6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!
MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning
‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...
Clashes In Athens
Clashes broke out yesterday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis...
3,300 STAFF & 1,500 BEDS CUT SINCE 2010! – in the mental health service
MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...
Southern guards strike today
‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...
More Leaving Than Joining Nursing
RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...
PM Johnson reaches out to Labour!
‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...
‘Youth won’t accept slave labour’
YOUNG Socialist editor Paul Lepper yesterday slammed the figures produced by the government for its welfare to work programme. He said: ‘These figures expose the...
Farmers warn of ‘humanitarian crisis’– if Family Farm Tax not scrapped
ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...
STOP NHS CLOSURES – say lobbying NHS hospital groups
HEALTH workers and campaigners descended on Parliament from many parts of the country yesterday, to defend their hospitals. ‘My hospital is under threat. It’s a...
Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire
‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
Assange Must Be Freed!
ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...
GO NOW! Scottish Labour leader demands of Starmer
SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded PM Keir Starmer stand down yesterday, saying: ‘The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street...
Capitalist debt transferred to the poor – McDonnell indicts Spring Statement
‘I AM pleased to report to the House on a UK economy that has grown in every year since 2010,’ Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond...
Leon Briggs’ family furious! – no action against police after his death
NO ACTION is to be taken against the police after the death of Leon Briggs, who died after being restrained by police in 2013,...
‘I would agree with a general strike’ says RMT’s Dempsey!
THE RMT Deputy General Secretary Eddie Dempsey made the call for a general strike when he spoke out on the picket line at Euston...
Probation Staff Strike Today!
STAFF working for the probation service in England and Wales are walking out of their offices at noon today in a 24 hour strike...
‘NO CUT PRICE SACKINGS’ – PCS massive strike action
‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
London, Essex and York tough restrictions imposed – while Liverpool intensive care beds reach...
MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said...
Five US Marines Killed
Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday. Their armoured...
Vaccine passport trials beginning in mid April!
VACCINE passport trials will begin from mid-April, Tory PM Johnson announced at the 5pm briefing yesterday. When asked he said: ‘Obviously we are looking at...
Greek Public Sector Strike Today
AT A STORMY packed meeting of some 300 delegates on Monday the Greek Public Workers Confederation ADEDY decided to call a national 24-hour strike...
Thames Water must be nationalised!
THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This...
WORK TILL YOU’RE 65 – BA unveils pensions plan for pilots
British Airways announced yesterday it has drawn up ‘a proposal to clear the £1 billion past service actuarial deficit in its New Airways...
Greek Stocks ‘Meltdown’
THE Athens Stock Exchange collapsed again by 7.35 per cent on Thursday wiping 13 billion euros off shares. In the last three days it has...
KREMLIN ATTACK WAS ON WASHINGTON’S ORDERS – says Peskov
RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...
Heathrow trade unionists support Gate Gourmet workers
HEATHROW Airport trade unionists are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers rally at the end of Monday’s TUC May Day march through London. At...
‘WITHOUT JERUSALEM THERE WILL BE NO PEACE’ says Qurei
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Tuesday that, ‘without Jerusalem there will be no peace’ with Israel. ‘Peace starts in Jerusalem and ends there. Peace...
‘CUTS TO NHS ‘RISK TO LIVES’ – warns RCN leader
‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...
RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress
DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...
‘HANDS OFF OUR JOBS, WAGES AND PENSIONS’ – Lecturers warn the Tory Lib-Dems
On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...
Israeli trade unions call a general strike!
THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...
Sheds with beds death trap!
THE LONDON Fire Brigade yesterday issued a statement that over the last five years there have been 438 fires in London in factories,...
Tories unveil sweeping new police powers to ban protests
THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...
1.2m HUNGRY CHILDREN!
More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...
Imposed Contract Stresses Junior Doctors!
ANXIETY, stress and depression were to blame for nearly half the sick days taken by doctors in central Bristol last year, according to new...
Halt NHS privatisation! – no consent from the people
LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has called for NHS privatisation to be halted until after the 2015 general election. Speaking yesterday Burnham said ‘privatisation...
70,000 lecturers vote for national university strike
Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities are to strike after University and College Union (UCU) members overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ in two historic national ballots. The...
492 dead from Covid-19 in 24 hours – report Tory PM Johnson and NHS...
TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...
Corbyn Praises Hunt And Javid!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a boost to Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt and business secretary Sajid Javid during his speech at the CBI...
Cabin Crew Strike Over Poverty Pay!
THOUSANDS of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Seventy-nine...
LABOUR NOW ‘PARTY OF PATRIOTISM!’ – says witch-hunting Keir Starmer
SIR KEIR Starmer announced the institution of a witch-hunting regime in the Labour Party at a 30-minute press conference in East London yesterday. He insisted...
PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank
Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...
Greek farmers are staging mass motorway blockades – as well as blocking customs entry
GREEK farmers staged mass tractor motorway blockades on Thursday and Friday, while also blocking customs entry points into Greece from neighbouring Balkan countries, as...














