Large-Scale Screening Will Hit Sick

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Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that the government’s proposed screening programme for all those over 40 years of age lacked scientific evidence and could lead...

NATO massacres Afghan civilians

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TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...

Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry

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US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...
Greek workers and youth marching in Athens against mass sackings and demanding permanent jobs

2010 – year for revolutions! NEW YEAR MANIFESTO by News Line Editorial Board

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NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...

100,000 march for Palestine and demand the TUC must call a general strike

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MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...

BMA ‘WHITE PAPER’ CRISIS! – ditches its unconditional support

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THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...
Nurses on the march against any pay cap – they are certain to make their point very forcibly at September’s EGM

Nurses fury over pay deal! – EGM called for September 28th

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THE RCN Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place on 28/09/18 at 11.00 am at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,...
ALEX ALVES PEREIRA (centre, foreground), grieving and angry cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, accus

Parliament Cleaners Strike Today!

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Houses of Parliament cleaners will be on the picket line outside the House of Commons at 10am this morning. They will be joined by Labour’s...

Iran Accuses US & Britain Of Complicity In Carnage At The Al Nuseirat Camp

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THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...

3-day week looms! JCB cuts 4,000 workers’ hours

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DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...

Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell

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NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...

‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!

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THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...

GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers

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British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...

Banfield slams 2.8% pay offer

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HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...
Workers listening to a classical music concert at the ERT grounds last Friday night

Occupiers won’t quit ERT

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‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...

NHS ‘more than 10,000 doctors needed!’

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THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...
The picket outside the High Court yesterday morning demanding that a full A&E 24/7 must stay at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield

Chase Farm Judicial Review is told ‘We want a full A&E – 24 hrs...

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THE Judicial Review into the closure of Chase Farm’s Hospital A&E began yesterday morning. Enfield council is seeking the quashing of...
Grenfell survivors and their supporters demonstrate outside the Kensington & Chelsea Council Town Hall which ignored all  warnings of the dangers of an inferno at Grenfell Tower and then ignored them after it

Sheltered accommodation contains Grenfell cyanide

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THE insulation used at Grenfell Tower – which releases cyanide if burned – is installed at sheltered accommodation in east London, it was reported...
Demonstration against Virgin Care’s takeover of NHS services – They have gained over £2bn worth of contracts in the last two years!

Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS

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VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...

RACIST KILLINGS ‘LOW IMPACT’ says Home Office

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Family and friends of the victims of racist murders have reacted angrily to a leaked Home Office internal memo which describes the murders...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

MAYHEM THIS WEEKEND Winter flu epidemic creating hospital chaos–SAM

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AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...
Save Chase Farm campaigners join workers from around the country to lobby MPs against hospital closures

Occupy Chase Farm!

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HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...

Police clash with refugees in Greece & Calais

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REFUGEES broke down the barbed wire fence on the Greek border with Macedonia yesterday, using a steel pole as a battering ram. The protesters shouted:...

Hunt rationing healthcare!

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The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...
Disabled protest against private company Maximus taking over disability assessment testing

Disabled condemn ‘pre-conference spin’

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‘THIS is just pre-conference spin to try to improve the Tories toxic reputation on their shabby treatment of disabled people,’ said Disabled People Against...

Israeli tanks push deeper into Gaza City encircling Palestinian families!

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LOCAL authorities say Israeli occupation forces have pushed deeper into Gaza City in open violation of the ceasefire, expanding the so-called ‘yellow line’ and...
Striking NHS Logistics workers on the picket line in Maidstone on Tuesday night

STOP THE SALE OF NHS LOGISTICS! – crushing defeat for Blair at LP Conference

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THE Labour government yesterday suffered a massive defeat of its plans for NHS privatisation at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, with delegates backing...

CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson

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NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...
Delegates at the NUT conference show their support for action to defend wages and jobs

MILITARY OUT OF SCHOOLS! – says the NUT conference

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THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...
Nurses on the march against the pay cap – they are now very angry at their leaders’ sell-out of their pay claim

Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!

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NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...

Average Weekly Wage £13 Lower!

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AVERAGE weekly earnings in the UK are £13 lower than they were a decade ago, a think tank study has found. Job insecurity is...
The lobby calling to scrap Clause 118/9 of the Care Bill which will allow health secretary Hunt to close any hospital he chooses

Stop Hunt Closing Hospitals!

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OVER 150 people lobbied the Houses of Parliament yesterday in an angry demonstration against clause 119, which if passed gives Tory Health Secretary Hunt...
London fire service staff outside City Hall yesterday to demand the withdrawal of threatened cuts

FBU Angry Over Cuts

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FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

Met Police Ban Rally At BBC For Palestine!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the...

Poa Backing Corbyn

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...

UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK

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A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
GPs show their support for junior doctors on the march in London on October 17th

GPs want action ballot!

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ALMOST two thirds of GPs want the BMA to ballot the profession over industrial action, a GPonline survey has revealed, as the BMA’s Local...
Part of Wednesday’s colossal march on its way to the Syntagma Square in Athens

Greek Workers Clash With Riot Police

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WORKERS in Greece staged the biggest march of recent years in Athens on Wednesday, against the government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou which carries...
Two of the protesters outside the embassy of Ecuador who have ideas about making big changes in the UK

Bradley Manning must be released says Assange

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THE head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, yesterday afternoon thanked supporters for ‘turning out in the middle of the night’ when ‘police were storming up...

Eu-Ukrainian Deal!

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EU leaders yesterday signed an Association Agreement with the Ukrainian coupist government. It is a watered-down version of the agreement that the overthrown President...

Teacher Shortage Crisis Worsens!

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THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...

Tories threaten councils – to try to force reopening of schools

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THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...

Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!

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PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

‘We strike to protect ourselves and our patients!’ – say Guy’s and St Thomas’...

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STRIKING Day Surgery nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust are holding a demonstration at 2pm today at Guy’s Hospital entrance, St Thomas’ Road...