‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson
‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...
No Forced Labour For Disabled!
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to make disabled people work for no pay for charities, corporations and other firms, said Disabled...
‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’
DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
PNA police attack Hamas
‘The Palestinian Authority should seek to protect the Palestinian people, not the Israeli settlements,’ Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said yesterday, as gunbattles continued...
EVICTIONS PROCEED – for those with pre-pandemic arrears
DESPITE the Tories’ assurances that no one will be evicted during the pandemic, any renters who have built up arrears before the pandemic face...
Unite Claims Rolls Royce Jobs Victory!
THE long-running campaign to secure the future of the historic Rolls-Royce factory of Barnoldswick in Lancashire has finally ended. Following a ballot the workers at...
Emi – 2,000 Jobs To Go
EMI is to announce tomorrow that 2,000 jobs are to go as part of a major restructuring plan. Jobs will go throughout the company,...
NO ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS AT McDonald’s
RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...
BRITISH STEEL SEEKING £100m LOAN
BRITISH Steel is seeking a £100m loan from the government in order to meet an EU emission rules attack. Previously, the company could have used...
Occupy North Mid Hospital to stop closure
FOUR-HOUR waits in A&E at north Middlesex Hospital have increased by 380% while at the Royal Free Hospital in London, four-hour waits in A&E...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
96-hour walkout by the junior doctors!
THE BMA yesterday announced dates for a new 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England after the government’s failure to make any credible offer...
Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally
ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...
US refused to prosecute HSBC money launderers
US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...
‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244
A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...
‘THE TIME HAS COME FOR OVERTHROW’ – say Greek workers
THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou was set to be defeated in a confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Friday...
Barnsley Nurses Strike!
Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...
Overwhelming Strike Vote
Tanker drivers delivering fuel to petrol pumps across the UK have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over safety and growing instability...
Sanders campaign rally
AT HIS first rally for the US 2020 presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders promised to defeat Donald Trump, calling him ‘the most dangerous president...
Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
House prices up by 40% –100,000 eviction notices issued
HOUSE prices in much of London as well as the UK’s southeast have increased by more than 40 per cent, instilling fears of...
‘NO MORE RACIST STOP AND SEARCH’ – says Liberty
Rights group Liberty has warned the government against draft police guidance that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search operations...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...
Teacher Shortage Crisis Worsens!
THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...
‘GREEN LIGHT TO TORTURE’ – Amnesty condemns Algerian’s deportation
Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...
CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich
TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
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...
UK lawyers for Israel demand to shut down Palestinian camp
UK Lawyers for Israel have written to Wandsworth Labour council’s interim chief executive to demand the closure of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal)...
‘SYSTEM RIGGED FOR RICH!’ – says Labour leader Corbyn
‘WE HAVE four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better,’ Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...
Woodley Refuses Gate Gourmet Workers Hardship Payments
‘WOODLEY said “You can stand outside the T&G office for as many years as you want to, it’s not going to change anything’’,’ Gate...
Egypt – Another Million-Strong Protest
Anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo yesterday have called for another ‘million strong protest’ in Tahrir Square today. This call was made as the Egyptian government and...
Tigers Not Using Tamils As Shields
‘PRAMESH gets weaker every day but his spirits are high,’ 18-year-old student Janani Paramsothy, told News Line yesterday on the 24-hour picket on the...
Gadaffi ‘Alive And Well’
Fierce fighting continued in the Libya capital yesterday as government forces remained in control of large areas of Tripoli, holding off SAS-led mercenaries and...
THREAT TO STRIKE GAZA! –made by Israeli Premier Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned yesterday that Israel will strike ‘aggressively’ at Gaza in reaction to any fire from the territory. He said at...
Barber supports low pay! – Congress shaken by his ‘reservations’
BRENDAN Barber yesterday shook the TUC to its foundations when he told Congress that this was not the time to raise the minimum wage...
No more talks until 620 prisoners released!
IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...
Israel intensifies its military presence around Rafah–fears of full-scale bloody intervention
ISRAEL HAS intensified its military presence around Rafah, deploying additional troops and destroying agricultural land in the district’s eastern areas. This escalation comes amid heightened...
CRISIS AT THE BANK – Division over quantitative easing
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was divided over its ‘quantitative easing’ policy of printing money this month. The Minutes of the last...
Putin Stabs Libya In The Back Again
RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...
NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham
The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...
Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!
‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...
2,018 babies taken into care
A HUGE rise has taken place in the number of babies taken by social services from ‘Troubled Families’. Figures compiled by the University of Lancaster...
Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught
Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...