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...
BA workers coming to Gate Gourmet rally
BRITISH Airways workers are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday. Buying his ticket for the...
Liberty to sell steel plant 5,000 jobs in the balance – Nationalise the entire...
FIVE THOUSAND steel jobs hang in the balance as steel giant Liberty announced plans to sell its plant in Stocksbridge, Sheffield, as part of...
Short Shoots Down Blair
NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...
600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...
NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...
‘Guarantee jobs & safety’ and RMT will suspend Southern strike
RAIL UNION RMT confirmed yesterday morning that it is taking a new offer to ACAS talks with Southern. The offer is that the union will...
Public sector must unite to smash privatisation
THOUSANDS of firefighters are marching on Westminster today against government cuts to the fire and rescue service and attacks on their pensions. Coachloads of firefighters...
Parents going hungry! – to help feed their children
THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...
FULL SPEED AHEAD TO CHASE FARM CLOSURE! – occupation is the only answer
Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Clinical Strategy Board has made it clear that it is rapidly proceeding with the closure of Chase Farm Accident and...
HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union
THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...
No Impunity For Blair Says Reg Keys
OVER 100 bereaved relatives whose loved ones have been killed in the illegal war and occupation of Iraq were joined by MPs, peace campaigners...
BANKRUPT BROWN – No policies to deal with crisis
Prime Minister Brown yesterday revealed he has no policies to deal with the economic crisis in the interests of workers. In his keynote address to...
‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate
HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...
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...
‘Walsh will never crush BASSA’
‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...
Gate Gourmet Workers Picket Tgwu Office
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Transport and General Workers Union Regional Office in Hillingdon west London yesterday. They are going to their employment tribunals...
Israeli military continues to pound eastern Rafah!
OVERNIGHT and throughout yesterday morning, the Israeli military continued to pound parts of eastern Rafah city. The majority of residential homes and farmland have been...
HIGH ALERT IN BASRA! – tensions after tank attack ‘rescue’
British troops in Iraq were on high alert yesterday for fear of further clashes as tensions continued over the rescue at tank-point of two...
FREE PALESTINE! – TUC Congress votes for boycott of Israeli goods
THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress held a crisis meeting yesterday morning, as it was split over Motion 76: Palestine, from the...
Angry Nurses To Escalate Strikes!
NURSES’ strike action will escalate and spread across the UK in the new year, after RCN Scotland members overwhelmingly voted to reject the Scottish...
Privatisation drive stepped up! – Competition panel formed for NHS
In a new attack on the NHS, the government is driving Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement so-called ‘World Class Commissioning’, which involves selling...
WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER IN 2020! New Year’s Day Manifesto
THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...
NHS Francis Inquiry Slammed
THE Francis inquiry into what happened at Mid-Staffordshire ‘has allowed the government to blame frontline clinicians rather than those in charge.’ This was the...
50 GP surgeries taken over
New private health company ‘The Practice’ has taken over ChilversMcCrea Ltd to form a group that now runs 50 GP practices in England and...
Sussex uni marches against privatisation
ONE hundred Sussex students, UCU members and students from other universities marched through the campus of a snow-bound University of Sussex yesterday lunchtime. The ‘Fight...
Hands Off Our Homes! Say 10,000 Marchers
HANDS off our Homes! Kill the Bill! Homes for People! Not for Profit!’ chanted protesters yesterday on a 10,000-strong march through central London against...
Hunt pledges sanctions against benefit claimants
‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...
South African Strike Wave Spreads
THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...
Palestinian mothers are witnessing children’s deaths
IN THE Gaza Strip, under the shadow of a 175-day blockade and relentless hostilities, Palestinian mothers are engulfed in a state of fear and...
Hauliers Have Had Enough!
Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....
CORUS SHUTDOWN OUTRAGE – 3,000 jobs threatened
Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...
‘Million Moms March’
MOTHERS from across the United States poured into Washington, DC on Saturday, choosing Mother’s Day weekend to march for justice for the ‘epidemic’ of...
30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament
SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...
‘Drop commitment to Trident and save £205bn’ – McDonnell urged!
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...
March For Jobs!
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...
Suffolk Fire Crews Strike Tomorrow
Suffolk Fire Brigades Union Brigade Committee yesterday called for a national demonstration next Thursday, 11 August, in support of tomorrow and this Friday’s strike...
London FBU Walk Out
London’s 5,600 firefighters go on strike at 10am this morning, and will stay out until 6pm, after the London Fire Brigade sent them all...
Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops
Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...
BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture
‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...
400,000 March On Downing Street For Victory To Palestine!
Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...
Sweeping emergency powers are unveiled! – Police given powers to arrest suspected corona...
NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...
Victory To Sa Students
THOUSANDS of South African students marched to the Union Buildings in the South African capital Pretoria, where they were met by riot police...
Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!
OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...
Artificial heart saves 13-year-old – Royal Brompton must not close!
THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...
Fearful Kiev ‘warns’ Russia
THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...