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Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians

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ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....

Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway

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THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...

NHS Backlog Plans Delayed

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A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...

Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...

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THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...

Met chief Dick warns 43,000 officers over rot throughout force

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THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...

All tube lines out on March 1st and 3rd!

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TRANSPORT union RMT announced strike action yesterday on all lines of the London Underground (LU). The announcement comes in the wake of a recent ballot...

Mass Whipp’s Cross Strike Rally

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A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...

Energy Bills Are To Rise By 54%!

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THE AVERAGE household’s energy bill will rise by £693 annually after a 54% increase to the price cap announced yesterday which will undoubtedly plunge...

Construction workers submit 10% pay claim

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TRADE UNIONS led by Unite, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in...

Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Crime!

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ISRAEL is carrying out ‘the crime of apartheid against Palestinians’ and must be held accountable for treating them as ‘an inferior racial group’, Amnesty...

PM Johnson refuses to resign despite damning Gray report!

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TORY PRIME Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign yesterday despite calls to do so from MPs of all parties across the House of Commons,...

Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins

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MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...

£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak

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THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation

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MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...

Met Police take charge of regime change op!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

Tories step up war on the unemployed – new callous sanctions regime

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JOHNSON’S Tory government have stepped up their war on the unemployed ratcheting up the sanctions regime, which leaves some of the most vulnerable people...

Johnson Treats Labour With Contempt

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‘THE MINISTERIAL Code says that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer said during PMQs...

Starmer & Tory PM Johnson arm-in-arm against Russia!

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‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...

The Met to investigate Downing Street parties

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THE METROPOLITAN police are investigating allegations surrounding parties at Downing Street and in Whitehall, M-et Chief Cressida Dick said yesterday, with the Sue Gray...

‘We won today in Court’ says Moris after Assange is granted Supreme Court appeal...

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‘MAKE no mistake we won today in court,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee said to cheers outside the Royal Courts of Justice...

SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation

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HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...

Banker is new chairman of NHS England

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BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...

Russia Is Accused Of Setting Up A Provisional Ukrainian Government

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US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva yesterday. ‘This is a critical moment,’ Blinken said...

Grenfell fury over new ‘fire risk’ skyscraper! – 40% of cladded buildings still unsafe

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THE GRENFELL community spoke out in furious anger yesterday that a building almost two and a half times taller then the Grenfell Tower is...

PM JOHNSON DUMPS PLAN B! – in a desperate attempt to remain PM

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AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...

Food Costs & Energy Bills Soaring!

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FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...

Sheikh Jarrah resident is threatening to blow up his home rather than leave it!

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ON MONDAY a Palestinian man carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in occupied Jerusalem as his family faced eviction. The Sheikh...

‘Hospitals don’t have the capacity to cope’ says BMA

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HOSPITALS ‘do not have the capacity to cope’ said the British Medical Association (BMA) in response to Emergency Medicine Journal findings about longer waits...

Johnson puts Navy in charge of repelling refugee dinghies

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THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...

700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty

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THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...

Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!

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WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...

Thousands of Nurses protest across USA! – against staff shortages in hospitals

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AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...

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

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

PM HELD ILLEGAL DRINKS PARTY – while millions were under lockdown

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PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...

JOHNSON STAYS AWAY FROM COMMONS – no Labour Party call for his resignation

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LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...

Energy bills will rise by 50% average family to pay £2,000 – Pensioners risk...

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BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...

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

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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...

Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place

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POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...

40,000 NHS Staff Off Work Sick – In A Single Day

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YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...

PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike

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BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...

‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley

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‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...

NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts

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THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...

Palestinian PM Shtayyeh calls for international action now! – Hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawwash...

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PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in...

COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...

World Revolution In 2022!

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New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...