‘Smiling Assassin’ Sacks 800 At Grangemouth

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GRANGEMOUTH’S owner Ineos announced yesterday the closure of its petrochemical plant, while also keeping the oil refinery closed and perhaps re-opening it if a...
Wednesday’s emergency demonstration opposite parliament against Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR CRIME! – says UNISON’s Prentis

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AN Israeli soldier was killed and another injured on Thursday during renewed clashes with Palestinian fighters near the Kisufim military post east of Al-Qarara...

Widespread Russian-Israeli cooperation revealed

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‘WE BELIEVE that the blame for the Russian Il-20 aircraft tragedy lies entirely with the Israeli Air Force,’ Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General...

‘A WAR OF EXTERMINATION!’ – Doha Summit condemns Israel’s war on Gaza

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‘ISRAEL'S war on Gaza has turned into a war of extermination’, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said as he welcomed leaders...

EU says NO! to May’s Brexit re-negotiations

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EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday ruled out re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement after meeting with Tory PM May, making it crystal clear that legally-binding...

‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson

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TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...

Israel disregarding ceasefire agreement!

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THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...
A big and enthusiastic picket line of all unions and students at SOAS in central London yesterday

Strong support for Uni strike

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday morning reported strong support by staff from four unions for the one-day strike action in universities across...

Labour Budget Hits Out At The Low Paid

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...

One in six Gaza children severely malnourished!

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‘ONE IN SIX children under two years of age are acutely malnourished in northern Gaza,’ Richard Peeperkorn, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative said yesterday. ‘This...

Leicester faces localised lock-down!

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HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...

‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and wage cutting

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‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...
Pathology strikers deliver their message from the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital on Westminster Bridge

‘We want to work for NHS!’ – say striking pathology staff

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PATHOLOGY staff struck for 24 hours yesterday, at King’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals in a determined struggle against venture capitalist encroachment in the...

‘UNLIMITED NHS PRIVATISATION’ – health unions must act, says consultant

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Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...

Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards

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GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...

‘Greenland belongs to people of Greenland’ – that is a right says Starmer

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‘THE UK and the US are close allies and close partners. That relationship matters profoundly – not just to our security, but to the...

Tuc Joint Statement With Cbi And Eu Bosses!

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AHEAD of this week’s European Council meeting, the Directors General of Business Europe and the CBI, Markus Beyrer and Carolyn Fairbairn, and the General...

Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation Address!

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THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...

‘Shameful Brown’ Wants To Sack Workers On The Cheap

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‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...

‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions

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‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
Bus workers on the picket line at Westbourne Park garage in west London. Drivers are striking again today in their struggle for ‘fair pay and fair treatment’

Busworkers Demand Fair Pay And Fair Treatment

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BUS drivers across London and Crawley, working for First Bus, Metroline and Metrobus, are staging a 24-hour strike today, demanding a fair pay rise...

Nato Murders Gadaffi

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COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...

SUSPENSION OF PARLIAMENT – ‘a political judgement’ says Eadie QC

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THE suspension of Parliament is ‘the territory of political judgements not legal standards’, the Tory government’s lawyer told the Supreme Court yesterday. The court is...

Kensington Election Campaign

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CAMPAIGNERS for WRP Kensington parliamentary candidate Scott Dore took to the streets yesterday. Ayan gave her support to the candidate. She said, ‘I think that...

PRIVATE CLINICENTA NHS CONTRACT SUSPENDED – after two patient deaths

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‘The BMA has long voiced concerns about the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme,’ a British Medical Association (BMA) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was...

Join Our Mass Picket Today!

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‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...
Angry teachers marching through London last Thursday when 400,000 teachers, lecturers and civil servants took strike action

Answer World Crisis With The World Revolution

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MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...
Greek police marching against the cuts in Vouli square, opposite the parliament building

Greece – 10% Tax On Workers And The Poor

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FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

Police Corruption Review Over Lawrence Murder

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HOME Secretary, Theresa May has ordered a new ‘QC-led review’ into allegations that police corruption hampered the original failed investigation, nineteen years after the...
President ASSAD and his wife ASMA vote in Damascus

Syria Goes To The Polls

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SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...
Part of the contingent of Gate Gourmet sacked workers with their historic banner outside the TUC Congress yesterday morning

Delegates At Tuc Congress Support Gate Gourmet Workers

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DELEGATES attending the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday spoke out strongly in support of the Gate Gourmet sacked workers, and the postal workers. This was...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC on Sunday demanding jobs for youth with trade union rates of pay

Co-ordinated strike action – unanimous vote at the TUC Congress

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...
Jaguar car workers demanding the Browns Lane Coventry factory stays open – another 5,000 jobs are facing the axe

Jaguar to axe 5,000 jobs

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JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing Hospital demanding trade unions support an occupation of the hospital to stop the closure

‘SAVING EALING MATERNITY IS VITAL!’ – workers tell the News Line

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AT EALING Hospital yesterday morning, midwives, nurses and other workers told News Line that they want trade union action to stop the closure of...
Sacked News International print workers marching in Fleet Street with a defiant message during their bitter 1986-87 strike

BROOKS MUST GO! – insists Miliband

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Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...
Massive damage to Raqqa after US-led coalition bombing – raids are continuing with many more dead

US Air Raids Kill Over 200 Civilians

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THE Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that more than two hundred civilians lost their lives as the US-led coalition...
SHAHIDA BEGUM and children meet WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Vote Wrp Vote Leff In Hackney And Shoreditch

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‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN...

‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!

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BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...

Brutal Racism In Paris

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WORKERS groups in France are considering legal action, after a shocking video emerged of black women and children being brutally dispersed by police in...

‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced

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MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...

‘We need to reassure the markets’ says Truss as she sacks Chancellor Kwarteng

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THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...
FBU strikers at Chelsea fire station  are determined to win their battle and are prepared to fight victimisations

FBU EC member sacked! – union considering taking strike action

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THE firefighters union, FBU, yesterday said that they are considering strike action to defend Buckinghamshire firefighter and FBU executive committee member Ricky Matthews. He was...

UK Huge Wages Fall!

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WAGES in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union since the coalition came to power, according to official...
Students defy being ‘kettled’ by police in Whitehall on Wednesday

TEN UNIVERSITIES OCCUPIED! – Day of Action on November 30

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TEN universities remained occupied yesterday, including an historic building at Oxford University, while a national ‘student strike’ was called for next Tuesday, November 30. Students...