‘Our policy for the TUC is to call a general strike’ says RMT’s Lynch
‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...
Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...
‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...
Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties
HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...
14 Palestinians starve to death!
FOURTEEN more Palestinians, including two children, died from starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the 24 hours to yesterday, reports the Palestinian Ministry of...
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...
Senior Hamas delegation in Turkey to discuss ceasefire
A senior Hamas delegation led by Dr Khalil al-Hayya met on Wednesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Istanbul to discuss ceasefire developments...
‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...
RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...
Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh
THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...
Bring LT cleaners back in-house
AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...
160,000 CWU members take action & government collapses – A great day!
SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...
‘What gives Israel rights to annex these lands?’ – Abbas addresses UNSC
‘WHAT GIVES you the right to annex these lands?’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded, referring to Israel’s plan to seize even more of Palestine...
TORIES WANT MASSIVE CUTS – GENERAL STRIKE NOW! – urge Euston RMT pickets
‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...
‘No’ to Labour’s ‘two-tier welfare!’
Starmer has announced hurried alterations to the Labour welfare bill after more than 120 Labour MPs signalled their intention to vote against it, threatening...
Starmer declares – ‘This is not our war!’
‘IT IS now clear that the impact of this war will affect the future of our country... I do have to level with people....
RCN raises the alarm!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...
‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK Parliament
‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...
Defend All BA Jobs! No Pay Cuts! Call A National Strike!
OVER 600 British Airways workers demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday. 42,000 were sacked that day by BA management and will only be re-employed if they...
Gaza residents shocked by massive price rises!
GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first...
Hunt Reveals A Bankrupt Britain
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...
Starmer Volunteers To Work In The National Interest!
LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...
Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike
BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...
‘A Victory for the Palestinian People!’ – UK recognises State of Palestine
UK PRIME Minister Keir Starmer declared in Downing Street yesterday afternoon: ‘I state clearly as Prime Minister of this great country that the United...
GREEK RIOT POLICE ATTACK PROTEST! – thousands march against Police State Bill
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike’ – RMT Pickets Tell News Line
RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...
Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins
THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...
Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing
FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...
University pension strike looms after cuts
UNIVERSITY lecturers are gearing up for strike action against cuts to their pensions. Universities UK’s (UUK) announced yesterday that cuts to the pensions of university...
Ni Rise – Experienced Nurses Are £935 A Year Worse Off
THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to...
10 days of university workers strikes begin
STRIKING UCU union university lecturers and students set up picket lines at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) yesterday morning at the...
RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation
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...
Tory war on teachers and their unions
THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...
Court of Appeal finds for Bell Hotel asylum seekers!
THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...
Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...
Labour Party leadership ‘will never be forgiven for cuts’ – says FBU leader Steve...
THE LABOUR Party leadership will ‘never be forgiven’ if it goes ahead with its benefit cuts plans next Tuesday, the Fire Brigades Union leader...
The TUC calls to tax the rich – refuses to call General Strike
On the eve of its Congress, the TUC has called on the government to equalise capital gains tax with income tax which could raise...
Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...
TORIES CONDEMN NHS WORKERS PAY CLAIMS – ‘unreasonable’ says Cabinet Secretary Dowden
THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...
CONSULTANTS 2 DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION! – and further action to follow
CONSULTANTS in England are holding two more days of strike action today and tomorrow, demonstrating their commitment to fix consultants’ pay in order to...
NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...
UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...
‘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...
Capitalism in its greatest ever crisis – Forward to British & World Revolution
MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARDNews Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers, youth and masses of the world who...
Netanyahu Bans Al Jazeera
IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...
Israeli warplanes hit Khan Younis & Rafah in Gaza Strip
THE Palestinian rescue and civil defence teams yesterday removed 12 bodies of Palestinians that were buried under the rubble of two homes destroyed by...
Johnson refuses to rule out raising taxation!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson yesterday refused to rebut his Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s warning in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper that ‘very real shortages’ can be...
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...