Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced...
Outsourcing NHS services to the private sector is associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased rates of deaths from treatable causes, according...
FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part one
FRANCE has risen. After the brutal attack by the forces of the French capitalist state, led by the CRS, on demonstrators at the Place de...
‘Action must be taken against the officers responsible for my...
THE Justice4Jean Campaign said on Friday that Coroner Michael White ‘has presided over a complete whitewash’, following the conclusion of the inquest into the...
‘WE DON’T WANT OUR DETAILS ON ANY DATABASE’ – public tell...
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s claim that people ‘just can’t wait’ to get ID cards has been rubbished by campaign group NO2ID. NO2ID national coordinator Phil...
Sheltered Housing In Danger
THE future of Sheltered Housing Schemes is in danger, unless the government acts to stop their funding being cut, the UK Pensioners Strategy Committee...
ADULT EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK– funding crisis means sackings and course closures,...
Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector...
US screenwriters 98% vote to strike from May Day
Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...
Greek Civil Servants Fight 15,000 Sackings
GREEK civil servants staged a one-day strike in the Athens area last Friday against the coalition government’s plan to sack some 15,000 ministries workers...
Mirror Journalists Fight – 200 ‘neanderthal Sackings’
By Save the Mirror Campaign Group TRINITY Mirror’s Chief Executive Sly Bailey is planning to axe a further 200 editorial staff from The Mirror, Sunday...
15,000 MARCH THROUGH LEWISHAM! – determined to stop the closure of...
LEWISHAM reverberated, last Saturday to a 15,000 strong demonstration of opposition to the closure of the Accident and Emergency, and Maternity Services at Lewisham...
‘If you bomb Beirut the Islamic Resistance will bomb Tel Aviv’...
THE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on military operations, and political developments over Al Manar TV on August 3 noted that the fourth...
‘They are planning to get rid of the whole of Ealing...
ANN FRANKLYN, 22 years a nurse and midwife at Ealing Hospital, carrying heavy bags, stopped at the occupation at 6.30pm on Friday evening. ‘Today...
Trade union leaders divided over Tory Budget!
THE TRADE union leaders are divided over the Tory Budget. ‘Today’s Budget u-turn on spending is long overdue’ says the TUC, forging a partnership with...
Sana Journalist Sentenced To Four Years In Jail For Exposing Turkish...
A COURT in Turkey has sentenced a journalist working for Syria’s official news agency, SANA, to more than four years in prison for allegedly...
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...
Millions turn out for Tuesday’s pension strike in France
MILLIONS of workers and youth took part in the first of two new mass strikes and demonstrations in France on Tuesday in opposition to...
ZIMBABWE POLICE ‘CONTINUE BEATINGS AND TORTURE’ – says Amnesty
In Zimbabwe the police still torture while a political solution to the country’s crisis is being sought, says Amnesty International. The Zimbabwean government continues to...
London Postal Workers Action
News Line covered a number of CWU postal worker picket lines in the early hours of last Friday morning at the start of...
SRI LANKA HAS A CASE TO ANSWER – says international war...
THE United Nations is able to investigate the war crimes which occurred recently in Sri Lanka, British human rights lawyer and international war crimes...
‘Wage Theft In Australia’–Bosses Exploiting Students
THE NATIONAL Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded that Australia’s government takes ‘urgent and immediate action to stop unconscionable employers ripping off international students...
Palestinians battle for Security Council votes!
PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...
Sudan masses demand ‘power to the people!’
MASSIVE protests are taking place across Sudan with hundreds of thousands on the streets to denounce the military’s tightening grip on power. Chanting ‘Power to...
7-Day Working Proposed For Hospital Consultants!
BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS are being made by clinical leaders to bring in 7-day working for hospital consultants. These proposals are laid out in a...
PUT POLICE ON TRIAL AND END ALL ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – demand...
Political groups participating in the Tahrir Square sit-in issued two statements Sunday underlining their demands. The statements were issued separately, but the demands are almost...
David King 1943-2016
BY ALEX MITCHELL GRAPHIC designer, photographer, collector and writer David King dedicated most of his adult life to celebrating the Russian Revolution of 1917. He produced...
Teachers’ Unions Slam Coalition League Tables
TEACHERS’ unions on Thursday slammed the latest publication of school league tables as part of a continuing attack on schools and teachers. Chris Keates, general...
NATO unable to agree multi-year pledge to arm Ukraine
NATO member countries have been unable to reach an agreement on a multi-year pledge to provide military aid to Ukraine, the DPA news agency...
‘Opposition must be Syrian opposition,’ says Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...
100,000 NHS staff vacancies!
‘THESE figures reflect the stark reality facing NHS trusts resulting from the combination of relentless increases in patient demand, 100,000 staff vacancies and the...
Nurses Call For National Strike Action To Defend The NHS
NURSES and other National Health Service workers called for national strike action from all unions to defend the NHS last Thursday. RCN and UNISON health...
Actu Fighting For Wage Justice For All Indigenous Australians!
AUSTRALIA’S Turnbull Government is backing laws that force Indigenous people into work, not for wages, only welfare. The ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), including...
Revolution – New Art For A New World
REVOLUTION - NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD A Margy Kinmonth Film Director: Margy Kinmonth Created with the support of Alisher Usmanov, Founder of the Art, Science...
Marks & Spencer veto pay rise for RMT members at DHL
RMT MEMBERS at DHL’s Neasden depot, supply chain partners of Marks and Spencer’s, will strike again for 24 hours this Friday and Monday in...
Russia Relying On Poroshenko Being A ‘Prudent Politician’
RUSSIA is seeking peaceful co-existence and ‘compromise’ both with the EU and Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko, President Putin’s supreme economic adviser, Andrey Belusov...
‘What are we waiting for? – Someone to die?’ says sacked...
OVER 100 Amazon employees at a New York fulfilment centre went on strike at noon on Monday, alleging management has been unresponsive to safety...
MIGRANT WORKERS HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES – but is forced to move...
THE 250 migrant workers, on hunger strike since last Tuesday in Athens, have been forced to abandon the University of Athens Law School hall...
ABBAS CELEBRATES 26th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PALESTINIAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE –and...
ON Saturday 15th November, the 26th anniversary of the Palestinian ‘declaration of independence’, and 10th Anniversary of the death of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat,...
Terrorist attacks in northern Syria
THREE civilians were injured with shells in a terrorist attack on Qana al-Assi in Syria’s northern countryside of Homs on Thursday. SANA’s reporter in...
CPSU suspends its election campaign
AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...
Sodexo Oppressing Workers In The US And Colombia
Sodexo laundry workers in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday delivered a petition to management calling for greater safety standards. The petition included hundreds of signatures from...
US unions demand no cuts to Medicaid and education
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...
Police Chief Knew Marikana Operation ‘Would Involve Bloodshed’
THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...
Junior Doctors Reject Contract Diktat
‘IN THE face of proposals from the UK government which amount to imposition in all but name, the UK junior doctors committee has decided...
Greek government – Golden Dawn contact man revealed!
THE Secretary of the Greek government, Panagiotis Baltakos, a close aide for decades of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been revealed as the go-between...
Female former LTTE cadres being continually abused
THE genocidal Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is routinely engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the former female members of...