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No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says...
BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he?
He said that Iran...
Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well
GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January.
They visited Greenford Council depot and...
Ahern Attacks Irish Unions
IRISH Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has told the trade unions it would be ‘reckless’ of them to seek a 10 per cent pay...
Heathrow workers back Gate Gourmet conference
BRITISH Airways Terminal 4 workers yesterday gave great support to locked out Gate Gourmet workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference on Sunday January...
‘Summary Powers!’
Prime Minister Blair yesterday unveiled his viciously anti-working class ‘Respect Action Plan’ at a press conference.
Announcing his ‘ActionPlan’ Blair said: ‘Anti-Social Behaviour law imposed...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
SAFETY RULES BROKEN says RMT leader Bob Crow
‘There was chaos on the Underground this morning,’ rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow said yesterday.
Commenting on the 24-hour strike by 4,000 RMT...
Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!
YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...
ELECTIONS MUST GO AHEAD – insist Hamas
Palestinian Islamic liberation movement Hamas has declared: ‘No to killing, banditry, and the policy of kidnapping foreigners’.
In a statement posted on the Palestinian Information...
Israel systematically squeezing Palestinians out of Jordan Valley – says PMC
Without fanfare, but with determination, Israel is systematically, militarily and economically squeezing Palestinians out of the Jordan Valley, expanding colonial Jewish settlement in the...
NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...
2006 – A Great Year For World Revolution
THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily paper of the Workers Revolutionary Party, sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of...
BLAIR’S POLICE STATE POWERS – come in on Sunday January 1
‘These powers constitute a serious erosion of civil liberties in this country. They will change the relationship between the police and the individual fundamentally,’...
‘THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS A LIAR’ says Saddam...
At his continuing show trial in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Bush of lying about Iraq’s non-existent stockpiles of chemical weapons as...
‘WE WILL NOT RENEW THE TRUCE’ say Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The ongoing Israeli violations and extra-judicial killings have put the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the anti-occupation groups on opposite sides of the argument...
Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation
LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...
‘ON OUR WAY TO VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday campaigning outside the Transport and General Workers Union regional office in Hillingdon, near Heathrow Airport.
On Saturday the...
BLAIR IS DESTROYING THE NHS – Part One – The privatisation...
ANYONE who has made a careful reading of Department of Health documents (see footnote) and considered the implication of the legislation can only come...
ISRAEL BLOCKADES GAZA – and steps up assaults in the West...
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) last Saturday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ Israel’s threat to turn the ‘economic siege’ it is imposing on the Gaza Strip...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation
A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...
WORKERS CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE EVERY FRIDAY – to drive...
Over 100,000 workers and youth marched through Dublin last Friday as Ireland was shut down in support of Irish Ferries SIPTU trade union members...
Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
Crown won’t prosecute police killers
AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...
Crisis Pre-Budget
Britain has had to face ‘the toughest and most challenging year for the economy’ in which it has seen predicted economic growth halved to...
Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...
‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – March with locked-out Gate Gourmet...
‘WE have got more and more support for our fight to get our jobs back’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Palmjit Bains told News...
US Torture Flights – Questions Go Unanswered
LIBERTY has written letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and to British police chiefs about the US’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme and the use...
DON’T RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE say unions
GMB trade union yesterday said it rejects the Turner report proposal to extend the pension age.
Turner recommends extending the retirement age to ‘between 67...
Delphi postpones ‘motion for rejection of collective bargaining agreements’
US autoworkers union (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker, who directs the union’s General Motors and Delphi departments, yesterday issued...
French Workers Fight To Stop Privatisation
AROUND 100,000 workers employed by the SNCF (French national railway) are taking strike action this week, following Saturday’s mass demonstration of more than 40,000...
Bush loses US Congress votes
THE Senate of the United States Congress, which has a Republican majority, fired a shot across the bows of President George Bush’s administration over...
‘Continue The March To Raise The Palestinian Flag Over Jerusalem’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last Friday pledged to continue Yasser Arafat’s struggle to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, as thousands...
TGWU leaders still pushing ‘compromise agreement’
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday when letters from the TGWU solicitor advising them...
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...
TGWU register 735 tribunal cases
THERE was a mass picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday.
Senior shop steward Mr Dhillon told News...
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...
Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Woodley And Barber
GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday.
They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...
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...
Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...
Amsterdam Horror!
THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...
‘Compromise deal collapsing’ say Gate Gourmet workers
HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...
BRING OUT THE AIRPORT – urge Gate Gourmet workers
‘We are calling for the whole airport to come out, not just to support us but to defend themselves,’ Jaswinder Phal told News Line...
DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court
Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...
BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war
Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...
GREEK DOCTORS DEMAND ‘PUT AN END TO PRIVATE SECTOR’ – fill...
THE Greek National Health Service doctors’ union OENGE has called on all doctors, trades unions, trades councils and social association to ‘organise jointly mobilisations...
