Tag: strike
US knew many Guantanamo detainees were innocent –leaked documents reveal
Leaked Guantanamo Bay files expose the perils of wearing a Casio watch and working for Al Jazeera, said legal charity Reprieve on Monday, after...
‘cowardly’ Attack On Gadaffi Compound
Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...
Teachers Vote For General Strike
AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...
‘We Are Determined To Keep Chase Farm Hospital Open’
‘WE’RE having a very good picket today, enjoying the sunshine,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line on Tuesday. He continued:...
Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!
THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
Libya Proving Too Hot To Handle For Divided Nato Powers
THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...
Now Smash The Bill And Bring Down The Coalition!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...
Yemen Tanks shell protesters
Yemeni protesters kept up the heat on President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday as fresh clashes raged in the flashpoint city of Taiz, and...
General Strike to defend the NHS!
On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...
Egyptian revolution in permanence!
THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...
Job Centre Strike!
Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...
Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army
BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...
Miliband supports Tory NHS plans – forward to the general strike
ON Monday, the Tory Health Minister, Andrew Lansley, was forced to declare a ‘pause’ in the coalition government’s drive to privatise and smash up...
‘WE WANT THE HEALTH BILL SCRAPPED’ – Prentis tells Lansley
Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...
War on welfare – revolution the only way forward
Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...
Yemeni Police Open Fire On Taiz Protesters
YEMENI police killed at least one person and injured scores of other protesters when they opened fire in the city of Taiz on Sunday,...
War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
Greek Teachers And Doctors Strike Against Closures
Some 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers, from both state and private schools, plus state hospital doctors, short-contract workers of the Athens municipality, university...
Unison picket at Chase Farm Hospital
Unison – the biggest health workers union – yesterday staged a picket of Chase Farm Hospital against the threat to close the hospital’s A&E,...
Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act
Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...
ALL TOGETHER FOR THE NHS! – Unison staging rallies against the...
UNISON is holding a lunchtime demonstration outside the main entrance of Chase Farm Hospital between 12noon and 2pm today, as part of its All...
Public sector workers strike action
STRIKING teachers and other public sector workers marched through Camden and Tower Hamlets yesterday. The vibrant demonstration and rally of 500 Camden NUT members was...
‘WE CAN’T DO WITHOUT CHASE FARM HOSPITAL’ – residents and workers...
A LIVELY picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital took place on Tuesday, March 29. Beverley Stevens, a Unison support worker in Enfield...
Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity
PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...
‘We Won’t Let Chase Farm NHS Close’
HOSPITAL workers, patients and local residents in Enfield yesterday reaffirmed their determination to stop the planned closure of the A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments...
SCRAPPING THE EMA WILL LEAVE YOUTH DESTITUTE! – £400 million being...
TEACHERS’, Lecturers’ and Students’ Union leaders have warned that Education Secretary Gove’s announcement on Monday of a ‘bursary scheme’ to replace the Education Maintenance...
Nato air strikes clear way for counter-revolutionaries
IT is now crystal clear that the Nato airforces are in Libya to blast a way through the Libyan people, both fighters and civilians,...
Forward To The General Strike – Bring Down The Coalition, Stop...
500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...
500,000 March Against The Coalition Attacks
OVER half a million trade unionists and youth from every town and city in Britain joined Saturday’s TUC march against the savage spending cuts....
UCU slams Manchester Met Uni – after security staff forcibly evict...
MANCHESTER Metropolitan University (MMU) is under fire after its security forcibly evicted staff members from picket lines across the university’s buildings on Thursday...
Message to marchers – bring down coalition to give workers and...
TODAY’S march called by the TUC is a massive demonstration of the anger and hatred felt by the working class, whole sections of the...
Bring Down The Coalition!
Today’s massive London march against the coalition government will be the biggest since the two million-strong march against the Iraq war under the Blair...
500 universities & colleges strike! – to defend pensions and fight...
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...
HOPE OF GAZA WAR CRIMES VICTIMS DASHED – says Palestinian...
‘AS we send this press release, Palestinian civilians across the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, are encountering extremely violent waves of state-sponsored oppression along...
Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly
IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...
ACTION OVER PENSIONS – BMA Consultants Conference decides to ballot
HOSPITAL doctors at the BMA Consultants Conference yesterday voted with just three against to ‘ballot the consultant membership regarding all forms of industrial action’...
MASSIVE UCU ACTION! – in defence of pensions
TONY Brown, University and College Union (UCU) president at University College London (UCL), told News Line on the Gower Street picket line yesterday morning:...
No Plan B – kick the coalition out!
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...
Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition
ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...
Imperialists declare war on Libya – by permission of the...
THE vote by the United Nations security council to impose and police a no-fly zone over Libya is a declaration of war by imperialism...
Abolition of EMA ‘will lead to a devastating drop in young...
NINETY-THREE per cent of college principals are concerned that the abolition of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) will lead to a devastating drop in...
Tens Of Thousands Of Palestinian Youth Rally For Unity
The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said vast crowds had packed into the city’s Square of...
Record Jobless Rise!
UK unemployment has risen by 27,000 in the three months to the end of January to 2.53 million, the highest figure since 1994. The Office...