Release Congolese Detainees – Urge Protesters
REFUGEES from the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) celebrated their court victory last week, as they demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday against deportations...
‘We Need A Pay Rise!’ Shout Striking RMT Cleaners
‘WE need rise of pay! RMT here to stay!’ shouted over 40 striking cleaners outside Arriva Rail’s London head office in Swiss Cottage yesterday...
‘An attack on Russian citizens is an attack on Russia’
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Lavrov has said that the US is ‘running the show in Kiev’, and that an attack on Russian...
Hamas calls for popular uprising against settlers
THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...
Palestinian hunger striker wins his freedom! Kayed Fasfous is to be released December...
PALESTINIAN prisoner Kayed Fasfous has won a decisive victory and ends his hunger strike after an agreement was reached to end his administrative det-ention...
Bangladeshi parents fighting back
PARENTS and families of disabled children in Bow in East London are fighting back against the closure of the Bangladeshi Parents Advice (BPA) Service...
SECRET JUSTICE AND SECRET HEARINGS – is now Coalition policy
A SECRET Justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation, warned legal action charity Reprieve yesterday. Reprieve said: ‘The government this week confirmed that plans...
‘We don’t trust you, and we will fight against you!’ – Lindsey oil refinery...
‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...
LET IN THE TRUCKS! – Israel blocking 6,000 aid trucks for Gaza
‘LET IN THE TRUCKS’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) demanded yesterday. Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA’s media advisor, demanded that Israel...
LDV van plant 810 workers sacked
Birmingham-based vanmaker LDV was yesterday placed into administration by a court, threatening up to 850 jobs and thousands more in the supply chain. In addition...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets
OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
‘NO MORE NHS LOGISTICS!’ – Prentis tells News Line
‘There will be no more NHS Logistics,’ UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis assured News Line yesterday. He was referring to the way the unions allowed...
Two Pumas Down – Two Dead, 15 Injured
Two UK servicemen were killed yesterday when two British helicopters crashed in northern Iraq in the early hours, Defence Secretary Des Browne...
3,000 sackings as Grangemouth closes after 100 years!
ALL OIL refining ceased in Scotland yesterday with the closure of the Grangemouth refinery, after more than 100 years of operation. Mass sackings of the...
Let child refugees in to UK! – Demands damning MPs committee report
‘SIGNIFICANT numbers’ of child refugees must be ‘promptly taken in by the UK and cared for’ a Parliamentary committee has demanded. The UK’s European Union...
MPs MOVE TO DUMP PRESCOTT
Ministers rushed to attempt a papering over of the yawning cracks in the Blair government yesterday as pressure built up on Deputy Prime Minister...
Save Fenlands Jobs
TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...
Civil Servants Fury Over Job Cuts
OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...
Landlord seeking ‘Benefit Cap’ possession orders!
HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...
Prevention rather than cure! – Tories unveil 10-year plan to smash NHS
‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...
‘We Won’t Let You Close Lewisham Hospital’
LEWISHAM East Labour MP Heidi Alexander handed in a 22,000 signature petition to Downing Street yesterday against plans to axe Lewisham Hospital’s A&E and...
Junior Doctors Still Being Left To Fight Alone
OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...
Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband the police!’
THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...
Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote unanimously
A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...
Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change
NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...
RML calls for Greek workers and small farmers government
THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...
STOP MATERNITY CLOSURE! – say Save Eastbourne Hospital Campaign
Campaigners in Sussex yesterday said they will continue their fight to keep fully functioning district general hospitals in both Eastbourne and Hastings. This followed the...
BMA & RCGP deny supporting Tory ‘fit notes’ and ESA cuts
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have sought to repudiate the claims by the Department of Work...
Capita Shares Plunge 40%
CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...
‘We will fight NHS sackings’
‘We are going to fight the compulsory redundancies,’ West Midlands UNISON regional officer Opinder Tiwana told News Line yesterday, in the wake of University...
Platinum Miners Victory!
‘NO MORE starving for us and our families!’ elated miners chanted as celebrations broke out across Rustenburg in South Africa, as the country’s longest...
Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa
‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...
Unite workers support March
JOE Morgan from the GMB yesterday morning treated the YS marchers to a hearty breakfast to fuel their journey from Birmingham out to Wolverhampton...
20,000 wounded still trapped in Gaza Strip
OVER 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with ‘limited access to healthcare’, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite...
Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’
CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...
News Line Anniversary Rally: Sunday December 2
The News Line Anniversary Rally takes place on Sunday December 2nd from 2-6pm at Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary university, Mile End, London E1 Nearest...
‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO JOIN THE FIGHT’ – say London...
Postal workers were out on strike across London, Essex, Scotland and the West Midlands yesterday, the first of a number of days of strike...
Housing: new crash fears!
THE number of buy-to-let loans, and the amount of lending, are now their highest since the financial crash in the third quarter of 2008,...
Government NHS Reforms Impossible To Deliver – RCN
A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers
‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...
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...
Universal Credit will double homelessness
‘HOW many more families does the minister estimate will be made homeless this winter as a result of this government’s refusal to pause the...
125,000 workers, students & youth march for Palestine
THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...
Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...
ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...
Israeli navy halts the Gaza freedom Flotilla
ORGANISERS of the international ‘Flotilla of Resilience’ announced Thursday afternoon that the Israeli navy intercepted 40 out of 44 boats carrying activists and humanitarian...