Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico

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THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...

BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...
A section of yesterday’s lunchtime rally of striking staff and students outside London Metropolitan University yesterday

London Met University Strike Action

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OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

SCRAP SATS – Teachers better than tests at predicting grades

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CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...

One Hour Training For Serco Breast Cancer Screeners

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THE CANCER breast screening scandal has been exacerbated by news that the call handlers on the hotline set up by health secretary Jeremy Hunt...
Health workers marching through London in May 2013 – protesting against plans to cut and close A&Es

‘A&E SERVICES ARE AT BREAKING POINT!’ – due to government changes

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HEALTH Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has agreed to the relaxing of ambulance response times for some ‘Red 2’ category patients, which include those with...
Junior doctors last month said gender inequalities that the contract imposes are as bad as the days of the Suffragettes

Hunt agrees to talks!–as junior doctors call to scrap new contract

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HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...

‘SERIOUS UPHEAVALS’ – predicted by head of World Bank

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WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...
Palestinians in Athens climb on top of police buses and defiantly wave their flags

Nakba March In Athens

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Over 1,500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Tuesday evening to the US and Israeli embassies in commemoration of the Nakba and against...
Southall College students give their support to tomorrow’s march to Ealing Hospital to occupy the maternity unit

Ready To Occupy!

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‘IT’S BABIES, the newborns coming into this world, they must be protected and they must continue to be born in Ealing Hospital,’ Southall College...

NHS Staffing Crisis!

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...

Teenage Suspect Charged

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A seventeen-year-old boy arrested by police in connection with an alleged plot to blow up airliners has made a second appearance in court. The...
Riot police attacking workers in Athens – the Greek state is very much bodies of armed men

Riot Police Put Down Migrant Uprising

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RIOT police put down an uprising by immigrants imprisoned at Amygdaleza detention centre, near Athens, who rose up at around 10.00pm on Saturday night. They...
Protesters outside St Paul’s Way surgery in Bow last Thursday, demanding that the privateers be kept out

‘LABOUR PUSHING POLYCLINICS’ – BMAs Buckman condemns government

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday rebutted the government’s attack on the BMA leadership over family doctors’ opening hours. Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

Striking PCS members show their support for the Palestinian state!

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STRIKING PCS members were protesting outside the Department of Business & Trade yesterday and showing their support for Palestine. They were joined by a group...

‘the Unions Must Act To Win This Struggle’

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‘WHEN we went to the TUC in Brighton last month, they voted unanimously to support our struggle now we need that support to be...

‘We can’t go on like this – government has lost control!’ Sir Keir Starmer...

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Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...

Zambian villagers sue mining giant

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1,800 Zambian villagers are taking legal action in the High Court in London against UK based mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper...
A section of July’s 5,000-strong march to parliament to oppose the coalition’s Health Bill, organised by the health union Unite

Defend Our Hospitals!

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...

‘We will win!’ 50,000 farmers warn Starmer

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OVER 50,000 farmers and their supporters held a demonstration on Whitehall and outside Downing Street yesterday, demanding an end to the increase in Inheritance...

Released prisoners reveal grim tortures in Israeli facilities!

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ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...
CWU pickets at Gatwick yesterday midday, RAJ  NOTHAY (2nd from left) and STEVE MATHARU (right)

‘WE WILL WIN’ – insist striking CWU members

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‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
Junior doctors join a demonstration in London against the privatisation of the NHS

NO TWO TIER NHS! – RBS ‘conditional philanthropy’ rejected

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Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...
Junior doctors have not stopped battling since their strike actions – they have won a battle at the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in defence of their pay banding

Junior Doctors Defend Pay Band!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS have defended their protected pay banding after a year-long struggle. The BMA supported 15 foundation doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS...

Reject ‘John Lewis’ NHS!

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‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...

Council Tax imposed on poor!

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1.9 MILLION people who pay no Council Tax in the poorest households in England will pay an average of £140 a year tax from...

HEALTHCARE FOR THE RICH! – being provided by the Tory coalition

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Labour has accused the government of cutting NHS spending in England in poorer areas and moving funds towards richer parts of the country, citing...

Deport 1.5m Palestinians to Egypt & Jordan urges Trump – Hamas insists ‘We will...

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  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

Russia & China Use Veto Over Syria

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RUSSIA and China yesterday vetoed a UK-US UN Security Council resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions and regime change. The vote came a...

Assad requests Russia’s assistance –anti-IS air strikes begin

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THE Russian Federation Council has unanimously granted permission to President Putin to use the nation’s military force in Syria, Kremlin chief of...

250,000 UK Workers And Youth March For Liberation Of Palestine

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A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...

WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers

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RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

Gate Gourmet workers demand hardship pay

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers said yesterday that they were very happy with their conference with the News Line on Sunday. Mrs Rajamy Sharma told...

‘We Need A National Strike To Win This Now’

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‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation

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MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...
Demonstrators in Athens on May 1st marching in support of immigrant workers

Greek Workers & Youth Will Fight New Bourgeois Regime Of Papandreou!

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The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...
BA mixed fleet cabin crew Unite strikers were joined on the Heathrow picket line by other trade unionists supporting the strikers ‘Solidarity Saturday’

‘Real Hardship Among Strikers’

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STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew at Heathrow Airport welcomed other trade unionists on their Hatton Cross picket line on Saturday, dubbing it...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday with JOERGEN LINTE (3rd from left) a Gate Gourmet worker from No 3F Airport Workers Union in Copenhagen

UNLAWFUL! Law lords condemn Clarke’s terror plans

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Home Secretary Clarke’s plans to give police powers to hold people for 90 days without charge has been condemned as ‘unlawful’ by Law Lord,...

‘An attack on Russian citizens is an attack on Russia’

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Lavrov has said that the US is ‘running the show in Kiev’, and that an attack on Russian...

‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen

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‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...
Irish workers march through Dublin against the cost of bailing out the banks

IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro

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A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...
Protest outside the  High Court in London on Monday opposing the attempt to jail the Enfield occupation leaders

Visteon Fun Day Success In Belfast

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‘The Visteon sit-in at Belfast is continuing,’ Unite regional industrial organiser Davy McMurray told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘The convenor John McGuire and six...