‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO DEFEAT THE COALITION!’ – says Campaign Against Cuts & Fees
‘We are determined to proceed with our march today and defeat the government’, said the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees (NCACF). The Committee...
27 Palestinians killed on West Bank in 2013
ISRAEL killed 27 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 2013, making it the deadliest year for Palestinian fatalities since 2008, Israeli rights group...
Israel breaks ceasefire
INTENSE clashes erupted yesterday morning between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the southeastern Gaza Strip amid confirmed reports that an Israeli soldier has...
President Abbas meets Blinken in Ramallah!
‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...
Vital local council services collapsing
VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...
Venezuela will defeat the USA
ROCIO Maneiro, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Britain, yesterday launched a new booklet ‘Trump unblock Venezuela’, which details the economic blockade by the US against Venezuela...
LABOUR PLEDGES £10 AN HOUR FOR ALL WORKERS! – lower youth rate to be...
LABOUR yesterday pledged to end the ‘unprecedented’ squeeze on wages with a Labour government introducing a ‘Real Living Wage’ of £10 per hour for...
Lecturers more resolute than ever
STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...
UK unemployment surges! – while IFS predicts debt to GDP of 110%
THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...
May Brings Back 11 Plus!
TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!
THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs
HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...
Parliament in crisis over Taliban victory!
THE HOUSE of Commons met on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am to discuss the implications of the major defeat suffered by both the US...
‘This will end up in a general strike!’ – Ambulance pickets tell News Line
‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...
Labour launches EU election campaign
‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...
‘LOW PAY – NO WAY!’ say striking Serco workers
‘LOW PAY – NO WAY!’ shouted Unite Serco strikers on a lively picket line outside the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel yesterday morning. Cleaners, catering workers,...
Imposed junior doctors contract hits cancer patients
470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...
Syria Goes To The Polls
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...
4.5 million in insecure work
FOUR-and-a-half-million people in England and Wales are in insecure work, reveals new analysis by Citizens Advice. The national charity says insecure work – where people...
250,000 UK Workers And Youth March For Liberation Of Palestine
A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...
CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...
MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot
ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
2019 Is The Year For Socialist Revolutions
NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...
US Steelworkers To Protest At National Grid Agm
MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...
‘NHS In Crisis – Pm In Denial’ – Corbyn
TORY PM May hit out at the British Red Cross at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday, describing its warnings...
Immigration rules are tearing families apart
FAMILIES are being ripped apart because the Home Office refuses to let mums and dads join their children and spouses in the UK. This is...
GP referrals to Redditch hospital stopped
REDDITCH GPs have been asked by commissioners not to refer to a local acute trust for at least three months to allow the hospital...
‘Shoot-to-kill’–law change!
PRIME Minister Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris terrorist attacks. The review...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
Hand all academies & free schools back
CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...
Debt will bring ‘nasty surprises!’ – Chancellor Sunak gets a warning
WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...
‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!
GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...
‘Unite needs to call a nationwide demo’ – Serco strikers
‘OUR members are standing firm and determined to win,’ striking Royal London Hospital Unite rep Ebrima Sonko told News Line yesterday on the morning...
‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS
A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...
Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’
THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...
GPs are not gatekeepers, their place is in the communities
GPs have stressed that the best place for GPs to work is in their community, as opposed to working in hospital triage as first...
‘Today we set out to transform Britain’ says Corbyn
AT THE party’s manifesto launch in Bradford yesterday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Today we set out a vision to transform Britain for the...
LONGEST PAY FREEZE SINCE QUEEN VICTORIA says Unite
WAGE growth is lagging behind inflation for the first time since mid-2014, official figures show. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the...
‘Seize Passports’ Says Police Chief!
MET POLICE chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said yesterday that he backs a call to seize the passports from Britons who go abroad to...
‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak
MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...
Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...
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...
Assange Must Be Freed Now!
ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...
‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous
TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...