‘THE STRIKES MUST GO AHEAD’ – CWU members tell News Line
Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...
Tories in a crisis over state attack on Corbyn
THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to...
NISSAN WILL SACK 12,500! Sunderland’s future hangs in the balance!
NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...
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...
Doctors will not be ‘border guards’
AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...
‘TORTURE IS ABHORRENT’ say the Law Lords
‘This is a momentous decision,’ said Amnesty International yesterday. ‘The Law Lords ruling has overturned the tacit belief that torture can be condoned under...
‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’
THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...
Forced Labour For The Unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith yesterday revealed plans to force unemployed benefit claimants into slave labour. TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said...
Balls to means-test pensioners!
LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...
CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10
A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...
8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!
Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...
Take Action To Support Doctors!
‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...
NO DEPORTATIONS! Defend the Palestinians’ right to their land
ISRAEL has decided to expel more Palestinians from their own homes and lands without taking into consideration any objection from any side, especially the...
NUT sixth form strike defiant!
NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...
Air Attack On Lugansk Is A War Crime
The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...
Unilever Pensions Strike
UNILEVER workers are standing firm despite strong-arm tactics by the employer designed to destroy their resistance to plans to end their final salary pension...
Agency staff costing NHS £2.5bn a year!
A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...
Rajapakse Out! Demand 2000 Tamils
‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...
‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’
Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...
100 killed in Donetsk! – after Kiev forces attack on airport
OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...
PCS leads May 10 pensions strike!
HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers are striking in defence of their pensions on Thursday May 10th. The strike comes the day after the...
NO UK SYRIAN INTERVENTION! – says Labour Party conference resolution
THE Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday voted for an emergency motion moved by Unite calling for a United Nations Security Council resolution...
Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned
YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...
‘A GREAT VICTORY’ says Hamas leader
Confirming the extent of the Israeli rout, Hamas’ armed wing said yesterday it lost only 48 fighters during the 22-day bombardment of Gaza and...
May’s project fear – ‘Reject my deal and the only certainty will be uncertainty!’
SPEAKING in Grimsby last Friday May peddled her own ‘project fear’ line before the new vote on her deal with the EU tomorrow in...
Imf Dictates NHS And Pension Cuts!
The IMF has warned the British government it must make savage cuts in NHS spending and carry out pension ‘reforms’ to cut its debt...
PAKISTAN BLOCKS NATO ROUTE! –after US gunship kills three Pakistani soldiers
Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...
Priti Patel ramps up police enforcement!
‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...
TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB
‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...
‘We are stronger than ever and united like never before’ UCU leader Grady...
THE UCU (University and College Union) lecturers union held a national rally at the front of Kings Cross Station yesterday, completely taking over the...
PM’s top advisor Cummings refuses to quit
‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...
Greenford Bus Workers To Join Mass Picket
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...
Threat to sack firefighters!
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has condemned the commissioner of the London Fire Brigade after he threatened the entire workforce with the sack if...
Lift lockdown now and our members will refuse to work
‘THE GOVERNMENT is trying to say: “You take the risk to the staff, and you take the risk to the passengers, it is on...
‘WE WILL APPEAL TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS’ – De Menezes family
‘THIS is a disgraceful decision,’ the family of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes said yesterday, after the High Court rejected their appeal...
‘Thousands will back tanker drivers!’
PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...
NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’
ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...
‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC
TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: ‘The...
BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged
A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...
One million workers march through London for Palestine
ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched through central London in support of Palestine on Saturday, condemning 100 days of Israeli genocide during which...
Nablus under siege for two weeks!
A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...
‘We’re fighting a land grab of our conditions’ says Mick Whelan
‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...
Trade unions must draw up their own cost of living index
YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...
‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower
‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...
Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!
DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...











