Nippon Workers Fight Back!
FORTY-FIVE drivers and warehousemen at Nippon Express Air Freight Agent in Hayes near Heathrow Airport are on their third day of a three day...
IRAQ INVASION BROKE UN CHARTER – says Blix
‘WE visited 30 sites and found no Weapons of Mass Destruction’ in Iraq, but the United States was on a ‘military high’ and decided...
‘BIG SUPPORT FOR US’ – In London region say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
GATE GOURMET locked out workers are winning great support in the London Region TGWU, and attended a meeting earlier this week. Locked out worker...
KIDNAP & TORTURE – British government knew say judges
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...
Bedroom tax challenge is going ahead!
DISABLED children and adults are challenging the legality of the coalition government’s ‘bedroom tax’ and have won the right to take their cases to...
Bma Revolution!
Doctors to demand referendum on Health Bill – No confidence in Lansley and Coalition An Uprising among doctors against the government’s plan to smash up...
Horrific Israeli massacre in Beit Lahia
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...
RECRUIT MORE MIDWIVES – NO AGENCY STAFF! says Royal College of Midwives
‘WE need an effective and sustainable solution, not a sticking plaster,’ said Jon Skewes, of the Royal College of Midwives, yesterday. Responding to Monitor, the...
Prevention rather than cure! – Tories unveil 10-year plan to smash NHS
‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...
‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member
EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...
Dozens of US banks on verge of collapse!
DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...
‘AN XMAS KICK IN THE TEETH FOR STUDENTS!’ – UCU & NUS condemn Brown...
A ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ for both staff and students is how the University and College Union (UCU) described yesterday’s slashing £398m...
‘WE’RE LOBBYING TUC TODAY’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘WE want to know if the TUC agrees with what the T&G has done to us,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Sharanjit Grewal said...
Surgeons Condemn Targets!
THE NHS must address the significant variations in care experienced by the 170,000 patients who have major emergency abdominal surgery each year, says a...
US ORDERED BINYAM TORTURE –accepted by Washington District Court
‘THIS puts another nail in the coffin of the British government’s attempts to cover up its role’ in Binyam Mohamed’s treatment, Clive Stafford Smith,...
‘UNAFFORDABLE!’ £718–average monthly rent in England & Wales
‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....
Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!
Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
‘WE COULD’T GET PEOPLE OUT!’ – Newquay pays the price for fire service cuts
‘Lives were lost because there wasn’t enough equipment to get people out – it’s our fire service,’ said Chris Findon yesterday, the owner of...
Beaten To Death
A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...
DON’T DEPORT OKAFOR-MEFOR – urge five trade union leaders
For the first time an alliance of General Secretaries of trade unions has come together in support of Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor, a Nigerian refugee...
ITS WAGE CUTS OR THE SACK! – 4,000 Hammersmith & Fulham council workers told
MORE THAN 4,000 council staff at Hammersmith and Fulham have been threatened with the sack unless they agree draconian cuts to their wages, and...
RMT pickets call for general strike!
MICK LYNCH issued a defiant message from the RMT picket line at Euston Station in central London yesterday morning, saying: ‘I’ve just heard Huw...
Youth Pay Price For Occupation
ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...
2021 – Year For World Revolution!
New Year statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2021 to all our readers, and to...
‘Our hardship payments must continue’ say Gate Gourmet pickets
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are furious that their union leaders in the TGWU have ended their hardship payments. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘We...
July deficit alarms City!
THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...
Covid-19 Crisis – London Moves To Tier 3!
‘WE MUST act now to shift the curve, when the virus develops exponentially there is not a moment to spare.’ This is what Matt Hancock,...
US-UK spying scandal – Hague to make statement
FOREIGN Secretary Hague yesterday refused to confirm or deny that GCHQ ‘circumvented the law’ to gather data on British citizens, only describing such claims...
ASLEF pickets out at Waterloo
YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...
Call for nationwide student rent strikes
THE National Union of Students (NUS) joined the calls for nationwide student rent strikes yesterday. This September (16/17/18th), activists from UCL Cut the Rent (UCL-CTR),...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
BROWN PLAYS CHINA CARD – as delegates warn they will strike against pay cuts
GORDON Brown gave his first speech as prime minister to the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. He told delegates: ‘All of us must prepare for...
NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union
ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...
LABOUR CRASHING NHS!– with its privatisation policies
‘Increased use of the private sector is skewing staffing levels in the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...
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...
‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ condemns Washington’s role in Israeli genocide
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, has unequivocally condemned Washington’s role in Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. In a series of pointed...
48hr junior doctors strike begins today
JUNIOR doctors will walk out on their fourth strike at 8am this morning and form picket lines outside every hospital in the country, as...
Hackney BSix College students lobby 10 Downing Street
Students from BSix College in Hackney lobbied 10 Downing Street Wednesday morning to protest against the cuts to the EMA, along with Unison General...
‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan
The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...
Tuc Launches March 3 Day Of Action
DOCTORS, nurses, hospital cleaners, midwives and radiographers will be amongst the thousands of NHS staff marking a national day of action on March 3...
Victory for Syrian troops
THE General Command of the Syrian army said yesterday that ‘Our armed forces succeeded early on Wednesday to restore security and stability to the...
‘SKATING ON THIN ICE!’ – RCN warns Blair on NHS while UNISON will back...
Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...
Duncan Smith Condemns The May EU Elections!
FORMER Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith called for Prime Minister Theresa May to quit before the European elections in May. Appearing on Sky’s Sophy...
Safety Fears Halt Tube Lines!
EMERGENCY brake problems that led to the suspension of the Hammersmith and City, Circle and District lines were first raised on Tuesday, London Underground’s...
Greek Workers March Against Merkel!
OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...



















