NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
DARLING KNEW! – that 10p measure would hurt low paid
Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...
‘Disgusting plans’ to close Remploy factories
The GMB and Unite, the unions for Remploy workers, held a demonstration in Norwich town centre on Saturday against the government’s plan to shut...
NHS New Year’s Strike!
AMBULANCE workers are to strike for 48 hours on January 29th 2015, across the whole of England and northern Ireland as their pay dispute...
23 years since Ladbroke Grove disaster
TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...
US NOT OUT OF WOODS YET –warns Fed Reserve boss Bernanke
America’s central banker, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, has warned that the US economy is ‘not out of the woods yet’. In a speech delivered...
A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor
THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
Mail Centres Take Strike Action Today
Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...
NHS STRIKE IN IRELAND! –while fury in England over NHS sell-out
AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...
No Deal In Jeddah!
The oil summit in Jeddah ended in disarray yesterday with OPEC president, Algeria’s Chakib Khelil, blaming speculators for the high oil price. Leading oil producer,...
Sixth Form Colleges Fighting Pay Freeze!
LECTURERS, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers in Unison and the UCU union walked out on strike in Sixth Form Colleges around the country yesterday,...
Greece under Franco- German occupation!
THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...
CAMERON RECALLS PARLIAMENT – 16,000 police on London’s streets
Parliament is being recalled again tomorrow, to debate the youth uprising that is sweeping Britain. After he had chaired a Cabinet Office meeting of the...
Rice-Brown War Talks
Prime Minister Brown had war talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Downing Street yesterday afternoon. The pair discussed tensions within NATO over...
PCS delegates demand national action
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) voted unanimously yesterday to pursue its ‘ongoing trade dispute’ with the government, including taking ‘industrial action’. Moving the...
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...
2007 – The Year For Revolution!
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...
Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action
JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
‘THEY WANT US ALL TO BE GIG ECONOMY WORKERS!’ – 70,000 UCU members strike
OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...
‘The Bedroom Tax Is Causing Real Chaos!’
‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...
London Metropolitan University Occupied
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday called for a public enquiry into the failings of London Metropolitan University (LMU) as students from the...
4.5m ON WAITING LISTS – privatisation creates housing disaster
THE privatisation of housing has been a complete disaster. Completely inadequate numbers of new homes have been built in every region in England since...
SALE OF JOBS AND CONDITIONS – CWU signs deal with Royal Mail
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders have signed a pay for jobs and ‘efficiency’ deal with Royal Mail. They are attempting to sell it to members...
POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law
The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
Israeli Jets Strike Gaza
ISRAELI war planes pounded Hamas positions in Gaza yesterday with a series of air strikes. They said they were responding to the launch of 28...
Bradford Tower Block Evacuated!
A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...
UN ratchets up war against Russia – accusing Russia of ‘war crimes’
‘RUSSIA is outraged that its request for an extraordinary meeting has been denied,’ Vasily Nebenzya the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the...
‘This Battle Is To Be Fought To A Finish!’
THERE were three really lively picket lines of striking British Airways cabin crew around Heathrow Airport yesterday, with music, flags, horns and whistles, responding...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
US unions split – as class struggle erupts in USA
The leaders of five of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO – the Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers’, and SEIU – held a ‘Change to...
Israel Planning Iran April Strike
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a ‘strong likelihood’ that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said...
Darzai Private Nursing Plans
The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...
Foreign Secretary Lammy – ‘UK warplanes could strike Iran!’
FOREIGN Secretary David Lammy has said British warplanes could strike Iranian missile bases as the United States and Israel continue their assault on Iran. Lammy...
‘THEY ARE WORKING TO PRIVATISE THE NHS!’ – Unite’s Graham condemns Tories
‘GENUINELY I believe that they are looking that this is the moment that they can privatise the NHS,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said...
BofE & speculators drive £ down
STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...
Privatisation Threat To Midwives Jobs
Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...
Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours
Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...
Ni NHS In Crisis!
THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...
UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings
ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
Syriza Ready To Accept 70% Of Austerity Programme
THE Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Monday evening ended without agreement between the EU and Greece, after the Greek Finance Minister...
17 SURGERIES UNDER THREAT! – in Hackney and Tower Hamlets
SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...
McDonnell wants to avoiD split ‘at all costs’
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell is ‘worried and saddened’ by the prospect of a Labour Party split and has appealed to MPs considering leaving the...
Stoke Postal Workers Won’t Cross Picket Lines
Stoke-on-Trent Mail Centre delivery staff walked out on unofficial strike for the third time yesterday after being ordered by management to cross their processing...
PFI DAMAGES THE NHS – Private investors are draining away NHS funds say BMA
Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...


















