‘A FAILURE OF DUTY’ – Surgeons president Ribeiro quits junior doctors talks
Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...
PAY NURSES IN FULL! – demand 186 MPs
Nearly 200 MPs, including former Labour ministers, have joined calls for the government to give nurses this year’s pay award in full, instead of...
DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students
TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
BLAIR ABUSED POWER! – when he ignored High Court decision on Chagos Islanders
Chagos Islanders were yesterday jubilant after the Court of Appeal dismissed the government’s appeal against their right to return to their homeland. Following the ruling...
BMA senior leaders demand – JOBS GUARANTEE FOR ALL 35,000 JUNIOR DOCTORS
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday called for a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that not one of 35,000 junior doctors will be without a job...
Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court
TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...
Barnsley Nurses Strike!
Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...
KEEP REMPLOY OPEN! – unions slam charities
Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...
Gate Gourmet Costs Refused
A PACKED-OUT Employment Tribunal held yesterday at Reading heard the cases for Gate Gourmet sacked workers fighting unfair dismissal cases against their employer, who...
‘THERE WILL BE NATIONAL ACTION!’ – over Royal Mail sack threats and Post Office...
‘There will be national action on Royal Mail and I would think Counters will be involved. The whole country will come out now,’ Greenford...
ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues
JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...
PATIENTS’ SAFETY AT RISK! – warn consultants and junior doctors
Leading consultants and junior doctors have warned that the medical training crisis is risking patient safety as the NHS faces upheaval on August 1st...
PFI DAMAGES THE NHS – Private investors are draining away NHS funds say BMA
Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...
BUILD REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP – forward to a workers’ government
TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, yesterday. Moving the main resolution, ‘After...
Gate Gourmet Moves To Cut Wages!
Thirty drivers at airline caterers Gate Gourmet are furious after receiving letters from the company telling them to accept pay cuts. The Transport and General...
Chase Farm A&E And Maternity To Close
Chase Farm Hospital Accident & Emergency and Maternity departments must close, the government’s emergency services tsar Professor George Alberti has said. Save Chase Farm campaigners...
RMT INQUIRY – into Potters Bar crash and Greyrigg derailment
ON THE eve of the fifth anniversary of the Potters Bar rail crash which killed seven people and injured 70, Britain’s biggest rail union...
‘CORE SERVICES’ ONLY IN AN ‘INDEPENDENTLY RUN NHS’! – BMA leaders’ recipe for NHS...
British Medical Association (BMA) leaders yesterday launched what they described as their ‘Green Paper’ for an NHS of ‘core services’ run by an independent...
AMNESTY! –We are all citizens says march of over 25,000 migrants and refugees
OVER 25,000 people took to the streets to demand citizenship for migrant workers and refugees fleeing persecution to seek asylum in Britain, in a...
LABOUR SAVAGED! – Party pays the price for Blair-Brown policies
LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...
Academies Out!
‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...
PROSECUTE ISRAEl! – says family of James Miller killed by an Israeli sniper
The family of James Miller, the Devon film-maker killed in Gaza, yesterday urged Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to take a decision on his case...
Marchers Support Gate Gourmet Workers
UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...
REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
Barnsley Nurses To Strike
GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...
NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL
Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
RESIGN NOW HEWITT! – demand junior doctors
‘The appropriate thing for Patricia Hewitt to do, would be to resign now,’ said furious junior doctors yesterday after their personal details were made...
BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it
IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...
‘NHS CHAOS!’ – Junior doctors warn
THERE will be total ‘chaos’ in the NHS by August – unless the government immediately scraps MTAS (the new Medical Training Application Service), a...
Anger Over Doctors For Export!
Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...
Walk-Out At Unison Health Conference
The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...
A Damning Indictment Of The Bus Industry
A SURVEY published yesterday shows that bus workers believe that the privatised bus companies are far more interested in making big profits than providing...
Post strike warning – as 3,000 more jobs face axe
Strike action ‘very close to the scale of the (1980s) miners strike, if not bigger’ is unavoidable – unless management withdraws attacks on the...
ST HELIER STRIKE WARNING – after Trust debt leaps to £41 million
Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...
SCOTTISH TUC BOMBSHELL – General Council supports Labour in election by just one vote
Labour has only very narrowly retained the formal endorsement of Scotland’s trades unions for May’s Holyrood and council elections. The General Council of the STUC...
Baha Mousa Atrocity!
‘THIS is torture by any definition of that word.’ That was the reaction of lawyer Phil Shiner, as he made public photographic and medical evidence...
BROWNE HANGS ON! – as establishment closes ranks
Yesterday afternoon the establishment closed ranks to prop up the wobbling Labour government and its defence secretary Des Browne. Following Browne’s statement to the House...
Two Pumas Down – Two Dead, 15 Injured
Two UK servicemen were killed yesterday when two British helicopters crashed in northern Iraq in the early hours, Defence Secretary Des Browne...
Civil Service Out On May 1
Civil servants union PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka has written to Sir Gus O’Donnell Head of the Home Civil Service about the PCS national...
Tigers Condemn Sri Lankan Genocide
The Tamil Tigers yesterday vowed to drive back an advance by government troops in the east of Sri Lanka and accused the Sri...
15-Year-Old On Work Experience Lost In North Sea
‘We are all deeply shocked by this terrible tragedy,’ Amicus Regional Officer, Graham Tran, said yesterday. Tran was commenting on the deaths of seven men...
BROWNE ACCEPTS BLAME – but admits Blair knew of decision to sell stories
Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for decisions which allowed the fifteen UK sailors and marines held by the Iranians...
‘Take action to stop Maudsley closure’
UP to sixty trade unionists, patients, local residents and youth demonstrated outside the Maudsley Hospital, south London yesterday, against planned cuts including the closure...
HUNGER STRIKE – against Guantanamo Bay’s new isolation units
A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...
T&g Backs Sainsbury Family Against Texas Pacific Raiders
The Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a statement backing ‘the Sainsbury family’s hostile position to the private equity bid for the supermarket...