Capitalism in its greatest ever crisis – Forward to British & World Revolution

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MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARDNews Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers, youth and masses of the world who...

Eastern Ukraine refuses to vote!

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THERE were big demonstrations in Donetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities yesterday in opposition to the presidential election that was called by the unelected...

FORWARD WITH GENERAL STRIKE! – Dave Wiltshire calls for action at WRP May Day...

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DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

Hounslow march on March 25th

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‘OUR march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March is very important, not just for us but for all trade union members.’ Locked-out Gate Gourmet...

Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...

Royal Mail ‘Scare Tactic’ Condemned

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The Communic-ation Workers Union yesterday said its members would not be impressed by remarks from Royal Mail directors that bosses are ready for a...
One of the lead banners on the TUC march in London last October 26 – four months later workers are more determined than ever to get rid of the coalition

£ falls against dollar! – as UK growth prospects sink

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STERLING posted significant declines against the US dollar and euro yesterday as UK growth prospects sank. The pound was 1.5030 against the US dollar and...
Striking Serco workers outside The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday on the second day of their 48-hour strike

Serco Workers Are Determined To Win!

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‘WE WANT a 3% pay rise. SERCO are making us work more for no extra money,’ Unite hospital worker Florence Kwao said yesterday on...

Kwarteng Accused Of ‘Making Up’ Aid For Industry Plan

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Treasury officials accused Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng of ‘making things up’ when he appeared on TV yesterday morning. With PM...
DEH public electricity board workers marching to the Greek parliament square

Greek Workers And Youth Occupy!

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Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...

97% of teachers oppose SATs – National strike is looming

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NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...
Hampstead Delivery Office CWU pickets called for all out action to win their dispute

Rolling Strikes To Continue Say Cwu Leaders

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive announced yesterday afternoon it has agreed a further round of rolling strike action. A CWU statement ...

NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!

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GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...

50,000 South African bankworkers to strike! – as miners vow to occupy mines to...

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Bankworkers union Sasbo (South African Society of Bank Officials) said South Africans should brace themselves for a complete standstill in the financial services sector...

US Drives For War With Iran

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THE Iranian government yesterday denied US charges that it was smuggling arms into Afghanistan to help the Taleban destroy NATO tanks and bring down...
Solid picket line of ambulance workers at the Deptford Ambulance Station

NHS STRIKE SOLID! – Angry midwives, ambulance workers & NHS staff act!

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AMBULANCE staff, midwives and hospital staff walked out on strike yesterday in a solid action affecting the whole country. It was the first time midwives...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their supporters on the mass picket on February 10th – the six-month anniversary of the lock out

Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...

Support grows for Sweeney!

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WRP parliamentary candidate Frank Sweeney’s campaign team were out meeting workers and youth at Bruce Grove in Tottenham yesterday. They met Ibrahim who told News...

Gaza mass funeral buries 112 members of two families

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AFTER nearly three years beneath the rubble, the bodies of 112 Palestinians from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families, killed in an Israeli airstrike...
Queues outside Northern Rock bank after the 2008 collapse

Global economic crash looms!

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ALMOST half of UK stock market investors fear that markets are seriously overheating, raising fears that a major world wide economic crash is imminent,...
An enthusiastic picket outside the High Court yesterday morning. They are determined to continue the battle to stop the coalition destroying the NHS

Lewisham Hospital Cuts Judged Illegal!

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CHEERS went up outside the High Court when Justice Silber ruled yesterday that Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut the Accident & Emergency and Maternity...
West Midlands delegation standing by a CWU campaign banner outside the CWU Policy Forum in central London showing their determination to stop privatisation

‘No Way Is This Industry Going To Be Privatised’

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THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...
A strong early morning picket adds the Christmas spirit to its determination that Chase Farm Hospital must not be allowed to close

OCCUPY CHASE FARM say Enfield residents, patients and workers

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THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass Xmas Picket outside the Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to step up the fight to...

‘US mercenaries in Ukraine’

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RUSSIA is ready for negotiation with the USA, EU and Ukraine, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He added that the talks may start...

‘DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD’ – GM Works Council leader fears for Luton plant

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Negotiations over the future of GM sites in Luton and Antwerp would be ‘a hard nut’ to crack, Opel Works Council chief Klaus Franz...
Junior Doctors defending the NHS – now vital training is being axed

‘VITAL TRAINING IS BEING SACRIFICED’ says Junior Doctors chairman

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SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

38% increase in A&E waiting times – caused by government staff cuts

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A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...

Dire warnings for Europe!

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BILLIONAIRE financial speculator George Soros warned yesterday that the German economy is going to totter in the Autumn, when the crisis will ‘come to...

Labour launches savage attack on unemployed!

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LABOUR launched a new extreme attack on the unemployed yesterday, announcing that if they do not find a job within a year they will...
Over 500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Thursday night against the Syriza betrayal demanding ‘Cancel the debt’

Germany signs austerity ‘deal’ – as Greek workers riot

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THE GERMAN parliament voted yesterday to extend the ‘bailout package’ to Greece by another four months, while in Greece workers erupted on the streets...
Harrow CWU rep RICHARD KASSIR addressing yesterday’s rally

‘WE ARE GETTING READY FOR REVOLUTION’ –WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney

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‘We’re getting ready for revolution in Britain as part of the world socialist revolution.’ That was the message delivered by workers revolutionary Party General Secretary,...

‘Headcount reduction’ with no ‘unresolved surplus’ – under Royal Mail deal

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THE leaders of the CWU are backing the deal ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication...

MoJ presiding over a bloodbath

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‘THE Ministry of Justice is presiding over a bloodbath of assaults, suicides and self-injury in prisons,’ Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League...
Construction workers picketing outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning

Power Workers Call For National Jobs Action

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Over fifty power industry construction workers demonstrating outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning demanded national action to defend jobs...
Greek workers and youth confront riot police outside the Vouli in Athens

Greek Workers Reject Austerity Government

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Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion

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NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...

Over 71,000 sofa surfing this Xmas!

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‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...

SUPPORT BUILDS UP FOR LEFF – as Labour brings out its Regional Manifestos

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‘I SUPPORT Jonty Leff,’ Gideon Woldeslassie said yesterday morning, referring to the campaign to elect the Workers Revolutionary Party candidate as MP for Hackney...
Workers outside the occupied DEH computer centre building last Wednesday with trade union flags

Armed Greek Riot Police End Occupation

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At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...

24,000 schools are under Tory state control

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THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...
Young Socialists marching through east London to last year’s News Line Anniversary on November 21. They had marched from  Manchester to London demanding jobs for youth and warning workers that the only way to deal with the Tory-led coalition was to bring

‘THROW COALITION OUT!’ – YS leader says angry workers will rise up

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JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...
‘Save Chase Farm’ councillors KEIRAN McGREGOR and KATE WILKINSON (wearing T-shirts) with fellow campaigners lobbying Parliament yesterday

STOP NHS CLOSURES – say lobbying NHS hospital groups

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HEALTH workers and campaigners descended on Parliament from many parts of the country yesterday, to defend their hospitals. ‘My hospital is under threat. It’s a...
Hospital staff and local residents marching to save Whittington Hospital in February. There is massive opposition to NHS cuts

‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference

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‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...