Chase Farm – closure plan ‘to turn two thirds away’
THE Judicial Review Hearing into the decision to close the Accident and Emergency Department at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield continued in the...
EXPLOSIVE BULLETS IN GAZA! supported by Israel’s Supreme Court
THE Israeli Supreme Court rejected on Thursday night two petitions and fully adopted the Israeli military’s position, giving a green light to its continued...
Grenfell fire ‘could have been put out with an extinguisher’ – Outrageous claim by...
CLADDING which burst into flames up the side of Grenfell Tower ‘could have been put out with a simple extinguisher’, cladding company Arconic has...
MERKEL DEMANDS POLITICAL UNION! –as the price for Spanish bailout
THE Bank of England yesterday left UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE-printing money)...
‘WE WANT GENERAL ELECTION NOT A SECOND REFERENDUM’ – TUC delegates tell YS lobby
TUC DELEGATES on the opening day of their Congress in Manchester yesterday, were lobbied by a large delegation of WRP and YS members...
Boris Bikes Strike
FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...
Cabin Crew Strike Over Poverty Pay!
THOUSANDS of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Seventy-nine...
‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters
THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...
US terror raid on Libya!
US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...
CATALAN ‘REBELLION’ CHARGE! – as Puigdemont visits Brussels seeking support
SPAIN’s chief prosecutor has brought back the Franco dictatorship by calling for charges including rebellion to be laid against Catalan leaders following the...
Tories send refugee children into the hands of smugglers
‘LET me be clear, the decision to cancel the Dubs scheme after admitting only 350 lone refugee children shames Britain. It must not...
£11bn of council cuts!
COUNCILS in England have been forced to cut almost £11 billion from their budgets in the first two years of the Tory coalition government,...
STOP NHS SPENDING CUTS – says BMA Council member Anna Athow
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...
Sports Direct workers victory!
SPORTS Direct has been forced to pay out £1 million after admitting it was not paying its workers the minimum wage, it was announced...
‘INTO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY WITH THE PFI’ says GP’s chairman Buckman
THE BMA’s GP Chairman Dr Laurence Buckman yesterday outlined, at the GPs conference, areas of the NHS which should be cut or reviewed. With NHS...
REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution
OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...
We shall never tolerate such crimes–Putin
‘WE will never tolerate such crimes,’ Russian President Putin declared yesterday, after Turkish fighter planes shot down a Russian Su-24 on the Syrian border. Putin...
9 shot dead In Nakba intifada
Nine people were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli forces during protests demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as tens of thousands...
Fresh Tory council cuts – Vital services axed
THE NEW financial year has kicked in, and with every council budget being cut to the bone the future of leisure centres, council run...
All Out With Junior Doctors
‘WE NEED other unions who are being attacked by this government to take action,’ BMA junior doctors committee member Aislinn Macklin-Doherty told News...
Volunteers To Replace The Welfare State!
Public sector unions yesterday slammed prime minister Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ plans as a threat to public services and the welfare state. Commenting on Cameron’s speech...
Greek Workers Want An Indefinite General Strike
WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...
Iran warns US-UK over Syria
THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...
‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis
GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...
Firefighters To Strike Again Over Pensions
FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced on...
3 YEARS WITHOUT BENEFIT –Labour supports coalition threat to unemployed
Unemployed workers face being refused benefits for up to three years if they don’t take up job offers, or ‘community placements’ under a new...
UK accused of drone war crimes
THE UK could well be ‘complicit’ in US War Crimes committed using drones, and could face prosecution, a new report released yesterday after...
NORTH KEN FIRE HORROR!– FBU – ‘It should not be possible for a fire...
EYEWITNESSES, local people and neighbours of the residents of Grenfell Tower who perished in the fire yesterday morning, reported that ‘within five minutes it...
Community hospitals are shut – patients sent to private care homes
THE meeting of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (Health East) last Friday was met by angry protesters organised by Lowestoft Against...
GPs pensions action!
DOCTORS have made an overwhelming call to their leaders to reject the government’s proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme and shown a willingness...
Monitor wants NHS ‘production line’ to cut costs!
THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...
Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike
‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...
Reverse NHS funding cuts! – RCN responds to new health report
‘YEARS of squeezing more and more out of an overstretched workforce has left the NHS in a perilous position,’ the Royal College of Nursing...
Ert Fight At Critical Stage
THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...
Southern drivers 9-day strike
SOUTHERN train drivers in the ASLEF union are bringing the network to grinding halt over the Xmas period with nine days of strike action. The...
54,000 youth DNA tested!
POLICE take a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes in England and Wales, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform...
Celebrate the News Line and build the WRP to bring in Socialism! – 50th...
JONTY LEFF News Line editor told the News Line 50th Anniversary Rally, ‘TODAY we celebrate 50 years of the News Line, the only daily...
ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements
ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...
CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA
CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...
MI5 chief urges war on liberty! – ‘blank cheque for unlimited surveillance’
FOR the first time ever, the serving director of MI5, Andrew Parker, yesterday gave a live BBC interview in a bid to push MPs...
Israel Slaughters Gaza Women And Children!
A PALESTINIAN mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A barrage of...
‘I will never give up my home’
200 RESIDENTS and their supporters took part in an all-day picket and protest at West Hendon housing estate in north west London yesterday, where...
‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’
HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...
BUDGET DAY STRIKE! – by 270,000 PCS civil servants!
THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...