Huddersfield University UCU fighting large scale sackings
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...
‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff
THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...
Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...
Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
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...
NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards
CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...
The Great Care Home Massacre!
A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
Doctor forces Tories to publish Cygnus in full!
A SIX-MONTH campaign led by an NHS doctor to have the full report into a pandemic preparation exercise published has successfully forced the Health...
Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!
SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...
Hamas slams Trump’s racist vision for Gaza
Hamas yesterday expressed total rejection of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza relocation plans which ‘represent a continuation of the settlement plans aimed at liquidating...
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...
TORIES BREAKING APART! – Gove suspected of an anti-Johnson plot
SENIOR Tories sought to deny that the Tory government is breaking apart yesterday, with former Brexit Secretary David Davis congratulating PM Boris Johnson for...
Court case against Johnson dismissed!
YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...
Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!
DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...
‘We’re here to stop the genocide!’ say UCL occupiers
AROUND 50 students have occupied the entrance on the forecourt of University College London (UCL) since last Friday in protest at Israeli genocide in...
Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square
OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...
‘Charge police with murder’ say family of George Floyd
MASS uprisings have broken out in Minneapolis as hectic protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd escalated into violent...
Infectious diseases soaring in Gaza – rebuilding water & sanitation vital says Oxfam
OXFAM has reported an outbreak of waterborne and infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip amid the lack of safe water and untreated sewage overflowing...
Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!
PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...
General Strike in Palestine!
A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...
Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks
A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
Minister seeking to ban NEU teachers strike!
TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...
‘Daily massacres part of Israel’s systematic policy of genocide!’
sraeli aerial attacks hammered Gaza from north to south yesterday, killing at least 46 people by midday, with a strike on a school in...
Free the hunger strikers now! – Lammy surgery protest demands
A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...
‘WE HAVE GOT A REAL FIGHT FOR THE MEMBERS’ JOBS!’ says CWU leader Dave...
‘It’s an astonishing level of support you are giving to the union, you care about the service you are giving to the public, you...
Starmer Launches War On Benefits And Youth!
THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...
‘EU let thousands drown in Med’ – Lawyers submission to International Criminal Court
THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...
Corbyn moves against Brexit! – towards government of national unity
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill asking him to rule out a no-deal Brexit on October 31, reneging on...
‘TORIES WANT TO SUPPRESS THE UNIONS!’ says RMT leader Mick Lynch
‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...
General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
Israel Assassinates a Hezbollah Commander
LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...
Myanmar Embassy in London – SEIZED BY MILITARY JUNTA
THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...
Jenin refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’
‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...
Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters
HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...
Hamas condemns Trump’s threats – urges proceed to a lasting truce
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...
Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay
Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
Gaza – Red Cross insists that the lives of hospital workers must not be...
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
Israeli military continues its massacres in the region!
THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region,...
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! – demands Palestinian Ambassador to UN
PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...
UN condemns Israel’s man-made famine as a ‘war crime’
THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s...
The Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Boot The Tories Out!
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...
UK will recognise Palestinian State!
THE UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced in London while...
IRAN ISSUES TRUMP ARREST WARRANT! – over Soleimani assassination
IRAN’S judiciary says it has formed a committee to chase and track down those accused of complicity in the US assassination of Iranian anti-terror...