HALTING ISRAELI AGGRESSION OUR TOP PRIORITY – Palestinian Presidency
IN RESPONSE to reports of Israeli plans regarding post-war Gaza, the Presidency of the State of Palestine firmly reiterated yesterday its clear stance, emphasising...
Stoke Postal Workers Won’t Cross Picket Lines
Stoke-on-Trent Mail Centre delivery staff walked out on unofficial strike for the third time yesterday after being ordered by management to cross their processing...
BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers
THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
Netanyahu orders 800 new settlement units!
ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved 800 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, determined to drive through the mass expansion while Trump...
£2,000 A Year Price Rise For Meals-On-Wheels!
HARROW Unison local government branch has launched a campaign against Harrow Council’s plans to increase its charges for its Meals on Wheels service by...
Opportunist SNP! –would not vote against NHS privatisation in England
THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...
BLAIR PEACH – NO POLICE TO BE CHARGED! – after 31 years of cover-up
‘We always said that Blair had been killed by a policeman. I feel that we’ve really been vindicated,’ Celia Stubbs, the partner of Blair...
‘WE WON’T INTERFERE IN UKRAINE’–Lavrov
RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...
Bma Slams Tories And Privatisation!
IN his speech to the BMA’s ARM, Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair, said: ‘The government is in denial. The chancellor says...
Murdoch targets unions & BBC
News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch yesterday made it clear that he had taken a decision to smash the print unions when he provoked the...
Gate Gourmet workers support French strikers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, on their picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, spoke out in support of the French airport workers who are...
Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent
The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...
Biden leaves for Middle East!
US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...
PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite
‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...
42,728 evictions in 2015!
42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...
2007 – The Year For Revolution!
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...
Serco strikers in high spirits
THE SERCO workers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike yesterday with a lively picket line outside the Royal London...
Assange Ecuador Protests
ECUADORIANS have taken to the streets in the capital Quito against the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the country’s embassy in London. The...
‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!
‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...
General strike needed to support hunger strikers!
THE hunger strikers are ‘losing the ability to speak and stand’, according to Prisoners for Palestine, with the four remaining hunger strikers adding additional...
Ban zero -hours!
‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...
QUEEN’S SPEECH WALKOUT! – by angry PCS members
thousands of PCS members are walking out for one hour today, at 11.00am, coinciding with the Queen’s Speech, which will be outlining...
Irish Gross National Product Shrinks By 2.2%
The continued austerity programme is costing jobs and making recovery almost impossible, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said yesterday. Official figures released yesterday showed...
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...
Balls to means-test pensioners!
LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...
6,000 youth march against Golden Dawn
OVER 6,000 youth and workers demonstrated last Saturday evening throughout the Athens city centre against a rally organised by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party....
10,000 dead in Israel’s month-long Gaza genocide!
MORE than 10,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Israel’s month-long genocide since October 7th, Gaza’s Health Ministry announced yesterday, with 10,022 people, including 4,104...
NURSES UNDER PRESSURE TO WORK WITHOUT PPE – says RCN
NURSING staff in the UK are still under pressure to work without PPE and lack promised gowns. Over a third of nursing staff (34%) in...
Co-ordinated strike action – unanimous vote at the TUC Congress
DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...
RMT pledges to fight cuts in oil workers’ jobs
FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...
Osborne War On Benefits
‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...
Dutch To Follow French Example
Dutch workers are ready to deal another blow to the bosses and bankers’ EU by following the example of the French and voting ‘NO’...
BUS WORKERS TAKE STRIKE ACTION – stand to lose £2,500 a year
DRIVERS employed by the RATP bus privateer begin strike action today against £2,500 pay cuts, with 2,200 workers striking at Edgware, Epsom, Fulwell, Harrow,...
‘REOPEN ERT STATE TV!’ –Greek workers demand of Syriza
The sacked ERT state TV and radio workers’ union POSPERT has called a mass rally in Athens for Wednesday 11 February. They are demanding that...
PFI – catastrophic waste of money!
‘THE game is up for PFI, it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayers’ money,’ the GMB union said yesterday responding to the National Audit...
ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts
UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...
REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution
OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...
Defend All BA Jobs! No Pay Cuts! Call A National Strike!
OVER 600 British Airways workers demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday. 42,000 were sacked that day by BA management and will only be re-employed if they...
DIRE CONSEQUENCES! – Moscow warns against Syria intervention
‘ANY military interference in Syria conducted under far-fetched or fabricated pretexts’ would be ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and could lead to ‘dire consequences,’ warned Russia yesterday....
Labour PM reveals his class war Budget will cause ‘pain’!
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...
Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...
Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients
THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...
Apology for Duggan family! – from the Police Complaints Commission
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for ‘wrongly’ telling the media he had fired at police before he...
ACT! or you become irrelevant – Palestinian Ambassador warns UN
‘ACT, you have resolutions, ACT, you have power, ACT, or you become irrelevant, ACT, according to the power given to you by the Charter...