PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH
‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...
‘PENSIONS DEBACLE’ IS CONDEMNED – NASUWT refuses to sign deal
The National Executive of the teacher’s union NASUWT, yesterday refused to sign up to the government’s ‘Heads of Agreement’ pensions plan. The NEC had met...
NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
Ambulance boss must quit!
AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...
Willetts resign! Demand UEA students
Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
Johnson starts to do a ‘May!’
EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...
Palestine welcomes the call for an immediate ceasefire!
THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...
Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action
The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...
TEXAS PACIFIC SELLS GATE GOURMET – Private equity on the run
PRIVATE equity raider, the Texas Pacific Group has sold airline catering company Gate Gourmet to bankers Merrill Lynch. Gate Gourmet, which is based in the...
MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m
FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...
Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens
‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...
More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...
‘Azelle Rodney Executed!’ – An Unlawful Killing
‘THIS report has found that there was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the police. ‘He was shot eight times in only two...
‘END MODERN SLAVERY!’ – Migrant workers lobby Parliament
MIGRANT domestic workers lobbied Parliament yesterday, World Human Rights Day, demanding an end to modern slavery. Workers were joined at the lobby by supporters including...
Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action
ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...
‘Imposing Pay Deal The Last Straw!’
TODAY at the CWU conference postal section, an emergency motion for strike action will be presented. This motion comes after the imposition of the wage...
Keep a guard on every train! – RMT leader Mick Cash tells News Line
RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...
‘Stop Israeli ethnic cleansing’ – demands Hamas
HAMAS has called on the international community to take immediate action to ‘stop the crime of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and massacres’ carried out...
NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital
THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...
Palestinians Form Unity Government
Palestinian leaders unveiled a new unity government yesterday that they hope will stop months of deadly factional violence and end a crippling international aid...
We Want Permanent Ceasefire
‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...
8th GAZA BABY DIES OF COLD
AN EIGHTH baby died of hypothermia due to a lack of shelters as temperatures plummeted amid Israeli military attacks on Gaza yesterday. The father of...
Failure And We’Ll Quit Say Cameron And Miliband
PM Cameron, still seeking UKIP support, said yesterday that he will fall on his sword and refuse to lead a government that refuses to...
Hamas Agrees To Ceasefire Deal!
THE HAMAS political bureau, announced yesterday evening that it has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. ‘The mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the...
Greek Bankworkers Fight Sackings
GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek...
GPs condemn £1.43 million Clinicenta contract
LONDON GPs have complained that £1.43 million has been cut from their commissioning budgets for 2009/10 while £1.4 million is paid for a centrally...
Gaza – Red Cross insists that the lives of hospital workers must not be...
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...
UK forces fighting in Syria ‘illegal’ – warns Stop the War
UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...
Assange High Court Victory
Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks, won a victory at the High Court yesterday with its ruling that he has the right to appeal to...
Students March Against Fees And Cuts
OVER a thousand students marched from University of London Union in Malet Street, central London, to the Business, Innovation and Science Department in Victoria...
Barristers strike gains support
‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...
Cleaners battle for a living wage! – while TUC joins up with Heseltine
LONDON Underground (LU) station cleaners employed by the ISS and Initial privateers on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines held a 48-hour turn-of-the-year pay...
Jaguar – 1300 Jobs To Go!
The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...
Vote WRP Vote Arj campaign ‘going really well’
I’M VOTING Arjinder Thiara, Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall,’ mental health nurse and Unison member Susan Griffiths said at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. ‘What...
Greek Riot Squads Attack Small Farmers!
ARMED squads of the Greek riot police using tear gas and truncheons attacked hundreds of small farmers who were protesting by blockading a motorway...
ELEVEN ARRESTED! – in climate change protest
ON the third day of the Climate Change camp, on the northern perimeter of Heathrow Airport, 1800 police were on duty, searching, monitoring and...
5th day of Haitian protests rage
A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...
BMW workers reject pension offer
BMW car workers, in a ballot, the results of which were announced yesterday, have rejected the ‘pension offer’ which would see the closure of...
‘More NHS cuts will harm patients’
THE British Medical Association yesterday warned that further NHS cuts will compromise patient care. It was responding to the publication of a review into NHS...
Palestine erupts!
ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...
£8.3bn spent on Afghan war – 500 more troops to be sent
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced another 500 UK troops are being sent to Afghanistan. In a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on...
NHS Spending Is At Lowest Growth Rate Since 1955
FIGURES provided by the IFS economic forecaster show that NHS spending is growing at the slowest rate since records began in 1955. NHS spending now...
‘gaza Is At Breaking Point’
Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza are at breaking point, Karen Abuzayd, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency warned yesterday. She said...
9-1 for strike action on Heathrow Express
RMT members have voted by huge majorities across the Heathrow Express for strike action in response to a package of multi-million pound cuts which...
















