Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB
‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...
5% pay rise and £1,000 bonus offer to NHS – will not be recommended...
A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...
Israeli forces continue bombardment of Gaza
ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end...
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...
Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says Gove
COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...
Call general strike to stop arms to Israel!
OVER 50,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon demanding ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ With the Israeli...
‘We will never back down!’ – Iran warns US and Israel
‘The criminal US must know that in addition to punishing its illegitimate and aggressive offspring (Israel), the hands of Islam’s fighters within the armed...
LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion
HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...
‘MY BLOOD WAS BOILING!’ says RCN leader after Army mobilised against strikes
‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...
‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers
‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU
IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...
SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation
HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...
Over 800 doctors urge Justice Secretary Lammy to save hunger strikers!
OVER 800 doctors, legal experts, and family members have signed an open letter urging Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet to save the pro-Palestine...
FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs
HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...
Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment
THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
Israel assassinates Hamas leader Al-Arouri in Beirut
Hamas has confirmed that Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of its political bureau, was killed in a blast in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood of the...
Ealing Children’s Ward Must Be Re-Opened Urges Xmas Picket
THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...
Quit the EU! Forward to a workers government! – WRP MAY DAY MANIFESTO
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world. We send our revolutionary greetings...
Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
Lu Strikers Standing Firm
TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...
‘Revoke Israel’s mass displacement order for Gaza City’ – demands Amnesty
AMNESTY International has demanded that Israel immediately revoke its mass displacement order for residents of Gaza City, issued on 9th September, denouncing it as...
Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!
UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...
100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Gaza Attacks
At least 100 Palestinians, including 34 aid seekers, were killed and 534 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza yesterday, according to the enclave’s Health...
‘Hormuz unbearable for the US’ – ‘Marines will end up in an abattoir’
IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is becoming ‘unbearable’ for the United States, while...
Trump wants to withdraw United States from NATO
DONALD Trump said on Wednesday he is ‘absolutely without question’ considering withdrawing the United States from NATO, his most explicit threat yet against the...
Police take action against Oxford students occupation
SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Corona crisis tips capitalism over the edge! Forward with the...
Statement by the News LIne Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of...
Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses
BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
Javid’s plan is to privatise the NHS
SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...
Truss Quits – TUC Must Call A General Strike To Kick Out The Tories!
PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she...
‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...
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),...
Israeli forces continue lethal Gaza operation
ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...
Severe malnutrition in Gaza
THE UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has accused Israel of obstructing the entry of essential supplies needed to save the lives of children suffering from...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
GENERAL STRIKE SWEEPS ISRAEL – then Labour Court rules it illegal
YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...
Israel Targets Families Trying To Leave Rafah
A YOUNG girl was shot in the face as her family attempted to return to north Gaza on Sunday, footage posted on social media...
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...
Pm Starmer Meets With Zelensky In Downing St
PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for...
‘US aggression will not force open the Strait of Hormuz’
IRAN’s Army spokesman has warned the United States that no measure of American aggression will force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, following Tehran’s...
The NHS requires an extra £38bn annually!
THE NHS requires an additional £38bn annually by the end of the next parliament to address the care backlog and reduce prolonged treatment delays,...
Chinese fury over Tory plan to kick Huawei out of UK!
‘WHETHER the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies is a litmus test for British markets after Brexit,...
Met Students Confined To Rooms By Security Guards!
STUDENTS at Manchester Metropolitan University are confined to their rooms, with security officers keeping them inside. In a statement, Manchester Met said: ‘Our security teams...
A ‘BEYOND SUBSTANTIAL’ PAY RISE FOR NHS IN 2021-22! – demand health trade unions
THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...
Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10
A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...