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END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs
Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...
Airport workers support Sunday’s march
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday got great support for their march this Sunday for reinstatement for all sacked workers on their original terms...
‘THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THEIR LIES!’ – Menezes family...
‘This will be the start, they are going to pay for all their lies, all the shootings,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles...
Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal
THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...
Don’t sign the rotten ‘compromise’ deal
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that TGWU officers are putting pressure on those who have been selected by the company for compulsory...
WE WANT ALL OF OUR JOBS BACK insist Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...
Three More US Marines Killed
Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...
Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward World Revolution
THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...
Mass Picket At Gate Gourmet
There was a big picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Locked out worker Ramesh told News Line:...
Leon Trotsky’s CLASS AND ART – PART TWO Raskalnikov and the...
THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
Locked-out workers demand action as French unions strike against BA
GATE GOURMET workers were yesterday calling for action to win their jobs back while, at the same time, BA was opening up a second...
The army and police – a law unto themselves
The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of four teenage recruits at the Deepcut army barracks has been called a ‘farce’ by Geoff Gray,...
Sharon Aims For Zionist ‘Greater Jerusalem’
THE PALESTINE Media Centre reports that ‘The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved a speech by the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that vindicated his “defense”...
Strong Picket By Gate Gourmet Workers
WELL over 100 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday near to Heathrow airport. TGWU member Manny Odedra told News Line: ‘The people the...
US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution
WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...
NO MORE WAITING – demand Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet pickets said yesterday they were fed up with waiting. They poured scorn on a Transport and General Workers Union plea to British Airways...
MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’
PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
FIGHT ‘MONSTROUS POWERS’ – Lawyers warn against Blair’s Internment Bill
THE Blair government’s plans to extend the terrorism laws and allow the police to detain people without charge for 90 days are ‘completely monstrous...
Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’
THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...
Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...
Gourmet locked-out workers determined to win
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers expressed shock and anger at the treatment of two hundred Xavier Gourmet workers who found the gate to their...
Brown Attacks Unions On Pay
In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Chancellor Gordon Brown declared for ‘New Labour renewed’. Assuming he will succeed Blair as...
‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’
TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...
Clarke To Introduce Internment
HUMAN rights organisations yesterday furiously condemned the government for planning the introduction of internment in Britain, by giving police the powers to detain suspects...
‘ARMED CHAOS’ WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED – says President Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was ready to ‘engage immediately in negotiations on the final status’...
‘We Want Action To Win’ Say Gourmet Workers
GATE GOURMET strikers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday in high spirits, after their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton...
DEFEND JOBS AND WAGES – Smash Blair’s privatisation drive says CWU...
‘I BELIEVE we can win this,’ Communication Workers Union General Secretary Bill Hayes told a mass rally against privatisation by over 600 postal workers...
GOURMET LOCKOUT COSTS BA £100m
FURIOUS locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday slammed Transport and General Workers Union officials for demanding British Airways workers, who came out on strike in...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no...
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the...
THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...
PNA will be the sole Gaza administrator– after Israeli pull-out, says...
THE Palestine National Authority will be the sole administrator of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in August, the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive...
MURDER AT STOCKWELL – Police shoot to death unarmed Asian youth
YESTERDAY plain clothes police shot dead an unarmed Asian youth with five bullets to the head at Stockwell Underground station. He was shot at close...
LOW PAY NO WAY! – MPs support cleaners strike
‘OUR battle will go on until we get justice for our people,’ said the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) General Secretary Tony Woodley...
PNA appeals for ‘calm’ during Gaza pullout
Amid a flurry of diplomatic visits aimed at securing a smooth Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and military escalation by the Israeli Occupation...
Generals Demand Immunity From Prosecution
THE generals who demanded a ruling from the Labour government’s Attorney General that war with Iraq was legal before they would send their troops...
Karzai Officials And Advisors ‘Implicated In Major War Crimes’
Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s US-backed puppet government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in...
Bush And Blair Pledge ‘war On Terror’ Will Continue
At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...
‘We cannot fashion the future of Africa by begging’ – Colonel...
Members of the 53-nation African Union held a summit meeting in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte last Monday and Tuesday, on the eve...
‘G8= the most violent criminals on earth’ says George Galloway MP
Over 15,000 people took part in the G8 Alternatives demonstration at Gleneagles yesterday afternoon. Welcoming the marchers to Auchterarder at a rally in the local...
Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount
THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...
Troops Out Of Iraq By Christmas Says Unison Conference
Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference in Glasgow voted overwhelmingly yesterday to demand British and US troops are withdrawn from Iraq by the end...
British Warplanes Bomb Nw Iraq
British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...
House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field
LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...
GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation
THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...