Tag: tory party

THE North-East London Council of Action Christmas picket of Chase Farm Hospital got a very warm reception yesterday for its demand to occupy to...

YESTERDAY saw the Tory-led coalition finally unveil its so-called ‘Localism Bill’, which is central to its plans to make massive cuts in local government...

‘The Localism Bill, promoting the “Big Society” concept, is a smokescreen, so that thousands of local government jobs can be axed’, the Unite union...

Politicians, trade union leaders and hundreds of postal workers will come together at a national rally to protest against government plans to privatise Royal...

THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...

Tens of thousands of students and youth marched from University of London Union (ULU) near Euston down to parliament yesterday lunchtime, shouting against the...

YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...

TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...

THOUSANDS of students and workers will be marching from the University of London Union (ULU) to parliament tomorrow, when the Tory-LibDem Coalition government...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...

IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...

MORE than 400 people joined Saturday’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open. The march was...

THE WikiLeaks revelations prove once again that British imperialism, although greatly weakened, remains just as poisonous and rotten as ever. This comes out clearly in...

THE News Line fully supports the call by the secretary of the Young Socialists Student Society for next week’s lobby and rally by the...

THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...

STAFF and students at the University of Reading held a special demonstration yesterday against government cuts to higher education. The lobby was organised by...

Students demonstrated and marched in towns and cities across Britain yesterday in the third day of protests against tuition fees, university cuts and the...

MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...

THE latest WikiLeaks release of US documents reveals the essence of US diplomacy, and it stinks to high heaven with its intense imperialist antagonism...

RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...

ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...

LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...

HUNDREDS of thousands of university, college and school students demonstrated in towns and cities all over Britain on Wednesday. They were protesting against the Tory-LibDem...

TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...

Homeless charity Shelter yesterday condemned the planned ‘radical reform’ of council housing as ‘a deliberate attack on the poorest in society’. Announcing the measure, ...

Over 10,000 workers and youth on Saturday marched through central London against the Afghan war, calling for the troops to be brought out now. Organised...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education started the day yesterday with an effective early morning campaign outside the Luton GMM...

THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...

FIREFIGHTERS in their thousands rallied at Westminster Hall on Wednesday to hear union leaders call for stepping up the campaign against vicious cuts to...

LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...

‘THIS government will either bring the country to its knees or we will stand up and oppose them and bring them to their knees!’ That...

THE YS March for Jobs set off yesterday from Coventry after winning great support when they stayed there on Saturday night. Coventry Unison’s branch administrator,...

THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...

Trade unions on Thursday gave their reaction to Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s announcement of a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ ‘claimant contract’,...

EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...

OVER 100,000 students from all parts of Britain joined a massive demonstration against tuition fees in Westminster on Wednesday. The march called by the National...

OVER 100,000 students, lecturers and college youth filled the streets of Westminster yesterday, in a massive demonstration against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s announcement of...

TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education campaigned at Keele University yesterday, where students bought tickets for the Meet the March...

THE GMB trade union has reiterated its stance of refusing to enter talks at Rhondda Cynon Taff in response to the issuance of a...

THE long awaited public inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust opened yesterday. It was in Mid-Staffs hospital that between 2005 and 2008 an estimated 400 patients...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London is campaigning in Stoke today, before moving on to Stafford. Speaking...

THE Coalition’s Duncan Smith, an ex-army officer, is proposing to discipline the unemployed with forced slave labour, as part of the Coalition’s plan to...

GOLDSMITHS College students began an occupation of Deptford Old Town Hall, (now part of the university), on Wednesday afternoon – after the Tory-LibDem coalition...

The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...