‘The Israeli killing machine must be brought to a halt!’
HAMAS has outlined the group’s counterproposal to a draft truce deal worked on by Qatar, Egypt, Israel, and the US. ‘The proposal was received by...
ISRAEL BOMBS QATAR! – targeting Hamas peace negotiators
ISRAEL carried out a massive bombardment of the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday with more than ten aerial munitions, aimed at assassinating the Hamas Movement’s...
ALL OUT STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS PUBLIC SECTOR! – to defend wages and jobs
‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...
GRANGEMOUTH SACK THREAT 6.00pm TODAY
FOURTEEN-hundred workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland face the sack at 6pm today if they refuse to sign a wage- and conditions-cutting...
‘we Are Marching Forward To Victory’
THE locked out Gate Gourmet workers held their mass picket of the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday, marking the deadline for signing the...
General Practice brought to its knees by funding crisis!
MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...
Tories Split Over Eu
PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...
Plymouth principal Phillips quits
UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...
‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand
UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...
Tuc Supports Tube Strike!
THE TUC has declared its support for Tube workers who are on strike today over the imposition of night working. Commenting on the strike on...
ESCALATE ACTION – as Oxford walk out
‘WE ARE going to escalate the strike action,’ a Communication Workers Union spokeswoman told News Line yesterday evening. However, she added that after a long...
‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
Maudsley & Royal Bethlem Hospital workers on their 3rd day of strike action!
FACILITIES staff are on the third day of their four-day strike action today at Maudsley and Royal Bethlem Hospitals. Lois Gyabi, striking GMB member, told...
Russia and China vetoes the UN resolution that condemns Hamas
WASHINGTON – Russia and China exercised their veto power yesterday on a US draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council regarding Gaza. The draft...
Brown Backs Royal Mail Bosses!
Postal workers yesterday responded angrily to Gordon Brown’s insistence at prime minister’s questions, on the eve of their 24-hour rolling strikes, that ‘pay settlements...
Corus Sacks 3,500 – Llanwern To Be In Mothballs
TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...
Banking Storm Ahead!
The European debt crisis is a ‘key risk’ to the UK banking sector and banks should build up their cash reserves in response, the...
Polio Epidemic In Gaza
GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...
Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity
THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...
Gate Gourmet workers campaign for anniversary march
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were interviewed by the Heathrow Airport free newspaper Skyport yesterday. Parmjit Bains told News Line: ‘All Heathrow Airport workers read it. ‘They...
Take to the streets to defend Gaza! urges Hamas
‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...
FBU ‘will Strike Against Wage Cuts’
AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...
‘A Major War Crime!’
HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...
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...
20% Vat Disaster!
‘The VAT increase to 20 per cent, price rises and low wages are the ingredients for a disaster in the making for millions of...
Ambulance boss must quit!
AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...
NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails
NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
Public support for nurses rising!
PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...
‘Arrest war criminal Netanyahu’
‘ARREST the war criminal now!’ shouted more than 500 Palestinians and their supporters outside 10 Downing Street yesterday, as they demonstrated against visiting Israeli...
Ready To Picket Bridgend!
‘WE WILL be picketing Ford Bridgend once we get the go-ahead from Tony Woodley,’ Visteon Enfield Unite Convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
Sacked cleaners occupy Ministry!
THE sacked cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry are continuing the occupation of a ministry building in central Athens since Thursday morning. They have barricade...
New junior doctors imposed contract is illegal
THE NEW contract being imposed by the Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt on junior doctors is ‘potentially illegal’, an equal rights watchdog reported yesterday. The...
Nuneaton Hospital To Be Put On The Market
APPROVAL has been given for a second NHS District General Hospital to be put out to market to be privately run or taken over....
Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing
PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...
No Punishment! Quit Eu Now!
WARRING TORY Cabinet Ministers are set to deliver a series of speeches on the ‘road to Brexit’ culminating with one by PM May within...
‘All asbestos must be removed from schools!’
Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools, demanding that ‘all asbestos...
Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’
THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...
‘Keep guards on trains’ demands RMT
AS CHINESE state-owned MTR takes over the South West Trains (SWT) contract, the RMT rail union has called on the new owner to honour...
‘NO ERROR OF JUDGEMENT’ – Cameron defends hiring Coulson
PRIME minister Cameron claimed yesterday that Andy Coulson, who had resigned as editor of the News of the World and who currently faces charges...
DEFEND CHASE FARM – decision day on closure is July 31
THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...
BELOW INFLATION RISES ARE A BIG WAGE CUT! – says Unite’s Sharon Graham
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham yesterday said below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Speaking after new...
TORTURE! – MPs committee given ‘wrong evidence’
MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights are demanding answers from defence chiefs over ‘discrepancies’ in their evidence to the...
MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
‘I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT’ – Galloway challenges Senate witchhunters
Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...
Greek Riot Police Attack Youth
THE ‘Delta’ mobile Greek riot police units arrested 47 protesting students last Thursday outside the private office of the Merchant Marine Minister M Varvitsiotis...