ACADEMIES EVERYWHERE UNDER LABOUR!– while teaching unions cover-up
ALL SCHOOLS will be academies under a Labour government, the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg said yesterday. Academies, which are privately-run but state-funded, operate...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
‘PROSECUTE BOSSES’–TUC – who pay apprentices less than the legal minimum
EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...
Gate Gourmet Deal ‘Worthless’
‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...
Free School–‘financial misconduct’
KINGS Science Academy in Bradford, one of the government’s flagship free schools, has been accused of serious financial mismanagement. An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report...
CABIN CREW STRIKES CONTINUE – more action over Easter
There were even more determined pickets at Heathrow Airport by striking cabin crew yesterday, in the last day of their current round of strike...
50,000 NHS Patients Being Left In Pain And Misery!
IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...
SHOT WITHOUT WARNING BY POLICE! – press rumours about Forest Gate raid ‘absolute nonsense’
ABDUL Kahar was shot without warning by police, not his brother, during last Friday’s 4am raid on his home in Forest Gate, east London,...
Johnson speaks as troops go in
‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...
Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close
WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...
Horrific Israeli massacre in Beit Lahia
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...
AS TALKS BREAK DOWN – Call out the airport say Gate Gourmet pickets
‘Talks have, indeed, broken down as a consequence of Gate Gourmet wanting to selectively re-employ those who had been sacked, even though there is...
‘WE WILL STRIKE WITH NURSES!’ say Manchester bus strikers
‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...
‘We have to stop Ealing Maternity closure!’
TRADE union members working at Ealing Hospital yesterday bought their tickets for next Tuesday’s meeting and pledged to march and occupy to defend the...
Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil
THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...
‘Don’t stand idly by!’ March on the 27th – Irish workers are urged
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is urging all workers and youth to take part in a national demonstration on November 27 in...
Workers support march to TUC!
ON THE first day of the Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool, as the marchers made their way through Harrow, on...
Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...
SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
JUNIOR DOCTORS QUIT TALKS – scrap the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS)!
Junior doctors have withdrawn from the government established review body set up to try to resolve the failures of the flawed and...
77 NHS TRUSTS FACE AXE! – GMB will oppose says Sharon Holder
Trade union leaders were meeting with health secretary Hewitt yesterday evening, on the day news emerged of a leaked ‘hit list’ of 77 NHS...
Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!
CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...
Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’
THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...
60,000 MARCH to commemorate 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising
AS a result of the huge austerity rocking the Greek economy, this year’s march to commemorate the Athens Polytechnic student uprising was the biggest...
PENSIONS STRIKES! – at 7 major UK airports in january
WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Southern guards remain rock solid
‘RMT guards on Southern Rail remain rock solid and absolutely determined in their action in defence of rail safety,’ General Secretary Mick Cash said...
CHASE FARM WILL NOT CLOSE! say residents and nurses
ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...
Winter A&E Crisis Now All Year Round
THE Royal College of Emergency Medicine yesterday welcomed the findings of the report into the pressures facing emergency departments throughout the winter. The report finds...
Night of Hell in Rafah! – All hospitals overwhelmed says WHO
The ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) have committed new massacres on what was described as ‘a night of hell’ in Rafah yesterday, killing at least...
A&E diverts cause death
A SCHEME to divert patients away from A&E resulted in a patient’s death, prompting NHS officials to launch a national review of the ‘front-door...
37,000 NHS Jobs Axe
Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...
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...
School Strike Solidarity
ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
Yashika Deportation Stopped!
THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
150 Unis ballot for strike action!
THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...
East London Bus Strike Solid
BUSWORKERS employed by East London Bus Group are continuing their 48-hour strike against a pay freeze and management onslaught on their terms and conditions...
Palestine march under threat! Police refuse to give go-ahead!
THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...
RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety
Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...
SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN – US Senate insists US military assistance illegal
THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution clearly stating that US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war against neighbouring...
RELEASE MIGUEL ROLDAN! –Spanish firefighter faces jail for rescuing refugees
UK FIREFIGHTERS protested outside the Italian embassy in London on Thursday in support of a Spanish firefighter facing prison for rescuing refugees....
Carers must be paid travel time, rules EU
IN A LANDMARK judgement the European Court of Justice has ruled that care workers in the UK must be paid for their travel...
The Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Boot The Tories Out!
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...
UNISON TO BALLOT – over 3-year NHS wage-cutting deal
DELEGATES at the UNISON Health Conference in Manchester yesterday voted to ballot over the government’s staged three-year pay deal. The UNISON leaders had previously accepted...
RBS TO SACK 2,000 –as economic crisis bites
Panic gripped investors in the world’s stock markets yesterday as bank shares were hit hard. Share prices on the London stock market slumped...