Tag: parliament
Over Five Years In The Black Hole Of Bagram
‘These two men have been held in appalling conditions for five years, and for all that time the British government chose to do nothing,’...
NATIONALISE VESTAS! –demand the 25 occupying workers
Workers who have been occupying the Vestas turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight for fourteen days over plans to cut 625 jobs...
House Of Commons Committee Confounded By Afghan-Pakistan Crisis!
THE Conclusions and recommendations of the Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on ‘Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan’ make grim reading for supporters of the imperialist...
Trade Unions Must Fight For Chagossians’ Right To Return!
SAAD Iqbal Madni, was kidnapped by the CIA while visiting relatives in Indonesia. He was then transited through the British colonial possession of Diego...
GOVERNMENT THREAT TO THE FIRE SERVICE – warns FBU
Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack met fire crews across the East Midlands on Friday, to warn them about twin government threats...
‘WE’VE DEFINITELY GOT TO GO NATIONAL’ – London CWU pickets tell...
PICKETS were out at Hornsey Road sorting office in north London yesterday, as angry Royal Mail workers across the capital and in many towns...
‘NATIONAL ACTION CALLED’ – demand striking London postal workers
Over four hundred striking Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) postal workers yesterday heard calls for a national strike at a rally in Central Hall, Westminster....
‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer...
NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...
ISRAEL STILL SEEKS REVENGE FOR UNPRECEDENTED DEFEAT – warns Hezbollah
‘Three years have passed since the Israeli enemy launched its devastating war against Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV on Sunday. It continued that this...
MASS LOBBY OF MPs NEEDED – to demand GM nationalisation
‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...
GM mass meeting demand
WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...
Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal
YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...
ISLAND OF SHAME: The secret history of the US Military Base...
‘ABSOLUTELY must go!’ were the three words Admiral Elmo Zumwalt gave to US navy officials on Diego Garcia, concerned about the expulsion of Chagossians...
Sri Lanka–State Of Emergency Extended
TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of...
JAPANESE CALL FOR A ‘COMPLETE, UNVARNISHED INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION’ – into war...
THE civilian casualty list in Sri Lanka’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers ‘is long and growing’ TamilNet, reported on Monday. And the Japan Times,...
Labour Reshuffles Amidst The Resignations
JOHN Hutton, the fourth Labour Cabinet minister to quit in the past week, has left his post and will also quit as an MP,...
PANIC RESHUFFLE! – while the rats continue to leave sinking ship
Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...
Labour rats flee their sinking ship
COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...
Gm And Capitalism Go Bust, As Parliament Is Discredited
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation is one in which the ruling class is unable to rule in the old way – and has...
Israel Moves To Ban Nakba Commemorations
The Israeli cabinet is to ban Palestinians from marking the Nakba, (the Catastrophe) of the 1948 creation of Israel. A draft law is up for...
‘the Tamil National Cause Cannot Afford To Be Deviated And...
LTTE’s Department of International Relations on Sunday announced that the LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabakharan attained martyrdom fighting the military oppression of the Sri Lankan...
Not a very British revolution – just another attempt at a...
THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...
Tamil Youth Defend Their Flag Against Police
‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...
Parliament can’t be reformed, sweep it away!
CORRUPTION and parliaments are inseparable. Oliver Cromwell made this clear when he shutdown the Rump Parliament, reciting as he did the vices of the...
Massacre In Vanni!
TAMILNET reports that in the early hours of Monday at around 3.00am. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B Nadesan and LTTE Peace...
BRING DOWN THE BROWN GOVERNMENT! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT! –message...
OVER 100 trade unionists, workers and youth attended the News Line – All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in Red Lion Square in Central London...
Obama Warns Israel Against A Surprise Military Attack On Iran
US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...
‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAY HERE FOR OUR PEOPLE’ –Thousands of...
‘Gordon Brown is supporting Rajapakse and his genocide and murder of the Tamil people’, Loganathan said outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, where...
Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square...
THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...
Greek May Day Strike
Greek workers, youth and students in their thousands demonstrated in every city on May Day celebrating historic past struggles and showing their determination to...
HUNGER STRIKER ON 23rd DAY
HUNGER striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan, is continuing his hunger strike for the 23rd day outside Parliament, surrounded by more than a thousand Tamil workers...
175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF 1834 TO FREE THE...
APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...
‘brown Must Act To End Slaughter’
‘Stop killing Tamils! Brown wake up! Rajapakse – terrorist!’ shouted tens of thousands of Tamils holding a sit-down protest in the road opposite Parliament...
Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire
‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
Tigers Not Using Tamils As Shields
‘PRAMESH gets weaker every day but his spirits are high,’ 18-year-old student Janani Paramsothy, told News Line yesterday on the 24-hour picket on the...
Sri Lankan Army Steps Up Its Attacks On Tamil Civilians
TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...
Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie
THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...
Teachers Demand 10% Pay Rise
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference on Monday voted to demand a pay rise of ten per cent or at least £3,000,...
200,000 Tamils Rally Today
‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...
Tamils Continue ‘Death Fast’
British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...
Police Attack Tamils
Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...
CHEMICAL WEAPONS MASSACRE ‘THE LAST STRAW’ –Tamils blockade Westminster Bridge
‘Thousands of our people have been murdered with chemical weapons just an hour ago’, Tamil protester Shiva said on Monday evening. He was speaking from...
Obama Expands The War Into Pakistan!
US President Barack Obama yesterday announced a further 4,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan this summer, in addition to the 17,000 earmarked...
‘TAX HAVENS ARE SUNNY PLACES FOR SHADY PEOPLE’ says Lord Oakshott
THe Liberal Democrats Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott has delivered a broadside against prime minister Brown and the secretive activities of Barclays Bank. He used parliamentary...
JESSE JACKSON ATTENDS WORLD TAMIL CONFERENCE – as Sri Lankan army...
THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...