Japan Shut Down
Japan’s nuclear crisis intensified yesterday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns, while investors feared a share market crash. More than...
Police Attack Athens Poly March
TENS of thousands of students, youth and workers demonstrated last Thursday in Athens, and in all Greek cities and towns, on the 38th Anniversary...
Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled
Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...
CWU rally rejects pensions blackmail!
‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...
CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!
CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...
‘Our hardship payments must continue’ say Gate Gourmet pickets
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are furious that their union leaders in the TGWU have ended their hardship payments. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘We...
RELEASE MIGUEL ROLDAN! –Spanish firefighter faces jail for rescuing refugees
UK FIREFIGHTERS protested outside the Italian embassy in London on Thursday in support of a Spanish firefighter facing prison for rescuing refugees....
Bank Fears For Pound!
THE pound continued to fall yesterday as the Bank of England called a crisis meeting for next Tuesday to discuss its ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE)...
WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA – say Chagos Islanders
A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...
Nigerian General Strike!
Nigeria’s main trade unions, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC), have declared mass backing for an indefinite general strike and...
‘SERIOUS UPHEAVALS’ – predicted by head of World Bank
WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...
MARTIAL LAW & CURFEWS – in event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock admitted yesterday morning that the Tory government is considering the imposition of martial law and curfews in the event of...
de Menezes Inquest Begins
‘Today is the first day of the process which will hopefully bring my family closer to the truth,’ cousin of Jean Charles De Menezes,...
A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...
Rail & Busworkers Support Call For A General Strike
RAIL and bus workers are supporting the call for the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories. On the picket line...
‘take Action To Defend NHS’
Despite Tory leader Cameron’s protestations that he supports the NHS, it emerged yesterday that several leading Tory shadow cabinet members put their names to...
Unlimited Stop & Search Powers For Police!
TORY PM Johnson’s new police state measures allowing police unlimited stop and search powers have been condemned by Stopwatch, while Shadow Home Secretary Diane...
HALT ATTACK ON LIBYA – demands unite
Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...
London Tb Cases – 50% Rise
Tens of thousands of babies will be vaccinated as part of a strategy to fight the resurgence of the deadly respiratory disease Tuberculosis (TB)...
‘LIVES AT RISK’ – warns Patients Association over Ambulance Review
‘Sending lay first aiders could be dangerous and in some cases risk lives,’ Michael Summers, chairman of the Patients Association told News Line yesterday. He...
Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!
‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...
RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students
‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...
Royal Mail Centres Out 3.00 Am Today
Postal workers at Mail Centres across the UK are taking 24-hour strike action from 3am this morning in the second week of rolling...
9,000 Post Offices To Close!
Government plans to sell Royal Mail, ending the inter-business agreement with the Post Office, would lead to over 9,000 post office closures, a poll...
Vote Mike Driver
CAMPAIGNING in Firth Park, Sheffield, yesterday morning, the Mike Driver Vote WRP campaign said, ‘We got great support from everyone, with many agreeing with...
BROWNE HANGS ON! – as establishment closes ranks
Yesterday afternoon the establishment closed ranks to prop up the wobbling Labour government and its defence secretary Des Browne. Following Browne’s statement to the House...
BROWN HANDS BANKS £500bn
Brown and Darling yesterday announced a £500bn package of measures aimed at rescuing the banking system. The equivalent of $880bn, it means they are handing...
Reinstate The Strikes!
THERE is no deal so reinstate the strikes, frustrated Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials said yesterday. This came as yet another day of talks...
US Was Given Notice Of Attack!
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say none of its missiles were intercepted during Wednesday’s heavy strike that targeted two US bases inside Iraq...
TURKEY CLOSE TO IRAQ INVASION! – after border clashes
TURKEY was very close to an invasion of northern Iraq yesterday after a number of Turkish troops were killed and wounded in PKK attacks. Kurdistan...
DE MENEZES FURY! – over police attempt to link Jean Charles to rape case
Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins yesterday said the family is furious at a Metropolitan Police attempt to connect their late relative with a rape...
No Deal In Jeddah!
The oil summit in Jeddah ended in disarray yesterday with OPEC president, Algeria’s Chakib Khelil, blaming speculators for the high oil price. Leading oil producer,...
MAKE THE DISPUTE OFFICIAL!– call out the airport! – Locked out Gate Gourmet work
Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...
DON’T SCRAP TUBE SAFETY RULES – say rail unions
THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...
LABOUR CRISIS! – as Business Secretary Mandelson offers his services to the Tories
PRIME MINISTER Brown was fighting for his political life yesterday, as well as for a future for his right-wing ‘bankers’ government. Having saved the...
Over 71,000 sofa surfing this Xmas!
‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...
REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
Come to our conference on January 29TH
THERE was a determined picket of locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the Beacon Hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. It is now nearly five months...
Inflation Up To 5.2%
inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest rate since 1992, rising from 4.7% in August, according to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures...
BA PENSIONS CRISIS – work longer or pay more, workers told
BRITISH Airways workers are being threatened again that they will either have to work longer or pay more to maintain the value of their...
Afghan war a ‘lost cause’ – Glenton hands back his medal
Most UK troops ‘thought it was a lost cause ten years ago’, ex-soldier Joe Glenton told a Westminster press conference yesterday before handing back...
BANKERS PANIC! – It’s the survival of the fittest as bankers call in debts
There is a real panic setting in in the capitalist world’s financial system with the main world banks beginning to act to secure themselves...
Nuj Demands Open Debate On Spooks
THE NUJ has voiced its concerns at the erosion of civil liberties and attacks on press freedom, in a motion to the TUC Congress...
Blair Ducks Iraq Debate!
PREMIER Blair boycotted the House of Commons debate on Iraq yesterday in an unprecedented show of contempt for the bourgeois parliament. Before he left the...