‘Something rotten at the heart of Labour’ – Labour disaffiliation: Bakers to consult members
THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...
Norwich City Council to strike!
WORKERS who carry out vital services for Norwich City Council have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action. In the Unite ballot 83% of the workers backed...
ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby
IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...
Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!
JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...
Parliament in crisis over Taliban victory!
THE HOUSE of Commons met on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am to discuss the implications of the major defeat suffered by both the US...
Royal London Hospital Serco strike!
WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...
250,000 UK Workers And Youth March For Liberation Of Palestine
A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...
OBR predicts 4 million unemployed – as Furlough scheme begins winding down
AS OF YESTERDAY the Tory government’s contribution to furloughed workers’ wages was cut, marking the beginning of the end of the scheme – with...
HEATHROW CLEANERS FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS says the Unite trade union
LOW PAID cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie at Heathrow Airport, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged...
‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over
ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
Doctors To Take Action Over 1% Pay Offer
SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...
Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’
THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...
Savage Cuts On The Way!
THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...
NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Letters sent to 1922 Committee calling for Johnson to go – 54 needed for...
TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
George Floyd murder trial begins ‘Whole world is watching’
‘GEORGE Floyd was living, breathing, walking and talking just fine until the police put him face down in handcuffs and put a knee on...
Public Sector pay freeze ‘A kick in the teeth for millions!’ say GMB
PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...
FBU demands emergency funding – London Fire Brigade is facing £20m cuts
PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...
Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears
THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...
50 Workers Chasing Every Job
AROUND 20 unemployed workers are chasing every job vacancy in poorer parts of the UK, with that number rising to 50 in the areas...
Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!
THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...
Escalate the action – bus workers call for National Strike now!
‘ESCALATE the action – national strike now!’ bus workers told News Line yesterday on the first day of another two days of strike action...
3 unions reject BA’s offer – strike looms!
THREE unions – BALPA, Unite, and GMB – representing 25,000 British Airways workers have rejected the company’s latest pay deal meaning that a major...
NHS must run vaccinations! Unison warns of private firms using unqualified staff
CORONAVIRUS vaccinations must be managed entirely by the NHS and public bodies, and not allow the involvement of private firms and the use of unqualified staff,...
Met Students Confined To Rooms By Security Guards!
STUDENTS at Manchester Metropolitan University are confined to their rooms, with security officers keeping them inside. In a statement, Manchester Met said: ‘Our security teams...
Strikes will grind Heathrow to a halt
WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...
‘ANTI-CORBYN COUP!’ – WATSON ACCUSED BY McCLUSKEY
THE CLAMOUR from senior Labour figures, including deputy leader Tom Watson, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, for Labour to...
‘This will end up in a general strike!’ – Ambulance pickets tell News Line
‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...
RCN Opposes Health Bill
THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
US President Biden bans Russian oil & gas
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced yesterday the country is banning Russian oil and gas in response to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Biden said...
Leaseholders’ cladding nightmare is continuing – Tory extra £3.5 billion is too little too...
‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...
Series of 48 hour postal strikes
POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...
Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change
NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...
TORIES SPLIT – Johnson faces revolt over new restrictions
‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...
‘We need to reassure the markets’ says Truss as she sacks Chancellor Kwarteng
THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...
9 fresh strike dates at BA after talks collapse
BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...
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...
RAGE OF WORKERS AND YOUTH THREAT TO GREEK GOVERNMENT – thousands defy police teargas...
THE RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...
Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote
LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...
Students packed in like sardines–used as cash cows
REPORTS have emerged of students, despite paying thousands of pounds in fees a year for their tuition, are forced to sit on the floor...
‘IT’S TIME FOR THE UK SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!’ – Dave Wiltshire tells News Line Rally
OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the News Line Anniversary Rally at the Wheatsheaf Community Hall in Vauxhall, south west London on Saturday...
EU publishes plans for ‘no-deal’ scenario
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) published yesterday its contingency plans for a ‘no deal scenario’ as post-Brexit trade deals with the UK remain deadlocked. The President...
150 Unis ballot for strike action!
THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...