40,716 children held in cells overnight

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‘KEEPING a child in a cell overnight is not only inappropriate and distressing for the child concerned, but is a breach of their fundamental...

THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union

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FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...

Oxford CWU – out again on Wednesday

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POSTAL workers in Oxford who have been on unofficial strike for a week, yesterday returned to work. People are still very angry and a sizeable...
Rail workers celebrating two years of their strike to keep guards on the trains – out on Northern Rail today

REVERSE PLAN TO AXE GUARDS! – Tory minister admits they are vital

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RMT is calling for an immediate halt and reversal of plans to axe guards from trains after a government minister admitted that they are...

MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES

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The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...
Doncaster Care UK strikers picketing the company’s London headquarters in May

Doncaster care workers: three more weeks of strike

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DONCASTER care workers have stepped up their fight yesterday, the first day of a further three weeks of strike action in an escalating battle...
The July 5th NHS Anniversary march showed the determination to defend the NHS by all means necessary

BMA opposes Health Bill!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) Council on Thursday decided to oppose the whole Health and Social Care Bill, the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA Council...
Palestinians supporting their hunger strikers picketed the Israeli embassy on Saturday

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Russian Revolution Centenary – Forward to world-wide October!

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...
Demonstrators condemn Israel outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday evening

HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release

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ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...

£8,000 pay cuts imposed on Heathrow’s workforce!

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HORRIFIC pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of...

Hotel where child fell from window was also fire risk!

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THE CUT PRICE hotel where Afghan refugee, five-year-old Mohammed Munib Majeedi, plunged to his death from a ninth-floor window had ‘multiple fire risks’ the...

Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves

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FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...

NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters

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A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...
Teachers marching against the Tory government’s attacks on state education

Teachers 60-Hour Week ‘Unacceptable!’

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‘TEACHERS working 60 hours a week is totally unacceptable and is exacerbating the teacher shortage,’ warns Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union...

Labour scraps 4-hour A&E waiting time target

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THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...
March in Enfield in June against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

Pfi Disaster For NHS

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned ‘commercial involvement in the NHS’ as it emerged that the cost of NHS private finance initiative (PFI)...

PM May’s 10-year NHS plan a fraud!

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YESTERDAY’S claim by Tory PM May that she will hand over an extra £20bn a year to the NHS was described by Labour’s Shadow...
Gate Gourmet workers yesterday – determined that they will return to work together

‘A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE’ – CPS finds Stanley murder to be ‘resaonable’

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‘I feel a terrible injustice has been done to me and my family’, Irene Stanley, the widow of Harry Stanley told News Line yesterday. She...

Hackney School Cleaners Holiday Rates Victory

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HACKNEY school cleaners have hailed victory in a dispute over the failure to pay proper holiday rates. The settlement of the dispute at the six...
Greek riot police squads and buses block the road to demonstrating teachers last Thursday

Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators

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SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...
The demonstration from the cemetery to Syntagma Square. Banner reads ‘Rage must become collective struggle’

Anti-government fury at Greek pensioner’s funeral

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The funeral of a Greek pensioner on Saturday turned into a mass anti-government protest. About 1,000 workers and youth attended the civil funeral in Athens,...

May declares war on the pensioners!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday declared war on pensioners and their children yesterday with the launch of her party’s election manifesto. This includes means testing...

Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP

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KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...

US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review

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THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
RCM midwives came out on strike in Belfast in April 2015 for the first time in their history – they will shortly be out again, fighting for a living wage increase

NHS unions demand pay rise!

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THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...

B of E raises its Bank Rate to 4%

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting ending on 1 February 2023, voted by a majority of 7-2 to increase...
Determined striking lecturers on their picket line outside Tower Hamlets College yesterday

Tower Hamlets Day Of Action Called

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Striking lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in East London yesterday called on other trade unions and colleges to join their Day of Action next...
Angry residents demonstrate against the Forest Gate police raid

Second Forest Gate Inquiry

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced yesterday it is to conduct a second inquiry into last month’s armed police raid in Forest Gate. The...

Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...

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HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
Childrens services are under attack all over the country – picture shows them being defended at Ealing Hospital

‘We will not stand by and watch them destroy our fabulous service!’ – says...

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THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...

Murder of Sarah Everard: PC Couzens pleads guilty – Commissioner Dick refuses questions

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METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...

Hamas opens fire on Israel

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HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

‘Mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression’

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‘THE entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...

MORE PRIVATISATION THREAT TO NHS – warn MPs

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Health unions yesterday welcomed MPs’ condemnation of the government’s plans to break up and privatise primary care services. A report published by the House of...

Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs

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THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...
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...
Picket by parents, teachers and pupils to prevent the forced academisation of St Andrew & St Francis Primary School in Willesden

‘No Forced Academies’

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THE Tories published an Education and Adoption Bill yesterday, setting out plans to academise a further 1,000 schools by 2020. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan warned...
Tube workers on the picket line at King’s Cross during strike action last month

Unions Win Round One Of ‘Night Tube War’

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THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...

PENSIONS ROBBERY – Rolls-Royce strike today

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ROLLS-ROYCE workers walk out on strike this morning as the struggle over the great ‘pensions robbery’ escalates. 3,500 car workers across the German car...
REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS – New website launched

REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS – New website launched

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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.
MPs and Bombardier workers outside the House of Commons where the workers demanded that the government defend their jobs

17,000 jobs rely on Bombardier!

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‘AT THE end of the day this is being portrayed as a trade war, but it’s workers who will be suffering, thousands of them...

BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way

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Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...

Go Now! Workers Tell Greek Pm

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FOLLOWING Greek Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou’s calling of a referendum on the EU austerity programme, angry workers have called for his immediate resignation and...

Truss announces crackdown on the rail trade unions

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TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...