Israel To Expand Offensive!
Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...
CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders
‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...
‘TOTALLY INADEQUATE!’ – unions condemn £500 A&E ‘bail-out’
THE British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison yesterday dismissed as ‘papering over the cracks’, Cameron’s announcement of a £500m ‘bail-out’ over two years for...
Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!
INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...
Stop Torture Bring Binyam Home
A DEMONSTRATION outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square central London yesterday afternoon demanded the immediate release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay. ‘Binyam must...
Conservative Party ‘falling apart’ says John McDonnell
YESTERDAY afternoon, when asked if Labour has plans to form a coalition to topple the government following the Queen’s speech today, Labour shadow chancellor...
Greenspan – ‘Greece will have to leave eurozone’
THE former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. Greenspan, chairman of the US...
SACK G4S demands Howard League
THREE G4S employees were arrested yesterday and are being held on suspicion of child neglect following an investigation into abuse at a young offenders...
‘It is now Tory government policy to create recession!’ says Hunt advisor
INTEREST rates are expected to be hiked by 0.25% to 4.75% today, but with yesterday’s inflation rate remaining at 8.7% in the year to...
Resident doctors fighting Labour attacks on the NHS!
RESIDENT doctors leaders declared their determination to defeat the Labour government’s continuing attacks on jobs and pay when they appeared on BBC Radio yesterday...
Student Fees Anger!
the National Union of Students (NUS) is lobbying Parliament today against a threatened unlimited hike in university top up fees. The NUS has called the...
‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate
HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...
Strikebreaking managers are acting as rail guards!
AS Northern and South Western Railway guards strike again this weekend, rail union RMT has raised new safety warnings with the regulator over the...
Balpa Takes BA Fight To Europe!
PILOT’S union BALPA told News Line yesterday it will be campaigning to change European law after withdrawing from its High Court challenge to a...
1.92 Million Unemployed
UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...
Unions March Against ‘Breadline Britain’
THOUSANDS of trade unionists – including members of Unite, the GMB and the CWU postal workers’ union – will demonstrate in Manchester today at...
Met Police take charge of regime change op!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
Starmer ignores calls to resign
‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...
‘Overthrow Junta!’ Greek Workers Ready To Act
OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...
No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers
ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...
POLICE KNOW BEST! – Blair’s message for House of Commons
Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked MPs for opposing the police demand for powers to hold people for 90 days without charge. Blair told his monthly...
‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss
BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...
Nationalise Gm Now!
‘GM workers in Luton should intensify their calls for a mass meeting to demand an immediate occupation,’ ex-Vauxhall convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line...
Imperial College No Confidence Vote Against Gast & Sanderson!
STAFF at Imperial College London have voted ‘no confidence’ in the university’s President Alice Gast and Muir Sanderson Chief Financial Officer demanding that they...
Cabin Crew Determined To Win
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
Three Britons killed in Israel’s targeted attack on aid convoy
SEVEN aid workers from the relief group World Central Kitchen (WCK), including three Britons, were killed in a ‘targeted attack’ by the genocidal Israeli...
DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!
TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...
Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’
THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...
Greek PM calls students ‘robbers’
LAST Tuesday on national state television, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likened students to ‘robbers’ because they have occupied their university departments in...
No Uber-style NHS workforce! – GMB union condemns Hunt
TORY health secretary Hunt is trying to create an Uber-style workforce in the NHS, with nurses and hospital staff on flexible working hours, just...
‘FRESH BLOW TO CAR INDUSTRY’! – over 10% job losses at JLR Halewood
THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...
Hamas condemns Biden for rushing arms to Israeli state
HAMAS has slammed the US Biden administration’s announcement that it is rushing another $20 billion worth of arms to Israel to escalate its genocide...
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...
REPLACE GREEK TUC BUREAUCRATS – demand youth
GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...
School students march in Athens
THOUSANDS of school pupils and student protesters in Athens tried to breach the barricades in front of the parliament building last Thursday. They faced...
Hunt refuses BMA offer –TIME FOR THE TUC TO TAKE ACTION
THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...
Justice For Marikana!
‘LONMIN – Blood on your hands! Justice for Marikana now! Amandla!’ shouted a lively protest outside the London-listed mining company’s office in Mayfair yesterday...
Anti-terror units attack town!
SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...
Firefighters To Strike Again Over Pensions
FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced on...
Eu Shares And Banks Crash
UK share prices crashed yesterday, wiping over £85bn off the London Stock Exchange, with the FTSE 100 index crashing 391 points or 7.85% to...
Trade unions must draw up their own cost of living index
YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...
NHS 111 ‘an abject failure’
THE Coalition’s privately-run flagship ‘NHS 111’ service was thrown into disarray yesterday, when NHS Direct announced it is to pull out. NHS 111 is run...
3,439 firefighters dead after the 9/11 clean up – Thousands more dying of asbestos...
US FIREFIGHTERS are dying from asbestos-related diseases as a result of being sent in to clean up after the collapse of the Twin Towers...
NO DEAL! – says PCS
THE pcs civil servants union yesterday rejected the government’s pensions plan to force public servants to pay more and work longer for less in...
‘FOOD POVERTY!’ A public health emergency says BMJ
FOOD poverty in the UK has now become a ‘public health emergency’, a group of health experts said yesterday. In a letter to...