MILLIONS WASTED ON PRIVATEERS –it will be worse if Health Bill is enacted warns...
‘This is the danger of using the private sector to deliver our health services,’ a Unison spokeswoman told News Line. ‘We’ve always warned that the...
Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote
LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...
Don’t Extradite Babar Ahmad
‘FREE Babar Ahmad,’ Babar’s father Ashfaq Ahmad told supporters outside the High Court in central London yesterday, ‘if Babar is extradited to America then...
Greek 48-Hour General Strike
The GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sector unions) yesterday called a 48-hour strike for today and Saturday in protest at a savage government...
£9,250 tuition fees at Exeter – rise for current & future students
EXETER University has been condemned both by its students’ guild and lecturers’ union after announcing yesterday that tuition fees are to increase to £9,250...
Coronavirus–10,000 troops on the streets!
‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...
POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law
The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
Crunch Week For NHS!
The NHS faces a crunch week, says the Unite union. It has issued a statement saying prime minister Cameron’s pledges on the health service were...
Vauxhall copter crash! – Emergency services save the day
Two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tall building under construction in Vauxhall,...
‘WE WILL HAVE TO STRIKE’ – UNISON Conference is told
UNISON members at their national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the attack on their pensions with coordinated industrial action. Before debating...
Polio Epidemic In Gaza
GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...
‘We will return!’
‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...
Rendition Case Proceeds
THE Obama Administration cannot use state secrecy doctrine to block Binyam Mohamed’s litigation against aviation company, Jeppesen Dataplan, a US Federal Court ruled yesterday....
Occupy Chase Farm!
HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...
Ealing Conference On The NHS
EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...
15,000 depend on foodbanks this Christmas!
THE number of people who turn to foodbanks over the Christmas fortnight is expected to double, with the economic crisis driving more households below...
Re-open maternity & children’s wards – demands Ealing mass picket
DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...
Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...
University of Maryland students denounce Gaza genocide & demonstrate for Palestine!
STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...
‘Shut down Harmondsworth’
‘SHUT down Harmondsworth immigration centre!’ demanded the Movement for Justice yesterday, in response to a damning report which exposed the centre as being...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
Putin Peace Plan
PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...
HAIN QUITS! – after police called in
Work and Pensions Secretary and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain yesterday quit the Cabinet after his late declaration of £103,000 of donations to his Labour...
‘EXTEND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP’ – LP Conference rejects Starmer line
A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...
Tories refuse to ban Grenfell cladding on 468 buildings!
FLAMMABLE cladding is not going to be banned from existing buildings, Tory Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announced yesterday at the Conservative Party conference. This...
Civil Servants Start 3 Day Strike
CIVIL servants picketing the London Identity and Passport Service Office (IPS) by Victoria Station, in London, had run out of leaflets yesterday, such was...
Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!
LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...
Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!
Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...
3.4% Rail Hike ‘Kick In Teeth’
TRAIN fares in Britain will go up by an average of 3.4% from 2nd January, the biggest rise since 2013, and described by rail...
NHS SPENDING FREEZE! – decreed by Finance Director
An email sent last month from chief medical officer Sir Ian Donaldson’s chief of staff to DoH officials orders a freeze on NHS spending...
Chinese workers taking action against major Western companies
THE Chinese Stalinist bureaucracy and its big business friends are under attack from the Chinese working class, which is insisting that the super-exploitation of...
Hunt signals more NHS cuts
THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...
Bosses keeping Gourmet locked-out workers waiting
‘IF I’m told I’m to be made compulsorily redundant I will not accept. I’m fighting for reinstatement and will not give up my claim...
London Postal Workers Out Today
ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...
COVER-UP – Grieving families condemn Network Rail
PARENTS of two young girls killed on an Essex level crossing in 2005 accused Network Rail of a cover-up yesterday, after the rail privateer...
‘We want to work for NHS!’ – say striking pathology staff
PATHOLOGY staff struck for 24 hours yesterday, at King’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals in a determined struggle against venture capitalist encroachment in the...
3-DAY BELGIAN POSTAL STRIKE! – against the privateers
Over 30,000 Belgian postal workers began a three-day strike yesterday against privatisation to defend their jobs, pay and working conditions. Postal unions...
‘SORT OUT OUR WAGES!’ – demand London busworkers
Over 6,000 bus drivers were out on a 24 hour strike yesterday to protest at the huge pay disparity between the eighteen London bus...
1,000 MARCH FOR VICTORY Make dispute official demand Gate Gourmet workers
‘I congratulate all the sacked workers who are standing up and fighting for their rights,’ said locked out Gate Gourmet worker Harbinder Singh to...
4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!
OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...
‘GET RID OF THE PRIVATEERS’ – say Tube strikers
‘Privatisation has been a disaster, we want the complete renationalisation of the railway network in Britain,’ RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Crow was...
‘STUDENT COMMUTERS’ Poorer students forced to live at home and commute
STUDENTS from poorer backgrounds are being forced to become ‘student commuters’, living in their home town and then commuting back and forth on a...
GPs reject imposed contract! – 99.2% vote NO!!
GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...
Military Testing In Three Towns!
THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers
angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...