UK a bailiffs paradise!
LOCAL councils should ‘back off’ from calling in bailiffs, after doing so an ‘excessive’ 1.8 million times in the last year, to collect debts...
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...
Jaguar workers–three day week until Xmas!
JAGUAR workers have been put on a three-day week until Christmas! This affects as many as half of the two thousand workers at its...
UNITE DEFENDS TRADE UNION RIGHTS –against Tory witch-hunt
THERE will be ‘no retreat’ over defence of ‘the legitimate right to protest,’ Unite leader Len McCluskey told 1,200 delegates assembled at the union’s...
UN Cuts Aid To Palestinians!
HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...
Five US Troops Killed In West Iraq
A force of up to 2,500 US troops, supported by puppet Iraqi troops, moved into Iraq’s western Al Anbar province yesterday in the biggest offensive...
Thousands march against ‘murderers government’
OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...
1.5 Million Take Strike Action
YESTERDAY’s massive one-day strike stopped whole regions of the UK, but is only the start of the campaign, local government workers warned. Striking local government...
DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at St Paul’s Medical...
THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...
Honda Swindon Plant Axed – 3,500 Car Workers’ Jobs To Go
THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...
PROSECUTE ISRAEl! – says family of James Miller killed by an Israeli sniper
The family of James Miller, the Devon film-maker killed in Gaza, yesterday urged Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to take a decision on his case...
Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go
GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...
UN Condemns The Israeli Genocide Of Palestinians
A UNITED Nations special committee has declared that Israel’s warfare methods in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide, citing the regime’s deliberate use of...
BBC will defend against Trump law suit
THE BBC said yesterday that it will defend a $10bn (£7.4bn) lawsuit filed against it by US President Donald Trump over an edit of...
MIGRANT WORKERS ARE SUPER-EXPLOITED AT STANSTEAD AIRPORT says GMB
Migrant workers are being shortchanged by enforced ‘self-employment’ status, says the GMB trade union. The GMB yesterday called on aircraft services company Swissport to directly...
Tribunal Fees Challenge
UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...
UK will recognise Palestinian State!
THE UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced in London while...
A WAR ON CHILDREN! – says Save the Children
ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid...
‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff
IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...
Night Tube Strike Rock Solid! – RMT
STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...
Local councils £3.5bn financial hole Tories are demanding savage cuts – Tories are demanding...
LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...
NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH – BMA accuses Blair government
The Blair government is trawling Europe for health privateers to carry out elective operations in the NHS, the British Medical Association yesterday revealed in...
Scrap the Family Farm Tax! – – demands 15,000-strong Whitehall protest
15,000 FARMERS descended on Westminster yesterday to oppose the ‘Family Farm Tax’ – Inheritance Tax (IHT) – which the government wants to levy on...
Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!
SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...
Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’
‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
NHS Being Driven Along Road To Ruin Says Gmb
TRADE unions and Labour Party leaders yesterday condemned the government over cuts to the NHS that have put patients at risk. The were responding to...
‘There was no chase!’ – before Met police shot and killed Chris Kaba
‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...
Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!
THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...
Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!
DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...
Police Attack Sparks –As 10,000 Students March
Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists marched through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and privatisation. The protest was organised...
National Post Strike!
‘THOUSANDS of our Post Office members will strike next Thursday, against attacks on their job security and pensions and in defence of the Crown...
‘VICTORY TO PALESTINE!’ – shout May Day marchers
MORE than 5,000 trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the London May Day March yesterday...
HOSPITAL CLOSURES PLANNED! – – April 2010 D-Day for NHS
New NHS regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), yesterday published its ratings on England’s 392 trusts. From April 2010, the CQC will gain new powers...
Driving the sick back to work! – private company to displace GP practices
DOCTORS have slammed a new scheme to drive workers who are sick back to work. The extremely controversial proposal will see workers who are off...
Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!
The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...
NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters
A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...
‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told
STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...
Aslef drivers stand fast–throw out GTR-TUC sell-out deal!
ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...
Beds Council Workers Defy Wage-Cutting
BEDFORDSHIRE Council’s ultimatum to employees to sign new wage-cutting contracts or face the sack has been met with defiance by council workers, who...
Coventry becoming a ‘pariah university’
COVENTRY University is in danger of becoming a ‘pariah institution’ lecturers union the UCU warned yesterday. The union launched a campaign against the university’s...
Ahli Hospital Massacre – Israel bears the direct responsibility!
‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...
Global protests over assassination of Gaza journalists!
ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...
New UCL rent strike –against rat and insect infestation
INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...
Junior doctors to vote ‘NO’!
JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...
Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!
RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...