Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey
‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...
Private Prisons Disaster!
‘WE HAVE consistently called for the entire prison estate to be brought back into the public sector,’ Peter McParlin, National Chairman of the Prison...
Drive Private Treatment Centres Out Of NHS
PROFESSOR Bren Neale yesterday condemned private treatment centres as dangerous and demanded that they be brought back into the NHS. This follows on from the...
Sunak scraps HS2 project and praises the Ukraine!
GIVING the closing speech at the Tory party conference in Manchester yesterday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was introduced by his billionairess wife, Akshata Murthy. Speaking...
RENATIONALISE THE RAIL – demands RMT rail union
Rail union RMT yesterday called for the renationalisation of the railways. A union statement said: ‘The post-Christmas chaos caused by major engineering overruns on the...
GLOBAL CATASTROPHE – US Treasury and IMF chief warn Obama
THE US Treasury Department and the IMF have warned that if the US does not resolve its current crisis, it will unleash a global...
NHS FRONTLINE SERVICES CUT! says Royal College of Nursing
Almost 10,000 NHS posts in England, the equivalent of a large teaching hospital, have been earmarked for cuts, the Royal College of Nursing revealed...
NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members
Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
Reverse Winter Fuel Allowance cut!
A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...
IRAN ISSUES TRUMP ARREST WARRANT! – over Soleimani assassination
IRAN’S judiciary says it has formed a committee to chase and track down those accused of complicity in the US assassination of Iranian anti-terror...
Ford Opposed Bush On Iraq
As President George Bush prepared to discuss his next move in Iraq yesterday, he was delivered a posthumous blow from former President Gerald Ford,...
KICK PRIVATEERS OUT OF NHS! – Unison condemns Hinchingbrooke privatisation
‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...
John McDonnell to speak at Gate Gourmet locked-out workers rally
‘THEY can’t be allowed to do this,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parminder Brar said yesterday after hearing that the TGWU leadership plans to...
Israeli forces storm Gaza school and kill fifteen Palestinians!
AT LEAST 15 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced families, amid a wave of attacks across the besieged...
Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...
Strike ballot vote will be a ‘game changer’
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward yesterday pledged that the union will defend the terms and conditions of postal workers following...
70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years
A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...
Welsh FBU Fury Over Doubled Working Hours
The South Wales Branch of the Fire Brigades Union is organising a ballot for industrial action to fight plans by senior Brigade management to...
POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN BROWN – and demand to call out the whole public sector
‘The phone call from Gordon Brown is not going to happen. That is why it is so important we step up the action and...
Tigers Reject Talks
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have rejected Sri Lankan government proposed peace talks in Geneva, following reports of abductions of pro-Tiger aid...
Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge
THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
Stena Plan For Cheap Labour Crews
The proposal by Stena Line to introduce a low-waged Polish crew on their Stena Seatrader ferry on the Dublin/Holyhead route from next July was...
‘ISRAEL OUT OF THE LEBANON’ say Gate Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...
Military Testing In Three Towns!
THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
Blairite Campbell Expelled From The Labour Party!
FORMER Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in...
£1bn NHS underspend
Public sector union UNISON yesterday called for a ‘fresh start’ in response to a forecasted £983m surplus in the NHS. Mike Jackson, Senior National Officer...
Armed Greek Riot Police End Occupation
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...
RECRUIT MORE MIDWIVES – NO AGENCY STAFF! says Royal College of Midwives
‘WE need an effective and sustainable solution, not a sticking plaster,’ said Jon Skewes, of the Royal College of Midwives, yesterday. Responding to Monitor, the...
‘Leave our people in Aghanistan’ Taliban warn US while G7 meets – No extension...
IF THE Americans ask for an extension on the withdrawal from Afghanistan the answer is ‘No’ Taliban spokesperson Dr Suhail Shaheen reconfirmed yesterday at...
WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis
THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...
Hunt agrees to talks!–as junior doctors call to scrap new contract
HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...
Brixton Custody Death Anger
‘All of us are shocked, numb, totally gutted,’ said an angry Samantha Rigg-David outside Brixton police station on Saturday following the death in custody...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...
‘The World Must Act Now Or Never For A Palestinian State’
FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...
Labour to win by-elections – Tories in huge NHS crisis
VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...
80,000 civil servants strike today!
JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...
Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...
Gchq Was Listening To Omagh Bombers
THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...
‘Slash, Trash and Privatise!’ STPs put patients’ lives at risk
‘IT IS CLEAR that patients’ lives are being put at risk, but the solution is not to slash, trash and privatise through the NHS...
Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!
STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...
Inflation Surge!
inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...
Herts FBU Striking Against Massive Cuts!
Hertfordshire fire crews are today striking from 2pm to 10pm against cuts in frontline personnel and fire stations. Hertfordshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has also...
Big Support For Chase Farm Occupation
THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...
Lecturers more resolute than ever
STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...
CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...





















