‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions
SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...
Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters
FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...
Welsh NHS Cuts!
‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...
Chase Farm Closure ‘On Hold’
THE 10th picket by the North East London Council of Action outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday heard that the closure of the hospital has...
Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP
KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...
MASSIVE CORRECTION – on the way says BIS bank
THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...
Determined Resident Doctors Defy Starmer’s Threats!
TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors begin their 15th wave of strike action today in defence of their pay and conditions against attacks first...
Israel repeatedly breaching ceasefire deal
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a televised statement yesterday that Israel has violated several provisions of the first stage of the ceasefire...
Chinese AI ‘DeepSeek’ crashes US market!
CHINESE artificial intelligence company DeepSeek entered ‘holiday mode’ for Lunar New Year yesterday, having crashed the US stock market the day before. The most notable...
Cabin Crew 100% Solid
‘HUNDREDS of planes are grounded,’ Unite said yesterday, on the third day of the strike action by its British Airways cabin crew members. Unite said...
FBU Steps Up Action!
FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack has announced further London-wide strike action. The strike, which will take place from 10.00am on November 5th to 9.00am on...
14 Marines Killed In Al-Anbar
Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...
Reeves scraps Winter Fuel Allowance – Pensioners to freeze in their homes
NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...
Largest School Cuts For A Generation!
TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: ...
‘WE MUST GET ON WITH BREXIT’ – TUC delegates tell WRP-YS lobbyists
LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...
Tuc Calls For Inquiry Into ‘Back To Work’ Regime
THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...
Chase Farm NHS Must Not Close
Drivers honked their horns enthusiastically saluting the picket line outside Chase Farm hospital on day ten of the daily picket fighting to keep the...
Unions must strike to stop NHS closures
CAMPAIGNERS against the closure of four west London hospital Accident and Emergency Departments expressed fury yesterday at the declaration by Imperial College Healthcare NHS...
North London bus workers strike today!
Over 2,000 bus drivers from nine garages across north London will take 24-hour strike action from 3am today following Arriva North’s decision not to...
May Preparing Indicative Votes To Try & Smash Brexit
10 DOWNING Street is preparing to allow parliament to vote on seven alternative EU options next week amid their growing fears that PM May...
Defend NHS!
GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...
25% Of Nurses Drop Out Of Degree Courses
ONE-IN-FOUR student nurses are dropping out of their degrees before graduation, according to a new investigation, adding to the ongoing NHS staffing crisis, warns...
Challenge To Labour’s Torture Policies
TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...
Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights
Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...
Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...
Fresh Intifada erupts over Jerusalem
RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...
RECOGNISE PALESTINE! – Palestinian ambassador urges MPs
MANUEL Hassassian, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, has renewed his call on MPs to pass the resolution that will be before the House...
‘We will win’ say BA strikers
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...
PCS condemns job cuts!
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...
‘Don’t put children ‘at the mercy of the market’
THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...
Oborne Quits Telegraph – – Calls For Independent Review Of Its Hsbc Coverage
THE chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph, Peter Oborne, who resigned from the newspaper on Tuesday, yesterday called for an independent review of...
Unions To Fight The Bbc Cuts!
BBC WORKERS and unions and many artists and cultural figures, have condemned the massive cuts announced by BBC Director General Mark...
Big Gains For Labour In Local Elections
THERE WERE big gains for Labour in Thursday’s English and Welsh local elections. Neither incumbent Boris Johnson nor Labour’s Ken Livingtone achieved 50 per cent...
Tory War On Workers
CHANCELLOR Hammond used his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons yesterday to warn that the Tory war on the working class and poor...
Cutting council funding will harm public health!
FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...
Israel steps up Gaza aggression – kills 9 children in UNRWA clinic
ISRAEL expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, with its minister of military affairs Israel Katz announcing plans to ‘capture extensive...
1,500 march to stop library closures
OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...
SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN – US Senate insists US military assistance illegal
THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution clearly stating that US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war against neighbouring...
Ealing demands ‘Don’t close our hospitals’
CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...
WELFARE ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – says CPS civil servants union
Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...
NHS Staffing Crisis!
THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...
NO JOBS FOR YOUTH – a national emergency says TUC
‘These grim figures show that unemployment is still a national emergency in this country,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line. He was responding to research...
UK back to Victorian times
OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...
British Troops In Syria!
THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...