Home Lead Page 2

Lead

All lead news articles for the day

PC Monk gets 8 years for Taser death – Dalian Atkinson’s family speaks out

0
POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...

Rayner says Labour will overturn anti-strikes law ‘within 100 days’

0
SHADOW Deputy PM Angela Rayner told the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday that a Labour government will overturn the Tory anti-strikes Minimum Service Levels...

Tory-Lib Dem Underfunding Has Created ‘Extreme Risks’ To NHS

0
LABOUR IS pledging a relentless focus on the NHS in its first 100 days in government as new research reveals hundreds of ‘extreme’ risks...

PA signs £80m Gaza reconstruction deal with UN

0
WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine...

‘A generalised attack on working people’ – RMT leader Lynch

0
THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...

DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!

0
TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...

‘Sanction Israeli Ministers For War Crimes!’

0
HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

Halt the Family Farm Tax!

0
‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across...

‘We will not leave the patients alone: We will live and die together’ –...

0
HUNDREDS of Israeli soldiers are continuing their raid in all sections of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with bulldozers destroying buildings in the southern section...

Sixth Day Of Strike Action Against £2,500 Pay Cuts Per Annum!

0
UNITE members at RATP London United yesterday held their sixth day of strike action against £2,500 per annum pay cuts being imposed by French...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

0
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

‘No Medals, Badges Or Claps Just Pay Nurses 12.5% Rise!’

0
‘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...

‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham

0
AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...

1,500 Lorries Still Stuck

0
ONE THOUSAND five hundred lorries are still stuck in Kent unable to leave the UK as Tory PM Johnson and French President Macron thrash...

Sixth Forms strike today across UK

0
TWENTY five Sixth Form Colleges take their second day of strike action today against savage cuts to pay, funding, courses and staff. The strikers, who...

Letters sent to 1922 Committee calling for Johnson to go – 54 needed for...

0
TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...

‘Israel wants to erase the Palestinian nation – now is the time to act’

0
‘THE question here today is not why we are sailing. The story is not at all about the mission we are about to embark....

Fury over US health firms takeover of GP practices Doctors in Unite protest tomorrow

0
A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...

DWP staff to get police powers! – to investigate the poorest people on Universal...

0
DWP STAFF are to get police powers, the Tory government announced yesterday to investigate the poorest people on Universal Credit. The DWP (Department for Work...

UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS INFLATION! – says World Bank President

0
THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World...

‘Unite the West Bank & Gaza’ demand masses of Palestine

0
THE Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr Khalil al-Hayya, arrived in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations on the mechanism for a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation...

Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!

0
THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

Clashes and gunfire! Thousands protest Sudan military coup

0
THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum yesterday, to demand the release of the political leaders amid reports of clashes and gunfire....

Speaker Vows To Block ‘No-Deal’!

0
THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons has said that he will not allow it to be closed down so that the UK can...

Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’

0
‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...

‘Cold War mentality’ – China slams UK, US & Australia’s new imperialist alliance

0
THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...

‘STOP PANICKING’ – Ukrainian President Zelensky tells United States

0
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...

Labour loses control of Oldham Council because of its support for the US-UK’s war...

0
THE Labour Party has lost control of Oldham Council after losing seats to Independents who support Palestine and are against the Israeli war on...

VACCINE TO BE TESTED ON OVER 80s

0
NO DECISION has been made on how people under 50 should be offered a Covid vaccine, UK officials said yesterday. The UK’s Joint Committee on...

‘FAIR PAY NOW! BRING US BACK IN HOUSE AT ONCE!’ – demand hundreds of...

0
‘FAIR pay now! Bring us back in-house!’ demanded hundreds of Heathrow Airport workers as they marched to the Compass Centre headquarters of Heathrow Airport Limited...

Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!

0
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...

RMT London Transport strike ballot

0
THE RMT ann-ounced yesterday that it is to ballot all of its London Transport members for strike action from Monday as TfL (Transport for...

TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE

0
CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...

‘A tragic milestone’ says Johnson as death toll passes 150,000!

0
PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning

0
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...

UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’

0
THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...

Labour Party leadership ‘will never be forgiven for cuts’ – says FBU leader Steve...

0
THE LABOUR Party leadership will ‘never be forgiven’ if it goes ahead with its benefit cuts plans next Tuesday, the Fire Brigades Union leader...

Unions condemn Israel – over designating Palestinian organisations as ‘terrorists’

0
TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...

Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught

0
Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...

‘IT IS OVER’ SAYS WALLACE – as UK leaves nationals behind in Kabul

0
‘IT IS OVER,’ Tory defence secretary Ben Wallace admitted yesterday over the UK’s Afghan debacle. He added: ‘It is with deep regret that not everyone...

Tories withdraw infection control fund today!

0
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

0
GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!

0
A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...

Bank Raised Rates To 3% Predicts 2-Year Slump & Double Unemployment

0
THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

Capitalism is crashing – Build revolutionary leadership! – News Line 55th Anniversary rally is...

0
‘CAPITALISM is crashing in Britain and all over the world,’ Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Frank Sweeney told the News Line 55th Anniversary...