Corbyn urges reject May and embrace EU
‘PARLIAMENT should do its job today and say No to the Prime Minister,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said during yesterday’s debate and vote on...
Junior doctors strike 14-17th June! – and for 3 days each month until they...
JUNIOR doctors in England will hold a three-day strike from 7am on Wednesday 14 June to 7am on Saturday 17 June, after rejecting a...
A LEADERSHIP VOTE ‘JUST IS’NT GOING TO HAPPEN’ says Unite’s Tony Woodley
CALLS for a Labour Party leadership election were condemned by UNITE union Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. ‘I’ll back the prime minister until we...
Russia Today fined £200,000!
BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...
DICK PROMOTION UNBELIEVABLE – says de Menezes cousin
‘I THINK we are dealing with a mafia not a police organisation,’ alleged the cousin of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday. Alex...
Russian trucks cross border!
RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...
Tamils Continue ‘Death Fast’
British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...
‘RATE RISE FEAR’ – Bank of England urges caution
‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...
UN must end Israel’s illegal acts of violence – demands Hanan Ashrawi
Three of six Israelis held over the abduction and killing of 16-year-old Palestinian teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir last week have now confessed to his...
UP TO THEIR NECKS IN DEBT! – Labour and Tories have £58.7m in loans...
The Labour Party yesterday admitted it faces ‘acute cash flow problems’. It was responding to the publication of Electoral Commission figures showing that the main...
GM withdraws Europe loan applications
General Motors announced yesterday that Opel/Vauxhall ‘have decided to withdraw all applications for government loan guarantees across Europe’. The GM statement said: ‘There have been...
£300m more arms for Ukraine – nothing for struggling households
TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...
Support For Luton Occupation!
Talks between German government ministers and GM and US government representatives are resuming in Berlin today to decide who will take over GM...
‘HUGE VICTORY FOR LABOUR MEMBERS’ says John McDonnell
THIS is a huge victory for Labour Party members and party democracy,’ John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor and chair of Jeremy for Labour, said...
Students March Against Fees And Cuts
OVER a thousand students marched from University of London Union in Malet Street, central London, to the Business, Innovation and Science Department in Victoria...
Greek Students Clash With Police
THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students staged protest marches in Athens and 20 cities throughout the country last Thursday on the 10th anniversary...
REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS – New website launched
We are pleased to announce our new website: revolutionarybooks.co.uk where you can now buy Marxist classics on line, as well as other socialist literature.
Down With The Imf Junta Say Athens Workers
Over five thousand public sector workers marched through the Athens city centre last Tuesday evening against the government’s appeal to the IMF. Throughout the militant...
Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force
DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
Corbyn Not Pledging To Deliver Brexit!
LABOUR leader Corbyn gave himself room for more manoeuvres when he told The Andrew Marr Show yesterday: ‘We will table a motion of no...
AIR WAR – Israel vows to flatten Lebanon
THE Israeli Cabinet decided yesterday it was not going to wage a ground war in Lebanon in the face of the disastrous reverses at...
Greek Workers Angry At Eu Diktat
The Greek Prime Minister Lukas Papademos told the trade union leaders of the GSEE (Greek TUC) last Wednesday that wages and all national or...
NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure
‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
GPs–‘conflict of interest!’
MORE than a third of GPs on the boards of the new clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have a conflict of interest resulting...
RATES KEPT AT 5% – TUC warns its rates cut or slump
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday kept interest rates on hold at 5% as the central bank struggles to deal with...
‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’
‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....
Civil Servants Strike Ballot
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided yesterday to hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and...
Unions Reject Pay-Cut Cartel
HEALTH unions, Unison, the BMA, and RCN have refused to recognise a South West regional NHS cartel set up to cut pay and conditions. The...
Royal Mail sell-off begins!
THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday slammed the government’s announcement that it plans to begin selling off Royal Mail in the next few...
UN Cuts Aid To Palestinians!
HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...
Teaching Assistants face sack!
THE GMB union will consult members in Brighton schools as to what action to take as 51 Teaching Assistant redundancies loom with many facing...
GPs ‘to be paid to keep patients out of hospital’
GPs in England will no longer have to offer appointments lasting at least 10 minutes under changes agreed with the government. It is one of...
‘Worst Kind Of Penny-Pinching’
‘It’s penny-pinching of the worst kind,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was commenting on the removal of every other light bulb...
US privateer in charge of NHS England
THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...
96% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – By British Airways cabin crews
A 96 per cent vote by British Airways cabin crew to strike over management by imposition and the breakdown of respect and industrial relations...
‘March With US To Stop Chase Farm Closure!’
THE North-East London Council of Action yesterday called on everyone opposed to the threatened closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department and...
HYPOCRISY! – No pay for snowbound tube workers
London Mayor Boris Johnson was yesterday accused of ‘gross hypocrisy’ by rail union TSSA after tube staff were told they will not be paid...
Theatre Nurses Picket St Thomas’ Hospital!
THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...
NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds
YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...
Grenfell Inferno–one year on!
‘WE FEEL tomorrow is about remembering and honouring the 72 that died,’ Justice4Grenfell campaign co-ordinator Yvette Williams told News Line yesterday ahead of today’s...
TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers
THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
Strike Action Sweeping Heathrow
HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...
UCU ‘No’ To Campus Spies
UNIVERSITY and college lecturers yesterday morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for ‘extremism’. The controversial proposals,...
‘WE WON’T INTERFERE IN UKRAINE’–Lavrov
RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...
























