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Great Campaign In Ealing & Hackney

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‘EALING Hospital workers and patients are fully backing us over our confrontation with Tory Health Secretary Hancock here on Monday when he refused to...

35,000 gather at Marble Arch – BLACK LIVES MATTER!

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35,000 WORKERS and youth rallied yesterday at Marble Arch, Speakers Corner, to insist that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and give their 100% support to the...

‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...

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ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...

Nurses Move To Strike Vote

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...

‘The Tories leave us no choice but to strike!’ – junior doctors action begins

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A FIFTH round of strike action by junior doctors in England begins this morning, from 7am today until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. There will...

‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall

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‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!

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THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...

Halt Israel’s genocidal Gaza displacement plan!

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HAMAS has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to seize full control of Gaza, calling it an extension of his ‘genocidal and displacement...

Israeli trade unions call a general strike!

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THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...

UK Agrees To Negotiate The Future Of The Chagos Islands

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THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since...

NHS winter crisis is ahead warns Dr Boyle

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SPEAKING ahead of the three-day strike of tens of thousands of NHS Junior Doctors which begins at 7am on Wednesday morning, the leader of...

Tories Planning To Break ‘Trade Union Stranglehold’

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THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...

Johnson-Sunak Are Criminals Say The Met Police!

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PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak are criminals according to the Police! Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be issued fines – officially known as fixed...

Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job

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PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...

Tories withdraw infection control fund today!

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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...

Anti-monarchy protesters arrested in police state UK

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‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...

Tories Escalate War On NHS!

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AS THE junior doctors ended their latest four-day strike at 7.00am yesterday morning, Tory Health Minister Will Quince kicked out at them and NHS...

‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened

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THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...

5 Days Of Strike Action By The Junior Doctors!

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JUNIOR doctors in England yesterday embarked on a five-day strike, marking the 11th walkout in their prolonged pay dispute. Members of the British Medical Association...

War on workers & youth – National Insurance 1.25% hike, UC cut £20...

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‘WE WILL FIX the long term problems of health and social care that have been so cruelly exposed by Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson said...

Halt the Family Farm Tax!

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‘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...

ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot

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RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...

Keep a guard on every train! – RMT leader Mick Cash tells News Line

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RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...

Renationalise Harland & Wolff!

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AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...

40,000 Railworkers Strike Today!

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BRITAIN is in shutdown again today as 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies strike in defence of jobs, pay, conditions,...

Huddersfield University UCU fighting large scale sackings

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday slammed the University of Huddersfield for large-scale redundancy proposals that could see staff lose their jobs by...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

Scottish court rules prorogation ‘unlawful’

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WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...

‘UK at forefront of support for Ukraine!’ – Truss launches new alliance between UK,...

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‘I AM HERE today to show the United Kingdom’s steadfast support for the Ukraine,’ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said yesterday at a joint press...

Barclays Sacking 1145!

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UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...

University of Maryland students denounce Gaza genocide & demonstrate for Palestine!

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STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!

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JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...

‘The Israeli killing machine must be brought to a halt!’

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HAMAS has outlined the group’s counterproposal to a draft truce deal worked on by Qatar, Egypt, Israel, and the US. ‘The proposal was received by...

Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa

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‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...

104 Palestinians killed as Israel attacks ‘food aid’ queue in Gaza!

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AT LEAST 104 Palestinians, gathered in anticipation of receiving food aid amidst a severe hunger crisis, were killed and another 760 injured in a...

43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!

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NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...

Hamas condemns Trump’s threats – urges proceed to a lasting truce

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HAMAS has condemned threats made by US President Donald Trump, warning that his remarks will embolden Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas...

Chronically ill thrown off benefits – because GPs ‘misled’ by DWP

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PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....

Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!

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DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...

3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!

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A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...

‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over

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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...

‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves

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UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...

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...

Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters block the street

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ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...