‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB
‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...
‘All-out strike to make education free’
‘STUDENTS and lecturers must go out on strike, in fact, I am for an all-out strike, to ensure education is free,’ said Dalia Giuaballa,...
Junior doctors be warned over the new GPs contract!
JUNIOR doctors be warned. A historic new GP contract has been quietly negotiated by the BMA and NHSEngland, designed to catapult NHS healthcare into...
MOODY’s WARNS – UK WILL LOSE CREDIT RATING
BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...
Workers Kept In Dark Over Mandelson Visit
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...
‘Trying to hide widespread criminality!’ MP Watson accuses Ex-NI advisor Crone
THE former News International legal manager Tom Crone was yesterday accused by Labour MP Tom Watson of ‘trying to conceal widespread criminality’ at...
‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’
TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...
NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door
THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...
Right-Wing Mobs Take To Arms In Ukraine
As well as Lviv, the occupation of government buildings by anti-government activists and confrontations with police were reported yesterday in the western cities of...
NHS 111 ‘an abject failure’
THE Coalition’s privately-run flagship ‘NHS 111’ service was thrown into disarray yesterday, when NHS Direct announced it is to pull out. NHS 111 is run...
‘RATE RISE FEAR’ – Bank of England urges caution
‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...
27,100 REPOSSESSIONS IN 2007 – says Council of Mortgage Lenders
The number of people in the UK whose homes were repossessed last year rose by 21 per cent, to 27,100, compared to 22,400 in...
Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade
Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...
3,000 NHS Jobs At Risk
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that 3,000 NHS jobs, including 1,000 nurses’ jobs, are under threat. This was after the government announced...
‘There will be absolutely no pay increases for doctors or nurses above 5%’ declare...
TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...
Trump Blasts G7 Summit
AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...
The Great Pensions Robbery!
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow warned yesterday that the Hutton Review will be ‘the spark that lights the blue touch paper of co-ordinated strike action’. Crow...
MUBARAK GOES! – chased out by the masses
THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...
‘ELITE CONSPIRACY’ Johnson warning
FORMER foreign secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that changing the date of leaving the EU from 29 March would be ‘shameful’, and the public...
SPOOKS USED STUDENT COVER! – to whip up war fever against N Korea
THE London School of Economics has demanded the BBC withdraw tonight’s Panorama programme attacking North Korea and describing it as a fascist state. Complaining of...
Colleges Strike For 5% Pay Rise!
‘WHAT do we want? Five per cent! When do we Want it? Now!’ rang out on the picket line outside Lambeth College yesterday morning,...
Irish actors and writers rally in Dublin to support Hollywood strike!
Hundreds of actors, writers and entertainment workers gathered by the statue of Wolfe Tone at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin on Saturday, to demonstrate...
Virgin to axe 3,150 jobs! – and permanently leave Gatwick
VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...
Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth
LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...
Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support
TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...
PARIS ERUPTS – as Macron’s pension attack goes to French Parliament
FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...
200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!
MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...
ROYAL MAIL 20% JOB CUTS – ‘Conflict inevitable’ – CWU
The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...
Ford to axe 12,000 jobs across EU – UK job losses double to 3,100
FORD has almost doubled the amount of job losses to hit car workers in the UK; now as many as 3,100 face the sack...
500,000 Public Sector Jobs To Be Slashed
TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...
General Strike To Bring Down Starmer Government
OVER 100 protesters gathered outside the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 18, activists from Palestine Action after initially being detained under...
‘IT’S TIME FOR THE UK SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!’ – Dave Wiltshire tells News Line Rally
OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the News Line Anniversary Rally at the Wheatsheaf Community Hall in Vauxhall, south west London on Saturday...
‘We are defending education’ from massive Tory cuts!
‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...
Cornish Firefighters Slam Dangerous Cuts!
FIREFIGHTERS in Cornwall have slammed ‘dangerous’ plans to cut frontline cover which ‘will seriously affect public safety’ and demand that they are immediately withdrawn....
Nurses using bin bags as PPE test POSITIVE!
NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...
Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!
CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...
One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs
Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...
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...
4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker
SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...
Chase Farm Land Sell-Off!
THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...
Mad Dog Israel Told To Ceasefire For 21 Days!
THE USA, France and several Arab and European countries yesterday called for an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border. ‘We call on all parties,...
Tuc To Lobby Tories!
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned that the coalition’s cuts ‘not only threaten services but risk economic recovery’. He was speaking ahead of the...
‘WE ARE HEADING FOR SERIOUS CONFLICT’ – over the NHS says UNISON
‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...
‘When we start you will know’ – says Nasrallah
THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...