Hamas Kills 8 Israeli Soldiers
THE HAMAS military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was...
Midwives angry over pensions attack
MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...
Re-Open Maternity & Children’s Ward Demands Picket
‘RE-OPEN maternity! Re-open Children’s Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’ rang out early yesterday morning as over 50 people joined the mass Xmas picket of Ealing...
Surge in privatisation threatens NHS – warn health unions
‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...
Picturehouse 9 days of strike action
PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...
115,000 postal workers out today!
115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...
Over 10,000 workers & youth march to Trafalgar Square!
OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...
Middlesex University Strike T0Day!
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...
‘DISENFRANCHISED!’ – Workers dumped as Labour supports Tories
Labour’s support for the Tory-LibDem coalition’s public sector pay freeze leaves public sector workers ‘disenfranchised’, the leader of the biggest trade union and biggest...
‘ZERO CHANCE OF TRANSPORT DEAL’ – RMT warns Johnson government
RMT WARNS there is zero chance of agreement to government plans to increase transport services on 11th May in the current climate, as a...
Hamas condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza! Strip
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...
BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...
10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!
UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...
Government rides roughshod! – Cameron excludes health professionals
‘DON’T you dare lie to me!’ angry pensioner June Hautot shouted at Health Secretary Lansley as she confronted him at the entrance to Downing...
NHS buildings ‘verge of collapse’ – Risk of ‘corporate manslaughter’!
AN NHS hospital has commissioned a report into the risk of corporate mans-laughter charges should a fatal roof collapse occur, leaked documents exposed yesterday. West...
‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member
EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...
Tories In ‘Head-On Collision’ With Classroom Teachers
Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...
‘A MONUMENTAL VICTORY!’ – GMB wins Uber Tribunal
‘A MONUMENTAL victory!’ the GMB union declared yesterday as the London employment tribunal ruled against Uber and in favour of the workforce who are...
NHS 111 ‘an abject failure’
THE Coalition’s privately-run flagship ‘NHS 111’ service was thrown into disarray yesterday, when NHS Direct announced it is to pull out. NHS 111 is run...
Kingsbury Teachers Strike
STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...
2012–The year for organising the working class to take power
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2012 to all our readers and to the working class...
Chinese workers taking action against major Western companies
THE Chinese Stalinist bureaucracy and its big business friends are under attack from the Chinese working class, which is insisting that the super-exploitation of...
Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...
UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...
LABOUR’S POLICIES ‘MAD’ – GPs leader meldrum threatens action over pensions
Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GPs Committee yesterday warned Labour not to marginalise family doctors. He was referring to Practice Based...
‘Don’t put children ‘at the mercy of the market’
THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...
WE ARE GOING TO WIN! – say striking Grangemouth workers
The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...
Angry Iraqis March For Saddam
Hundreds of angry supporters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, many of them armed, protested yesterday against his execution and blamed leading Iraqi politicians for...
DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College
students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...
Chancellor ignores the crisis!
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...
Sas Are In Misratah!
WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...
‘Failing Grayling’ must go says RMT leader Mick Cash
RMT’s Mick Cash has repeated his call for ‘Failing Grayling’ to go as the scale of the probation service scandal emerges. Cash said: ‘The truly...
Doctors at risk from fatigue!
LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...
‘What gives Israel rights to annex these lands?’ – Abbas addresses UNSC
‘WHAT GIVES you the right to annex these lands?’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded, referring to Israel’s plan to seize even more of Palestine...
LONGEST PAY FREEZE SINCE QUEEN VICTORIA says Unite
WAGE growth is lagging behind inflation for the first time since mid-2014, official figures show. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the...
Flooding – Call For Five Year Reconstruction Plan
THE flood-hit South West of England needs a joined up, five year reconstruction and development plan to rebuild the economic, transport and social fabric,...
MASS PICKET OF HIGH COURT – as Chagos Islanders fight Blair Appeal
TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters descended on the Court of Appeal in London yesterday, demanding that the court upholds their right to...
‘Unworkable unethical and extortionate!’ – Patel’s war on asylum seekers is condemned
‘UNWORKABLE, unethical and extortionate,’ was Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s response to Home Secretary Priti Patel’s statement to the House of Commons on...
Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits
THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...
Stop privatising Barnet!
BARNET Unison members were in determined mood yesterday as they began their 24-hour strike against privatisation of all Barnet Council services. The dispute involves social...
Palestine Action occupy Elbit factory in Oldham
PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...
CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA
CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...
‘There is no safe place on the Gaza strip!’
‘LIFE has completely vanished, and the displaced wander with uncertainty, not knowing where to go as there is no safe place in the Gaza...
Government refuses to hand over pandemic messages & notebooks – NOW FACES LEGAL ACTION
THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...
BA Boss Cruz Sacked
ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...
‘Free free Palestine – BBC shame on you’ says mass picket
‘FREE free Palestine! BBC shame on you, your hands are bloody too!’ chanted 100 protesters outside the BBC in central London yesterday. The vigil marked...