Tory Split Deepens!
THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m
The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...
Striking cabin crews to meet TUC leaders today!
STRIKING British Airways Mixed Fleet Cabin Crew are travelling up to the TUC headquarters in central London this morning to garner support...
Over 40 lecturers and staff picket Queen Mary’s University
A STRONG contingent of over forty lecturers and staff picketed both gates of Queen Mary’s (QM) University in east London on the second day...
270,000 Civil Servants Out
OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...
‘All bus workers must strike together’ – Renationalise now! – demands Harrow picket
THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...
Sacked workers win £964,537 – offered 40% wage cuts by Excelcare
More than 100 care staff have received £964,537, after Excelcare sacked them and offered them new contracts with a 40 per cent pay cut,...
Palestine ‘Day Of Rage’
FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...
Authorities Face Financial Collapse – Defend Jobs & Services!
‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...
RMT pledges to fight cuts in oil workers’ jobs
FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...
US workforce falls by 652,000
THE US was shocked and shaken yesterday after learning that the workforce shrank by 652,000 jobs in the month of June alone. Former US Labour...
NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!
A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...
Capitalism faces a ‘crisis of legitimacy’ says Corbyn
‘THE CAPITALIST system still faces a crisis of legitimacy stemming from the crash,’ Jeremy Corbyn told the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday. In...
Lecturers Fight Long Hours And Privatisation
The University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday that its members at the University of West England (UWE), Bristol, will be balloted for strike...
‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference
‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...
Food Prices To Double!
Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...
Balfour Beatty Withdraws Contracts
The Unite trade union, yesterday welcomed the withdrawal of controversial contracts by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), which would have resulted in the termination...
Teachers strike today – worst funding cuts since 1970s
‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...
Students driven out of university
AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...
Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton
DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...
Three-Day General Strike In Turkey
AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...
‘We Will Help Liberate Syrian Golan’ – Hezbollah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, said yesterday that Israel had raided the Syrian capital’s suburbs because it had a number of targets; one of...
GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals
Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...
Wages being slashed!
PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...
Hospital penalised for fast treatment
UNISON Eastern regional head of health Geoff Reason yesterday condemned Labour over £2.5m in penalties imposed on Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust for treating patients...
Begg Offer To Help Refused
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg offered to help the British government in securing the release of hostage Alan Henning from Islamic State (IS)...
Unions Win Round One Of ‘Night Tube War’
THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...
Barnet Libraries Not For Sale!
BARNET Unison, members of Unite Community and local supporters were out on strike all over the north London borough yesterday in defence of public...
Students fight injunction against Sussex occupation
OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...
Osborne offers permanent cuts, benefit caps and poverty!
TORY Chancellor Osborne’s class war Budget yesterday had at its centre a Welfare Spending Cap of £119.5bn for 2015-16. The limit on total welfare spending...
Greek bosses stop wages!
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
NSL car park workers–2-day strike
THE NSL parking services workers of the GMB trade union started a two-day strike yesterday for the London Living Wage. News Line joined them on...
6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!
MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions
SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...
NO MORE QUANTITATIVE EASING – Bank of E allowing UK economy to sink
DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...
Tuc Supports Tube Strike!
THE TUC has declared its support for Tube workers who are on strike today over the imposition of night working. Commenting on the strike on...
New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations
THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...
Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet
BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...
Families face debt crisis!
2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...
Hundreds Of ‘Failing’ Schools Face Closure
Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...
Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied
CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...
NHS ‘safe staffing’ suspended
THE ‘SAFE staffing levels’ for hospitals across the UK have been suspended, sending alarm bells ringing throughout the NHS. This has prompted the Royal College...
‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions
‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
PCS put on war footing!
FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...
STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!
‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...