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POLICE TERROR RAID CONDEMNED – Derbyshire witch-hunt for illegals

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Border and Immigration Agency mass raids to round up alleged illegal immigrants were yesterday condemned as a publicity-seeking ‘cynical approach by government’ by GMB...

Labour Puts Migrants In Chains

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YESTERDAY THE BBC repeated throughout the day film of a police and immigration officials raid on a chicken factory in Derbyshire, to which the...

CAPITALISM HAS TO GO! – say May Day marchers

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‘Capitalism has had its day, it’s historically bankrupt. Now’s the time to bring it down and go forward to socialism.’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary...

FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers

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Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...

DARLING KNEW! – that 10p measure would hurt low paid

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Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...

‘NO REGRETS’ SAYS GOLDSMITH – over halting Fraud Office inquiry

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Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...

LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton

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Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...

MPs GRAVY TRAIN EXPOSED

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Prescott claimed £4,000 in a year expenses to purchase food, while his former boss Blair even...

‘OUR DUTY IS TO LIBERATE IRAQ’ – Sadr demands occupation forces...

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RADICAL cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gave a lengthy interview to Al-Jazeera Satellite Television last Saturday about the US occupation of Iraq. He was first asked...

Class Size Clash Looms!

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Teachers are heading for a conflict with the government over class sizes. The National Union of Teachers is to vote at its annual conference in...

Iran Pledges Reprisals Against Sanctions

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...

‘£5BILLION WASTED’ ON PRIVATE TREATMENT CENTRES – NHS left to pick...

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There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...

Sri Lanka Tea Workers Arrested

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Thirty four civilians were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the government security forces at Gampaha town from Saturday...

‘WE OPPOSE PRIVATELY-RUN POLYCLINICS’ – says UNISON

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday joined doctors in opposing government plans to replace NHS-run GP surgeries with ‘polyclinics’. ‘We are opposed to privately-run polyclinics,’ A...

Paisleyite Camp Suffering From Unionist Backlash

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By John Coulter, Irish political journalist THE starting gun on the most important realignment in Irish unionism for 40 years was fired when First Minister...

Massive General Strike In Greece

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Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

POLICE BUGGING INQUIRY – Labour MP spied on as he met...

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Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...

Cwu Ready To Accept End Of Final Salary Pensions

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‘We are unlikely to vote “Yes” unless Royal Mail changes its proposals’ to end final salary pensions, Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary...

Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks

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US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...

PALESTINIAN PILGRIMS RETURN – while Gaza faces health disaster

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ISMAIL Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, has said that Egypt had ‘not surrendered to blackmail’ when it decided to allow Palestinian pilgrims to...

Sri Lankan Government Lets Death Squads Off The Leash!

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TAMIL NET has reported that a Colombo district Tamil parliamentarian of the opposition United National Party, T Maheswaran, was shot at Ponnambala Va’neasvarar temple...

Defend Palestinians against Israeli military terror!

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TEN members of the Palestinian resistance movement, members of the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad, were killed in missile attacks by Israeli warplanes in...

‘I WILL NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE’ – Glenn Close says...

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ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...

Greek Workers Stage Biggest Ever General Strike

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Greek workers staged last Wednesday the biggest general strike in history against the proposed ‘reforms’ on pensions planned by the right-wing government of prime...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

‘ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF OCCUPATION IS RESISTANCE’ – say...

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Palestinians on Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the First Intifada, the popular uprising that rocked the Israeli regime to its foundations. The Intifada uprising...

Guantanamo Detainees Fight To Challenge Their Detention In Civilian Courts

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The US Supreme Court addressed a landmark case over the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Wednesday, deliberating on whether the military prison camp’s...

Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy

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THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...

Tuc Supports Strikes By Writers Guild Of America

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British trade unionists on Wednesday demonstrated their support for America’s striking screenwriters as part of an international day of solidarity called by the Writers...

Mass Strikes Bring Paris To A Halt

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FRENCH Minister of Labour, Xavier Bertrand has told the striking rail unions that they must return to work before he will...

‘THE RESISTANCE WILL CHANGE THE FACE OF THE REGION!’ – Nasrallah...

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HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed a mass rally in the Lebanese capital Beirut last Saturday to mark ‘Martyrs’ Day’ celebrations. He spoke about the...

Bhutto Demands Exact Election Date

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In a bid to defuse a developing insurrectionary situation, Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharraf said after chairing a meeting of the National Security Council...

Writers Guild Of America Takes Indefinite Strike Action

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HOLLYWOOD writers took to the picket lines on Monday to begin their first strike against the US film and television industry in nearly two...

Mass arrests in Pakistan – general elections ‘postponed’

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GENERAL Pervez Musharraf has carried out his second military coup. The first made him president, and last weekend’s, in his own words, ‘prevented the...

UK COMPLICIT ‘IN THE MOST SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ –...

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THE Chagos islanders were thrown out of their Indian Ocean home in the mid 1960s by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson in...

Massive Support For NHS March!

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THE ‘I LOVE THE NHS’ march and rally is attracting widespread celebrity support from the world of music, sport, TV, comedy and literature. ...

US attacks Iran, Russia and China

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IRAN has responded with a heroic defiance to the new economic sanctions imposed by the US ruling class that target its military defence, the...

‘LEBANON WILL NOT ALLOW OCCUPATION!’ – Hezbollah rejects US bases plan

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Hezbollah MP Mustafa Ali al-Husayn last weekend warned that a planned US military base would not be safe as the Lebanon ‘would not allow...

Bbc Unions To Go For Strike Ballot

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BBC journalists, technicians and production staff and electricians will be balloted for strike action if the BBC proceeds to call for ‘voluntary redundancies’ today,...

Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts

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THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...

READY TO STRIKE! – after BBC Director General announces 2,800 redundancies

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Broadcasting and journalism unions BECTU and the NUJ said yesterday they are bracing themselves for the launch of strike action to defend jobs and...

BASRA ASSASSINATIONS WARNING – police out of control, says chief

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‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...

Rescuing Banks Is Brown’s Policy

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At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling stressed his support for the banks. In his keynote speech, moving the resolution ‘Prosperity...

Israel Declares The Gaza Strip A ‘Hostile Entity’

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HAMAS has condemned the latest Zionist decision on Wednesday to declare the Gaza Strip a ‘hostile entity’ and to cut off vital fuel and...

RUN ON NORTHERN CONTINUES! – double digit inflation on the way...

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YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...