DEBT CRISIS! – UNISON writes to all local councils
UNISON has written to all local councils demanding to know what steps they are taking to recover cash invested in Iceland banks and how...
Private Prisons Disaster!
‘WE HAVE consistently called for the entire prison estate to be brought back into the public sector,’ Peter McParlin, National Chairman of the Prison...
ASDA takeover – 100,000 at risk
THE GMB union has demanded assurances from the new owners of Asda over the future of over 100,000 workers as the supermarket chain was...
Remainers launch a legal challenge!
‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...
Disabled ‘fit for work’ assessments failure!
THE privatised assessment tests which find sick and disabled people ‘fit for work’ are ‘failing claimants and taxpayers’ and must be ‘brought back in-house’,...
‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote
JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...
Gaza War Crimes Exposed!
ISRAELI forces slaughtered Palestinians, including women and children, during their Gaza onslaught, under rules of engagement drawn up by the military and approved by...
ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge
UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...
Cameron-Heseltine-Tuc Unholy Alliance
The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...
Assad Warns West
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...
REFORMS WILL HIT POOR – says BMA’s Dr Buckman
THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...
TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General
Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...
Global Free Trade Worst Crisis Since 1947
THE HEAD of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said yesterday that global free trade is facing its ‘worst crisis’ since 1947. Roberto Azevedo said that...
Paying Mortgage By Credit Card!
More than two million people have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent, an increase of almost 50 per cent in a...
‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers
YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...
PULL TROOPS OUT CALL! – as army chief demands more
‘We are opposed to more troops going into Afghanistan,’ a Stop the War Coalition spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to a...
Barclay threatens striking nurses with deregistration!
‘HOW low can a government stoop?’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen asked yesterday in response to Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay’s...
Iran coastline will become ‘a hell’ for any invading forces
‘ANY attempt by foreign forces to land on Iran’s shores will be met with overwhelming resistance,’ Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination...
Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says FBU leader Matt...
TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...
Greece 24hr national strike
GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...
Huge Leap In The Inflation Rate!
RPI INFLATION soared by 5.3 per cent last month, indicating that a huge cut in workers’ wages and a major hike in the cost...
A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor
THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
‘We’re going to strike!’ –real doctors are not fooled by spin doctors
JUNIOR doctors told News Line yesterday that they were definitely voting for strike action and are very confident of winning the ballot which begins...
UNISON ROCHDALE STRIKE VOTE! – In defence of pay and conditions
UNISON members at Rochdale Council have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in defence of their terms and conditions of employment. The ballot was held after...
WAR CRIMINALS! –Scott Ritter compares Bush and Blair to Nuremberg Nazis
‘HE broke the law. He engaged in an illegitimate war of aggression that history has condemned,’ former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said yesterday,...
Royal Mail Bosses’ Bonus Scandal
Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...
US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!
A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...
Scottish court rules prorogation ‘unlawful’
WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...
Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults
THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
Tens of thousands rally in Athens
Tens of thousands of workers and youth participated in yet another mass rally outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens yesterday, demanding the overthrow...
FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court
‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
Building materials will not be fire tested!
EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...
‘Call general strike’ UCU CONEL chair Anglin tells mass rally of striking college lecturers!
‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...
US CRISIS DEEPENS – Porsche warns – ‘Serious slump’ in world motor car industry
US consumer spending fell by one per cent in October, the largest decline since September 2001, in a further sign of the deepening slump,...
Russia took action to defend Donbass – says Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vasily...
RUSSIA’S ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke at the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, defending...
Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood
A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....
Netanyahu Bans Al Jazeera
IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...
CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich
TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
‘Unions need to stand together to properly defend the NHS!’
THERE were three sets of NHS workers on strike at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday, the domestic and catering workers, the pathologists...
UN Condemns Israeli Occupation
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing...
MARCH WITH THE LOCKED-OUT GATE GOURMET WORKERS – through Southall on August 20
THE Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a warning that one year after 800 workers were sacked at Gate Gourmet the ‘dispute could...
2012–The year for organising the working class to take power
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2012 to all our readers and to the working class...
Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!
‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless
ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...