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Health Secretary Barclay hits out at Junior Doctors!

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...
Yesterday morning’s demonstration outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston

NO PAY RISE FOR YEARS! – end exploitation of rail cleaners say RMT

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MORE than 50 members of the RMT rail union demonstrated outside the headquarters of Network Rail at Euston yesterday morning, before picketing the Association...

Murdoch May Be Recalled

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MPs on the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sports Committee are writing to James Murdoch, ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler and...

NO PAY RISE IN 5 YEARS! – ASLEF strike expands

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ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...

NHS winter crisis – 10,000 excess deaths

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THE NHS winter crisis was responsible for an extra 10,000 deaths in the first weeks of 2018, figures published in the British Medical Journal...

Savage attack on migrants – organised by PM Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...
BMA junior doctors set up a tent outside their conference yesterday to warn about junior doctors being made homeless by the taking away of their free hospital accommodation support

NHS Bosses Won’t Talk To Bma!

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THE British Medical Association yesterday criticised NHS employers for refusing to enter into talks over the loss of hospital accommodation support. From August 2008, junior...

‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – says Anna Athow,...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...

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...

Defend West Hendon Homes!

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TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...
Greek youth marching to demand the end of the dictatorship of the European Central Bank

‘EUROZONE FACING A SYSTEM FAILURE’ says EC president Barroso

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The debt crisis is now eating at the heart of the Eurozone, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday. He urged all 27 EU...
Bus workers on the picket line at Westbourne Park garage in west London. Drivers are striking again today in their struggle for ‘fair pay and fair treatment’

Busworkers Demand Fair Pay And Fair Treatment

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BUS drivers across London and Crawley, working for First Bus, Metroline and Metrobus, are staging a 24-hour strike today, demanding a fair pay rise...
International Sorting office strikers at Langley near Heathrow on 27th July

NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members

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Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
On November 30 over 2 million workers took strike action throughout the UK in defence of their pensions – the struggle is continuing

2012–The year for organising the working class to take power

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2012 to all our readers and to the working class...
Demonstrators outside the Pakistan embassy yesterday demanded a UN-led investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s murder

‘CATASTROPHE IN PAKISTAN’ – say 200 demonstrators

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‘THE average, common individual can’t get anything, there is no flour, no diesel, there are only a few hours of electricity – the whole...

14 US soldiers killed in Iraq – as US General says British army must...

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Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...

Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over! – ‘people won’t be taken for granted’

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POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...

DETROIT GOES BUST – Democracy suspended! says US union leader Saunders

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US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...
Youth demanding justice for the Grenfell inferno victims on last Tuesday’s silent march through North Kensington

71 died in Grenfell inferno! says Police Commander Cundy

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THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV...
WRP candidate ARJ THIARA and his team got great support yesterday on the Golf Links estate near to the closure-threatened Ealing Hospital

Vote Wrp Vote Arj In Southall

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CAMPAIGNING on the big Golf Links council estate, five minutes walk from Ealing Hospital, the Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall canvas...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...

‘SUSPEND YOUR IMPOSITION AND THE STRIKE WILL BE OFF’ – Woodley pledges to BA’s...

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‘Suspend – not stop indefinitely – suspend your imposition. This strike will be off,’ Unite transport union leader Tony Woodley pledged yesterday. He was speaking...
The front of Saturday’s  50,000-strong ‘Troops Home from Iraq – No war on Iran’ demonstration in London  leaving Parliament Square

HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...

CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY

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‘THIS report rightly blames the government’s austerity agenda, including cuts to support services and children’s centres, for limiting the educational potential of disadvantaged young...

‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff

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IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...

NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union

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ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...

A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians

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NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...

Cambridge to remain in NUS

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THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...
A section of the TUC march on October 20th showing its determination to defend the NHS and the public sector

34 NHS TRUSTS IN DEFICIT – while NHS made £2 billion surplus

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IN A devastating report published yesterday on the NHS crisis, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs revealed that 34 NHS trusts are broke. The report...

Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!

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TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...

JOHNSON STAYS AWAY FROM COMMONS – no Labour Party call for his resignation

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LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...

115 Gaza deaths due to man-made famine

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza run by Hamas, yesterday said that the famine is worsening in the Gaza Strip, warning against false...
Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq led off this ‘Troops out of Iraq’ march in London

DISASTER! – more British troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Two British soldiers were killed and another two injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, yesterday. Their patrol was...
Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...

‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...

Postal Workers Will Not Accept Their Livelihoods Being Destroyed!

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THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers and Chagos Islanders marching with the WRP contingent on yesterday’s May Day march

Marchers Support Gate Gourmet Workers

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UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...
Junior doctors during their dispute warned that the Tories would put the NHS up for sale

GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA

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GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...
Rally in front of Ealing Hospital in May to defend children’s services

A&Es being slashed all over the country!

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THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

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‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...
London bus workers on strike demanding wage rises that keep pace with the rate of inflation

BROWN HANDS BANKS £500bn

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Brown and Darling yesterday announced a £500bn package of measures aimed at rescuing the banking system. The equivalent of $880bn, it means they are handing...

Israeli military continues its massacres in the region!

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THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region,...

Fight NHS Sackings

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‘We will do everything we can to avoid redundancies’, said UNISON south west regional organiser Chris Dayus yesterday, after the Royal...