The ‘Elite’ Russell Group Is Super-Exploiting Lecturers
THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...
EU bankers plunder Greece!
USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...
PM ‘SQUATTING IN DOWNING STREET’ says Labour’s Emily Thornbury
INTERVIEWED on BBC TV’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning, Labour leader Corbyn said of the Tories: ‘They are trying to form a government at...
Sirte Drives Back Nato Mercenaries
LIBYAN government forces yesterday continued to heroically drive back the NATO- backed NTC counter-revolutionaries at Sirte, inflicting deadly blows on the mercenaries. Gadaffi loyalists have...
Athens Cleaners Defiant!
SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action
RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...
Nurses Marching Today
A SURVEY of over 17,000 nursing staff has raised concerns that government plans to scrap student nurse bursaries will lead to even greater staff...
Savage attack on disabled planned!
THE PCS union, which represents JobCentre workers, yesterday denounced as ‘appalling’ planned savage cuts to social security for sick and disabled people. It was commenting...
Easyjet Pilots Will Fight For Every Job – Balpa
MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...
Workers still paying for 2008 crash says GMB
‘SINCE the great crash of 2007/8 the twin features of inflation of 27% and little or no pay rises have taken a heavy toll...
Corbyn pledges–no anti-union laws–no zero hours contracts!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for right wing Labour MPs to ‘think again’ after reports that some are planning a ‘semi-split’ breakup of...
TORY PROTEST BAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE!’ – London marchers clash with police
At least 36 people were arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ after a march of thousands of protesters through central London came under attack by...
PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p
An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...
Greece A Colony Of The Ec-Imf Lenders!
GREEK civil servants employed at Inland Revenue offices picketed a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday morning against a government ‘multi-Bill’ which scraps...
Osborne bashes pensions & youth
TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...
Petrol Prices Rocketing!
SOARING fuel and domestic energy prices led to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rising from 2.7% to 2.8% in February, the Office...
Blairite Campbell Expelled From The Labour Party!
FORMER Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in...
Ritzy Cinema 92% Strike Vote
CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...
TWO-TIER GPs CONDEMNED
THE BMA warned yesterday that the Health and Social Care Bill will lead to more ‘conflicts of interest’, after it emerged yesterday that a...
MAY’S GRENFELL CLAIM ‘DISGRACEFUL’ says FBU
FOLLOWING Theresa May’s resignation speech, in which the Prime Minister spoke of her response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell
NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...
Syrian local elections ‘prove the failure of our enemies’ – President Assad
SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad said that holding local council elections on time proves the strength of the Syrian people and the state. In a speech...
Met chief faces questioning over destroyed evidence!
THE head of London’s police is going to be questioned today about the destruction of a ‘lorry-load’ of evidence of widespread police corruption...
Assad visits Damascus Catholic church
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching. Assad...
‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May
IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...
Greek students march against riot police
SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...
‘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...
NHS–strikebreakers called in!
UNION leaders yesterday angrily condemned the planned strikebreaking by the army and police, announced on the eve of today’s 7am-11am four-hour NHS pay strike. Military...
1,500 march to stop library closures
OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...
GROSS MISCONDUCT – officer being investigated
The officer who restrained 20-year-old Rashan Charles in Dalston, East London shortly before he died on July 22 is being investigated for gross misconduct. Rashan...
Unite Demands £60,000 Grant – For Families Of Deceased Bus Drivers
UNITE regional secretary for London Pete Kavanagh told News Line yesterday: ‘We would like to see this £60,000 grant to the families of those...
‘Labour will end austerity’ – claims McDonnell
‘AT THE heart of Jeremy’s campaign on which he has received such a huge mandate, was the rejection of austerity politics’, Labour shadow chancellor...
May undermines Parliament!
‘WHAT I am setting out today is a simple democratic demand, it is not taking an opinion one way or the other of what...
Music, drama & art axed from schools
MUSIC, languages, drama, PE, design technology and art, as well as vocational subjects including engineering, construction, and childcare, have all being axed from secondary...
‘Evidence Of Carillion Bribery’ Alleges Gmb
The second Carillion investigation into complaints by 150 GMB members has found evidence of bribery and shakedowns on the PFI contract operated by the...
Greek School Pupils Rise Up
SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective. Last...
Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP
KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...
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...
Bombardment Of Gaza Civilians Condemned By Report
ISRAELI conduct during their 50-day war on the Gaza Strip last summer greatly increased the number of civilian casualties, an independent report has...
Bma Votes To Proceed With Five-Day Strikes!
DESPITE enormous pressure being piled onto the junior doctors to capitulate and either shorten their strikes or call them off altogether, the BMA has...
IRAN ISSUES TRUMP ARREST WARRANT! – over Soleimani assassination
IRAN’S judiciary says it has formed a committee to chase and track down those accused of complicity in the US assassination of Iranian anti-terror...
Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity
HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...
Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...
China Hits Back At US Trade!
China launched countermeasures against the United States’ trade war attacks yesterday, with the Chinese People’s Daily saying that Beijing ‘will never waver in its...
Thousands turn out to save Honda car factory!
SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...