‘A DAMNING INDICTMENT’ – of Labour’s social care system
‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman said yesterday. He was...
NHS ‘safe staffing’ suspended
THE ‘SAFE staffing levels’ for hospitals across the UK have been suspended, sending alarm bells ringing throughout the NHS. This has prompted the Royal College...
Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!
GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...
‘Charges Undermine The NHS’
Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...
MILLIONS WASTED ON PRIVATEERS –it will be worse if Health Bill is enacted warns...
‘This is the danger of using the private sector to deliver our health services,’ a Unison spokeswoman told News Line. ‘We’ve always warned that the...
Russia demands joint investigation with UK
‘TODAY, Scotland Yard and the British government are refusing to communicate with us, no answer, the telephones are switched off. And that brings...
Sack Woodley and Simpson!
ANGRY Rover workers yesterday slammed their betrayal by trade union leaders, Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley, and Amicus General Secretary...
1.6 million Palestinians are starving in Gaza!
MORE than one and a half million Palestinians are starving in Gaza this New Year’s Eve, as the Israeli army continues to block essential...
Unite to take BA to court
The Unite trade union yesterday announced it is to take legal action to stop British Airways imposing its disputed new work contracts on 14,000...
Winter A&E Crisis Now All Year Round
THE Royal College of Emergency Medicine yesterday welcomed the findings of the report into the pressures facing emergency departments throughout the winter. The report finds...
Gaza Protest Youth Being Jailed
THE whole trade union movement must demand the immediate release of young protesters jailed over the Gaza demonstrations last year – and the dropping...
NINE OUT OF TEN WORSE OFF – under Universal Credit
‘Nine out of ten people are expected to be worse off under the new Universal Credit system,’ Tim Nichols of the Child Poverty Action...
Thousands join BBC unions to take strike action!
The BBC was gripped by the biggest strike in ten years yesterday, as over 11,000 journalists and technicians from all three BBC unions –...
Hundreds of students join lecturers’ struggle at Goldsmiths!
HUNDREDS of students have joined their lecturers at Goldsmiths University fighting the cuts to education and the introduction of casual labour. The students and lecturers...
‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’
TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...
Russia Rejects Brown Attack
In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...
‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of capitalism’ – says...
‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...
‘We will never back down!’ – Iran warns US and Israel
‘The criminal US must know that in addition to punishing its illegitimate and aggressive offspring (Israel), the hands of Islam’s fighters within the armed...
Lambeth College strike action!
LAMBETH College UCU strikers held a lively picket and rally yesterday, on the last strike day of 2014 and stressed their determination to...
Labour’s Secret Detentions On Diego Garcia
Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...
Strikebreakers Repelled!
Striking drivers and warehouse workers at the Iceland distribution depot in Enfield told of brutal attempts yesterday to break their strike by contractor DHL...
Grenfell fire ‘could have been put out with an extinguisher’ – Outrageous claim by...
CLADDING which burst into flames up the side of Grenfell Tower ‘could have been put out with a simple extinguisher’, cladding company Arconic has...
‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men
,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...
‘Unions must strike to release Assange!’ Protesters rally outside the Old Bailey
‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...
Paying Mortgage By Credit Card!
More than two million people have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent, an increase of almost 50 per cent in a...
‘WE NEED SERIOUS ACTION’ – nurses tell News Line
‘Keep nurses working – keep patients safe,’ Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Beverley Malone told 1,000 cheering nurses at Westminster Central Hall yesterday. ‘As...
Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit
LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...
RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are looking forward to their six months anniversary picket this Friday between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. They have been picketing ...
‘TOTALLY INADEQUATE!’ – unions condemn £500 A&E ‘bail-out’
THE British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison yesterday dismissed as ‘papering over the cracks’, Cameron’s announcement of a £500m ‘bail-out’ over two years for...
Kenyan Torture Victims Testify Today
THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...
‘Shrewsbury Conspiracy’ debate
BLAYDON Labour MP Dave Anderson has secured a parliamentary debate on behalf of the Shrewsbury 24 campaign this Thursday, 23 January, over the government’s...
KICK TORIES OUT ON JUNE 8th
‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...
6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!
MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet
BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...
Don’t withhold the Palestinian revenues urge Nordic nations!
THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian...
BATTLE FOR BOLTON NHS – plan to sack 500 and make 1,685 reapply for...
OVER 1,000 people joined a demonstration and rally on Saturday to protest over plans to cut up to 500 jobs at the...
Right to attend your A&E being ended!
NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...
Firefighters sign deal to respond to terrorist attacks!
FIREFIGHTERS in London and Manchester have signed agreements that will see them committed to respond to Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA), following a ballot of...
Go Now! Workers Tell Greek Pm
FOLLOWING Greek Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou’s calling of a referendum on the EU austerity programme, angry workers have called for his immediate resignation and...
Lecturers demand permanent jobs
HIGH levels of university staff on zero-hours contracts and the escalating pay dispute, where staff are being offered an insulting 1.1% ‘pay rise’...
Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!
ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...
Mugabe Resigns!!
‘ROBERT Mugabe has handed me his letter of resignation,’ the speaker of Zimbabwe’s Parliament announced yesterday, sparking wild celebrations. Cheers, singing, shouting and dancing erupted...
SHAME ON RATCLIFFEE!’ – shout Grangemouth refinery workers
Workers on the second day of their two-day strike over pensions at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland yesterday remained defiant and determined...
‘PACKED LIKE SARDINES!’ – need for 250,000 pupil places says ATL
SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...















