troops have been sent...
Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close
WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...
700 Tube Cleaners Take Strike Action
SOME 700 London Underground cleaners scheduled to strike for a living wage and basic working conditions from 6pm today have received a welcome boost...
Angry ARM turns on BMA leaders
BMA leaders narrowly escaped censure for their lack of leadership during the struggle against the Health and Social Care Bill yesterday, when 44% of...
Bank Hints At Rate Rises To Come
‘It is too soon to tell how far the disruption in financial markets will impair the availability of credit to companies and households,’ said...
‘Hold The Blacklisters To Account!’
DELEGATES at the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16, Blacklisting and Undercover Surveillance of Trade Unionists. The motion calls on...
Sparks Battle 35% Wage Cut
MORE than 200 construction workers fighting 35 per cent pay cuts demonstrated on the Crossrail site at Farringdon Street in central London yesterday, brushing...
Aminata Eviction Stopped!
‘I AM not going to give up, I am going to fight the council until they give me and my family somewhere to live...
Close Down Guantanamo! Demands Amnesty
HUNDREDS of demonstrators in orange boiler suits assembled next to the American Embassy in London yesterday, demanding: ‘Close Guantanamo Bay!’ They were demonstrating on the...
Israeli occupation forces are intensifying assault on Gaza!
ISRAELI occupation forces have intensified their genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip for the 623rd consecutive day, escalating airstrikes on civilians while crippling its...
Kherson workers occupy – call for workers councils
The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...
Alarming A&E Waiting Times
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...
NO UK SYRIAN INTERVENTION! – says Labour Party conference resolution
THE Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday voted for an emergency motion moved by Unite calling for a United Nations Security Council resolution...
45 Police To Have Anonymity At de Menezes Inquest
ALL 45 police officers’ applications for anonymity at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes have been approved, it was announced...
‘Voting for the end of the NHS’
‘ANY MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS,’ said Christina McAnea,...
‘I would agree with a general strike’ says RMT’s Dempsey!
THE RMT Deputy General Secretary Eddie Dempsey made the call for a general strike when he spoke out on the picket line at Euston...
Labour attacks BA strike
THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...
Special Forces Back In North
Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...
Tottenham Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 23rd, 2019
News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st!
For a workers government and...
AFGHAN MASSACRE – 80 civilians killed in US/UK air strikes
EIGHTY Afghan civilians were murdered in US and British air strikes last Friday in the Gereshk district of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Three...
Samaras Puts Up ‘Greece For Sale’ Sign
GREEK Prime Minister elect Antonis Samaras has declared a massive privatisation plan for the entire transport and energy sectors as well as dozens of...
Gm Hits Luton With 354 Job Losses
General Motors (GM) yesterday announced 354 job cuts at Vauxhall’s UK plant in Luton and none in Ellesmere Port. On Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
‘THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THEIR LIES!’ – Menezes family hails Blair inquiry
‘This will be the start, they are going to pay for all their lies, all the shootings,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles...
No NHS ‘Stealth’ Privatisation!
THE UNITE union will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries set up by...
SUPPORT BUILDS UP FOR LEFF – as Labour brings out its Regional Manifestos
‘I SUPPORT Jonty Leff,’ Gideon Woldeslassie said yesterday morning, referring to the campaign to elect the Workers Revolutionary Party candidate as MP for Hackney...
Area Curfews!
HOME Secretary Theresa May yesterday announced plans for a National Crime Agency, training more riot police and area curfews. In a speech to an audience...
Chagos Islanders protest at the Hague
CHAGOS Islanders travelled from the UK to Holland yesterday to protest outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague to demand the right...
Defend Chase Farm NHS!
‘The consultation process has been an absolute sham’, said Save Chase Farm councillor Kieran McGregor ahead of this morning’s lobby of the NHS Independent...
Greek Workers Voting ‘No!’
SOME 3,000 mostly young people marched to the European Commission offices in Athens on Thursday evening calling for a ‘NO’-‘OXI’ vote in Sunday’s referendum. A...
Cameron Is Facing A ‘Bare-Knuckle Fight’ – Over Privatisation Plan
Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to prime minister Cameron’s declaration of war on the public sector. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cameron said the...