NHS BUDGET CUTS PLAN – condemned by UNISON trade union
Public sector union Unison yesterday condemned government plans to incorporate donations from charities into NHS budgets. It is estimated the move will deprive cash-strapped NHS...
Shell Tanker Drivers Out Solid!
Pickets were out at twelve fuel depots from 6am yesterday as over 600 Shell tanker drivers empl-oyed by two companies, Hoyer UK and Suckling...
Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths
LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...
Bank of Ireland pre-tax loss of 1.25bn euros
BANK of Ireland has recorded a pre-tax loss of 1.25 billion euros for the first six months of the year compared to a 556m...
JOHNSON ACCUSED OF LYING! – ‘has questions to answer’ – Corbyn
TORY Foreign Secretary Johnson was yesterday accused of having ‘lied’ and of ‘misleading the British public’ by claiming that Porton Down had identified Russia...
Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!
HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...
TIME TO GET RID OF THE CRISIS-RIDDEN CAPITALIST SYSTEM – WRP’s MAY DAY MANIFESTO
THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world who are confronting a...
‘We have created a historic epic’ says Haniya
ISMAIL Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, has saluted the Palestinian people for their steadfastness in the harsh battle. ‘They have become the...
Olmert Resumes Strikes At Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered a resumption of military strikes against Palestinian militants, and was accused of breaking the truce...
Stop Chase Farm Closure!
THE North East London Council of Action is organising a march through Enfield today starting from the war memorial at 1pm to Chase ...
Medical students support Junior Doctors
MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...
‘Withdraw UK troops from Iraq immediately’ – PCS conference decides
‘Iraqi people do not want a foreign occupation of their country,’ Paula Kennedy, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester Branch, told the conference of the Public...
TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd
PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...
‘TORTURED, HANGED AND MUTILATED!’ Inquiry opens into UK army war crimes in Iraq
THE Al-Sweady inquiry into allegations that more than 20 civilians were captured, tortured and unlawfully killed by British soldiers in Iraq in 2004, following...
STRIKES GOING AHEAD! says London District Chairman
‘Unless there is a substantial breakthrough the strikes are going ahead on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ CWU London District Chairman John Denton told News...
Israeli settlers seize the land!
ISRAELI military authorities yesterday handed 25 residents of al-Sawiyeh village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, demolition orders for their houses...
Israel committing horrific Gaza massacres
IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...
Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!
THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...
Bank of England strike ballot
STAFF at the Bank of England yesterday started voting in a strike ballot as Unite, the union representing staff at the bank called on...
Medvedev Meets Merkel To Back The Magna Bid
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea town of Sochi yesterday to discuss carmaker Opel and other industrial...
9-1 Vote For Po Strike
Post Office workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the Crown...
BATTLE FOR BOLTON NHS – plan to sack 500 and make 1,685 reapply for...
OVER 1,000 people joined a demonstration and rally on Saturday to protest over plans to cut up to 500 jobs at the...
Mosul civilian deaths and refugee crisis – Battle for Mosul intensifies
HUNDREDS of men, women and children are being killed in US-led air strikes on the city of Mosul in Iraq, and as the battle...
‘Scrap NHS Hit Squads’
Health campaigners, the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of...
35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019
March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...
MAGNA – NO COMMITMENT TO VAUXHALL WORKERS – Mandelson talks are a failure
Business Secretary Mandelson yesterday admitted that he was unable to get any commitment from GM Europe’s preferred bidder Magna on saving jobs at the...
115 Gaza deaths due to man-made famine
THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza run by Hamas, yesterday said that the famine is worsening in the Gaza Strip, warning against false...
‘WE ARE WINNING!’ – cabin crew in determined mood on day 3
The British Airways cabin crew strike is gathering strength as the management fails to keep the airplanes flying through the dispute. During the Saturday of...
Nurses Angry Over Cuts!
With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...
FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally
GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...
Johnson imposes local lockdowns!
TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...
Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th
THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...
Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay
Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...
UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm
The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...
GATE GOURMET IS FACING HUGE FINE – lawyers plead it had to sack first...
GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...
D of H wants to establish 1280 Private GP practices
Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that GP healthcare is in danger of being taken over and monopolised by private companies. Meanwhile, the doctors’ magazine Pulse...
Midwives plan more strikes over pay
HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...
Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
Grangemouth Pensions Fight Is On!
Sunday’s two-day strike by 1,200 workers at Grangemouth oil refinery will go ahead, said Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. Speaking before addressing a...
‘A general strike is the obvious next step’ – Trade unionists tell News Line
MORE than 20,000 trade unionists, workers and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on London’s May Day yesterday. The march was led by...
Hospitals & Staff Under Extreme Pressures! Says NHS Boss Stevens
‘THE FACTS are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them, hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure,’ NHS...
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...
‘We’ll do everything to avoid “No Deal” exit from EU’ says Corbyn
LABOUR leader Corbyn, appearing on the Sophy Ridge show on Sunday yesterday, was asked: ‘Can you guarantee that you’ll call a confidence motion before...
Arrested for shouting ‘Intifada’
MOTHER and daughter Azza and Haya Adam, were arrested on Wednesday evening at a pro-Palestine protest, simply for saying the word ‘intifada’. They were arrested...