MAY GOES TO GROUND! – Johnson & Gove are battling for her job
PM MAY was holed up in crisis talks with senior Tories including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at Chequers yesterday, with rumours that a...
Time To Get Rid Of Capitalism
MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the...
AFGHAN PANIC – calls for back-up will be met says Downing Street
DEFENCE Minister Watson was forced to make a statement in answer to an urgent question in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, after the...
Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!
TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...
80,000 civil servants strike today!
JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...
Stop The Hospital Closures!
LIBDEM Health Minister Burstow declared on Monday night that the coalition government was ‘right’ to announce the closure of Chase Farm Hospital ‘after years...
Ys Lobbies Tuc
THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...
‘Keep Ealing Maternity open or A&E will be next!’
‘WE ARE all very upset, my colleagues and I are being told to go and work elsewhere. We will support the meeting and the...
Goldsmith No To 42 Days
Amnesty International UK yesterday welcomed a further statement by Labour’s former Attorney General, Goldsmith, opposing plans to extend detention without charge to 42 days. Amnesty...
‘Rogue bus service’ commits ‘illegal safety breaches’ – Unite
THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...
Elderly & youth under attack!
ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...
COME CLEAN OVER ACADEMIES says GMB
The GMB trade union, which represents thousands of school support staff across the West Midlands, has written to all schools calling on head teachers...
GM BOSS SACKED! – restructuring to be speeded up
General Motors Board of Directors Chairman, Ed Whitacre, known for his asset stripping and merger programme at telecoms empire AT&T, has taken the helm...
Lecturers are angry
UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU warned yesterday that they will take any university management to court if they dock a full day’s pay from their...
Return of rogue landlords!
HAVOC is being wreaked on the lives of thousands of private tenants by rogue landlords, Shelter reported yesterday. New research found that over 125,000 private...
Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians
NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...
Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...
THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
Corbyn for second referendum!
THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...
Tens Of Thousands To March Against Fees!
TENS of thousands of students and youth are taking to the streets of London today to protest against £9,000 tuition fees and the savage...
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...
‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon
ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...
952,000 18-24’s OUT OF WORK
‘AFTER falling for two successive months, today’s rise in youth unemployment is disappointing,’ said TUC leader Brendan Barber. Paul Kenny GMB General Secretary commented:...
Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers Lobby Tuc
In London Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the TUC. Here they are discussing with MARY BOUSTED the leader of the ATL teaching union...
‘Don’t Treat US Like The Junior Doctors!’
NURSES and midwives will fight Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to fund a pay rise by smashing their employment conditions, their unions insisted...
‘WAR ON LOW PAY!’ – launched at Unite conference
‘WE are launching a war against low wages’ Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner announced yesterday on the second day of their annual conference. Unite...
‘Government is in chaos’ – says Corbyn
‘THE GOVERNMENT is in chaos,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s speech attempting to defend her Brexit capitulation...
$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump
Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...
BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...
UN condemns ‘deadly trap’!
Top UN and Palestinian health officials are warning that the new Israeli-controlled aid distribution system in Gaza is being used as a ‘deadly trap’,...
Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote unanimously
A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...
Palestinian prisoners – indefinite hunger strike
HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
‘NHS IN DANGER’ – Buckman rejects ‘Hunt rubbish’
THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...
‘Stop Israeli ethnic cleansing’ – demands Hamas
HAMAS has called on the international community to take immediate action to ‘stop the crime of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and massacres’ carried out...
Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite
THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...
McDonnell launches 3-day BA cabin crew strike!
A HUNDRED British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew, members of Unite, attended a rally at the Bedfont Sports centre at Heathrow yesterday morning to...
Series of 48 hour postal strikes
POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...
Greek Public Sector Strike Today
AT A STORMY packed meeting of some 300 delegates on Monday the Greek Public Workers Confederation ADEDY decided to call a national 24-hour strike...
Police illegally held Fairford demonstrators
Civil rights organisation Liberty welcomed yesterday’s Law Lords ruling in favour of anti-war protesters who police stopped from travelling to a protest at RAF...
Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!
DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...
Defend The NHS! Kick Tories Out!
THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...
Saudi’s Aim Is To Buy Nukes From Pakistan
SAUDI officials are trying to strike a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. The recent meeting between King...
MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES
The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...
Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights
Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...