Tag: migration
Government’s fake inflation rate falls as cost of living rises
THE Government’s UK inflation rate figure fell again, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), for the third month in a row, down...
Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet
THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...
‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria
THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations
THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...
Blair’s Market – For Both Health And Education
Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
REJECT WOODLEY’S ROTTEN ‘COMPROMISE’ DEAL! – Don’t sell your rights for...
ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 700 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their...
‘THE UNITED STATES CANNOT DECIDE OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE’ says Khalid...
Al-Jazeera satellite TV carried live on 15 October a 50-minute episode of its weekly programme ‘Open Dialogue,’ hosted by Ghassan Bin-Jiddu. He interviewed...
‘CHARGE TYSON FOODS WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER’ – demands UFCW Alberta local
Striking United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members at a Brooks, Alberta, slaughterhouse, last Saturday called for attempted murder charges after a car...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...
BA getting ready for mass sackings
THE capitalist press yesterday was full of revelations that the new BA boss, Willie Walsh, recruited after making savage cuts at Aer Lingus, is...
‘throw Out Stinking Gourmet Deal’
‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...
‘WE’RE READY TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet shop stewards went to a meeting at the Trades Union Congress in central London yesterday with leaders of their union, the TGWU,...
FULL SUPPORT! – pledge the TUC and trade union leaders
‘NO to redundancies!’ ‘We want our jobs!’ ‘We want justice!’ shouted over 300 locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday inside the TUC Congress in...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
PROSECUTE THE POLICE DEATH SQUAD – say Jean Charles de Menezes...
A cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police CO 19 firearms officers, yesterday demanded those responsible ‘must face...
800 sacked – Given 3 minutes notice at Gate Gourmet
‘Eight hundred workers at the gate gourmet airline catering company have been sacked,’ Tony Woodley told a press conference at the TGWU offices in...
US releases frozen aid to Colombia – Rights groups slam ‘blatantly...
Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...
Bush and Blair’s war against democratic rights
IN the United States it has just been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been secretly collecting the internal documents of...
State Raising Terror Tensions
ON SATURDAY night, the city centre of Birmingham, the second largest city in the country, was emptied of more than 20,000 people by the...
‘Significant Concerns’ For Vulnerable Detainees
Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers’ ‘Report on an unannounced inspection of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre’ is another damning indictment of the brutal system...
‘BEGGING WON’T MAKE A FUTURE FOR AFRICA’ –Gadaffi tells AU summit
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadaffi yesterday urged African nations to stop ‘begging’. In a half-hour speech as host of the 53-nation African Union two-day summit...
Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq
THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...
US unions split – as class struggle erupts in USA
The leaders of five of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO – the Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers’, and SEIU – held a ‘Change to...
Blair demands end of EU farm subsidies
THE knives are out between the British ruling class and its Franco-German opposite numbers. The press conference at the end of Blair’s visit to Moscow,...
US casualties in Iraq ‘unacceptable’ – say 75 per cent of...
A US Humvee was destroyed when an explosive charge went off on Wednesday near a US forces convoy in the Al-Rustamiyah area, southeast of...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
Glasgow Unemployment Crisis
Targets set by ministers for agencies trying to get Scotland’s long-term unemployed off benefits are making the problem worse, not better. That is the finding...