‘AS POPULAR AS THE POLL TAX!’ – UCU denounces further increases in student fees
‘Any further increase in university fees will be about as popular as the poll tax,’ says University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally...
Amazon ‘work till you drop!’
AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...
Unis already raising fees to £9,250
UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
Banker is new chairman of NHS England
BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...
Strike Declared Illegal!
The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...
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...
Hague Stokes Up War On Syria
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday tried to get the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian terrorist ‘rebels’ and to stoke up...
‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS
A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...
‘NO CUT PRICE SACKINGS’ – PCS massive strike action
‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...
‘Hand on heart I did not lie to the House’ says Johnson – as...
THE HOUSE of Commons yesterday late afternoon by 569 votes to 29, a majority of 486, decided to approve the ‘Stormont Brake’ – part...
COMMANDER DICK GAVE ‘AMBIGUOUS’ ORDERS – De Menezes inquest is told
OPERATIONS commander, Cressida Dick, gave ‘ambiguous’ orders in the run-up to the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the inquest into his death...
Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...
‘Living standards being hammered’– says CWU leader Dave Ward
THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...
‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron
LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...
Farmers Descend On Parliament!
HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...
US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians
US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...
Cameron’s war on youth
TRADE unions yesterday slammed Cameron’s plans to axe housing benefits for under-25-year-olds. A TUC spokesman told News Line: ‘This is a vicious attack on young...
A&E beds & doctors crisis – May blocks 100 Indian doctors’ visas
A SEVERE shortfall of both A&E doctors and hospital beds must be tackled, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said in response...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Iran declares ‘historic & crushing defeat’ for USA
IRAN yesterday declared a ‘historic and crushing defeat’ of the United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war. It announced that Washington...
No ceasefire – only permanent end to aggression! – tens of thousands march in...
IRAN will reject any call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insisted yesterday,...
‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
£5.5bn spent on agency nurses!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has accused the coalition government of ‘truly incompetent planning’ over NHS spending on agency nurses and staff. It...
Mass support for doctors!
OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...
HOSPITALS USING MORE UNREGISTERED NURSES says Royal College of Nursing
MORE than nine in ten of England’s 50 largest NHS hospital trusts are not staffed with nurses to the level planned by their own...
SETTLERS MURDER CHILD! – ‘International Criminal Court must act’–Abbas
‘WE hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha,’ PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a...
Gadaffi Was Butchered!
EVIDENCE collected by Human Rights Watch indicts Misrata-based militias for the execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and murder of Muammar...
CQC NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE says BMA
DOCTORS at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh have voted no confidence in the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and have declared the organisation...
Tories Moving To Dump Truss!
YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...
DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million on base
The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...
Vote Wrp – Says Scott Dore Campaign
NEW young members joined the Vote Scott Dore WRP campaign team in West Ealing on Saturday afternoon. Atef Azeb, aged 17, said: ‘I don’t like...
Rail on brink of chaos! – RMT warns of rail franchising disaster
RAIL union RMT warned yesterday that the chaotic rail franchising disaster has taken a further turn for the worse. The extension of the current First...
Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’
CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...
Colleges Strike For 5% Pay Rise!
‘WHAT do we want? Five per cent! When do we Want it? Now!’ rang out on the picket line outside Lambeth College yesterday morning,...
‘NO TIME FOR NATIONALISM!’ – 5,000 car workers march to Antwerp plant
5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...
‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT
‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...
ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant
THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...
Gates Hints At Earlier US Pull-Out Of Iraq
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday hinted at the prospect of a faster withdrawal of US troops as he urged Iraq’s Arab and...
‘PLAYING WITH CHILDREN’S LIVES’ – 700 school fires in England annually
THE LONDON Fire Brigade has accused the Tory government of ‘playing with children’s lives,’ by barring the installation of sprinklers in schools. There are about...
NO SHEIKH JARRAH EVICTIONS! – Settler shoots Palestinian outside High Court
MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...
‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA
THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...
Armed Police Hunt For ‘Illegals’ In Athens
GREEK armed riot police squads assisted by other police units yesterday continued, for the fourth day running, the biggest pogrom against immigrant workers and...
Greenspan – ‘Greece will have to leave eurozone’
THE former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. Greenspan, chairman of the US...
PENSIONS STRIKES! – at 7 major UK airports in january
WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...
Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS
VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...

















