GREEK RADIO & TV HAS BEEN OCCUPIED – General strike called and Greek riot...
TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth rushed to the state Greek TV and Radio corporation (ERT) building on Tuesday afternoon following the...
EUROSTAR 7 DAY STRIKE! –as government agrees to ACAS talks over Southern dispute
EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...
60 Years Since The ‘Catastrophe’
On the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) last Thursday, agriculture minister Dr Mohammed Al-Agha strongly criticised international institutions for not...
Prosecute companies who exploit graduates
‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...
de Menezes Memorial Is Unveiled
‘TO THIS day, not a single police officer has been punished for the deliberate shooting of an innocent man and the cover up that...
SAS chiefs covered up mass murders!
MASS murders of unarmed civilians, including women and children, by SAS members in Afghanistan were covered up by two former heads of all UK...
CWU WILL TAKE STRIKE ACTION – if Coventry Mail Centre is shut
COVENTRY postal workers are preparing for strike action to defend their jobs and their mail centre, a leading CWU officer said yesterday. Royal Mail is...
FOOD INFLATION RISE! – while union leaders agree to wage cuts
food and drink inflation rose by a hefty 11.5 per cent on an annual basis last month, the Consumer Prices Index figures revealed yesterday,...
‘Shut down Harmondsworth’
‘SHUT down Harmondsworth immigration centre!’ demanded the Movement for Justice yesterday, in response to a damning report which exposed the centre as being...
BA’S 2 YEAR PLAN – for £450m savings and up to 6,000 sackings
THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...
Hundreds more Gazans killed in hospitals and homes!
THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in...
48-Hour Tube Strike
A 48-HOUR London underground strike is to take place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, tube workers union RMT said yesterday. RMT said that the strike...
Rights At Work Under Attack!
THE TRADE UNIONS condemned huge attacks on workers’ rights announced by LibDem Business Secretary Cable yesterday. Declaring he intended to make the process of getting...
RMT Strike Action Vote
TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...
Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...
Tata steel workers vote to take strike action!
TATA Steelworkers have overwhelmingly voted to strike with three quarters of them backing industrial action, the GMB union announced on Monday. The ballot ended with...
May Day manifesto! Keep the Tories out! The working class will deal with Blair!
THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily socialist paper of the WRP, sends its greetings to the workers and youth of the...
Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action
JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
1,000 Southern trains a year: Driver Only!
SOUTHERN are running the equivalent of a 1,000 trains a year with just a driver and no other member of staff on board, RMT...
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! – Foreign Office tells UK nationals in Benghazi
THE UK Foreign Office yesterday urged British nationals to leave Benghazi at once in response to ‘a specific and imminent threat’ to Westerners from...
200,000 Tamils Rally Today
‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...
Israel intentionally starving people in Gaza since October 8th says UN
‘ISRAEL has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,’ the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri...
RCN slams Health Bill
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...
999 calls diverted – ‘Gambling with patients lives!’
‘AMBULANCE workers skills are being downgraded by schemes which suggest that a video call can be a substitute for an emergency service arriving at...
Hezbollah Battles Israel To A Standstill
HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...
Angry ARM turns on BMA leaders
BMA leaders narrowly escaped censure for their lack of leadership during the struggle against the Health and Social Care Bill yesterday, when 44% of...
Police take full responsibility for unlawful killing
THE Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of Ian Tomlinson and reached an out-of-court settlement over his ‘unlawful killing’ by a police officer...
Nurseries Crisis!
NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...
NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!
THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...
Killing Continues Minutes After Ceasefire!
Israeli forces targeted a home in Gaza City early Monday, killing a young girl and injuring dozens of Palestinians just minutes after a humanitarian...
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...
Disabled Occupy Parliament
Disabled people occupied the Central Lobby of Parliament yesterday against the abolition of their Independent Living Fund (ILP). They attempted to storm parliament itself,...
Johnson imposes local lockdowns!
TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...
General Council Members Support Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers
TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...
EMERGENCY SPECIALISTS NOT POLYCLINICS – urges College of Emergency Medicine
THE College of Emergency Medicine yesterday urged the government to invest in more emergency medicine specialists rather than polyclinics. Dr John Heyworth, incoming President of...
Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers
St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
A&Es being slashed all over the country!
THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...
Set The Strike Dates Now! Demand Cabin Crew
‘We want the next strike dates set now,’ a female British Airways cabin crew member at Heathrow told News Line yesterday. She was responding ...
Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!
AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...
Inquiry into sub-postmasters scandal opens
‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...
‘Charge sheet against Hancock grows by the hour!’ says Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...
‘we All Need To Strike Together’
THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...
15,000 depend on foodbanks this Christmas!
THE number of people who turn to foodbanks over the Christmas fortnight is expected to double, with the economic crisis driving more households below...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Nurses will defend Bursaries! – they condemn doctors’ strike suspension
STUDENT nurses demanded action to defend their bursaries at a Unison student nursing summit held at the union’s headquarters in Euston, central London, yesterday. Sophia...