Labour to scrap Universal Credit! – John McDonnell makes a pledge
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...
Arrogant Barnier to ‘teach British a lesson!’
EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...
‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK Parliament
‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...
Sheffield lecturers are determined to beat the attack on their pay!
THERE were picket lines outside every department at Sheffield University’s many buildings yesterday morning with striking lecturers and staff determined to fight until they...
HANDS OFF OUR GP SURGERY! – 200 residents & GPs protest against privatisation
‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...
Scotland Votes For Boycott Of Israel!
SCOTLAND’S Parliament has voted to impose an immediate and comprehensive boycott of Israel and companies linked to its genocide in Gaza, passing a landmark...
Maternity cuts despite baby boom
HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool
Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...
Gate Gourmet Deal ‘Worthless’
‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...
TUC gives its full support to Sunak
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
US President Biden bans Russian oil & gas
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced yesterday the country is banning Russian oil and gas in response to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Biden said...
B of E raises its Bank Rate to 4%
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting ending on 1 February 2023, voted by a majority of 7-2 to increase...
No Forced Labour For Youth!
Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...
The Great Betrayal – NHS Union Leaders Surrender To Tories
NHS trade unions suspended the industrial action planned for today following proposals put forward by the government. Unison head of health and the unions’ lead...
Fight Threat To Chase Farm Hospital
THE Chief Executive of Enfield, Barnet and Haringey Clinical Strategy Project Board, Ms Johnson, has made it clear the Board intends to press ahead...
‘COORDINATE STRIKE ACTION’ – says PCS leader Serwotka
‘WE are now about to move to ballot 270,000 members for industrial action, unless the government withdraws its threat of compulsory redundancies.’ This is what...
Gate Gourmet pickets angry at TGWU leaders
GATE Gourmet locked out workers were angry yesterday when they were told by the local union office that that they had received the last...
MEDVEDEV WARNS GEORGIA –Insists US is still arming Saakashvili
RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...
US doctors stand against genocide!
UNITED States Capitol Police have arrested several members of the medical advocacy group Doctors Against Genocide, who had gathered to hold a press conference...
Firefighters exposed to deadly carcinogens – FBU demands greater protection
FIREFIGHTERS are at risk not only from running into burning buildings to save lives but through daily exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxics; and...
McCluskey praises Miliband while Crow calls for a new Labour Party at the Durham...
OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...
Rally against St Mungo’s union-busting!
‘ST MUNGO’S should hang its head in shame,’ said Unite ahead of today’s solidarity midday rally outside the homelessness charity’s London HQ in St...
We Are Fighting Until We Win
LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...
Inquiry Into Mi5 Death Squads In North Of Ireland
AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...
‘The Met took my son’s life’
‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...
Tory Cuts Have Caused NHS Nursing Crisis!
THE Royal College of Nursing yesterday slammed government cuts over the NHS staffing crisis. Janet Davies, RCN Chief Executive and General Secretary said: ‘The RCN...
GPs REFUSE TO CHARGE PATIENTS
GPs FROM across the UK yesterday resoundingly rejected calls to introduce a charge for access to general practice. The proposal was debated and voted...
de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’
THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...
Amcu to march on British embassy!
THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...
JERUSALEM NOT NEGOTIABLE – says Haniya
‘No negotiator who would give up Jerusalem has a national mandate,’ Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has warned. Addressing guests at an iftar, a fast-breaking...
BMA rejects NHS privatisation
ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...
Tory-Lib Dem Underfunding Has Created ‘Extreme Risks’ To NHS
LABOUR IS pledging a relentless focus on the NHS in its first 100 days in government as new research reveals hundreds of ‘extreme’ risks...
Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns
‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...
Heads Heckle Education Secretary Greening
ANGRY head teachers heckled Education Secretary Justine Greening yesterday as she told the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) conference about government plans...
3,700 Palestinians killed in 60 days
THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the...
‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
Patient confidentiality breached!
PATIENT confidentiality has been breached! Immigration centres, police stations and prisons have been given full access to hundreds of thousands of patients’ medical records,...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
‘There could be a Lehmans moment!’ – World Bank warning
AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...
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...
KEEP REMPLOY OPEN! – unions slam charities
Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...
HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed
The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...
‘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...
‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...