‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers
‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...
ENERGY BILLS SET TO RISE! – economy is heading for a 2008-style crash
UK ENERGY bills are set to rise even higher, with suppliers warning of a ‘nationwide crisis’ and a 2008-style financial crash. Several ‘providers’ including Good...
People facing choice between heating or eating!
‘There’s a growing cohort of people facing a choice between eating or heating who might not have even considered having to access our inadequate...
Trump’s sanctions threat to Iran is ‘military weakness’
IRAN'S parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that US President Trump’s threat of an ‘economic D-Day’ next Tuesday shows Washington is unable to...
Tube drivers refuse to accept cuts in their working conditions
THERE was full support from former workers at the Arnos Grove picket line yesterday morning. News Line spoke to John O’Farrell, who said: ‘Well I’d...
Johnson Gov Must Answer Over The 20,000 Care Home Deaths!
THE Johnson government must answer for its actions over the 20,000 Care Home deaths says the GMB. Ministers ignored science, evidence and the GMB Union...
Midwives Launch Action Ballot
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...
Unite – Significant Victory For The Lower Paid!
UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...
‘Sleeping at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin’
‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday,...
‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves
UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...
CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!
THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...
‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
Iran in ‘full-scale war’ with US says President Pezeshkian
PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran is now involved in a ‘full-scale war’ with the United States, with the economy and public livelihood being the...
Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!
A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
British families: the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic
British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...
Universities strike ballot opens today!
STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...
Miliband defends ‘two-state’ solution as Israel closes UK consulate
FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband said yesterday that Britain ‘could not simply stand by because we feared Israeli reaction’. This was after Israel ordered the closure...
Right to attend your A&E being ended!
NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...
Thousands of doctors march on Downing St – Kick the Tories out now!
THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...
‘Greenland belongs to people of Greenland’ – that is a right says Starmer
‘THE UK and the US are close allies and close partners. That relationship matters profoundly – not just to our security, but to the...
Israel Intensifies Its Assault On Gaza Strip
THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...
Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’
THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...
‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told
STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...
Landlords Can Grab The £400 Energy Bill Rebate
LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...
NATIONALISE BP NOW! – ‘stop tinkering at the edges’ demands Unite’s Graham
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...
‘No Medals, Badges Or Claps Just Pay Nurses 12.5% Rise!’
‘NO MEDALS, badges or claps this time – just pay nursing fairly’, a nursing union leader told Boris Johnson yesterday. The leader of the UK’s...
Palestine Demands A Criminal Investigation
PALESTINE has demanded an immediate international criminal investigation into the Tel Aviv regime’s policy of settlement expansion and expropriation of Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Ministry...
Council Made Millions While Cutting Grenfell Costs!
THE COUNCIL responsible for Grenfell Tower made multimillion-pound property deals while cutting costs to the tower’s restoration, it has emerged. Seventy-two people died when a...
Strike-Breaking Regulations Ruled Illegal By High Court
MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...
Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories
THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...
Iran’s new leader vows revenge for Minab school massacre
IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...
Tories move to replace NHS with regional healthcare!
TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...
‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened
THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...
‘Iran will not bend the knee!’ – President Pezeshkian tells the UN
IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday that Iran would not yield to US threats, sanctions or force,...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
7.4 million British families in poverty
TWO-THIRDS of low income families struggle to buy essentials such as clothes, heating and food, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) warned yesterday. The anti-poverty charity...
NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts
THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...
600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...
NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...
School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!
THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...
‘Big Four’ supermarkets pay back £1.7bn in Covid funds
SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...
25 Protesters arrested at Palestine Action appeal
POLICE arrested 25 people outside the Supreme Court yesterday as five justices began hearing Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori’s challenge to the group’s proscription...
PM JOHNSON DUMPS PLAN B! – in a desperate attempt to remain PM
AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...
Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning
THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
Wildcat Postal Strikes
WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
‘Europe will pay the bill for the US supplying Ukraine with weapons!’
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...
