Hezbollah – a strategic threat to Israel

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NAIM Qassim, deputy secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, has underlined the continued resistance against the US and Israel will never surrender. ‘The only...

ROYAL MAIL £50m OFCOM FINE!

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general postal secretary, Terry Pullinger, has reminded the communications industry regulator that its primary statutory duty is ‘to protect...

Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson

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WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...

General Strike in Palestine!

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A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...

Israel approves 22 new illegal settlements in West Bank

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Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...
Young people at the front of the 3,000-strong NE London Council of Action march against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield last November

DEFEND CHASE FARM – decision day on closure is July 31

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THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...

STOP NO-DEAL BREXIT ‘BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!’ – urges John McDonnell and Shami...

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...
Thousands of teachers march through central London yesterday during their nationwide strike against savage cuts

‘We are defending education’ from massive Tory cuts!

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‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...
Christmas picket enthusiastically showing its determination to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

Chase Farm Support From Unite Leader

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THE North-East London Council of Action Christmas picket of Chase Farm Hospital got a very warm reception yesterday for its demand to occupy to...
Campaigners marching from University College Hospital to the Department of Health in May demanding that NHS privatisation be stopped

‘WITHDRAW THE HEALTH BILL!’ –insists BMA conference against executive advice

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BMA representatives yesterday voted – against the advice of BMA Council Chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum – to ‘continue to call for the Health...

May Returns To ‘No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal!’

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AFTER PM May’s Chequers deal was blown out of the water by the EU on Thursday evening, yesterday May ‘addressed the nation’ and said...

£18m wage cut for mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust

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Up to 1,100 NHS jobs are to be axed at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, in a bid to cut the pay bill by...

‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...

‘ON OUR WAY TO VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday campaigning outside the Transport and General Workers Union regional office in Hillingdon, near Heathrow Airport. On Saturday the...

Greek Workers Want An Indefinite General Strike

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WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...

Israel Plans To Execute Palestinian Prisoners!

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THE Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) national security committee for approving a draft law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. In a...

Assault On Sick

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The government is planning a new savage assault on the sick and disabled. A government-commissioned review by Professor Carol Black and former head of the...
A recent march through Enfield to keep Chase Farm Hospital open, stop the cuts and defeat the Health and Social Care Bill

‘WITHDRAW HEALTH BILL’ say 92% of GPs

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Over 92 per cent of respondents to a poll carried out by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) think that it is appropriate...

STOP PRIVATISING THE NHS! say BMA and Unite strikers

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BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity...

‘I will now form government’ – May

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‘I WILL now form a government,’ Theresa May declared yesterday in a statement outside Downing Street after returning from Buckingham Palace. May said this...

Patel responds to drownings by stepping up her attacks on refugees

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IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...
Hackney Community College lecturers and students at the demonstration to defend ESOL courses on April 28th

DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College

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students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...

Chagos Islanders ‘Cannot Return’

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FORMER residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their legal challenge to...
Workers at the Ritzy, Brixton are fighting for the Living Wage in the face of a rapidly rising cost of living. They are taking strike action again today

Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!

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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...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...
Determined Brentford and Isleworth delivery office pickets on Thursday morning

We Need A Public Sector Alliance

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‘The strikes are strongly supported, our members are determined to continue the strike action until Royal Mail seriously negotiates,’ a Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...

Parents going hungry! – to help feed their children

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THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...
Lecturers, university staff and students on the picket line outside Queen Mary University in East London during their last strike on October 31

Nationwide University Strike Today!

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UNIVERSITY and college workers are holding the most widespread strike action in Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) for years. Staff in universities have...
Defiant striking busworkers outside the Lea  Interchange garage in north London yesterday

London Bus Strike ‘Solid’

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‘The strike was properly solid! Only four buses went out of 142 buses,’ Unite Rep Mickey Leachman said when he spoke to News line...

UN To Hold New Gaza Ceasefire Vote

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THE UNITED Nations General Assembly began an emergency session yesterday to debate a resolution demanding ‘an immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza. No country has a...
Mass demonstration in August last year leading to the defeat of the government’s vote to authorise air strikes on Syria

Vote Today On UK Joining Air Strikes On Iraq

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PARLIAMENT has been recalled from its summer break today especially to vote on whether the UK will join the US-led air strikes against ISIL...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs

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A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...
Unite and Unison members march to defend their pensions – on Thursday’s strike they will be joined by other public sector unions

Unions Rebut New Tory Strike Ban Threat

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UNITE and Unison rebutted threats issued by Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude yesterday morning, in which he poured Tory vitriol on this Thursday’s mass one-day...

Teachers fury at Labour’s ‘inadequate & unfunded’ 2.8% offer!

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DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London yesterday

‘LOW PAY NO WAY’ say CT pickets

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Shouts of ‘Low Pay, No Way!’ rang out at a 50-strong, lively picket of busworkers outside CT Plus garage in Hackney in east London...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC demanding action to win their jobs back

No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers

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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...
GMB members working for NCP demanding union recognition yesterday outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane

3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB

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‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...

SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Defend every hospital

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Saturday April 6th

Pathology Privatisation Fiasco

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The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...

‘Living standards being hammered’– says CWU leader Dave Ward

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THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a  ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...

COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%

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COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

Israel launches ‘war of extermination!’ – 274 killed in first few hours yesterday

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THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...

May ‘Flexible’ On Brexit Leaving Date

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DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...

21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

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ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...