Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square
OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...
‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
SOCIAL CARE ‘COLLAPSE’! – warning to Chancellor Osborne and Hunt
NURSING homes will close and support for elderly and disabled people will be withdrawn due to the massive social care funding crisis, leaders in...
Fire Service stretched to the limit!
A VERY STRETCHED fire service has been hard at work throughout New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, the London...
Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action
The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...
FRANCE PENSIONS STRIKE SEPTEMBER 7th
French trade unions met yesterday to finalise arrangements for ‘a day of strikes and demonstrations’ across France on September 7th. There is enormous anger over...
May Beaten – Corbyn Calls For Election!
PM MAY lost her latest high-stakes gamble in the House of Commons when her EU Withdrawal Bill was defeated by 344-286 MPs despite a...
Remploy Workers Occupy Dwp Head Office
Yesterday morning Remploy workers, fighting for their jobs against Labour plans to close 28 factories, occupied the foyer of the Department of Work and...
Hamas Agrees To Ceasefire Deal!
THE HAMAS political bureau, announced yesterday evening that it has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. ‘The mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the...
Fourteen soldiers and General killed – as self defence forces defend their region
SELF-DEFENCE forces in eastern Ukraine have shot down two military helicopters near the city of Slavyansk. One was carrying fourteen soldiers including an army...
London housing crisis is spiralling out of control!
LONDON’S housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’, warns the Centre for London (CfL). Last Wednesday, the independent think tank hosted the London Housing Summit,...
Swinson – New Attack On Corbyn!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...
‘We Will Liberate Palestine!’
THE HAMAS resistance movement says it will not agree to the creation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, warning that US President...
Stoke-On-Trent NHS Beds Crisis
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is urging people to avoid using the Accident and Emergency department at weekends because of the pressure...
Secret trials go ahead!
THE ‘secret courts’ Justice and Security Bill places UK Security Services and Government Ministers ‘above the law,’ civil rights charities Reprieve and Liberty warned...
UN convenes to discuss Israeli airstrikes
THE UNITED Nations (UN) Security Council is to convene today at the request of Iran to discuss Saturday’s Israeli strikes on the country. Iran says...
Unions condemn Israel – over designating Palestinian organisations as ‘terrorists’
TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call
ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...
No confidence in May move gathering pace
THE CHEQUERS Brexit compromise White Paper on the UK’s plans to leave the EU is to be published today. The plan, thrashed out behind...
REFUGEES RETURNED – to face death and torture
DOZENS of angry people staged an emergency demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday, demanding the government immediately halts deportations to the Democratic Republic of...
MUBARAK GOES! – chased out by the masses
THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...
‘We can’t go on like this – government has lost control!’ Sir Keir Starmer...
Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...
‘Welfare Reform Kills!’
UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...
‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK’ say Gate Gourmet workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers insisted to News Line yesterday they want their jobs back. On the picket line at Heathrow Airport Jarnail, said: ‘I...
74 Universities – 14 Days Of Strike
STAFF at 74 universities across the length and breadth of the country and in the north of Ireland are to strike in February and...
Relentless killing of starving Gazans!
AT LEAST 16 Palestinians, including seven aid seekers, were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza yesterday as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their...
‘Complete denuclearisation’ – Trump signs agreement with Kim Jong-un
US PRESIDENT Trump announced he has agreed to suspend ‘war games’ with South Korea in return for a commitment to the ‘complete denuclearisation of...
Lu Strikers Standing Firm
TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...
80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!
MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...
Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS
CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...
‘SACK 137,000 FROM NHS’ – secret report tells Labour
Government ministers rushed out denials yesterday in the wake of a report calling for the axing of 137,000 NHS doctors, nurses and other clinical...
Pay Cut For Buncefield Firefighters
‘As fire crews and support staff were being honoured at a Buncefield award ceremony, fire authority bosses were busily cutting the pay of the...
Condemn terrorists – Syria urges UN
SYRIA’S Foreign and Expatriates Ministry yesterday demanded that the UN unequivocally condemns the attacks by the armed terrorist groups on the United Nations Disengagement...
Palestinian mothers are witnessing children’s deaths
IN THE Gaza Strip, under the shadow of a 175-day blockade and relentless hostilities, Palestinian mothers are engulfed in a state of fear and...
Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!
TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...
SUPPORT JUNIOR DOCTORS! BRING DOWN TORIES! – demands Ealing mass picket
‘VICTORY to the junior doctors!’ shouted the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning, adding, ‘Call a general strike!’ The picket, called by the...
80,000 civil servants strike today!
JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...
BMA doctors demand a tangible and acceptable pay offer!
BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...
Trade Unions Condemn The Great Pensions Robbery!
‘The money is not going to any pension scheme, it is going to the Treasury. This increase isn’t about making the NHS pension sustainable...
Babar Ahmad loses extradition appeal
Babar Ahmad and Haroon Aswat, yesterday lost their High Court battle to avoid extradition to the United States. The US has alleged that Tooting...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
‘NHS IN DANGER’ – Buckman rejects ‘Hunt rubbish’
THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...
Israel repeatedly breaching ceasefire deal
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a televised statement yesterday that Israel has violated several provisions of the first stage of the ceasefire...