Right to strike restored – for those waiting for ‘leave to remain’
IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...
Weak Osborne declares ‘We are not powerless’ – as he demands EU Monetary Union
Chancellor Osborne and Bank of England Governor King announced a massive £140bn emergency stimulus package for ailing British capitalism on Thursday night. Both were speaking...
Euro Arrest Warrant Out For Puigdemont!
SPAIN’S state prosecutor yesterday requested a European arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and four of his former regional ministers...
CWU to be reformed to suit Royal Mail
A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...
‘FORWARD TO A GENERAL STRIKE!’ says a London PCS leader
STAFF fighting the imposition of pay cuts and the threat of more sackings – after 25,000-plus job cuts in the last three years –...
Grenfell United will continue to fight for truth!
EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...
STRIKES WILL PROCEED DURING OLYMPICS – say unions
UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...
UK protest against Nigeria’s police killings
OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...
Chase Farm Judicial Review is told ‘We want a full A&E – 24 hrs...
THE Judicial Review into the closure of Chase Farm’s Hospital A&E began yesterday morning. Enfield council is seeking the quashing of...
Labour’s Starmer offers Johnson support for the ‘national effort’
‘LATER this week we will announce which areas will fall into which tiers,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, speaking from Number 10, where...
6th Form strikes escalating
ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...
Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
Stop starving Gaza! – pots & pans protest outside Foreign Office
‘STOP starving Gaza!’ Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) protesters demanded yesterday as they banged pots and pans outside the Foreign Office in Whitehall, central...
Tens of thousands rally in Athens
Tens of thousands of workers and youth participated in yet another mass rally outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens yesterday, demanding the overthrow...
WE WANT ALL OF OUR JOBS BACK insist Gate Gourmet workers
GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...
Banker is new chairman of NHS England
BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...
‘The ANC is in a mess’ – Zingiswa Losi COSATU President
‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
Another Huge Rise In Jobless
There was another record increase in the unemployment rate to reach 2.38 million in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest figures...
SCHOOLCHILDREN WALK OUT! – against Edinburgh closures
Children at two Edinburgh schools yesterday staged a walkout of classes as part of a campaign against the planned closure of 22 schools and...
Israel decides to widen ground assault
Four Israeli soldiers were killed and a number wounded yesterday in a rocket attack at a southern Lebanese village, as fighting continued to rage along...
Tory Civil War Rages!
THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...
UN Condemns Israeli Occupation
THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing...
COUNCILS CRISIS – government refuses to guarantee funds
The Brown government has pledged to do all it can to help recover public money held in failed Icelandic banks but has refused to...
Blair Has Questions To Answer
THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...
41 Heathrow Airport Limited strikes
UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...
Fresh Rail Gourmet strikes called
TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...
Iran’s retaliatory operation dispells Israeli invincibility myth
COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the...
CWU welcomes Marchers to Merseyside!
WHILE the marchers stopped to get their picture by the statue of the leader of the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell, yesterday morning, the local...
Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards
A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...
2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!
APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
Workers anger with Tata is growing! says MP Kinnock
THE sale of Tata’s UK steel business is being held up by the Indian parent company insisting any buyer has to take on a...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
No Pledge From Mandelson – Over Gm-Magna Jobs!
BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson yesterday refused to give any guarantees to keep open the GM Luton and Ellesmere Port car plants and prevent mass...
BUDGET DAY STRIKE! – by 270,000 PCS civil servants!
THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...
BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter
TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
Nearly 100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Air Raids
‘ISRAEL is the one who started this when they assassinated (commander of Hamas’ military wing) Ahmed Jabari. Hamas didn’t start the issue,’ Hamas political...
Amazon ‘work till you drop!’
AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...
10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!
UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...
‘The attack on pensions is an attack on the NHS!’
Over 50 doctors and their supporters organised a demonstration outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London yesterday during their strike over major...
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...
Blair & Straw ‘must have known’ about Aamer torture – claims SNP’s Alex Salmond
EX-LABOUR Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ‘must have known’ about the torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer by the...
BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!
DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...
‘Bring Down The Tories!’
OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...