SWINDON NHS STRIKE ACTION – Against Bullying and Harassment
150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western NHS Hospital in Swindon are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and...
Coalition Split Widening
THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...
‘Stop Wandsworth asset-stripping!’
THE GMB union is calling on the public in the south London borough of Wandsworth to support a campaign to stop the sale of...
No Low-Pay Zone In South West
The South West TUC has today launched a campaign to stop the West Country being declared a low-pay zone. Chancellor Osborne’s plan to end national...
Unilever Pensions Strike
UNILEVER workers are standing firm despite strong-arm tactics by the employer designed to destroy their resistance to plans to end their final salary pension...
It’s Still Pensions Robbery!
‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...
Angry Sparks Demand Official Action
ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...
Support Pours In For Chase Farm March
‘WE urge all trade unions to follow Unite’s example and back our March to defend Chase Farm, Hospital’ states Bill Rogers, Secretary of NE...
Ratings Agency Threatens Euro
THE Standard and Poor’s ratings agency has threatened to bankrupt the major eurozone states by shredding their triple A status. This would make it impossible...
‘keep The Privateers Out Of The NHS’
‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...
Assange High Court Victory
Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks, won a victory at the High Court yesterday with its ruling that he has the right to appeal to...
‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’
Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...
One Million Strike In Greece
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...
Five surgeons resign over £20bn NHS cuts!
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...
KING CRISIS WARNING –prepare for Eurozone break-up
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King yesterday urged banks to brace themselves for a eurozone collapse. Introducing the latest financial stability report, King said: ‘Faced...
Millions strike against Coalition
huge marches and demonstrations were held in towns and cities all over the UK yesterday. More than two million nurses, other health workers, teachers,...
Big Support For Chase Farm Occupation
THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...
Osborne’s class war on workers and poor
Chancellor Osborne’s message to the working class in his Autumn Statement was that the crisis is worsening fast, and you will have...
Teachers Rebut Gove’s Attack
TRADE UNION leaders representing millions of the public sector workers striking in defence of their pensions tomorrow angrily rebutted Education Secretary Michael Gove’s attacks...
‘Forward to workers power’
OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...
Greek Workers To Stand Trial
The Athens State Prosecutor ordered that 13 trade unionists, a pensioner and an unemployed worker who were arrested by riot police last Thursday morning...
Doctors To Ballot For Pensions Action
Doctors and medical students will be asked to vote on changes to their pensions at the conclusion of negotiations with the government, the British...
BMA opposes Health Bill!
The British Medical Association (BMA) Council on Thursday decided to oppose the whole Health and Social Care Bill, the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA Council...
STRIKE GOING AHEAD – says Prentis
‘The strike will go ahead,’ said Unison general secretary Dave Prentis yesterday as more unions announced their members will be joining the November 30...
Armed Greek Riot Police End Occupation
At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...
Libyan militias hold and torture 7,000 – says UN report
Some 7,000 people are being held and tortured in inhuman conditions in Libya, in detention centres controlled by militias, according to a leaked new...
UN condemns Egyptian military
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has called for an independent investigation into violence in Egypt and said she deplored the killing of protesters...
Privatised Elderly Care Stinks
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report on home care yesterday revealed shocking examples of how basic care for the elderly in their own...
Rights At Work Under Attack!
THE TRADE UNIONS condemned huge attacks on workers’ rights announced by LibDem Business Secretary Cable yesterday. Declaring he intended to make the process of getting...
Gp Commissioning Fraud Is Exposed!
GP commissioning will not in fact be GP commissioning. This was brought home in a Channel Four news item on Monday night which publicised GPs’...
‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator
THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...
Tahrir Square Uprising
Tens of thousands of protesters flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, demanding the immediate removal of the Egyptian military regime. As the square filled up...
Assault On Sick
The government is planning a new savage assault on the sick and disabled. A government-commissioned review by Professor Carol Black and former head of the...
‘Stop NHS Mass Sackings!’
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that the NHS is heading for crisis point with 56,058 NHS positions across the UK due to...
CONFIDENCE IS EVAPORATING! – say the CBI bosses
THE UK economy is ‘in a bad place, with confidence evaporating’, the head of the UK’s biggest employers’ organisation has warned. John Cridland, director general...
Police Attack Athens Poly March
TENS of thousands of students, youth and workers demonstrated last Thursday in Athens, and in all Greek cities and towns, on the 38th Anniversary...
Obama Threatens China!
US President Obama has angered China over his plans to expand the American military presence in Australia. In an address to the Australian Parliament yesterday...
Forced Labour Challenged!
Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) have begun a legal action challenging the coalition government’s ‘Mandatory Work Scheme’ which it argues amounts to unlawful forced labour....
‘THROW COALITION OUT!’ – YS leader says angry workers will rise up
JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...
Pressure Mounts On May To Resign
Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...
‘CHILLING AND UNBELIEVABLE’– News International tailed entire Culture Committee – allegation
all members of the House of Commons Culture Committee were tailed by journalists or private investigators employed by the News of the World, it...
‘Southern Cross-Style Threat’ To NHS
Circle Health, the privateer which was handed control of Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Cambridgeshire last week, has admitted that patient care could suffer...
WITHDRAW CHASE FARM CLOSURE – Enfield Council legal challenge
Enfield Council has condemned health secretary Andrew Lansley’s authorisation of the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments. It has also declared...
Don’t Privatise Hinchingbrooke!
Public sector union Unison yesterday warned that Circle Healthcare’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgshire could lead to a second Southern Cross crisis. Unison head...
Police Attack Sparks –As 10,000 Students March
Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists marched through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and privatisation. The protest was organised...