Cuts and more cuts from Osborne!
CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...
POA call for general strike outside parliament
STRIKING civil servants clapped and cheered a call for a general strike at a rally outside parliament yesterday. A message of support and solidarity was...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
Horton quits – now renationalise says RMT leader Cash
THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....
NO WATER, NO DOCTOR, NO SCHOOL, NO JOB!’ – IDPs leave Kandahar camp
Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas...
Israel imposes total Gaza blockade of food, water & power!
A HUGE barrage of rockets was launched by Palestinian fighters on the Israeli city of Ashkelon yesterday, after warning residents to leave their homes...
56 envoys boycott US embassy opening
ONE Palestinian was killed and 167 others injured by Israeli forces on Friday as hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of the...
250,000 IN NEGATIVE EQUITY! – as Ryanair announce 10% fleet cut
CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...
May’s project fear – ‘Reject my deal and the only certainty will be uncertainty!’
SPEAKING in Grimsby last Friday May peddled her own ‘project fear’ line before the new vote on her deal with the EU tomorrow in...
Infectious diseases soaring in Gaza – rebuilding water & sanitation vital says Oxfam
OXFAM has reported an outbreak of waterborne and infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip amid the lack of safe water and untreated sewage overflowing...
Refurbishment to blame for fire deaths – Fire expert tells Inquiry
FIREFIGHTERS were not to blame for the stay-put strategy in the Grenfell Tower, fire expert Dr Barbara Lane told the Inquiry, it is...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
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...
KEELE BOYCOTT! – unless 38 academic sackings are withdrawn
Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...
Unite Urges Tories To Avoid Petrol Clash
Unite has sent a letter to Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change yesterday, pleading with him to intervene in the...
‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps
THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...
Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool
STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...
US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis
US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...
Mandate For NHS Privatisation
SECRETARY of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, delivered his Annual Report to Parliament on the Health Service yesterday, to coincide with the publication of...
Israel breaching ceasefire deal – only 10% of shelter gets in as storms...
ISRAEL is violating the terms of the ceasefire by not allowing the agreed minimum amount of aid to enter the enclave, Gaza’s Government Media...
Chase Farm Mass Picket
SUPPORT for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital is growing as more and more residents and staff support the picket against its closure. Passing motorists...
HAGUE EXPELS THE LIBYAN DIPLOMATS –recognises Benghazi gang as government
FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...
‘He was executed!’ –Duggan family condemn ‘lawfully killed’ verdict
‘POLICE MURDERERS’ was the cry that greeted the Jury’s verdict yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the inquest into the police killing of Mark...
OUTPUT FALLS! – as food prices are set to rocket
UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in June, the latest official figures revealed yesterday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said industrial output fell 0.5 per...
Ruthless Troika has Syriza in its grip
THE Greek Industry, Environment and Industry Minister Panos Skourletis stated on Tuesday that a general election could be called this autumn once the new...
Locked-out workers ‘disgusted’ with TGWU leaders
‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...
Railworkers strike for pay! – no rise since 2016
ASLEF and RMT railworkers are striking again this week in defence of their jobs, their working conditions, their pensions and pay. Aslef train drivers are...
Kent firefighters ready to strike against closures!
FIREFIGHTERS in Kent are considering strike action against threatened mass sackings of 76 firefighters and the closure of five fire stations by the newly-elected...
CAMPSFIELD BREAK OUT! – FOURTEEN PRISONERS FREE – Shut down illegal camp!
‘All these centres should be closed down, there should be no immigration controls,’ Teresa Hayter of the Campaign to Close Campsfield told News Line...
Charge cop who killed Chris Kaba ‘without delay’ – parents demand one year on
PARENTS of Chris Kaba, who was shot dead by police in south London a year ago today, said yesterday that they need to hear...
UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling
UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...
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...
Osborne imposes ‘Welfare Cap’
CHANCELLOR Osborne launched a massive new attack on the working class and poor yesterday, with his £11.5 billion Spending Review onslaught on pay, public...
JOHNSON PROPOSES HEALTH INSURANCE! – as Labour crisis deepens
the Brown government’s health insurance and ‘age-tax’ plans announced on Monday were condemned as privatisation and ‘a punishment for growing old’ yesterday. ‘Health insurance means...
Camberwell Art College occupied!
WE’RE here over Christmas,’ BA painting student Tobias Newbigin said at the occupation of the Camberwell College of Art yesterday. The occupation of the Wilson...
Students unite with staff in pension battle
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...
Syriza Victory!
SYRIZA swept to power yesterday in the Greek elections winning 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority. After the final results came in...
BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike
MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
Iran Hits Back At Trump
IRAN'S President Masoud Pezeshkian hit out at Donald Trump over his threats, saying he is not in a position to deprive the Iranian nation...
Military Testing In Three Towns!
THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
‘We will win’ say BA strikers
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...
Bma Votes To Proceed With Five-Day Strikes!
DESPITE enormous pressure being piled onto the junior doctors to capitulate and either shorten their strikes or call them off altogether, the BMA has...
US-UK attack basic rights – says Amnesty Report
Amnesty International has accused the United States of effectively giving governments a licence to torture. In its annual report covering 2004, the human rights organisation...