Thousands of teachers lobby today
THOUSANDS of angry teachers, lecturers and support staff are lobbying Parliament today against the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s onslaught on their pensions. The unprecedented joint action...
Russia demands joint investigation with UK
‘TODAY, Scotland Yard and the British government are refusing to communicate with us, no answer, the telephones are switched off. And that brings...
PO-ROYAL MAIL SPLIT – threatens tens of thousands of jobs
‘We must demand the TUC call a General Strike to defend public services, because that is what Royal Mail is,’ leading postal workers’ union...
Strike Shuts Dover Port
Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...
THIRD OF A&Es SET TO CLOSE
A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...
Hamas condemns Israel’s brutal and treacherous aggression!
HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...
RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter
Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...
CALL A DAY OF ACTION – to defend the NHS says PCS civil servants
‘A National Day of Action by all trade unions would be a good starting point’, a PCS spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding...
Metro – Hundreds Of Pickets Out
THERE were over 100 pickets covering all the entrances to Willesden Bus Garage in north west London yesterday morning. Bus driver and TGWU member Christine...
NO OUTSOURCING! – BMA slams NHS privatisation
DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...
AMBULANCE STAFF OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID! – must retire at 60 says GMB union
AMBULANCE drivers are so overworked and underpaid that thousands are forced to take time off because of severe stress. Their union the GMB is...
HALTING ISRAELI AGGRESSION OUR TOP PRIORITY – Palestinian Presidency
IN RESPONSE to reports of Israeli plans regarding post-war Gaza, the Presidency of the State of Palestine firmly reiterated yesterday its clear stance, emphasising...
DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival
OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
UK Did Torture Kenyans!
THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...
Don’t bully GPs – BMA warns Tories
THE BMA has responded angrily to threats to GPs issued by the government’s new Chief Inspector of Primary Care, Professor Steve Field, who takes...
No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers
TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...
Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation
THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
Tuition Fees Challenged In High Court
TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...
DEFEND THE ROYAL MAIL– No to 50,000 job losses
‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...
AIRPORT MUST COME OUT! – to win the struggle say Gate Gourmet workers
‘TELL the BA workers and every worker on the airport, we need their help again,’ Gate Gourmet striker Mrs P Samara told News Line...
We are fighting to continue child heart surgery
THE fight goes on to continue child heart surgery at London’s Royal Brompton, Leeds General Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. An NHS review concluded...
‘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,...
Campaigners Reject Ippr Insult
NHS DEFENCE campaigners were outraged yesterday at the comments by the Blairite Institute for Public Policy Research that their campaigns to defend District General...
Electric bills soar 32% gas by 26%
ELECTRIC and gas bills have soared by as much as 32% for electricity and 26% in gas in the last few months, a new...
Israel demands Hamas disarm! – in attempt to undermine the ceasefire
EGYPTIAN officials said yesterday that Israel was demanding that the Gaza Strip be ‘demilitarised’, and Hamas be disarmed, creating uncertainty over whether the...
Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure
DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...
PCS condemns job cuts!
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...
UK citizen must be freed – being held illegally in Iraq by the British...
Today, the case of a British citizen detained without charge in Basra by UK Forces since 10 October 2004 will be heard in the...
Shares And £ Collapse
Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...
May appeals to Corbyn ‘join the talks!’
‘FOLLOWING last week’s vote, it is clear that the government’s approach had to change, and it has,’ Tory PM Theresa May insisted, coming back...
Taliban attend intra-Afghan talks in Tehran
AS TEHRAN hosted a round of intra-Afghan talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the representatives of the Kabul government and the...
Greek ministries occupied!
FOLLOWING the example set by school and university students, Greek civil servants carried out a mass occupation of ten ministries on Thursday morning. The...
Call A General Strike Says Poa
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth yesterday, to calls from the Young Socialists lobby and delegates for a General Strike, to bring...
IMF – British banks warning!
THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...
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...
McCAIN TO TAKE BROWN TO TASK – over UK troops withdrawal
US Republican presidential candidate John McCain, due in London next week to meet premier Gordon Brown, has said in advance of the visit that...
Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon
A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...
Rcn Rejects NHS Charges!
NURSES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress in Liverpool voted by a massive 91% majority against NHS charging yesterday. Delegates at the...
CABIN CREW STRIKES CONTINUE – more action over Easter
There were even more determined pickets at Heathrow Airport by striking cabin crew yesterday, in the last day of their current round of strike...
Russia issues defence warning!
RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...
NO MORE QUANTITATIVE EASING – Bank of E allowing UK economy to sink
DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
No Victimisation!
Camden Unison held a demonstration outside Haverstock School, north London yesterday in support of the school’s Unison shop steward William Westwell who has been...
HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release
ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...
‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility
Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...