‘We Are Staying Till Our Demands Are Met’

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‘It was a really good march on Saturday,’ occupying Vestas worker Chris Ash told News Line yesterday. Workers have been occupying to stop the closure...
Demonstration against Virgin Care’s takeover of NHS services – They have gained over £2bn worth of contracts in the last two years!

Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS

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VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...
Ambulance staff taking strike action in October – they know that doubling ambulance times will cost people’s lives

Plans to double ambulance times condemned!

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DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...

Halt arms sales to Israel

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, on Friday has called upon the UK to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for killing Palestinian civilians...

Belgian General Strike

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‘A nation has been brought to a stop by the will of its workers and unions, who have today decisively rejected one-sided austerity measures.’ An...

Blacklisters trial!

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A HIGH Court hearing took place yesterday to seek compensation for 122 GMB members blacklisted by Carillion and other construction employers. GMB said: ‘The High...
BMA delegates voting to defend the NHS at yesterday’s consultants conference in London

WE’LL STOP NHS PRIVATISATION – say BMA consultants

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‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...
Manchester students gave their full support to ‘the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth’

Manchester SU supports YS March

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‘MANCHESTER University Students Union (SU) supports the march because we support the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth,’ said Charlie Cook, the SU...

‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free!’

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MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Parliament Square on Saturday, chanting: ‘From the River to...

3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!

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THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...

Mexican forces attack caravan

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CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...
UNISON delegates yesterday in a standing ovation to Thabitha Khumalo, Zimbabwe fraternal delegate

REJECT PENSIONS SELL-OUT call at UNISON Conference

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UNISON leaders came under fire from angry delegates at the union’s National Delegate Conference yesterday, over their decision to call off the local government...
DAVID SCHOFIELD (2nd left) and  NIGEL PLANER (3rd left) amongst more than 500 actors demonstrating last Tuesday  in Piccadilly Circus, London, to protest at the huge cuts being made in the Arts budget

STOP THE AXE! DEFEND THE ARTS! – Norwich march today!

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‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...

Maude threatens 120,000 civil service jobs!

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CABINET Office Minister Francis Maude launched a vicious onslaught on civil servants, their jobs and their trade union yesterday. He pledged to scrap up...

Unite-Gmb Appeal To Tories To Save Workers’ Jobs!

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THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...

Israel still obstructing vital supplies for Palestine!

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THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

‘Something rotten at the heart of Labour’ – Labour disaffiliation: Bakers to consult members

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THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...

Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers

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EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...
Youth marching in London insist that the NHS is not for sale

Big Business To Access Medical Records

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PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...

Corbyn Still On Both Sides

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JEREMY Corbyn hemmed and hawed yesterday over whether Labour may back Tory PM May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill which she intends to put before...

Hamas reaffirms ‘the right to resist’ Zionists

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On YESTERDAY’S second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, reaffirmed that its top priority is an immediate end to the...

‘WE WILL STRIKE WITH NURSES!’ say Manchester bus strikers

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‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

Striking Consultants On BMA Picket Lines!

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STRIKING consultants were out in force on the BMA picket line at University College Hospital, Euston, central London yesterday morning on the first of...

JUDGE LABOUR ON CHANGE IT DELIVERS – says Corbyn

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IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...

Ford’s Redundancies!

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UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...
Demonstrators in London last year demanding the ending of Musharraf’s military regime

‘MUSHARAFF MUST STAND TRIAL!’ – demand Pakistan workers and youth

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Jubilant Pakistanis danced in the streets, waved flags and fired shots in the air, and called for President Pervez Musharraf to be put on...
Postal  workers at Poplar, picketing on October 11th as part of the national strike action that was called off by the national leadership in favour of weeks of secret talks

DEFEND MAIL CENTRES – with strike action across the country

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Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders yesterday condemned Royal Mail’s announcement of major automated sorting centre closures affecting Liverpool, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport and Crewe...

‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses

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THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...
Marchers outside Parliament demanding the scrapping of Universal Credit

Universal Credit Cancels Christmas

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‘PREMEDITATED cruelty,’ is how Norfolk campaigners have described Universal Credit, which they call to be immediately scrapped. They have organised a meeting at City...
Youth in support of Palestine marching in London last May

Lifeline Convoy Sets Out For Gaza

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British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

Campaign to aid & rebuild Gaza Strip began Sunday

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MORE than 80 countries and institutions are participating in an international campaign to aid and rebuild the Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire that came...

BUDGET DAY STRIKE! – by 270,000 PCS civil servants!

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THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...

Consumers facing huge oil & gas price rises!

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THE TORY government claimed yesterday that there is no threat to the UK gas supplies, despite four energy privateers being widely tipped to go...

674,000 Residents Go Hungry In Los Angeles County

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HUNDREDS of thousands of people are going hungry in Los Angeles County, California, in the richest state in the richest country in the world. Demand...

Renationalise buses now! demand strikers

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‘WITH these private companies running London’s buses it’s a race to the bottom – the only way to stop it is to renationalise London...

EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away

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Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...
Tents in Athens where the hunger strikers are living

Four Weeks On Hunger Strike

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Dramatic events are unfolding in Athens as the 287 immigrant workers’ hunger strike completes four weeks today, Monday, 21 February. Four hunger strikers have been...

HUGE RISES IN COST OF LIVING – make unions fight for above inflation rises

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Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, rose to 4.1 per cent last month, from 4 per cent in December. However even...

‘We Are Fighting For Reinstatement’

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WHILST maintaining their daily picket near Heathrow Airport Terminal 4, Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday March...

PASSENGERS AT RISK! – if BA uses strikebreakers

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The Unite union yesterday warned that British Airways’ passengers could be put at risk by inexperienced strike-breaking cabin crew. As BA began its conversion courses...

Call a General Strike for Palestine!

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THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...
25,000 people marched in Lewisham on January 26 to save their hospital – they will be very angry at Hunt’s remarks that savage cuts will save 100 lives

Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced

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LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...

MUBARAK GO NOW! – –Millions of Egyptians pour onto the streets

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MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...
Workers marching on Parliament in July 2017 after Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell called for the Tories to go

‘We Have To Prepare For No Deal’ –Johnson

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‘We have to prepare for no deal... We have to prepare convincingly for no deal,’ former Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC’s...
London United RMT busworkers lobbying Hounslow bus garage yesterday demanding union recognition

Recognise RMT Demand London United Bus Workers

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ANGRY busworkers, members of the RMT, yesterday demonstrated outside London United’s Hounslow bus garage, as part of their fight for trade union recognition. Since joining...